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Globe editorial: Sorry, speed cameras aren’t the problem Drivers and politicians who rail against them are ignoring the real issue and gambling with public safety

Junius recently revealed this crazy trick..

“Unhappy drivers should remember that choosing to exceed the speed limit is, in fact, illegal, and that there’s an easy hack to avoid getting a ticket: lighten up on that right foot.”
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Yes, the feed is very poorly curated.

In the spirit of Peter Gzowski: as Canadian as possible, under the circumstances

Bow Valley mayors want PM to fast-track Banff-Calgary passenger train as 'national interest' project Read the full story and comment on CochraneToday.ca

We agree: Alberta passenger rail, implemented swiftly, is in Canada's national interest and should receive federal support.
Join our campaign for reliable public transport all across Canada.
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#AFCToronto put another massive win to bed this afternoon, downing the Roses at Stade Boréale, 2-1!

Kaylee Hunter with the match-winner from all of 30-plus yards as Steph Hill pulled one back off a corner in the second half to cancel out Nikki Small's opener.

#NSL | 📷 @afctoronto.bsky.social

one of the fundamental political divides is "it's better to deprive millions of people of basic needs so that a couple dozen people don't game the system" vs "what the fuck is wrong with you"

Map of Waterloo Region and Guelph with blue lines drawn between Waterloo/Kitchener/Cambridge, Cambridge to Guelph, and Guelph to Waterloo forming a triangle

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Would love to see a Toronto politician do this with the streetcar.

It copies from previous work, of course, and the western states are big enough that they get labeled consistently. New England, though, can have as many labeling systems as there are map makers - so it has no idea what to do.

🇨🇦 MBOKO MAGIC IN MONTREAL

Canada’s Victoria Mboko defeats Naomi Osaka 2-6, 6-4, 6-1 to win the National Bank Open in Montreal.

The 18-year-old was fearless. Didn’t quit. And rode the wave of a raucous hometown crowd to a memorable title victory. Outstanding.

Smart cities know that, as hot as they already are, they’re just going to keep getting hotter. Greening the city not only cools it down, it cleans the air, quiets the noise, improves mental health & happiness, saves public money, & more. Strand Aldwych, London. 2021 vs. 2025. Via @modacitylife.com

Well, shucks!

(sorry, but it was right there)

If you, regular person, did anything like this after a fatal car accident, you would be prosecuted for a variety of crimes, including insurance fraud.

If you then repeatedly lied to the courts about it, like Tesla did, you'd get prosecuted for that too, plus stiff monetary sanctions.

It’s Easy to Hate Traffic Cameras. But They Do Save Lives. They raise issues of fairness, and critics claim they’re only about revenue. More speed and red-light cameras, however, would prevent a lot of deaths and injuries.

Yes, traffic cameras work, but it's a myth that people hate them!

Survey after survey shows that most people support automatic enforcement (and often want more of it).

This is a false controversy, fed by a minority of disgruntled drivers & journalists seeking narratives with conflict.

The rise of AI tools that write about you when you die Families and funeral directors are using AI obituary generators to more efficiently memorialize the dead. What happens when they get it wrong?

New: A few weeks ago, when my father-in-law died, the funeral home asked if we wanted to use AI to write his obituary. So I dug into it and found that it's the biggest new trend in "death care." Tens of thousands of AI obits have been made already. Often the families don't even know wapo.st/4okuxIg

Life before death, @erininthemorning.com !

That's not Wimbledon's crest...

Driving a car you realize the “war on the car driver” is waged a> mostly by other car drivers b> car companies on their customers.

The worst thing invented in human history that isn’t a military device.

Were you looking at my letters?

We've got 3.5 hours here in Newport, and step 1 was seeing this sign! This place seems awesome.

2 friends go on 1,400-mile journey using only public transportation Miles Taylor and Jackson Betz are currently traveling from the Mexican border to the Canadian border using only local transit.

We did it Joe www.goodmorningamerica.com/video/124279...

20 years ago today,

Air France Flight #358 overran the runway at Toronto-Pearson International Airport during a heavy thunderstorm.

Everyone on board the plane was able to escape before fire had destroyed the aircraft.

This caused the event to be dubbed the "Toronto Miracle".

From a 7-Eleven to 52 homes. Lovely Leslieville midrise (by architect Superkül and developer Hullmark).

People walking under a theater marquee with this text displayed

DEVIANTS ARE SACRIFICED TO INCREASE GROUP SOLIDARITY
Jenny Holzer, Times Square, 1993

We made it so that Automobiles can go Everywhere at the expense of children going Anywhere .

We made it so that Automobiles can go Everywhere at the expense of children going Anywhere .

It’s a keeper!

“We made it
So that
Automobiles
Can go
Everywhere at
The expense
Of children going
Anywhere.”

h/t @tomflood.bsky.social

Rally + Ride

Title: Gender Census 2025. Text: If you can't easily put yourself into just one of these two boxes, you are invited to take part. Illustration: Two boxes, each with photos of relevant dictionary pages.

The 12th annual international Gender Census 2025 is now open until at least 30th August 2025!

survey.gendercensus.com

It's for anyone whose gender (or lack thereof) isn't described by the M/F binary. It's short and easy, and results are useful in academia, business and self-advocacy.

So after some ill-advised interaction with this group (likely person), it became clear to me that they had used an AI summary of the zoning by-law, and were upset that the city wasn't following the hallucinated zoning by-law and not the real one which they have never read.

News headline: Ticketed driver calls for bigger, bolder speed camera signs

Here's a bold idea - never speed, at all, anywhere. Then you never need to worry about silly cameras! Win-win.

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Oklahoma authorities investigate reports of explicit images on state education chief's TV Authorities in Oklahoma have opened an investigation after two members of the State Board of Education said they saw images of naked women on a television screen in the office of state School Superint...

In The Handmaid’s Tale, the Commanders preach purity but sneak off to brothels. It’s not fiction, it’s a mirror.

The most repressed are often the most controlling. If they just let themselves enjoy life, maybe they wouldn’t burn the world trying to punish everyone else for enjoying it.