Ian Irving

Follow up question : Are Hong Kong's MTR and Tokyo/Japanese metro/rail companies the only places that fund via property development?

YouTube video by City for All Why Public Transport Shouldn’t Have to Pay for Itself

@city4all.bsky.social watching your "why Public transport shouldn't have to Pay for itself" youtube video (youtu.be/XRlyypbzHA8?...) you didn't mention Property Development as a funding option.

The Sliding State of the TTC. One of the most important posts I will write.

Probably the most important blog post I'll write in a long time. Read it now and please share!

open.substack.com/pub/nexttoro...

FAQs – Time off to vote – Elections Canada FAQs – Time off to vote, 2025

Elections Canada: "By law, everyone who is eligible to vote must have three consecutive hours to cast their vote on election day. If your hours of work do not allow for three consecutive hours to vote, your employer must give you time off."
www.elections.ca/content2.asp...

Opinion: Canada’s real comparative advantage is public transit. That should be our trade-war strategy This country stands head-and-shoulders above the United States when it comes to urban transportation, and the trade war offers a powerful opportunity

Really proud to have written a piece in the Globe and Mail with @wklumpen.bsky.social about why investing in transit is a great approach to soften the blow of the trade war!

www.theglobeandmail.com/business/com...

Doug Ford and his tunnel obsession are about to ruin a rare GTA transit success story Brampton's new LRT is now set to be buried, despite the fact that other buried LRT lines are much-delayed and significantly over budget.

First ever piece in the Toronto Star on the Brampton LRT tunnel, needed to preserve the "historic" downtown - it's something that does not make sense, which tracks with our transit policy much of the time.

www.thestar.com/opinion/cont...

YouTube video by RMTransit The End...?

Creating a YouTube channel is definitely my biggest achievement so far, but all good things have to come to an end. It's been an absolute pleasure getting to know people in public transit, and I'm really excited to see what the future holds. Please check this out:
youtu.be/JDxa9F0NSTg?...

Multiple builds targeting different browsers Building different versions of our applications targeting different browsers so each browser downloads only the “fallbacks” it needs.

Why isn't everyone doing this : Multiple builds targeting different browsers

medium.com/homeday/mult...

Truly you are a very evil trout!

CBC listeners and Globe fall for on-air hoax The Globe and Mail offers the most authoritative news in Canada, featuring national and international news

Can’t seem to find audio online of one of the greatest April Fools pranks ever: Michael Enright’s 2001 hoax interview with a Jimmy Carter where he calls him a “washed up peanut farmer from Hicksville”

Here’s the Globe and Mail’s story about falling for it: www.theglobeandmail.com/news/nationa...

Also Doug Ford hates commie Santa Claus, calls giveaway a cheap election ploy

Amid traffic, Utah walked to Leafs' arena pregame The Utah Hockey Club said players were forced to walk to a game against the Maple Leafs at Scotiabank Arena while their bus sat in Toronto traffic Sunday because of a parade, and the team posted video...

Toronto Mayor Doug Ford cancels Santa Claus parade after NHL team ditches bus and walks to Scotiabank Arena amid gridlock

www.espn.com/nhl/story/_/...

Day two of #VueConfToronto2024 with Barley and @danielroe.dev #vue #vueconf

VueConf Toronto

Christophe Marchadour on performance #vue #Vueconf #vueConfToronto gave me food for thought

#vueConf @evanyou.me #Toronto #VueConfToronto

Fuck.

I am very happy to hear praise about #WhenThePigCameHome on CBC's metro morning from @Suresh with respect to Fridays Feb 23rd Toronto #PattyDay!

#JunctionTO’s
#JamaicanPatties @TorontoJunction #TorontoJunction

I live in an toronto neighbourhood designated parcel and approve of the idea of gentle residential intensification on major streets. #YIMBY Yes to the Expanding Housing Options in Neighbourhoods (EHON) initiative

www.toronto.ca/city-governm...

telling everyone that your product will cause the extinction of humanity may be a breach of fiduciary responsibility.  Hence the firing. #SamAltman #OpenAi

Infographic comparing marriage to the process of getting a PhD. (It's a table, so rather hard to do alt text, but amusing enough. Especially the row label "culminates in a ceremony where you walk down an aisle dressed in a gown" (ticks in both columns).)

Found on mastodon (originally from phdcomics.com ): seems legit!

The idea being here that apps – mobile, desktop, web, and headless – can find and talk to each other without corporate-owned systems. Veilid provides code for app developers to drop into their software so that their clients can join and communicate in a peer-to-peer community.

#Veilid Secure Peer to peer distributed , no special nodes, network framework, for apps that flips off the surveillance economy .
theregister.com/2023/08/12/vei...