Subina Shrestha

Millions of workers — including at Walmart, Amazon, & McDonald’s — rely on food stamps, WIC, and Medicaid, because pay doesn’t cover basics. Corporate profits soar while taxpayers pick up the bill. Low wages aren’t just a worker issue — they’re a taxpayer subsidy to big business.

We tried to invite Ontario Premier Doug Ford to our live show in Toronto on Thursday, February 5th, hosted by @cycletoronto.bsky.social, so we brought two comically large tickets to Queen's Park. Here's how it went.

Get normal sized tickets here:

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Local independent store finds.
@thewaroncars.bsky.social

Oil brings us climate change and illegal invasions of sovereign nations.

Would be a good time to remember that the city also has a vision zero strategy. Prioritizing public transit and active mobility, NOT CARS, has been found as an effective way of achieving said vision.

This!!!!!
Every child has the right to play. Commodifying play is an erosion of that right.

Excited for year two!

The Mamdani administration should study expanding the Congestion Relief Zone to bring these benefits to more areas of our city.

Cities well designed for children are well designed for everyone.

This is greeeaaaattttt!

Pragmatism is the new delay.

“The decarbonization project is a matter of investment and divestment.” 

For a successful transition, these decisions must prioritize systemic social outcomes and avoid disruptions — regardless of whether doing so will generate profit. 

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https://www.common-wealth.org/green-planning-commission

Amazon eyes expanding delivery network after talks with USPS stall Amazon looks into expanding its nationwide delivery network and giving up its long-standing partnership with the U.S. Postal Service.

Amazon is trying to kill the post office, and make no mistake: it will do the same in Canada.

Its subcontracted delivery model must be regulated out of existence if we care about not just the postal service, but ensuring delivery workers have good, union jobs they can depend on.

#Green agenda success in #city cores may breed resentment in the periphery.
As @havardhaarstad.bsky.social & @mahiryazar.bsky.social argue in @rsa-tpg.bsky.social, a moral hierarchy that punishes car-dependent suburbanites —often on lower incomes— is a recipe for #populism.
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Postdoc call‼️

I am opening a call for a postdoctoral position within my ERC project CONSENT.

Come to Madrid to be part of my research team and more broadly of the @ipp-csic.bsky.social community.

Application deadline: December 10th.

Call details: tinyurl.com/yfu83p9m

Care in car centered design?

Tackle wood burning and road traffic to improve Europe’s air quality, study finds Researchers measure toxicity of air samples across continent to advise on ‘efficient’ policies to reduce harm

www.theguardian.com/environment/... #Airpollution An international study, published in the journal Nature, has found cutting pollution from road traffic and wood burning may be the most effective way to reduce the harm from air pollution across Europe.

"Many scholars, including us, have highlighted the threat posed by techno-solutionism in education: Rather than expanding our intellectual horizons, these technologies undermine the very conditions that allow us to think for ourselves."

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Amazon to Lay Off Tens of Thousands of Corporate Workers The cuts amount to roughly 10% of the online giant’s white-collar workforce.

Amazon plans to lay off as many as 30,000 starting as early as Tuesday…

Well, the White House ballroom ain't gonna pay for itself.

Minister Flack says that the Ontario government will not be moving forward on changes to Ontario's tenancy lease framework regarding month-to-month leases. More to look at in the bill but thank you to everyone who called, emailed and spoke up.

Desperately needed recognition as local bike shops are on the front lines of the e-mobility revolution. No support from governments at all levels, strained logistics, and not enough experienced staff to fill open positions. #bikeshoplife

Amazon Cloud Outage Reveals Democratic Deficit in Relying on Big Tech | TechPolicy.Press The AWS outage demonstrates the need for a fundamental shift in how we think about digital infrastructure, write Corinne Cath and Don Le.

Today's AWS outage, which affected a range of websites and applications—from Signal to Fortnite to key UK government services—reveals the dangers of relying on a handful of Big Tech firms, write Article 19's Corinne Cath and Don Le. These are not glitches; they are democratic failures, they say.

US and Canada weigh revival of ‘zombie’ Keystone XL pipeline in trade talks Controversial project to ship heavy crude to Texas coast was killed by Biden administration on environmental grounds

This shit makes me furious & despondent.

Scientific evidence, mass suffering, and the prospect of economic, political and social breakdown are insufficient to spur action.

We talk abt geongineering while investing further in fossil fuels.

We have collectively become untethered from reality.

Things that are cash grabs: Ford selling 99 year lease of public park (Ontario Place) to private company; successive governments taking taxpayer money earmarked for health and education and giving it to private companies. Things that are not cash grabs: fines for breaking the law.

Can’t decide what to buy on Prime Day?

Try: absolutely nothing, and then go support indie bookstores instead 📚

Pedestranised street in North America... Say what?!!!!!

Allocating space disproportionately in favor of cars also means taking space from other modes of transport. UTSC students told us about the inequities in transport planning in and around Scarborough and how this affects their everyday lives.

“AI is the asbestos we are shoveling into the walls of our society, and our descendants will be digging it out for generations.”

Highly recommend this webinar next week presented by @bcpolicy.bsky.social 👇

It is frustrating on so so so many levels.