Wait, what?

She adds that violations of ICE agents' rights can't be addressed if they won't identify themselves.

She concedes it can be "scary" to be followed home or harassed, but adds,

"That doesn't mean you get to do this job and be anonymous."

Yep, glad we’re mostly arguing about which is the higher of the two high priorities!

For the record, part of why it’s the latter for me is that the suburban areas pull this sort of thing with zero pushback: bsky.app/profile/john...

That’s a “smaller increase” rather than a “decrease”, and noone’s arguing for growth in the red zone.

Why can’t you imagine total emissions going down? If a car-oriented area transitions to walkable, then both the current & future residents can walk. That decreases the current residents’ emissions.

Then you misphrased your point. This wasn’t a dense area and it didn’t have the amenities until it was redeveloped. It changed a yellow area into a blue area.

It’s not “evening out” population densities. It’s using intensification to pull key areas that are below a minimum threshold for walkability and frequent transit up to that threshold.

The real-world consequences are you displace a couple in a bungalow, rather than 60 people in walkup apartments.

No to your claim that directing growth to blue zones can decrease total emissions.
Existing blue residents are low-emission so new neighbours won’t reduce their emissions, and existing red residents will stay high-emission without density-supported amenities, so total emissions can only go up.

And the people in the yellow and orange zones will still drive a car everywhere (including the blue zones) because there’s not enough density to support their daily life within walking distance. While calling the Premier to complain about bike lanes & speed cameras in the blue zones.

How a Waterloo suburban neighbourhood is becoming urban After trying everything else, Northdale embraces a wholesale transformation in its built form.

Take a look at Waterloo’s Northdale neighbourhood. It was all large-lot bungalows a decade or two ago, and is now well into its transformation to a dense, walkable and transit-supportive environment.

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No. Directing population growth to the blue zones only reduces emissions per capita for the new residents.
Intensifying yellow zones to blue decreases emissions per capita for both the new residents and the existing residents, and even residents just beyond the area who can use new closer amenities.

A famous diagram used to illustrate survivorship bias, showing a WW2 plane with the location of damage received during a raid as red dots. Counterintuitively, the red dots show where damage can be survived, while the clear areas show where any damage is fatal and improvements are therefore most needed.

💯 It’s the survivorship bias problem.

The blue areas can be infilled but it won’t lower the region’s carbon footprint since they already have walkable/transit densities.

But infilling the yellow areas can tip them into that category, reducing carbon footprint for both new & existing residents.

Vehicles registered to Ford cabinet ministers caught by speed cameras more than 20 times | Globalnews.ca Documents obtained by Global News reveal that, over three years, vehicles registered to Ford’s cabinet minister received more than $3,300 in fines for speeding.

NEW: Vehicles registered to Doug Ford's cabinet ministers have been caught by automated speed cameras more than 20 times.

In one case, they were driving 70 in a 40 zone. On average, they were 17 over the limit. #OnPoli
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At what point do the lower courts start reissuing their decisions, noting that the only legal reasoning attached SCOTUS stays clearly states that this use of the emergency docket is illegitimate?

The circulation core of a mid-rise French apartment building is less than half the size of a mid-rise Canadian apartment building – 26.5 m^2 (285 sq. ft.) vs. 55 m^2 (592 sq. ft.)

EMERGENCY TIMELINE CLEANSE: Godzilla says Trans Rights 🏳️‍⚧️
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City. Region. Province. And country.

Direct quote from this week’s Novae Res Urbis GTHA Edition (Vol.28, No.39):
“Going back to that delineation exercise, it was subtracting all the established low-rise neighbourhoods so they don’t count in the calculations that the Province has set out.”

An air photo map of the Clarkson GO Station, showing 5 & 10 minute walks as circles, and a proposed major transit station area boundary as a pink line. The MTSA boundary cuts down Clarkson Road and then along the rail corridor, excluding all lands to the northeast of the station, which currently hold low-density neighbourhoods of single-family bungalows. Similarly, low-density bungalow neighbourhoods within a 5 minute walk north of the station’s parking lots are also excluded. Lands southeast of the station, containing apartment towers and townhouses are included within the boundary, as are the station’s parking lots and industrial areas to the southwest.

Mississauga’s updating its Clarkson GO station #MTSA policies to convert 10ha of irreplaceable employment lands for housing.
Why? Because they intentionally drew the boundary to exclude low-density “established neighbourhoods” of bungalows that are literally across the street from the station.

“On average, very few Americans are illegally stopped, even fewer are detained more than once, and a negligible number are illegally detained six or more times. That ICE has done so to plaintiffs on a dozen occasions gives this court comfort that it is statistically unlikely it shall happen again.”

Or requiring that the revenue be spent on road safety upgrades!

Expanding the court isn’t enough at this point. These six have to be removed, and every single decision that relied on any of their votes to pass needs to be vacated all the way back to Thomas’ appointment in 1991.

Removal’s not enough at this point. Every single decision resulting from their votes, all the way back to Thomas’ appointment, paved this path and must be vacated.

I think you have this inside-out.
The SCOTUS GOP orders are illegal, because they are acting outside of their constitutional authority by denying standing.

It also owns a profitable courier service, Purolator, which was intentionally spun off to make the crown corp’s finances look worse.

Yes, which is why the speed cameras should stay so police officers can spend their time investigating other crimes instead.

And in part a media that is mostly happy to downplaying the scandals.

A truly excellent summary of the ways that pro-crime Premier Ford is undercutting both safety and ease of getting around this province.

Just as long as you’re willing to stand up at your church and say the same thing, and encourage your church leaders to vocally condemn them too.

That’s not unusual though. It’s a life-changing sum that’s small enough to lie to yourself about.

$50k is putting the kids through college. Or getting out from under credit cards that just keep creeping upwards. Or medical debt after an accident. Or not explaining a bad investment or gambling loss.

Right-wing Sinclair Broadcasting owns all these local media stations and many others all across America. This is not journalism, it is scripted propaganda.

Why not urbanize the areas where additional population is needed to support transit, walkability and local amenities, and can actually be transformative?