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The funny thing is Doug Ford says students shouldn't take basket weaving but his inherited wealth comes from making stickers.

Most people don’t know this: Heat pumps REDUCE gas consumption even if running 100% on electricity from a gas fired power plant.

More here in my piece for @carbonbrief.org👇

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Attention artists, tactical urbanists, designers and just generally creative people! As our new island at Ookwemin Minising continues to take shape, we’re also thinking about what it can be right now. We’ve issued an RFP for a pop-up gathering space on the island. Info at www.c40.org/work-with-c40

It Turns Out Waymos Are Being Controlled by Workers in the Philippines During a Congressional hearing, Waymo's chief safety officer, Mauricio Peña, was grilled over the company's reliance on overseas workers.

Once again, it turns out “fully autonomous” means “a guy in the Philippines.”

The risk to North American auto manufacturing is North America's auto manufacturers not keeping up with what global consumers want.

You've had tens of billions of dollars in subsidies and supports shovelled at you. Compete or die.

The Alberta separation movement is a US funded colonization project

Infrastructure Ontario can’t say if science centre roof was damaged in major snowstorm | Globalnews.ca Advocates point to images of the science centre after 50 cm of snow was dropped on Toronto, which appear to show its roof is intact. The government agency said staff weren't sure.

NEW: Was the Ontario Science Centre roof damaged in Toronto's historic snowstorm?

Images from the outside look like it wasn't. Advocates say it is fine. And Infrastructure Ontario says it can't say because it can't inspect it. #OnPoli
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I rarely weigh in on these now but just as a reminder:

We shame kids to be perfect despite already knowing that they are predictably NOT, that being said just look at the environment that we continually build for them to exist in.

wikipedia turns 25 today! the last unenshittified major website! backbone of online info! triumph of humanity! powered by urge of unpaid randos to correct each other! somehow mostly reliable! "good thing wikipedia works in practice, because it sure doesn't work in theory" - old wiki adage

La meilleure synthèse de l'histoire de l'humanité que j'ai vue de ma vie.

If you can’t be simple, you will be ignored This title is an oversimplification. That is deliberate. In a world shaped by shrinking attention spans, overflowing news cycles, and…

Experts don’t lose public debates because they’re wrong. They lose because they’re hard to hear.

In energy, complexity without a clear takeaway gets ignored. Simpler, louder stories take its place.

My latest piece is about starting with clarity and then layering nuance.

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Lego announces Smart Brick, the ‘most significant evolution’ in 50 years Starting with Lego Star Wars.

Looking forward to stepping on these with my bare feet.

'How much does the aurora borealis weigh?" It's pretty light.

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Inside the On-the-Job Training Program for AI Electricians The AI revolution has forever reshaped manufacturing, medical care and art but the transformation has led many to wonder how it will affect the job market. Reporting for TODAY, NBC’s Christine Romans heads to Grand Prairie, Texas, where the technology is creating more jobs and learn-while-you-earn opportunities for young workers as skilled electricians.

Energy transition: facing a massive electrician shortage

Data centre industry: look how many electricians we're employing

we are doing this all wrong....

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This University of Toronto Professor wants Carney to answer to her students Each year, University of Toronto professor Laura Tozer updates a slide deck that she presents to her graduate students on the state of climate policy in Canada. This year, she is deleting everything.

In the week since it was published, this story has become one of our most read of 2025.

“Every single semester, a student raises their hand: 'Professor, is there any hope on climate change?' How about this year when the new semester starts in January, you get to look them in the eye and answer."

A commemorative plaque titled "The Toronto Recursive History Project of Toronto's Recursive History," situated in a garden area. The plaque has text explaining its significance, stating it was commemorated on October 10, 2018, and states that by reading this plaque, you have made a valuable addition to the number of people who have read this plaque. To this day and up to the end of this sentence, this plaque continues to be read by people like yourself.

“By reading this plaque, you have made a valuable addition to the number of people who have read this plaque” … an important heritage moment on the streets of Toronto (by artist Sarah Lazarovic).

In Mario Kart the existence of the Mushroom Cup implies the existence of the Champignons League

Child told to go outside and ride their bike also told to get off the street and ride on the sidewalk also told to get off the sidewalk - decides to just go back inside on screens told to get off screens and go outside.

Kids these days.

The 2025 Headline of the Year Nominees

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‘Soup’ was a slang term for drugs that were injected into a horse to make it run faster.

A racehorse that was on PEDs was said to be ‘souped up.’

We now use the term to refer to anything that is enhanced.

Transport Action Ontario and Environmental Defence have jointly published a major new report: Transit over Traffic - Hard Truths for Addressing Gridlock in the GTHA
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We’re trying to fight congestion in our city. Explain to me again why we want to add more cars to our roads?

Waymo has its sights set on Toronto for driverless cars. - @thestar.com www.thestar.com/opinion/cont...

"This promise of an AI future, is really just a collective anxiety that wealthy people have about how well they're gonna be able to control us in the future."

- @tressiemcphd.bsky.social with an absolute mic drop moment about AI bullshit.

Incredible words.
Listen to all of it!

immigrants score the lowest on tests, but they also take all our jobs, while at the same time taking all the welfare and buying all the homes

Three Ideas for Lowering Electricity Costs For starters, recognize that clean energy is cheap energy.

Electricity prices are soaring while utilities rake in billions in profit. Here's three ideas to bring bills down:
1) Make power cheap in the middle of the day
2) Stop utility profiteering
3) Keep climate impacts off bills

My latest in @theatlantic.com.
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I’ve got one that uses the TTC like it’s a holodeck. Went to this hood for that ice cream, then off to that hood for those tacos, and properly fueled up, that strip for that store that always has a line up.

Parenting is being the PR/marketing director for fruits and vegetables.

3rd pedestrian killed this week.

Buried in the Doug Ford govt's fall budget are changes that would remove parts of Wasaga beach from provincial protection. As I reported in August, those parts are 60% of the world’s longest freshwater beach and the main nesting area for the endangered piping plover: thenarwhal.ca/wasaga-beach...

Vancouver mayor plans to eliminate city's climate and sustainability department Vancouver Mayor Ken Sim is planning to eliminate the city's sustainability and climate department under the guise of a push to prevent increases to property taxes. Canada's National Observer learned a...

NEW: Councillors and sources inside the City of Vancouver say the city's mayor, Ken Sim, will put forth a budget Wednesday that will eliminate the city's celebrated climate and sustainability department.