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Deviant pedestrian. I’m bullish on cities, opposed to fascism and write editorials for The Globe and Mail. Never 51. @moore_oliver at the other place, which I've mostly left. Will try to respond via omoore@globeandmail.ca. Header pic by Mervyn Sequeira

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Ahem

10.08.2025 23:48 — 👍 0    🔁 0    💬 1    📌 0
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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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10.08.2025 23:22 — 👍 24    🔁 2    💬 0    📌 0
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Opinion: Toronto the Grind: Making your way around has never been such a slog The traffic congestion in Canada’s largest city is unacceptably bad. Where is the leadership?

“even cautious driver friends shared stories of piles of tickets they have received through the red-light and speed-camera systems” 🧐
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10.08.2025 22:51 — 👍 22    🔁 2    💬 7    📌 2
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Thirty years old. Some things never change

08.08.2025 20:40 — 👍 4    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0
Job Details | Dayforce Jobs Find your next adventure

The Globe has posted for a rare opening on the editorial board. A great opportunity for the right person. Only downside: you have to work with me
jobs.dayforcehcm.com/en-US/theglo...

05.08.2025 16:38 — 👍 5    🔁 1    💬 0    📌 0
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Phone couldn’t capture in this light, but smoke from the Prairies wildfires is making for a crazy moon in NW Ontario

31.07.2025 02:59 — 👍 6    🔁 0    💬 1    📌 0

Delivery is not cheaper than cooking
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25.07.2025 17:35 — 👍 7    🔁 0    💬 1    📌 0

I guess you could make a condo/apt smaller and cheaper by removing the kitchen. But eating out is more expensive than cooking. So I doubt the math works

25.07.2025 17:03 — 👍 5    🔁 1    💬 4    📌 0
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Tour de France 2025: Stage 19 rerouted to avoid diseased cows Organisers shorten stage 19 of the Tour de France in order to avoid a herd of diseased cattle on the Col des Saisies.

I says pardon
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25.07.2025 13:01 — 👍 3    🔁 0    💬 1    📌 0

Time flies. Hard to believe it’s been twenty years since Lance Armstrong didn’t win the Tour de France

25.07.2025 01:38 — 👍 11    🔁 1    💬 0    📌 0

Toronto city councillor last heard calling her ward a dystopia now wants homeless people to go in the back door

24.07.2025 19:20 — 👍 29    🔁 12    💬 1    📌 1
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Globe editorial: Mr. Robertson, tell Toronto a deal is a deal Since Toronto reneged on its sixplex agreement, Ottawa should follow through with pulling federal housing funds

Junius will not be happy
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24.07.2025 15:25 — 👍 3    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0
‘No compromises’: Ottawa issues warning to Toronto about housing funding over sixplex vote Housing Minister Gregor Robertson expressed his “disappointment” with city council’s decision last month to not allow sixplexes citywide in a letter to Mayor Olivia Chow.

Gut instinct is that Ottawa is looking for a way to let Toronto skate here. The statement the feds will “make no compromises … on the level of ambition” leaves plenty of room to fiddle with the deal
www.thestar.com/news/gta/no-...

24.07.2025 14:44 — 👍 7    🔁 1    💬 1    📌 1

“AIMS TO” is doing a lot of work here

23.07.2025 22:25 — 👍 2    🔁 0    💬 2    📌 0

WSJ: here’s a story about Epstein and Trump
Trump: i’m suing for $10B
WSJ: here’s another story

23.07.2025 19:48 — 👍 23    🔁 9    💬 0    📌 0

Toronto drivers are notably famous for their adherence to parking, turning and signal restrictions

23.07.2025 15:38 — 👍 29    🔁 5    💬 3    📌 0

Would be kind of awesome if the key to the city was actually a copy of the master-key that opens parks toilets. Privileged access for life

23.07.2025 14:21 — 👍 15    🔁 3    💬 0    📌 0

Inbox: “Mayor Olivia Chow to present Key to the City to world-renowned filmmaker … whose visionary work has helped shape global cinema and who has maintained a long-standing relationship with Toronto”

Release does not name the person, but presumably Guillermo del Toro

23.07.2025 14:20 — 👍 8    🔁 2    💬 1    📌 0

There’s no mountain like Ventoux

23.07.2025 02:19 — 👍 4    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0
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The #TOpoli jokes write themselves

22.07.2025 19:58 — 👍 10    🔁 0    💬 3    📌 1

Edsel 2.0

22.07.2025 17:00 — 👍 8    🔁 0    💬 2    📌 0

This. Most of the hyper-ventilating about transit safety is based on vibes not crimes

22.07.2025 14:09 — 👍 7    🔁 3    💬 0    📌 0

Meanwhile, also from the guy who is whining about Canada being “nasty” for pushing back. Sad
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22.07.2025 03:00 — 👍 5    🔁 2    💬 0    📌 0
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Trump thinks Canadians ‘nasty’ for avoiding U.S. travel, banning booze: ambassador The United States ambassador to Canada says Canadians avoiding U.S. travel and banning American alcohol are among the reasons Donald Trump thinks they are “nasty” to deal with.

Trump’s worldview seems to be that you’re unreasonable if you react negatively to being treated like shit. Apparently he would prefer Canada rolled over and took it
www.ctvnews.ca/canada/artic...

22.07.2025 02:37 — 👍 33    🔁 7    💬 3    📌 1

“Nous refusons de les voir mourir”

21.07.2025 22:20 — 👍 8    🔁 2    💬 0    📌 0
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Vancouver Reconsidered The Limits of Terminal City's Transportation Evolution

I got to compare #Vancouver and #Montreal 's progress on urbanism and transport on a couple of recent trips out west.

Here are some of my conclusions ( #Toronto, for Ford-related reasons, isn't in the running...)

www.highspeed.blog/vancouver-re...

21.07.2025 16:13 — 👍 4    🔁 2    💬 0    📌 0

Montreal’s urbanism keeps finding new ways to make every other city in Canada look like a piker

21.07.2025 16:08 — 👍 17    🔁 4    💬 1    📌 0
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How much did Canada’s trade retaliation and boycotts actually hurt the U.S.? Trevor Tombe in The Hub | Macdonald-Laurier Institute In short, government measures—like removing U.S. wine from store shelves or imposing tariffs—had clear, measurable impacts. The same cannot be said of consumer boycotts. While individual choices may h...

I think this rather misses the point. Canadians are not boycotting the United States because they expect to crash its economy, though some might relish the idea, but because they don’t want to support or frankly have anything to do with the US under Trump
macdonaldlaurier.ca/how-much-did...

20.07.2025 21:58 — 👍 132    🔁 23    💬 9    📌 0
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Globe editorial: When cities keep doing the wrong thing The reopening of Portage and Main in Winnipeg is an example of a city finally correcting a past mistake

“Paraphrasing a sentiment apocryphally attributed to Winston Churchill, cities often do the right thing only after exhausting all other possibilities”
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20.07.2025 20:39 — 👍 12    🔁 1    💬 0    📌 0
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Real Sophie’s Choice

20.07.2025 17:21 — 👍 7    🔁 0    💬 1    📌 0

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