Eric Doherty

Blessed activism! 🙌
❤️ #antifa ⛪️

Families and children need safe bike lanes Reading the many complaint letters about bike lanes, I get it that car drivers find them frustrating. But a war on cars it is not. Taking a little kindergarten boy to school recently, I noticed that a good many parents are using cargo bikes to take their children to school or day care, and I increasingly see them around town too. These parents are primarily using separated bike lanes, and they need to, as regular car lanes are unsafe for these families. Housing is so expensive, and many families have just one car, so taking advantage of the rapidly evolving and cheaper e-bikes to move their children around makes sense. And their numbers are steadily increasing. These families need safety, just as we do in regular car lanes. Let’s learn from the Dutch. Contrary to popular belief, bike lane construction in Holland only began in the 1970s. Like most countries, Holland was heading toward car saturation point when a study was released showing the number of car related fatalities affecting families. The study, together with higher gas prices, galvanized the public to want to take care of their most vulnerable citizens – hence their amazing bike lane infrastructure. Should we not also be mindful about our children? So, next time we wish to drive somewhere, let’s allow more time to get to our destination. Slow down when passing a school zone, and when driving alongside a separated bike lane, let’s be glad to think that the youngest and most vulnerable members of our community are safer because of those lanes. An inclusive city must also include how our families and children can get safely to and from their destinations. Anna Bowness-Park Esquimalt

Two people on mobility scooters heading in opposite directions on the two-way Pandora protected bike & roll lane.

Great letter in TC today, focused on how families with children need safe bike & roll lanes! (Note that seniors and people with disabilities also benefit from safe, smooth, bike & roll routes.) www.timescolonist.com/opinion/lett... #yyj #visionzero

No Kings As the president escalates his authoritarian power grab, the NO KINGS non-violent movement continues to rise stronger. We are united once again to remind the world: America has No Kings and the power ...

ONE WEEK FROM TODAY: Make your voices heard. Join us in a peaceful protest across our country against the most corrupt, deceitful & criminal Administration in U.S. History. We say NO KINGS, NO CROOKS, NO SPRAY-TAN CONMAN! 👎

Check for a location near you at: www.nokings.org

#BeThere 👍

"Cities in North America all caught the same mania of city building where you just try to stuff as many cars through a downtown as you can rather than making places people wanted to actually spend time in. Cities are better when you're not just racing through them in your own enclosed metal box."

“…AI investments accounted for nearly 92% of U.S. GDP growth in the first half of 2025…”

The sooner the bubble bursts, the less damage it'll do to the US economy. But even now the damage will be HUGE. finance.yahoo.com/news/most-us...

"In recent days, warnings of an #AI bubble have come from the Bank of England, the International Monetary Fund, as well as JP Morgan"

This is wild and kinda amazing. As a Jamaican-Canadian, I’m confident that the fact that you were very blunt was well received. Our culture is very direct and warm. Also, I am confident my peeps will make strides, that’s also a part of our culture :) Congrats on a successful engagement.

Big oil's fascists are dull.
The resistance is bright.
Stand tall.
We will win.

Thank you @4nikkolas.bsky.social, #PortlandFrog and everyone who is standing tall in their own way.

Kai, I’m gonna be honest, I think he shares a special bond with most girls your age.

I litigated cases against giants that fell when the tech bubble burst and I have seen this coming from miles away. It’s going to be a bloodbath.

after millions of views and shares of my Portland Frog art. (thank you all🙏🏾) I got requests to highlight priests, and chickens, and Chicagoans, and T-Rexes, and more… all of us who refuse to bend the knee. so this is for US.
𝚂𝚝𝚊𝚗𝚍 𝚃𝚊𝚕𝚕.
𝚆𝚎 𝚆𝚒𝚕𝚕 𝚆𝚒𝚗.

Stand strong and stay safe, Portland. 💙🐸
#FuckICE

⚠️Government policy is overlooking the costs of climate inaction on mental health and wellbeing, argues Mikael Mikaelsson, @neiljennings.bsky.social and Emma Lawrance in a new article on the cascading risks of the climate crisis on #WorldMentalHealthDay 🧵

📰 buff.ly/Ty5z9WP

- Millions of federal employees aren’t getting paid
- 15 million people about to lose their health care
- 24 million Americans could see their insurance premiums DOUBLE

Now Speaker Johnson gives House Republicans another week off work. 4 straight weeks out of DC. Unbelievable.

I understand why it's good to frame climate events in terms of the issues that are most concerning to voters but it's important to mention climate change too.

#EndClimateSilence everywhere 💚

Victoria Regional Transit Plan We need your input! BC Transit is seeking input into the long-term goals and network design priorities for the Victoria Regional Transit Plan. The plan is being developed with input from the Capital R...

Hi do you have any interest in #yyj transit? BC Transit is currently in the public engagement portion for the new regional transit plan and they need your input!
#bctransit
engage.bctransit.com/victoria-reg...

two people on mobility scooters on a protected bike and roll lane

The City of Victoria is already starting to call these bike and roll lanes / routes. Not just for bi & tricycles!

New Study Shows How Paris Pedaled Its Way to a Cycling Revolution Cycling through central Paris meant weaving between buses and scooters—a bold choice reserved for the fearless few.

“The transformation is astonishing. [Paris] has quietly—& quickly—become one of the most bike-friendly cities in the world. What started as a series of emergency “coronapistes” or pop-up bike lanes, built during the pandemic has evolved into a permanent bike network spanning hundreds of kilometres.”

Must say that my experience with a college writing class was great, and the college English class was dismal. Two classes is not a statistically valid sample size of course. . .

School based cycling safety programs are not just about teaching kids. Young people teach parents, uncles & aunts, and grandparents. Not a magic bullet of course, just a helpful intervention with multiple benefits. (Rider behavior in Amsterdam isn't perfect either, and that isn't just tourists).

My impression is that people are gradually getting better at going with the flow on bike lanes, as is needed as more and more people ride. Universal cycling education in schools would help.

Families and children need safe bike lanes Reading the many complaint letters about bike lanes, I get it that car drivers find them frustrating. But a war on cars it is not. Taking a little kindergarten boy to school recently, I noticed that a good many parents are using cargo bikes to take their children to school or day care, and I increasingly see them around town too. These parents are primarily using separated bike lanes, and they need to, as regular car lanes are unsafe for these families. Housing is so expensive, and many families have just one car, so taking advantage of the rapidly evolving and cheaper e-bikes to move their children around makes sense. And their numbers are steadily increasing. These families need safety, just as we do in regular car lanes. Let’s learn from the Dutch. Contrary to popular belief, bike lane construction in Holland only began in the 1970s. Like most countries, Holland was heading toward car saturation point when a study was released showing the number of car related fatalities affecting families. The study, together with higher gas prices, galvanized the public to want to take care of their most vulnerable citizens – hence their amazing bike lane infrastructure. Should we not also be mindful about our children? So, next time we wish to drive somewhere, let’s allow more time to get to our destination. Slow down when passing a school zone, and when driving alongside a separated bike lane, let’s be glad to think that the youngest and most vulnerable members of our community are safer because of those lanes. An inclusive city must also include how our families and children can get safely to and from their destinations. Anna Bowness-Park Esquimalt

Two people on mobility scooters heading in opposite directions on the two-way Pandora protected bike & roll lane.

Great letter in TC today, focused on how families with children need safe bike & roll lanes! (Note that seniors and people with disabilities also benefit from safe, smooth, bike & roll routes.) www.timescolonist.com/opinion/lett... #yyj #visionzero

💰 EU billionaires’ wealth surged by €400 billion in just six months — that’s over €2 billion a day.

Meanwhile, ordinary Europeans are paying the price.

Our new report shows how decades of tax policies have favored the super-rich 👇

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#TaxTheRich #ECOFIN

CNBC: The top 0.1% have nearly doubled their wealth since 2020.

An economy dependent on the portfolios of a tiny elite isn't just unfair—it's unstable.

It is time to tax extreme wealth and invest in the real economy for the benefit of all.

#GlobalWealthTax #TaxTheRich

Pravda Publisher Dies After Fall From a Window in Putin’s Moscow Authorities claimed Vyacheslav Leontyev had a “nervous breakdown” and stumbled out of a window.

If you're ever in Russia, stay away from the windows:

Pravda Publisher Dies in Fall From a Window in Putin’s Moscow www.thedailybeast.com/pravda-publi...

"If you can drive or afford a car, you may not understand what it’s like to rely on walking, rolling, transit and asking for rides. But for more than a third of people... this is our every day." #climatejustice #publictransit

The prosecution of Tish James is the product of a broken system that allows lawless billionaires to rule alongside corrupt politicians.

It’s as much a story of New York City as Washington, D.C.

But it's here in New York where a new era of politics will be born.

Sounds like we need a strong united movement against fossil fascism. If the fossil billionaires seek to divide, that means it is time to unite against them.

It's pretty wild to me that investigators have uncovered that anti-trans campaigns are largely funded by the fossil fuel industry, and that the presumed motivations are pretty directly to redirect the public conversation away from climate change... and that this isn't bigger news.

Canadian Real Estate Resembles US Bubble After Perfect Storm: BMO - Better Dwelling BMO warns Canadian real estate resembles 2007 U.S. bubble, with home prices correcting after a perfect storm "nearly impossible" to replicate.

"The American crash was sharper" but the Canadian real estate bubble will keep deflating for years, according to BMO. Sounds like a great time for a big public investment in not for profit housing! betterdwelling.com/canadian-rea... #cdnpoli #bcpoli #housing #taxtherich