This is #TorontoDanforth
Cycle Track block along Dundas St E and Carroll St
Vehicle prioritized over the safety of people riding bikes.
Thanks Grand Touring Automobiles?!
#BikeTO
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This is #TorontoDanforth
Cycle Track block along Dundas St E and Carroll St
Vehicle prioritized over the safety of people riding bikes.
Thanks Grand Touring Automobiles?!
#BikeTO
The CEO of a a multi-trillion dollar company went to the White House, openly handed the US president a gift made of gold, and his company got a special exemption to tariffs the president has illegally imposed.
Also, the Founders took bribery so seriously the Constitution bans it 3 separate times.
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09.08.2025 15:30 β π 0 π 0 π¬ 0 π 0Letβs Fix it: Trinity Bellwoods is the hardest-working park in downtown Toronto. Hereβs how it can finally become the great place it should be. My column
on how Trinity Bellwoods can get even better.
The City of Toronto has contracted w Garda too - currently doing encampments secure.toronto.ca/council/agen...
08.08.2025 14:42 β π 39 π 26 π¬ 2 π 2Just learned about this very cool conference and unconference in Toronto in a couple weeks! The premise looks very intriguing to me - if you're in the area and interested in the intersection of community organizing, tech, mutual aid, and politics, deffo check it out!
06.08.2025 23:29 β π 3 π 3 π¬ 0 π 0The book cover for Read This When Things Fall Apart: Letters to Activists in Crisis, Edited by Kelly Hayes. The book cover features an artistic rendering of a person with long hair wading into a body of water at night in a wilderness.
Hey fam, my new book, Read This When Things Fall Apart, comes out in three months. That means now is the critical window for preorders, which help get books on shelves, in libraries, and into the hands of the people who need them most. www.pilsencommunitybooks.com/item/vCQt68D...
04.08.2025 20:07 β π 2633 π 701 π¬ 73 π 40Cheers to the reporter who just asked Carney whether Canada can really expect the United States to honour any trade agreement.
Carney didn't really answer it -- and given the sensitivities of the current situation, he was probably never going to answer it.
But it's a very good question!
The DoD Rapid Response team on Twitter writes: "The Secretary of Defense has great jeans." The attached photo shows Sec. Pete Hegseth wearing a blue sport coat, white button-up shirt, blue jeans, and a big buckle Western belt.
I disagree. I will tell you what's wrong with his jeans. π§΅
05.08.2025 19:46 β π 7021 π 853 π¬ 241 π 145The fact that CBC was too cowardly to film this is indicative of a much bigger problem in media.
When layoffs come, they tend to target journalists who are "problems" for management, who question authority.
This is what you lose when you only keep the journalists who are deferential to authority:
I am trying so hard to like this book. I want to know what happens, but there is something that just bugs me when I am reading (listening) it. I'm on book 1 part 2.
03.08.2025 18:46 β π 1 π 0 π¬ 1 π 0western countries are talking about whether to recognize a palestinian state, while israel keeps slaughtering dozens of palestinians each and every day
02.08.2025 14:14 β π 303 π 123 π¬ 6 π 1The Florida AG is now fishing for personal data about everyone who attended or performed at a Pride drag show. This should set off every civil liberties alarm bell we have. www.eff.org/deeplinks/2...
02.08.2025 16:00 β π 253 π 113 π¬ 4 π 9We have a very serious problem in California.
This also happened in Berkeley, where consultants hired to create evacuation plans for the Berkeley Hills were *ordered to not study walking or biking* to escape a fire.
The result? The evacuation model said people would not be able to escape a fire.
My argument isn't that others couldn't do worse, but that there's no point in engaging - let alone making concessions - with a fascist brainfart who has no honor and will do what he wants regardless. Carney needs to assert sovereignty and massively shift us away from the US, yesterday.
01.08.2025 02:31 β π 136 π 29 π¬ 13 π 3After years of hard work, I am happy to announce that my book The Candidacy Calculation has been published by UTP. The book takes a nuanced view of traditional barriers to candidacy such as money & family as well as emerging ones such as online harassment & social media scandals. lnkd.in/gKDkMHqs
29.07.2025 00:05 β π 46 π 15 π¬ 2 π 3The Conservatives are looking like the NDP with their love of losers
27.07.2025 15:44 β π 19 π 3 π¬ 3 π 0Tired of colour cartels telling us how to feel? I just voted for my real Colour of the Year: DEFIANT RAGE. Find yours at colouroftheyear.com
27.07.2025 04:52 β π 3 π 2 π¬ 0 π 0This would be laughable if it wasn't so easy to believe the US government is being run by legit Nazis.
24.07.2025 03:56 β π 3 π 0 π¬ 0 π 0The TTC should invest some money in a better social media team instead of more rent-a-cops
21.07.2025 21:07 β π 9 π 1 π¬ 1 π 0The best things about this CEO affair fiasco is how it is a perfect representation of what HR has become in every company. HR is there to protect the boss, not the employee, it's almost as if they are in bed together.
21.07.2025 19:29 β π 1 π 0 π¬ 0 π 0Projection graffiti π€
19.07.2025 08:40 β π 5328 π 1297 π¬ 82 π 61So, @tps.ca Cst William Jung @thetorontocop inferred if I didn't praise police I didn't deserve their help & incited anti-cyclist attitudes for likes. So we did some digging & he's recently found guilty of some pretty serious misconduct 1/4:
www.tps.ca/media/tribun...
Did you end up getting one of those pregnancy pillows?
18.07.2025 17:02 β π 0 π 0 π¬ 1 π 0Lula going after US tech companies today sounds awesome, even calling out how the right uses free speech as a justification to target minorities.
We need a broader alliance of countries to come together and go after Silicon Valley so itβs harder for the US government to stop them.
And no Dungeon Crawler Carl. :(
18.07.2025 07:46 β π 0 π 0 π¬ 0 π 0We are far less safe with police like this one on the public payroll. But it's of a piece many years in the making.
17.07.2025 18:43 β π 166 π 42 π¬ 5 π 0Interesting timing, thatβs for sure. www.theglobeandmail.com/arts/article...
18.07.2025 00:20 β π 4 π 1 π¬ 0 π 0This fall will be the first big stress test for US clothing retailers. Trump announced his first big round of tariff hikes on April 2 ("Liberation Day"), after most stores received their spring/summer deliveries. It's an open question how they will handle fall/winter deliveries with 10-145% tariffs.
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