Idris Fashan

Public regulation is easier than corporate regulation, just ask every modern democracy on earth. 🤷🏾‍♂️

Brutal. Sorry to hear.
I dropped my car off for a service and rode back for much of 23rd & 34 Ave and 91 St, and it had some extremely sketchy zones, but I had my studded fat bike to keep me upright.

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Doug Ford spent 450 MILLION DOLLARS

of tax money…

on…

advertising.

Power is like gravity. It attracts a pull that money cannot escape.

I want Pizza Hut’s Peace-a-Pizza Prize… 🍕

This is my bike. Her name is Tonka (like the bean or the toy truck). She is a Giant Yukon 1 with 45NRTH Dillinger 5 studded tires and RaceFace pedals and grips.

Today it took me nearly an hour to bike 12 km. 🤣

It was -14C with a firm breeze and the crusty 4cm of snow & ‘undercoat-ice.’

Sure made that morning coffee worth it.

🚲 ❄️

YouTube video by Energi Media 7 Days After the MOU, Alberta Guts Industrial Emitter Carbon Tax (TIER)

1/4 of Canada’s emissions lie within Alberta’s industrial performance.

It’s jarring to see how quickly Carney’s climate compromise was just smeared with Alberta snow monkey 💩 days after MOU ink dried.

Federal 4-D chess at work 🥴

Emissions for all—without paying for it!

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I would happily trade Edmonton’s 0C for Montreal’s -16C ANY DAY OF THE WEEK.

At 0, Edmonton is a sleety, slushy fat bike nightmare. I had so much dirt in my hair, I needed a shower before every client call. 😆

Heartbreaking! 💔

YUP!

Brian Jean: “Whoopsie!!!” 🙄🙄🙄

That’s the obvious ‘pivot’ — one born of rejection. 😆

Give it 10 years.

Canada always follows, eventually. 🥴

Keep in mind, this is what panic looks like. I bet he’s feeling a LOT of pressure.

He always does this freakout shit when he’s under the knife. 🙌🏾🙌🏾

Everyone needs to watch for illegality in the midterms. That’s the battleground.

Alberta Energy Regulator stopped enforcing gas flaring limits after government pressure, documents show | CBC News The regulator in charge of environmental enforcement in Alberta bent to pressure from the provincial government and oil companies to eliminate a limit on natural gas flaring as Canadian oil productio...

Governments pick winners and losers every day.

See how hard provinces ‘work’ to peddle narratives while they set moratoriums for private investment ($50B renewables) & behind closed doors “open the floodgates”for incumbent/well-subsidized industries. 🤷🏾‍♂️

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You mistake moral superiority for vulnerability.

Good bye indeed.

My point is that these things happen in a vacuum BECAUSE no one is fighting for them at a level needed to stop it. People like YOU are the apathy feeding what will be the death of the last breaths of public’s in this country.

You’re obviously ok with it, but I’m not.

Glad you’re laughing.

Schools funded less than ever, as are universities, libraries.
Municipalities gained responsibilities without constitutional status or adequate fiscal tools, with transit systems, aging infrastructure, and austerity budgets. Again, not for you. You’re just fine or something…

I’m living through a regime of this in Alberta and it hasn’t been easy. 👍🏾

IMO we need a working narrative (value and economic) that allows Canadians to reclaim healthcare as a public good.
‘I got this for free’ isn’t ownership. That’s reusing market language to explain a core societal value.

Thank you!

The last 50 years reflect a MASSIVE shift from collective, public oriented structures to hyper-capitalized market-mediated systems, eroding economic environmental and cultural publics that used to anchor Canadian life.

It’s not moral superiority, Jack.

It’s THE goddamn OBVIOUS.

My point is that we actually do.

Public funds are one of the few public’s left. If we lose the argument for why we need it, it leaves a lot of room for mismanagement and underfunding.
By having ALL OF US take ownership, we lessen that risk.

Super interesting!
Does Cook County have open data/open access to pull reports about successes challenges?

For Canada,
It’s no longer a technological challenge.
It’s no longer an economic challenge.

It’s a political challenge.

Glad you’re ok!

Point of order: it’s not free, we share in paying for it with our taxes as a country.

I think we need to be more clear about that so people remember to fight for heathcare, esp. as provinces try to take it away (looking at you Alberta).

OOF… How long will it be to clean up that error? 🤣

Because they’re the only working democratic structure left.

Makes sense of everything is 5-15% more expensive… no? 🤷🏾‍♂️

Holy shit, that’s some deep work, gumshoes! Proud to be a subscriber. Larson the grammar but IMO investigative journalism remains the most underfunded, yet critically important democratic tool we have.

It was such a nice ride this morning. Went through Mill Woods and north to Strathcona with no issues.

Now I get why fat bikes are so damn lived by winter riders. Endless fun!

Drivers were strangely courteous, not so much this afternoon tho. 🥴

The Mrs and I went for an excursion this morning and it was GLORIOUS.

Quite a few fellow riders in Mill Woods, and several smiles and nods from drivers, which is always nice to see.

Fat bikes visibly attract their attention. 💙

Me to my wife this morning: -11C

“It’s cold enough for the fat bikes, honey, let’s go out tonight!” 😎🥶