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Ultimately, the fare box is a tax. Taxing transportation suppresses all sorts of important activity. It makes sense to put a tax on transportation you want to discourage, but the fact that ridership increases without mode shift when fares decrease indicates there is activity the tax is suppressing.

This pod misses the mark talking about free busses. While discussing increased ridership not correlating with reduced car trips, they neglect how important new trip generation is.

There's a $10 weekly class across town, but it's $16.50 including bus fare. Transit fares suppress economic activity.

Meh, delivery franchised fast food via 3rd party enshittified app is not cheaper than cooking. But a reasonable tiffin service or agreement with a local restaurant can be close to the same price.

People are entirely too puritanical about eating takeout.

Isn't that what you were asking for? For people to stand there and let police slam them to the ground? For others watching to take their names down and let the courts deal with it?

Resisting deportations is always going to involve violence. Asking resistors to be 'non-violent' is just asking them to accept that all the violence that occurs will be directed at them.

The courts, democrats, and elections are not going to stop this. People will.

Direct action gets the goods.

Omnishambles, a nice Britishism that got the the OED word of the year in 2012, and over a decade later, it still feels appropriate to describing pretty much everything.

Also leads to the adjective Omnishambolic, which just sounds quite nice to me.

A line chart showing the reports released by the Ombudsman's office by year. The chart shows that the office historically released ~50+ reports a year, dipping slightly during the pandemic, before cratering in 2025.

The #CBC has an Ombudsman who is in charge of mediating complaints that listeners have with the editorial teams response to complaints. They write reports on if the editorial team violated the CBCs standards and practices.

Historically the office generated ~60 reports a year. 2025 has seen 3 so far

He'll spin the coming spike in oil prices as why we need to build energy resilience to stand with our neighbors to the south.

Means testing free transit is as expensive as it is unpopular.

Just make transit free. Tax people elsewhere.

Oh look, a Canadian who assumes the framing of this issue domestically is similar to what it is in America. It isn't.

It doesn't matter what an MP, or even the PM, say is 'racist', that's not how the Canadian law works.

This isn't hypothetical, laws have been on the books since the 80's.

Mass deportations are logistically difficult to coordinate. Going forward, there will be fewer deportations because of the security challenges presented by Angelenos.

Not because they 'changed someone's mind', but because they changed the facts on the ground. They have already won.

Both are brave forms of resistance, but one of them is much easier for the government to ignore, and the other is a hell of a lot more dangerous.

Angelenos are not 'protesting' ICE, they are stopping them. Success in their mission shouldn't be measured by 'did they force the guard out' alone.

I wanted to chime in, all respect to student protesters, but what Angelenos are doing right now differs in both risk and character.

Student protesters put their bodies on the line to make it marginally inconvenient and embarrassing to hold classes.

Angelenos are physically stopping deportations.

Every president always runs on atleast a vague anti war platform, but yes, public sentiment was turning.

Yes? When exactly did kent state solidify anti war protests?

After the war ended?

1972 United States presidential election - Wikipedia

3 years later, the anti war candidate suffered the biggest electoral defeat in modern US history. en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/1972_Un...

Campus Unrest Linked to Drugs - Newspapers.com Clipping found in The Palm Beach Post in West Palm Beach, Florida on May 28, 1970. Campus Unrest Linked to Drugs

58% of Americans blamed the student protesters at Kent State, compared to 11% who blamed the Guard.

It's good to be hopeful, but I wouldn't hold my breath.

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The greatest enemy to a motorist is other cars. Every new car on the road is a worse rush hour, less parking, and longer commutes.

Adding a bike lane to a street isn't the war on cars, but adding a traffic lane is!

Sign the Petition Ban John Tory from World Cup Toronto Games

My suggestion? A low effort, easy to achieve, broadly popular policy:

www.change.org/p/ban-john-t...

Best Chow can do is overspending on a few soccer games, her hands are tied, apparently.

Shopify's founder pipes up every now and then in Canadian politics, he's intolerable.

Cycling Upgrades & Renewals The Cycling Network Plan, adopted by City Council in  2019, seeks to build on the existing network of cycling routes to Connect gaps in the current network, Grow the network into new parts of the city...

The initial plan called for 30 out of 78 parking spots to be removed. If it's loosing ~60% of it's spaces, that's what, 48 spots? Fletcher's argument for reversing course on this is it gets rid of 18 extra parking spaces?

www.toronto.ca/services-pay...

Fletcher is arguing that the agreed upon plan for a bike lane needs to be changed, since it's getting rid of 48 parking spots, instead of the 30 originally projected.

She's willing to risk people's lives for 18 parking spaces.

Lali, who took the TTC to get to the press conference that morning, confirmed later to the Star that he hadn’t been to Toronto before applying for the city’s top transit posting. The soft-spoken Lali — dressed in a suit, sweater and TTC-red tie — was asked several times to speak louder or closer to the mic in order to be heard, and while he quipped with reporters, he largely kept personal details to himself. When the Star asked the salt-and-pepper haired Lali about his age, the transit executive cheekily responded, “Today I feel like I’m 21.” Pushed further, Lali said only his wife knows his real age.

Things I learned about the new TTC CEO today:

- Never been to Toronto before
- Still mastering good mic technique
- His age is a mysterious secret

www.thestar.com/news/gta/ttc...

That's one of the obscene things about having a billion dollars. You can put aside 20 million dollars to live incredibly comfortably for the rest of your life, and still have a billion dollars left over.

A more energy efficient extraction and transportation process is possible to a degree, but ultimately: burning fossil fuels doesn't produce enough energy to capture and store the carbon released by burning the fuel.

If you take it out of the ground, it's going to end up in the air.

"I welcome Private Kelly's cape, but I urge her to go further. There is no official rule limiting swagger sticks by rank, as long as you can pull it off."

Couldn't the government lower housing prices by restricting mortgage eligibility and increasing the cost of borrowing?

The way capitalists just reflexively lie about what is 'economically' viable reminds me of all the bad faith labour negotiations I've ever had.

Hey, sometimes the men are tedious and horny.