Stephanie Fritz 🇨🇦

"Fietsvlonders" are mobile bike platforms designed to turn a car parking spot into urban bike parking. They’re modular, moveable, and cheap, making it easy to test better use of public space. When car storage gets swapped for bikes, entire streets start to feel different.

Birdwatching makes me incredibly happy. I have a couple feeders in the yard, we planted a few small trees to improve the environment around the house, and I keep the Merlin app on my phone so I can find out who is singing around me. I also got a chickadee tattooed on my arm last year. 🐦🪺

There's weirdly nothing at ground level, and I think that's what icks me about it

Black line on a Google Maps screenshot shows the route of the Waterloo Region ION LRT train. The green line on the map shows the Kitchener GO train route.

News for Waterloo Region transit nerds: the ION route now displays with the Transit layer on Google Maps!

How SUVs Are Making Traffic Worse As larger, taller sport utility vehicles took over US roads, they also aggravated highway congestion, according to a new study. It’s yet another ill effect of “car bloat.”

A groundbreaking new study found that the surge in SUVs from 1995 to 2019 reduced Minnesota's highway lane capacity by 9.5%.

Less lane capacity --> More congestion

Me, in CityLab 🧵

Accueil - Village Historique Acadien Le Village historique acadien est un complexe touristique composé d'un sentier parcourant 2.2 km, bordé d'une quarantaine de bâtiments historiques tous animés.

There's a historical village thats probably twice+ the size of Doon Village about the Acadiens, located on the east side of NB. It was honestly a stellar visit when we went about 6 years ago. villagehistoriqueacadien.com

Montreal garbage can with a designated spot to put empty cans and bottles for recycling collection. From CBC article https://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/montreal/recycling-plateau-mont-royal-binners-1.5036222

Even in Quebec! I travel to Montreal sometimes, and the IGA grocery store near my usual hotel has a bottle-return spot. Their street garbage cans have a special spot to put your empty containers so that others can come by and collect them to make a buck, a way they support their homeless population

Laurier-Waterloo Park LRT station at night. The platform is empty.

Quiet vibes waiting for the train

Carney: Canada never ever will be part of America in any way, shape, or form. We didn’t ask for this fight, but Canadians are always ready when someone else drops the gloves.

I've heard this is what happened to Russian liquor after the invasion of Ukraine. The LCBO pulled everything, waited to see what would happen, and then returned the product to the sellers when it was apparent that things were not getting better anytime soon. We may see the same thing happen here.

We're talking about making Canada competitive in a more hostile landscape? We need to get serious about building infrastructure and not wasting money like this.

Use the form at the bottom of this article to submit any locally-made products you know about for Waterloo Region!

This is fantastic, thank you for spearheading this in Waterloo Region!

The “cover” of today’s Globe & Mail, Canada’s national newspaper. #StrongAndFree

Trudeau: He has said repeatedly, what he wants is to see a total collapse of the Canadian economy. Because that will make it easier to annex us. First of all, that's never going to happen. We will never be the 51st state.

If you do it, keep us updated on your progress! Maybe ask friends what they hear in your accent that sounds 'off' to them? I have an Irish friend and we used to play that game when she was newly emigrated here, where I'd say something and she'd repeat it a bunch of times until she nailed it.

Canadian English - Wikipedia

'Zed,' not 'zee.'

Also make sure you're using the ungodly mix of British and American spellings we've adopted! Put that British 'u' into colour and neighbour! End 'centre' and 'theatre' with -re and not -er!

Also this: en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Canadia...

We will be there for Canadian workers.

American whiskey off the shelf in Kitchener LCBO

Full aisle of California wine emptied out and the shelf labels all removed

Kitchener LCBO clearing out all the American product and taking the signs off too. Went in tonight and staff were rolling full carts of bottles off the floor. Bought myself some Canadian whisky and wine 🇨🇦

Hold the line.
Back our leaders.
Guard our traditions.
Protect our sovereignty.
Back those who defend us.

Never say sorry.

Elbows up. Let’s do this.
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Oh I'm a UW student, they're definitely hearing from me

I'm in Kitchener, I'll write to them and the region. Thanks!

Do you have a list of local entities in Waterloo Region who are still actively using it that you're targeting? I'd love to join your letter-writing campaign!

Writing to my local governments tonight to request they delete their X accounts. Individuals can do what they want, but there is zero reason that official public sector entities should be driving ad revenue to a man who as of tonight is a legitimate national security threat.

I mean, there WAS a Kaiser St pre-WWI. It's now Mansion St (the stretch between Lancaster and Edna, the bit towards Ellen was always Mansion)

Oh fantastic, thank you!!

Ontario Election results as of 10:50 PM EST (Liberals | Elected: 12; leading: 2; total 14 seats | 1,441,522 votes | 29.7% vote share)

NDP voters watching perplexed Liberals ask themselves how it is possible to get 30% of the votes but only receive ~10% of the seats under first-past-the-post

Small Single-Stairway Apartment Buildings Have Strong Safety Record Policymakers could increase the supply of multifamily housing in their states and localities by revising outdated building codes that require more than one stairway in small apartment buildings. If en...

Well, we told @cityofvancouver.bsky.social council that new info on single stair buildings was coming soon…

and here, the next day, is a big report from the Pew Charitable Trust *

Quotes below…

*based on a ton of legwork by @stephenjacobsmith.com and others

www.pewtrusts.org/en/research-...

Is there any plan to make this design available on the women's cut?

Star Editorial Board: Doug Ford has fallen short. Vote for change The Progressive Conservative leader had seven years to tackle the challenges facing this province, and he couldn't get it done. It's time for change.

"Ford was elected on a promise to address our multiple and overlapping crises. The cost of housing was skyrocketing, family doctors were highly coveted but rarely found, schools were crumbling... Consider this: each of the crises he promised to fix has gotten worse." www.thestar.com/opinion/edit...