Peter Dedes

YouTube video by CBC News 'In Flanders Fields,' read by Michael Enright

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Not a fan of the phrase “road diet”. I prefer “right-sizing”. That’s a quibble, the important thing is to make transportation infrastructure safer and equitable . Walkable, cycleable, micro mobilityable streets with green spaces and fewer, slower cars aren’t just safer, but they feel and look better

Private schools should receive no public money. Private school tuition should not be tax-deductible

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Re your recent post outsourcing government services; I particularly resent when the outsourcing is to religious organizations. Often the services then come with strings attached

One of the many reasons I don't watch pro sports is the partnership between sports organizations, betting businesses and media. Online sports gambling is particularly problematic with teenagers and it's proliferation is due to the greed and carelessness of this above alliance

We could geo-fenced car speed

Right. This isn't "Cars" the movie

First weekend in December. Christmas decorations and music before Remembrance Day (November 11, Canada) is abhorrent.

Black road bike leaning against a tree, background is a bare farm field and silo in the distance

Meadow, dirt road, farm buildings , sun and clouds

Gravel road lines with trees, bike wheel visible on the right

Maple leaves embedded in the clay of a gravel road

Scenes from a bike ride, Temperance Road near Wallenstein, ON

During the course of my workday, ran into this crew at our local Humane Society. As of this writing, they’ve all been adopted!

I remember reading “The End of Growth” that posited a grim future as easily accessible fossil fuels were depleted. The spectacular pace at which renewable energy technologies continue to evolve will keep the world economy growing but addressing climate change needs to be central

We really don’t drill into motorists that they have no actual rights to the road, but privileges earned and paid for

The only road using classes with inherent road rights are pedestrians, equestrians and cyclists

I remember leading several Mayor’s bike rides when I chaired our municipal cycling advisory committee. City councillors would direct staff to take action on what they saw on the routes we planned

Meta earns $3.5 billion every six months from showing Faceboon and Instagram users 15 billion “higher legal risk” scam ad impressions a day, internal documents state.

That haul vastly exceeds how much the company expects regulators
To fine it for running scam ads.

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Meta earns $3.5 billion every 6 months by showing scam ads to Facebook and Instagram users

That’s frightening

Our current premier is not a cycling or micro-mobility ally. He attempted to remove a number of well-used bike lanes in Toronto that are key to commuting infrastructure We certainly have activists pushing for change but in the current political climate it’s difficult

None of those options available in my jurisdiction, Waterloo Region (the municipality that oversees regional transportation infrastructure) , Ontario

I hate signalled intersections that won’t recognize me on a bike. Embedded sensors or radar won’t trigger a light change. Or the pedestrian countdown for the cross-traffic zeroes and the signal recycles. When municipal signalling infrastructure fails to recognize me on my bike, I won’t recognize it

Police. The biggest gang going

Came here for this

Look. It's Sgt. Schultz

LPC could have distanced itself from its corporatist recent history. Could have gotten a lot of headway on that tack

Shared the news with my KCI kid.

Gravel road, freshly harvested fields, sunlight glinting of farm buildings, a dramatic cloudy sky with the sun peaking through

From today's bike ride, SW Ontario Mennonite country

Various buildings and mechanical equipment on roofs in an urban centre

A view of the Kitchener downtown skyline from a roof

Doberman lying down and golden retriever sitting behind in the autumn leaves

This Lucy and her BFF Odin in the fall woods

The “Shock Doctrine“ by Naomi Klein is required reading. It’s how capitalists exploit crises

YouTube video by Jacob Mann Jacob Mann Big Band - Baby Carrots

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The G&M’s love affair with Poilievre is troubling