Colleen

Time for you to join forces with @anotherglassbox.bsky.social. Let's make this happen.

Mid-Rise Manual The Mid-rise Manual is a lawmakers guide to unlocking mid-rise - by making it legal, practical and cost-effective to build.

if i ever get enough money i'm going to give environmental defense canada a gundam in order to enact zoning reform

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I was going to criticize blaming pedestrians for congestion but, if rush hour tolls are on the table (which they presumably aren't because of the province but let's pretend), then lets talk.

Two very bland “Go Jays” posts. (But both dudes are great people)

Canadian enthusiasm knows no bounds.

Labour Minister David Piccini said he was personally involved in picking “lower-scoring” recipients of a $2.5-billion training fund that the province's auditor general recently labelled "not fair, transparent or accountable." The auditor general found that less than half of the recipients of the Ministry of Labour's Skills Development Fund (SDF) were given "high" scores on their proposals by non-partisan civil servants who evaluated them, while the majority — 54 per cent — were ranked as having “lower” quality proposals. Piccini defended the fund in a Newstalk 1010 radio interview on Wednesday. "I mean, there were projects that were lower-scoring that we did select — and that's a conversation I have with our officials here — that align with government priorities,” he said. “I mean, Peel Police — we supported (a) lower-scoring project. It supports mental health. Our first responders are more likely than the general population to commit suicide. That's a real reality,” Piccini added. The minister was referring to a project by Keel Digital Solutions — the company represented by the lobbyist whose Parisian wedding Piccini attended this past weekend.

New: Ontario's labour minister said he was personally involved in picking “lower-scoring” Skills Development Fund recipients.

He held up one whose lobbyist's wedding he attended as an example of a lower-ranked applicant with sizeable impact.

#onpoli

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If more people are going to live on Avenues (great!), part of the consequence is that Toronto will need to make Avenues more pleasant places to live: wider sidewalks and bike lanes, narrower car lanes, and much slower speed limits set for safety and to reduce noise pollution.

Councillor Bravo asks about the finances of the speed camera program. CFO says 24% of fine revenue is remitted back to the province. Admin costs take 35%. Remainder goes to road safety initiatives, including to pay the salaries of 18 police officers, plus crossing guards, etc.

Saw this post in my timeline without context. Correctly guessed who it was about (see post above it). What do I win?

So all of the speed camera and red light camera revenue is going to provincial coffers, administering the program, or the road safety measures that Ford claims don't exist (including cops and crossing guards).

2021.

All Toronto’s climate policies (subsidizing heat pumps for single-family houses, etc.) are chump change compared to what would happen if we altered the regional growth pattern and let people live in the city. This is true across North America.

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Ford government vehicle recorded at stunt driving speeds on Ontario highways | Globalnews.ca At least one cabinet-assigned vehicle was recorded driving more than 50 km/h over the speed limit multiple times in the past three years, according to documents.

NEW: A vehicle assigned to a Ford cabinet minister has been recorded at stunt driving speeds 12 times.

The premier's office suggested it was the same driver each time, and implied they still work for the government. #OnPoli
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What a fun way to find out if the "benefit to existing" residents calculation is correct. Councillors and staff who have said in the past that DCs didn't even cover the costs of infrastructure for new residents shouldn't be worried now, unless they were wrong.

Okay, seems promising.

Wait until you find out that, recently, a justice resigned following allegations of harassment. We have some wacky ideas up here.

Okay, Santa jokes aside,
“We are also united in our deep conviction that the rule of law and judicial independence are not abstract concepts. They are the best defence against tyranny and autocracy,”
is good stuff.

I do have to make the joke though: Richard Wagners currently 1-1 vs history.

We used to be a proper country

A group calling itself "New Toronto Initiative" is suing a local councillor and the city over plans to build a shelter in the neighbourhood - a classic Toronto move

Weird how none of these tickets are amongst the "stats" from the Premier claiming that 32,000 Toronto tickets are for going 2 km/h over. It's almost like the minimum is around 10 km/h over and the Premier just made up some nonsense that wasn't true.

Vehicles registered to Ford cabinet ministers caught by speed cameras more than 20 times | Globalnews.ca Documents obtained by Global News reveal that, over three years, vehicles registered to Ford’s cabinet minister received more than $3,300 in fines for speeding.

NEW: Vehicles registered to Doug Ford's cabinet ministers have been caught by automated speed cameras more than 20 times.

In one case, they were driving 70 in a 40 zone. On average, they were 17 over the limit. #OnPoli
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The Totalitarian Logic of Immigration Controls Reading Chandran Kukathas' "Immigration and Freedom" during the second Trump administration.

I do think that Poilievre is wrong in thinking that there is some magical bill that will only affect law breakers and refugees. A system of control has costs for everyone living under it. That's why such legislation should always be carefully considered. www.liberalcurrents.com/the-totalita...

"Mail is the easiest thing to get a warrant for. If you suspect there's something suspicious in a parcel or envelope, you set it aside, you go to a judge and you get a warrant. The envelope or parcel is not going to grow legs and run away."
Guys, I don't want to say it but Poilievre is right.

I do not think that we should do security theatre to appease the President of another country who has demonstrated that he is unappeasable.

Conservatives won't support Liberal border bill without major changes: Pierre Poilievre | CBC News Conservative Leader Pierre Poilievre says the federal Liberals must either heavily amend their border bill or introduce a new piece of proposed legislation if they want support to pass it into law.

The proposed bill would let:

* mail be searched without a warrant
* allow intelligence officials to cancel immigration documents
* give access to online activity without a warrant

The Canadian Civil Liberties Association worries it may violate charter rights

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“Parade d’ouverture” (Opening parade) - Mind the map(ping) Colourful images projected onto the side of Gibson House

Lamination 1.0 A vibrant, suspended canopy made from hundreds of reclaimed plastic tiles in North York Centre's Main Atrium

S'imbriquer in the Mel Lastman Square Orchard Performers are in a large landscape of bricks, piled or organized chaotically. They move the bricks around one-by-one.

Future Perfect in Mel Lastman Square A large sign with an image of cut up words reads "This is where all that is least intended is done." The City of Toronto sign for the North York Civic Centre appears behind and a line of stores on Yonge Street is visible across the street. Behind that, a condo tower rises out of the top of the image frame.

Some Nuit Blanche photos

Pedestrianizing Yonge in North York in preparation for #NuitBlanche. Security so tight that even the smash burger truck can't get in (he convinced them eventually).

"Three Waverley West Residents are appealing it."
Perhaps the threshold for appeal should be higher for things like schools and daycares? Or, even, we could just use representative democracy in the usual way and vote out those nefarious politicians trying to build too many schools?

This is the second "Bicycles deliver the freedom..." shirt that I saw today. Another at the "speed cameras save lives" event in Davenport. Always in fashion!

Perp walks should always have been considered a violation of the presumption of innocence by the state. This just spells it out. I know that there is already a long list of what needs to be reformed in the police/justice system but this should be on it.

Knitters once took on USOC and fought them to what was basically a draw, so they have the experience. www.npr.org/sections/the...

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