Robert J. Talbot

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.

As the provincial government looks at banning automated speed cameras, a new report shows that vehicles belonging to cabinet ministers have been regularly caught by automated speed cameras, in some cases going 30kph over the speed limit.

"I believe that our greatest strength lies always in the protection of our smallest minorities." -- Charles Schulz

For sure.

Regulation. The housing sector desperately needs greater regulation in order for anything to get better.

Montreal has been THE North American model of smart, strategic street transformations into people-places. Each year has seen ambitious new moves that build on the years before — incremental, but NOT “slow” because they’ve been making big moves step-by-step.

Permanent Ste Catherine is a GREAT move.

Embassy of Canada thanking Costa Rican firefighters for their support ❤️❤️

Want To Make Money? Build A Business On A Bike Lane Research from New York City notes that newly installed protected bike lanes do more than keep bikers safe--they raise the income of the stores they are in front of.

“Local stores next to the protected bike-lane have seen a 49% increase in sales, compared to an average of 3% for Manhattan as a whole.”

(Among MANY other public benefits.)

Want To Make More Money? Build A Business On A Bike Lane.

#CityMakingMath via @fastcompany.com
#BikeLanesMeanBusiness

Yes please!!!

Imagine if they sold biscotti here.

Stopped in Hardisty for the parade (cancelled due to rain!) Going to hang around to check out the Rodeo and get some lunch with the team.

On the road today and tomorrow - Provost tonight, and Oyen and Hanna tomorrow.

Camrose office is open today 11-5.

#OurHomeOurRiding #BattleRiverCrowfoot

Gonna miss your show. What a legend! And sporting a '99 Tabbies Grey Cup Champions t-shirt? Epic.

Between 1980 and 2024 the basket of 50 basic commodities become cheaper and more abundant. To be precise 70 per cent cheaper and 238 per cent more abundant. If we hadn’t messed up housing costs we’d be collectively very well off. Source: buff.ly/U8lZZkc

Candidate in federal Alberta byelection stops door-knocking due to death threats An Independent candidate running in a rural Alberta byelection says she has stopped door-knocking because of death threats.

Candidate in federal Alberta byelection stops door-knocking due to death threats

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Congrats to Stephen Colbert for never bending the knee.

Trump announces tariff rates for numerous countries — but not Canada | CBC News Japan and Korea were the first to receive letters informing them of a 25 per cent tariff rate each. But Canada is likely not going to be affected by the administration's flurry of trade deals and lett...

At what point do countries stop trying to appease the global bully and work together to develop a fairer trading order that shuns the United States?

It should be patently obvious by now that Canada cannot have a major news network owned by American interests, especially given ongoing US threats and American ownership of the major social media platforms. No other country would allow this.
@mark-carney.bsky.social

curated meme by unknown author; four panel "the WHAT" meme with Sisko from Star Trek DS9; first panel of a map of The Dominion of Canada; second panel is way zoomed in on the word Dominion; third panel is a closeup of Sisko, with caption: the; fourth panel is an extreme closeup of Aisko's eyes, with caption: WHAT

Happy Canada Day!

Bonne fête du Canada!🇨🇦
Happy Canada Day!🇨🇦

158 years. C'est pas rien, ça!

"Cann wonders why government policy doesn't prevent investment firms from buying housing.

'Why is that allowed to exist in Canada?' he said. '…it prices out individuals from having shelter in this day and age.'"

Good question....

Indigenous people's health tightly tied to speaking their own languages, review finds | CBC News Researchers analyzed 262 academic and community-based studies from Canada, the United States, Australia and New Zealand, and determined 78 per cent of them connected Indigenous language vitality with ...

#BritishColumbia

Indigenous people's health tightly tied to speaking their own languages, review finds

Positive outcomes include better physical and mental health, and more social connections, UBC researchers say

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Finland ends homelessness and provides shelter for all in need - scoop.me In Finland, the number of homeless people has fallen sharply. Why? The country applies the "Housing First" concept agains homelessness.

“In Finland, the number of homeless people has fallen sharply. Those affected receive a small apartment & counselling with no preconditions. 4 out of 5 people affected make their way back into a stable life. And all this is CHEAPER than accepting homelessness.”

It costs a lot less to house people.

Mark Butcher 1) Sandra used AI to write a report 2) Bill used AI to summarise the report 3) Bill used AI to write questions about the report 4) Sandra used AI to respond to the questions 5) Bill used AI to create a presentation about the report 6) Jane used AI to take notes from the presentation 7) Jane’s team used AI to summarise the notes she shared No one wrote the report, no one ever read the report, no one understood the questions or the answers. No business value was achieved But but but AI adds business value

Even linkedin gets it

Not to mention the beautiful soundtrack by Gustavo Santaolalla, of "The Last of Us" fame.

The history of Canada in Heritage Minutes - YouTube Heritage Minutes in chronological order by event

I put all the Heritage Minutes in chronological order by event so you don't have to. 🇨🇦

(I was looking for this and couldn't find it, so it became a weird hobby. It genuinely may be of interest only to me.)

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Bar chart showing traffic counts on Bloor Street West in Toronto during the afternoon rush on Wednesday, June 11, 2025. For each hour from 4 p.m. to 8 p.m., the number of bikes and motor vehicles (cars, trucks, motorcycles) was recorded. At 4–5 p.m., there were 643 bikes and 849 motor vehicles. At 5–6 p.m., 930 bikes and 832 motor vehicles. At 6–7 p.m., 919 bikes and 909 motor vehicles. At 7–8 p.m., 726 bikes and 935 motor vehicles. Bike counts exceeded car counts from 5 to 7 p.m. The chart was created by Matt Elliott for City Hall Watcher using data from the Toronto Community Bikeways Coalition.

Cool study from @bikewaysto.bsky.social detailing a traffic count on Bloor Street taken on June 11 with a camera at 412 Bloor West. During the peak of the afternoon rush, bikes outnumbered cars.

I repeat: bikes outnumbered cars.

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For All That Is Good About Humankind, Ban Smartphones Smartphones are making us unhealthy, miserable, antisocial, and less free. If we can’t yet nationalize the attention economy, maybe it’s time to abolish its primary tool — before it finishes abolishin...

Ban smartphones.

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Alberta’s grievances aren’t actually reasonable The defenders of Canada all seem to agree that Alberta's grievances with the federal government are worth taking seriously. But what if they aren't?

Memo to Alberta's federalists and anti-separatists: stop accepting Danielle Smith's premise that the province has been screwed over by Ottawa.

It's time for more facts and fewer feelings. #cdnpoli #abpoli

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Paris Votes to Make 500 More Streets Car-Free With the passage of a referendum Sunday, Mayor Anne Hidalgo will amplify her ambitious moves to challenge car dominance and expand pedestrian access.

Paris Votes to Make 500 More Streets Car-Free #publicrealm #publicspace

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