The 2017 environmental assessment on jets at the Toronto Island airport is now public. Maps of proposed landfill and of maximum building heights, which would interfere with purpose development in the port lands.
If we made the green energy transition this war would be unthinkable and these authoritarians wouldn’t be in power — not in the US, not in Iran, not in Saudi Arabia, not in Russia. Hydrocarbons are killing our freedom and just plain killing us.
This. Exactly.
2- and 3-wheeled vehicles have delivered more emissions reductions than #EVs, globally.
And you get fewer children & youth killed by cars. And better cities. Win-win-win.
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Big shoutout to @tomflood.bsky.social @brenttoderian.bsky.social and @grantennis.bsky.social with the new Urban Truth Collective @urbantruth.bsky.social .
Cities deserve facts, not fear. Time to call out the myths from bad actors and tell better stories about how cities actually work.
The congestion charge in Oxford was brought in on a 'temporary' basis last year. It was anticipated to raise $425K per month, but instead it raised $1.3 million per month, a huge amount in a small-ish city. Why are so many cities leaving money on the table? www.bbc.com/news/article...
And, sure, snow shows all the space that cars consume but don't really need, but it's more than about sneckdowns. It's about who your city prioritizes and if it even sees certain populations — such as people with disabilities, the elderly, and others — at all. Join us and take a listen!
New BONUS episode: "What Snow Reveals About Cities (Plus More From Our Book Tour.)"
All the snow we've gotten has revealed some truths about what cars do to cities, and what we can learn from it. We also give our thoughts on Miami, Pittsburgh, Toronto and Phoenix!
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A month in hospital costs: $30,100
Month in prison: $9,400
Month in shelter: $6,800
Supportive housing per month: $3,800
@uhn.ca's Dr. Andrew Boozary
h/t @urbantruth.bsky.social
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#ICYMI October 3, 2024
"Dunn House, a partnership between @uhn.ca ’s Gattuso Centre for Social Medicine, the City of @toronto.ca , @unitedwaygt.bsky.social and Fred Victor, is set to begin welcoming the tenants in November..." uhnfoundation.ca/stories/pres...
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It seems all Kansas-issued trans drivers' licenses are invalid, effective tomorrow
It is now illegal for trans people to drive a car until they surrender their license at a DMV (that most will need to drive to) and have it reissued with the wrong gender marker
This was never about woman's sports
Kansas is sending letters to trans people telling them that their licenses will be revoked as of tomorrow and that they risk arrest for driving on a suspended license.
This is pure cruelty.
www.erininthemorning.com/p/kansas-sen...
1. Numerous transgender people in Kansas are reporting that the state has sent them a letter demanding the immediate surrender of drivers licenses.
Those driving could be arrested, charged, and see privileges revoked.
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As of tonight, licenses of trans people across Kansas are being invalidated en masse, enabling the overnight criminalization of an entire group of people for going about our lives. It’s often said you never know when you’re living through history, so let me assure you: that’s what’s happening now.
Imagining an ICE officer who *raided the concentration camp so children couldn’t write more letters about how bad being in a concentration camp is* going home tonight and being asked “how was your day” and going “yeah pretty good”
In today's roundup:
Ontario finance minister says rate of health-care spending is 'unsustainable' https://globalnews.ca/news/11669653/ontario-unsustainable-health-care-spending/
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Toronto Sun columnist Warren Kinsella is posting fake CBC News Network screenshots on X dot com falsely claiming CBC is using terms like "policepersons" and "gunperson"
Somebody posted the full Bad Bunny super bowl performance on Reddit. I haven't seen it posted anywhere else yet.
www.reddit.com/r/Fauxmoi/co...
New from The Local: Torontonians have been waiting a long time for the Eglinton Crosstown. How long? We got illustrator Michael DeForge to show us.
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The inhumane and deadly impacts of the US regime cuts to foreign aid mean we will not end the AIDS epidemic.
www.bbc.com/news/article...
Do you know why reading a screen and a physical piece of paper differs? Or why handwriting is processed differently to typing? Or how multiple-choice quizzes are poorer for memory than narrative answers?
Neuroscientist Jared Cooney Horvath explains all
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Here’s the thing about the human rights underpinning democracy: they are universal.
As soon as a group of human beings can be slaughtered with impunity because a more powerful group wants them gone, then all is already lost. It’s just a matter of time until the jackboot comes for your face.
“No one man can terrorize a whole nation, unless we are all his accomplices.”
-Edward R. Murrow
This is huge: For the first time since the early 1970s, coal power generation has fallen in both China & India.
It undercuts claims that decarbonisation is pointless while they expand coal. Renewables are no longer just adding capacity — they’re displacing coal.
www.theguardian.com/business/202...
"Things here are very, very bad," a source in Tehran said on Sunday. "A lot of our friends have been killed. They were firing live rounds. It's like a war zone, the streets are full of blood. They're taking away bodies in trucks.”
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I believe she will be the first out woman to represent the US at the Olympics in figure skating
We're at the "Don't go out in public if you have brown skin because you might be murdered or kidnapped" stage of white supremacist fascism.
For those thinking that climate change can take a back seat while this other geopolitical mess is addressed - think again. Climate change is in part why Greenland has become so attractive to Pumpkin and his lot. bbc.com/news/videos/...
Your 'moment of doom' for Dec. 18, 2025 ~ Over/Under 1.58C
"A blanket of carbon smothering the Earth has begun to jeopardise the stable conditions in which humanity has thrived, worsening weather extremes and increasing the risk of catastrophic tipping points."
www.theguardian.com/environment/...
This is just as the PBO predicted 11 months ago - a drop in population leading to a drop in GDP. Self-sabotage. www.pbo-dpb.ca/en/publicati...
