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I feel there's a lot of potential here

Adding curb extensions to narrow the distance that pedestrians have to cross would probably reduce the need for multi-stage crossings

Her arg is that the ethical questions in the Adriana Smith case are only tangentially about abortion and really about who gets to make decisions for permanently incapacitated people. The excerpt merely describes the legal situation, not her personal value judgment of it (which she say is "grisly.")

The silliness of this argument is that Schabas established that the government is allowed to do any and all of these things that endanger lives so long as they have a public interest reason to do so, backed by evidence. "Congestion" would've been a good enough reason if they had any evidence!

And yes, the guy talks a lot about Nordic welfare systems, as they are wealthy Western countries that can be used as a useful comp to the US to improve their own welfare systems. I don't see how that translates him into advocating for only one ethnic group being allowed to vote...?

It is pretty easy to find his views on abortion ("I have never been anti-abortion") as well as Liz's views (she is anti-abortion but is not pro-ban, but rather pro-welfare state).

mattbruenig.com/2022/07/08/a...

In what way is Matt Bruenig a tradcath or Herrenvolk...? Pretty sure he is atheist/agnostic.

I am not remotely his audience, but every once in a while Pollievre said something I agreed with, if I was only half paying attention. But his vibes are very off for the current moment. Giving Danielle Smith energy.

"Wrapping metal brake levers in hockey tape so they don't suck out the warmth from your fingers" is a hot tip that I haven't heard before, thank you!

Incredible deputation at the budget committee wherein he references Avatar/James Cameron five times in three minutes

www.youtube.com/live/JykDq6u...

I used to frequently link to Torontoist's property taxes explainer when arguing with people on the internet, but idk if I am indicative of what normal people actually read

I have mixed feelings about her record as mayor but she is certainly a fashion influencer

I saw Olivia Chow wearing a neoprene mask (with breathing vents so you don't fog up your glasses when you bike in the winter), so I bought a neoprene mask

Yeah, I first read it as misgendering O'Toole, but I think it is a poorly written tweet about Anand (that is still transphobic and bizarrely sore winner behaviour).

Freezer burritos are a gift to your future self when you can't be fucked to cook a whole meal.

Pillsbury chocolate chip cookies are pretty good and cost $3.50 for a whole roll, which is the cost of one Starbucks cookie. I recommend slicing just one or two off at a time to bake for warm cookies whenever. You can reuse the parchment paper you bake on so you don't even have to do dishes.

Sort Of is about a non-binary Pakistani-Canadian nanny / bartender in Toronto and it's great

I also use scissors for cutting my big sheet pan pizza! Also good to have at the table when you're eating stuff with chopsticks that you may need to cut, if it's not already bite-size.

I like it when doing green onions as a garnish, because I just snip it directly over the food and don't have to bother with a cutting board. Picked it up from a scene in Always Be My Maybe -- supposedly it's big in Korea.

This video is for Doug Ford, and all those in my replies saying bike lanes "stop emergency vehicles from getting to their destination". They *allow* emergency vehicles to get to their destination, as seen here on Adelaide. They were designed with emergency services in mind.

Snow tires on your bike (made of a softer, grippier compound, like they do for cars) is the way in Toronto.

As per @joelharden.bsky.social's newsletter. The province is retaining it's own contractors and plan to undertake first bike lane removals by the end of the year. Bloor St. in Etobicoke and a section of Yonge St. are the first in the crosshairs.

Hell yeah we are

I did the Ghost Bike Ride on Nov 21 in a dress. It was 2°C, I was outside for two hours, and it was fine. Anti-bike people are soft as hell.

I love how it looks like they're glittering 💖

I wonder Transit City had not been cancelled, or even had the Eglinton and Finch West LRTs opened on time, if Bill 212 would've happened.

For example: the 0 cyclists in the census tract west of Queen's Park, which is U of T. Lots of students live on campus, but they're usually marked for the Census where their parents live. If they're not employed, they wouldn't be counted for this dataset at all.

Would've loved to overlay the Bloor, University, and Yonge bike lanes, but can't do that in Datawrapper, so instead I labelled their end points.

The results are mostly predictable, though there's a few unexpected ones that I think are mostly due to how the data works.

Map of StatsCan data around cycle commuting mode share by census tract

Did some visualizing StatsCan's data around mode of transportation for commuting, because cyclists being only 1.9% of commuters in a city as big & diverse as Toronto is way too simplistic.

www.datawrapper.de/_/xMPpK/

Someone should make Before Sunrise but on a VIA to romanticize intercity train travel for Canadians