Mick Malowany

You’re saying that’s not him?

Mine too! I’m FURIOUS!!!

Screenshot of a multiple-choice question from an online survey asking "How did you find out about this survey?"

These options are driving me nuts! Either you got this from an official source, or you don't know/prefer not to answer. As if the internet just isn't a thing.

"Heated arguments between supporters and protesters"?

I don't know about heated arguments, but I (showing up with the counter-protest) had productive discussions with several protestors, most of whom didn't even seem to fully support the speakers. *shrug*

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Fun fact: I was hit by a car on my bike on my way to join the counter-protest. Can confirm, they're a bunch of goofs.

(I'm fine, the driver was super apologetic, just superficial damage to her car)

a woman is sitting in the back seat of a car eating ice cream and talking on a cell phone . Alt: In a scene from the music video for her hit song "Ironic," Alanis Morissette is sitting in the passenger seat of a car smiling, singing into the camera, and leaning out the window

Got hit by a car this morning (right hook on Richmond near Victoria) on my way to a bike-lane counter-protest. I'm fine, bike's fine, and the driver was deeply apologetic. But man, isn't ironic... don't you think? #biketo #topoli

I’ve had a few myself — including one in 2024 for 7 km/h over — and recently went to an office where fines can be paid to clear them. I got there shortly after 4 p.m. and asked a Toronto police officer on security duty in the lobby for directions. He said they wouldn’t process my tickets after 4 p.m. and that I’d have to come back, but earlier in the day. We started chatting — I’ve always found most police to be friendly — and I mentioned to him that the speed cameras are deadly efficient. “They’re not just efficient, they’re a f——— scam,” he told me emphatically, a second cop working with him nodding in agreement.

Seems pretty telling of Toronto Police's lackadaisical attitude toward traffic enforcement that an officer feels comfortable publicly calling speed cameras a "fucking scam." www.thestar.com/news/gta/the...

If your city can afford to build roads everywhere, it can afford to build cycle networks too. It’s not about money — it’s about priorities. It’s a political choice

Is cyclonormativity a thing? Because I’m pretty sure I have it.

“The fact that someone else finished in front of me didn't diminish the happiness I felt after finishing that race. I don't feel like first place was taken from me. Instead, I feel like a happy day was turned ugly by a bully who is using children to make political points.”

Well said, Anelise.

He should shut up until he wins a majority of the popular vote. Or maybe just, like, shut up in general.

Either way, I say it's time to rile him up some more!

2-3 hours of driving per day, every single day? Oof 😑 no thanks

Climate crisis on track to destroy capitalism, warns top insurer Action urgently needed to save the conditions under which markets – and civilisation itself – can operate, says senior Allianz figure

Finally an insurance company is speaking up about climate change but they should be out there spending big money to counter fossil fuel companies and get the world serious about stopping climate change - and saving their industry.

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Precisely why affordable units should be part of the mix in every new residential development; and affordable low-rise apartments and tri- to six-plexes should be built in yellow-belt neighbourhoods across North America. NIMBYs be damned.

Can we get links added to the Meetings & Events section to download a calendar event (.ics file) for each session? Might make it just a little bit easier for a more representative (i.e., younger and busier) audience to attend.

Wouldn't it be something if members of the TTC Board, City Councillors, Metrolinx executives, and senior MTO officials (including the Minister of Transportation) were required, with reasonable exceptions, to commute by public transit and/or active mobility a bare minimum of once per month.

YouTube video by TVO Today Doug Ford makes history, Bonnie Crombie fails to win a seat | #onpoli

The word you're looking for, @spaikin.bsky.social, is "wrong".
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a man wearing a hawaiian shirt talks to another man Alt: In a scene from the film "50 First Dates", a man wearing a Hawaiian shirt talks to two other men

Every time I hear someone say "51st state" all I can think of is Samwise Gamgee in a mesh tank top

Let’s go whole hog and switch to A4 paper while we’re at it!

Seriously though, the elevator thing is an excellent idea for how to turn this sh*t show into an opportunity.

The leaves don’t even change colour or fall off the trees in autumn. Because we’ve replaced them all with plastic ones and stapled them to the branches. That’s how committed this neighbourhood is to never changing.

UK’s 20mph speed limits ‘are cutting car insurance costs’ Controversial safety policy has helped drive down premiums to 18-month low, says Confused.com

“This week a leading price comparison website reported the biggest annual drop in UK car insurance prices in more than 10 years, with the average cost of cover falling by £161 – or 16% – in the past 12 months.” www.theguardian.com/money/2025/j...

Tfw you're skimming thoughtlessly through your feed and you suddenly ask yourself "When did R2D2 ever rob a train?"

A map of downtown Toronto with the borders of a possible congestion relief zone traced out by a black line along (clockwise) the Lower Don Valley, Toronto Harbour, CN Rail's Weston Sub, and CP Rail's North Toronto Sub

Toronto also happens to have a ring of natural and artificial barriers/bottlenecks (ravines, the harbour, rail corridors, etc.) roughly encircling its downtown that could make implementing the toll infrastructure relatively cheap and easy:

Yes, of course it would. Shouldn't even be posed as a question. NYC only adds to a mountain of evidence that shows (de)congestion pricing is effective.

The way I put it:

- Small-government conservative
- For climate action
- Against the carbon tax

You can be any two, but not all three.

*to compensate

I’d probably also throw in photo-enforced bus/tram gates at all of those upgraded stops as a replacement for the oft-ignored restrictions at the intersections, so local car traffic would have to U-turn to avoid a ticket.

Along King, I’d be strongly in favour of removing a bunch of stops (namely Peter, Church, Ontario, and Sackville) and nudging some of the remaining stops to mid-block locations compensate — especially if it came with permanent stop upgrades like proper shelters and bumped-out level boarding.