David Reevely

The Prigozhin sequence is flashy and aggressive but it ends badly.

It’s critical that OC Transpo not encourage people to establish the transit habit when they’re young, lest they grow up into transit-dependent adults.

How much fentanyl is caught at the U.S. border is not a good indicator of anything. Way too many confounding variables: how good is enforcement within Canada? how hard are U.S. border guards looking? are they catching traffic Canada alerted them to? But it's a stat that's readily available.

The USTR says too little fentanyl is caught at the border. He might not be aware that the White House considers it a sign of trouble if MORE fentanyl is caught at the border.

www.whitehouse.gov/fact-sheets/...

And not some RELATIVELY remote corner of Burrard Inlet or anything. He was busted by the SeaBus people!

Reading some of the decisions in his cases, I really expected to find some sovereign-citizen–type claims. But no, he just seems to be a colossal jerk.

Why Did National Geographic Disappear Its Own Documentary About A Queer Climate Scientist? | Defector If you’re not a particular kind of mountain sports nerd, you might not be familiar with the Banff Centre Mountain Film Festival World Tour. But for people who live their lives in the overlapping circl...

Last fall, I attended the premiere of a film that meant a lot to me. In late January, all of its hundreds of planned screenings were canceled without explanation. For @defector.com, I went digging:

NEW: Looks like CycleToronto won in court. Justice Schabas finds Ontario's law (AND version 2) to remove bike lanes infringe S7 of the Charter and is not saved by S1, in large part because the govt had no evidence to back up its claims.

This doesn't work on someone who's fully absorbed, but I've found that just staring works on most people.

Winning Toronto-Quebec City high-speed rail bid was so low officials feared it was impossible, documents reveal - The Logic Feds triple-checked bid from group that includes AtkinsRéalis and Air Canada to make sure the massive project will get done

When they saw the dollar figures in the high-speed rail bid from Cadence, the consortium that includes CDPQ, AtkinsRéalis and Air Canada, the federal team looking at the options spit out their metaphorical coffees. "Are they sure they can do it that cheap? Really?"

thelogic.co/news/cadence...

Hazel is shuffling toward you even now to correct your thinking.

"We're done asking."

Serious Q: how do people who have reason to say “Surrey” a lot handle it?

I spent a week in the Lower Mainland this month and had as many accidental Siri summonings as I usually make in a year.

You have Rupert Graves?

Carney: "Nate, if you're going to spend your time inserting yourself into Ontario Liberal leadership matters, I'm going to have to ask you to leave cabi—OK, wait, no. How about this. If you want to be Ontario Liberal leader, you should run for—no, again, I see. Hmmm..."

Noted.

i can see this one is going to get a lot of use

TIL the U.S. has what amounts to supply management for sugar, which is why its food manufacturers use corn syrup so much. www.cato.org/commentary/k...

“Bend the knee” is a big one.

The Unlikely Rise of the French Tacos How an upstart fast food became essential dining in the home of haute cuisine.

There’s a whole culinary backstory about the food misleadingly called “tacos,” which has way more to do with France than with Mexico! www.newyorker.com/magazine/202...

Alternatively: the Murdochs are going into this fully intending to fight, but Trump finds a pressure point in their sprawling empire and they change their minds. Pick the sequence up at the $15-million payment.

It’s negligence not to talk to the guy’s family, if the story is really about the sacrifices that entrepreneurship can demand.

Worse negligence not to at least talk to HIM about his family.

To not even acknowledge they exist? That’s not journalism any more.

This one doesn’t talk about buddy’s home life at ALL, beyond a mention of “beach trips.”

The balance the story considers is only work vs. leisure. As far as the story is concerned, buddy has no family to sacrifice or other obligations to not meet so that he can do business instead.

Westgate mall barber Ramon Carballude's not retiring at 85, he's just moving The owner of the Westgate Barber Shop is facing the end of his lease, but customers are following him as the mall closes for redevelopment.

A lovely story about the final months of Westgate Mall, which opened in 1955 and was the first mall in Ottawa. ottawacitizen.com/news/ottawa-...

it was a perfect summer day in Toronto. the sun was out; the subway station garbage bags danced upside-down in the wind

I am *almost* certain that’s a parody account.

I don't have a strong yes/no view on Lansdowne 2.0.

What's there now is evidently not sustainable.

Just shutting it down and walking away is also not viable.

We should have done it better the first time.

Sometimes it costs to have nice things.

I would put ZERO stock in the financials for 2.0.

The city also scaled back housing on the site to get past some community opposition, reducing the built-in market for Lansdowne retail (and, well, just having less housing, which we need on its own merits). That's also to be fixed in Lansdowne 2.0.

Arguably, things the city should have bit the bullet and paid for in Lansdowne 1.0 (like properly renovating the Aberdeen Pavilion, and re-doing the north-side stands), it didn't do, so we're getting to them now.

Arguably, the trouble is all the compromising on the first edition. Jim Watson's Ottawa did everything on the cheap, with predictable results.

As with the LRT, they said what they needed to say to get the thing going, and I don't know how they thought it would work out.