Matt Saunders

Painted bike lanes only work for the most confident and able-bodied cyclists, and only sometimes. Worse, they lull city planners into a false sense of "completion", making it hard to advocate for better. Advocating for painted lines ultimately makes it harder to get more people on bikes.

Ideally we'd put a curb-separated bike path on both sides. In places we can't, we should still put it on one side, and make a compromise: if your destination is on the wrong side, it's ok to bike carefully on the sidewalk.

Varcoe: Carney says it's 'highly likely' an oil pipeline will make Ottawa's major project list Varcoe: Prime Minister Mark Carney says it's 'highly likely' an oil pipeline will make Ottawa's list of nationally important projects.

Are we supposed to consent to building a pipeline we'll never need just to appease a group of noisy people who don't understand how things work in this century? For the cost of one useless pipeline we could revolutionize our clean energy industry. What a waste!

calgaryherald.com/opinion/colu...

Viamonde has closed six schools tomorrow - five elementary and one high.

Judge rejected ballots marked in rectangular box containing candidates’ name in N.L. recount: report A new report explains how a judge dealt with an “unprecedented” number of disputed ballots — 1,041 — during a federal election recount in a rural Newfoundland riding recently won by the Conservatives.

This is the right call. One of many safeguards ensuring the integrity of our ballot requires that ballots be untraceable. A ballot that can be traced back to a voter is one that can be coerced. Any ballot marked in any potentially-identifying way must be discarded.

www.ctvnews.ca/politics/art...

My gmail account on the mailing list for all four major Canadian political parties. Their emails all get shunted into the "promotions" tab... until today. Today, two Conservative party emails landed directly in my inbox for the first time ever.

Which I guess tells me who Google wants to win.