"We don't want successful businesses or things to do in our wards" - every Toronto City councillor, apparently.

"We have to put in place policies that keep citizens from being too successful. My god, could you imagine the horror? Unconstrained wealth! They could take over the neighbourhood, have influence at city council! Buy their way into the Premier's office! We can't let that happen in Toronto!"

I nominate Councillor Shan, of Toronto City Council for the "dumbest thing said today" award. Second place goes to Councillor Holyday, also of Toronto City Council.

Basically, If you find AI makes your work easier by summarizing business communication, your company has shit communication practices. And here we are with AI online shopping... AI solves a problem that was created in a solution that was supposed to make life easier.

In 1999, a woman named Jessica Gonzales sought and obtained an order of protection against her physically abusive husband ("AH"), who had repeatedly threatened to kill her and their three children. The order included language specifically limiting when and where AH was allowed to see the children.

And that doesn't even account for this: "The primary purpose of Ion light rail has been in shaping growth, so that it’s a more compact form along the central transit corridor. It has been effective in doing that in Kitchener-Waterloo. It will be similarly effective in Cambridge.” -Michael Druker

MPP @aislinnclancy.bsky.social and I are hosting an end-of-year party and we'd love to have you join us! We'll be at Catalyst on Thursday November 27th at 7:15, and I'm thrilled that we'll be joined by the leader of the Green Party of Canada Elizabeth May. RSVP: app.gvote.ca/rsvp/eve_507...

If I were running this experiment, I would also try to be a C-suite executive and run a company for a year. Then I could make this comparison on solid footing. Nevertheless, I agree. Baristas are artists.

Fiscal conservatives, responsible with Money government comes up with another slush fund to benefit PC donors

Yes! And if certain segments of the population want everything to generate profit, have I got bad news for them about "free" parking.

It’s so weird that a company would want to pay a guy more money than the company is worth to mismanage it into losing money.

We now know who the PM expects to make the sacrifices he spoke of: everyday folks in communities like ours. Instead of a tax increase on the ultra-wealthy or scaling back some of the billions in subsidies to foreign big oil companies, this government plans to cut $56 billion in services we rely on.

Oh look @therecord.com is once again participating in the war on cars. You may ask how is a transit hit piece a war on cars? That answer is easy if you think of how many people transit moves and then figure that many more cars on the road. How much slower that makes car trips. See war on cars.

But if you don't have that need... Then AI is a solution in search of a problem. And that's when the spurious bullshit AI 'hallucinations' become a drain on productivity. Because there is no 'there' there. But AI will find a 'there' regardless.

Was challenged by Karen Redman to do Reep Green's 7 day waste challenge. Here is where I am at today (started on the 24th).

Interesting combination of photo with this headline. Despite much antipathy for attitudes in Alberta, connecting a tornado photo with great weather for the Stampede is perhaps not the message you want to be showing.

How to fix the world in under a decade.

This is why I consistently state Liberals aren't progressive. Got blocked so much during g the election stating Carney was going to cause harm. 🇨🇦

UPDATE: Fuck ICE, Fuck Trump, Fuck Doug Ford, Fuck Bill 5, and fuck anyone celebrating this shit

Abigail Reynolds (born 1970) is a contemporary British artist who creates workmin a variety of media, including screenprinted glass #WomensArt

You have to accept the reality that we are not going to see eye to eye if you are so hell-bent on a peaceful protest that you are unable to understand that your peaceful protest will not stop this and if you are willing to work with the same forces that are attacking us all you’re just a fascist.

The photog got them to literally look like pigs lmao

fuck that the man got elected promising to stand up to trump not lick his balls and make us a client state

leftists: that thing you teach us in school to be terrified of is happening historians: that thing is definitely happening star wars: here is a beat-for-beat breakdown of how the thing happens, but with pew pew lasers. we know you watched it news outlets: these protesters are out of control

New euphemism for authoritarian lawlessness just dropped

Cause, you see the only way we fix this thing is each individual doing tiny things that take away their personal comfort. You see, large action against major corporate polluters is impossible. So you need to blame yourself.

This isn’t law enforcement. This is kidnapping.

June 10, 2003: Ontario legalized same-sex marriage after the Halpern v Canada ruling that declared defining marriage in heterosexual-only terms violated the Canadian Charter of Rights and Freedoms. Ontario was the first jurisdiction in Canada and the third in the world to legalize same-sex marriage.

Bill 5 dominated discussion in the final week of the spring sitting at QP because it is an extraordinary power grab by the Ford govt. The fight to kill Bill 5 will ramp up this summer. #onpoli youtube.com/watch?v=6sIB...

Canada Post wants to create a new class of flexible, part-time worker that will better compete with Amazon and implement “dynamic routing” so delivery routes can be changed on the fly. It’s a good example of how Amazon degrades workers’ rights even beyond its walls. Workers are right to push back.

that any system can be abused, and when it's 'cheaper' to kill people than to care for them, abuses absofuckinlutely will happen. When people feel that they are a 'burden' abuses will happen. When people want to kill themselves because of costs, abuses happen. Proactively encouraging sick and

disabled people that they should avail themselves of termination No. No. A million times, NO! Euthanasia should be an option for health reasons, but not for things that can be FUCKING FIXED WITH MONEY.

Here’s some other stats: A new $50 million carbon capture project will remove about the same amount of carbon dioxide annually as about 670 hectares of trees. A single wildfire burning northwest of Cold Lake is an estimated 62,768 hectares in size, as of June 4.

Kill the damn STCA, it's long overdue...

Thou shalt remember that President Trump hired a “big time drug addict” to destroy the government and was fine with that. Thou shalt also remember that Elon Musk funded and worked for a man he knew to be a pedophile and was fine with that.

The Ford government rammed Bill 5 through but the fight to stop this bill is far from over. When the government passed Bill 23 to open the Greenbelt, people fought back harder and eventually they backtracked. We can do that again. We will fight with you until the Ford government kills Bill 5.

unlike their AI, I don't blame the org. this is the poison-pill of ANY org that is ethical trying to USE ai for good.

An Island of Rocks Florence MacGillivray c. 1924

On This Day In #CanadianHistory 🇨🇦 JUNE 01, 1800 First Smallpox Vaccinations The first smallpox vaccinations in North America were given by Dr. John Clinch of Trinity, NL. By the end of 1801, Clinch had vaccinated 700 people in the area. #Smallpox #Vaccines #Vaccination #Trinity #Newfoundland

Getting ready for Rally for People and Planet on Saturday #StopBill5

Please sign this petition below- Tell the Region of Waterloo to Repeal the 100 Victoria Encampment Eviction Bylaw www.change.org/p/tell-the-r...

Happening tomorrow (May 29th) at 5pm- "Artivism" against Bill 6 and the 100 Victoria encampment eviction bylaw!

Say No to #Bill5, it is not needed. The only way to end homelessness is to provide homes not criminilze the unhoused as #Bill6 does.

My first quarterly Community Update is ready! 🌱 🧵 In this edition you’ll find updates on certain Regional projects, what I’ve been up to, and what’s coming up. Looking forward to continuing this work as we head into the summer

Over 17,000 people are being forced to flee their homes as Manitoba declares a province-wide state of emergency due to wildfires. This is the climate crisis, and it’s only getting worse. We must put aside partisan politics and meet this crisis with the urgency our future demands.

Canada pays its full share to NATO, contributes troops and funds missions. The 2% GDP target is arbitrary. It pushes militarization, not security. It pressures countries to buy US weapons instead of investing in diplomacy, cyber defense, or humanitarian aid.

ALL of Bill 5 has to go. There is no need for special economic zones that can be destroyed for $$

Bill 5 is a wide-reaching attack on Indigenous rights, environmental protections, labour laws and democratic oversight. Because they've jammed so many problematic elements into one bill I sat down to give you a guide to what Bill 5 will really mean for Ontario. www.youtube.com/watch?v=lAAk...