Hostile architecture

Every other bird to the cardinals in my neighborhood

So far this government has: - removed EV mandates (and moreover paused rebates to stall the market) - removed carbon tax - removed low carbon electricity policy - removed gasoline tax - removed oil and gas cap when does the Canadian Federal government do climate policy?

NEW: The City of Ottawa says more drivers are speeding in school zones five months after the Ontario government shut off automated speed enforcement cameras. #ONPoli globalnews.ca/news/1180229...

#Montreal adds 4 more stations to its rail transit network. As of May 18, we'll be able to ride REM to Anse-à-l'Orme in the West Island. And in 2027, we'll be able to ride it to Trudeau airport. (For major rail transit projects, this is blazing fast work!) www.theglobeandmail.com/canada/artic...

Suspension de la taxe sur l’essence: 2,4 G$ dont Ottawa pense avoir les moyens de se priver. Encore la preuve que faire + contre les crises de l’itinérance et du logement cher est une question de choix politiques. Avec ce montant, @MarkJCarney pourrait financer + de 10 000 logements sociaux

🙄 Le gouvernement Legault a cédé à la pression des entreprises qui se plaignent des coûts du recyclage www.journaldemontreal.com/2026/04/15/c...

One thing I really want NYC to get to in its bike lane designs is the idea of social cycling. A parent should be able to ride next to a child. Two friends should be able to ride next to each other. A senior on an adult trike should not have to worry about blocking faster cyclists. Etc.

Alberta is the first province to introduce self-referral for diagnostic testing This coincides with two-tier legislation that means preferential access based on wealth This change is a boon to the private insurance and for-profit medical imaging industries www.alberta.ca/release.cfm?... #abpoli

Carney spends over $2 billion to cut fuel taxes right after cutting $5 billion in funding dedicated towards supporting, maintaining, & upgrading transit in Toronto and across Canada that millions rely on. Remember, public transit is the real solution to high fuel prices - not temporary tax cuts!

Massive testing = bad idea www.scientificamerican.com/article/the-...

What is my PM thinking?? A gas tax holiday? Stupid plan! If @mark-carney.bsky.social had announced the excise tax $ was going to be specifically diverted to #municipalities to allow commuters to bus for free, for eg, that would have been a message that showed 🇨🇦 #values affordability + environment.

Today's announcement by @mark-carney.bsky.social to suspend the 10c federal fuel excise tax until Labour Day is wrong as it's really a subsidy for drivers. Instead, Carney & his #LPC government need to aggressively push for alternatives to driving. #cdnpoli #ONpoli #TOpoli www.cbc.ca/news/politic...

Striking that the Liberals and Conservatives offer the same response to pain at the pump: siphon money out of the public purse instead of Big Oil’s profits.

a while ago I was applying for some of these and similar and didn't get any and a prof from my Ivy League alma mater tried to find a nice way of saying "well, they aren't going to give one of these to someone from the University of Arkansas" and here is empirical proof that she had a point

Driving and gas should never get cheaper.

ici.radio-canada.ca/nouvelle/224... Encore une fois, Carney pique une idée des conservateurs de Poilièvre. Ils sont de plus en plus semblables. Cela risque d’augmenter les profits des pétrolières. Et sans aucun plan pour réduire notre dépendance au pétrole. #électrification #climat #polcan #NPD

Oh good. We are getting rid of dedicated road funding right before asphalt and road recap prices shoot through the roof. Great. Awesome.

Carney et Poilièvre, même combat

J'adore Monic Néron à Mimosa que j'écoute chaque samedi et Annie Desrochers quand je suis à MTL et que je peux l'écouter à l'émission du retour. Je vais maintenant avoir le plaisir d'écouter les deux comme animatrices mais en proportions inverses :)

« Pour soutenir cette manne touristique, Vélo Québec lance officiellement mardi une nouvelle plateforme Web qui vient centraliser les infrastructures cyclistes de la province. » Le tourisme à vélo roule à fond de train au Québec www.ledevoir.com/economie/971...

A noter que pour la 2e fois, il annonce dans un podcast que son gouvernement entend mettre son nez dans les plans de cours universitaires pour y débusquer le wokisme... Ce serait bien que ça devienne un jour un sujet de reportage...

I spent the whole of Friday working through student papers flagged as probably AI generated. Job more interesting? Some might think so. Job more rewarding? Hardly. Job more stressful and soul destroying? Absolutely.

People who think that speeding is sexy should probably not be trusted with anything more dangerous than a Play Doh kitchen set with blunted edges.

This is huge: Katie Wilson's office just announced a significantly expanded schedule for Bicycle Weekends on Lake Washington Boulevard, after years of the program being stifled under Bruce Harrell. In addition to more weekends, we're getting our long holiday weekends back.

War on cars? Yeah, right. Talk about a war on bikes instead. "Remember this the next time La Mairesse talks about making Montreal a ‘smart city’ where data leads development, or the next time you’re sitting in traffic not going anywhere. It’s her retrograde ideology, and we’re all paying for it."

You Should Be More Freaked Out by Shingles. (You should get the shingles vaccine.) www.wired.com/story/shingl...

If the world had followed ambitious climate scenarios, global oil demand would be at least 20% lower than it is today - about the same volume of oil that flows through the Strait of Hormuz.

C’était quand même un long processus de sélection pour une job d’été. Sont rigoureux à la CAQ.

I've said this before but I won't be convinced that our govts can meaningfully use AI to solve health care system problems until they've shown us they can take advantage of the previous technological marvel of the 21st century: the internet. I still send faxes every fucking day.

"AI in health care can mean shorter wait times and better service." TELL ME HOW

Il y aura une convergence Vélo à Québec cette année pour le mois du vélo! Je participe à la branche Ste-Foy!

I just had Claude Code go backpacking in Yosemite for me. I hear the views were absolutely breathtaking! It only cost $8.47 in API calls. Here's the step-by-step process:

I look forward to Coyne's column explaining why Canada *can* afford to pour billions into expanding highways, and building more airports, pipelines, and LNG terminals.

Mon fils est en train de me faire écouter le nouveau disque (? Y disent quoi les jeunes?) de Les Louanges et c’est VRAIMENT bon

It won't come as a surprise to many, but good to see The Times pointing out that people actually like less traffic in local neighbourhoods. It concludes that no big change is ever introduced without some initial opposition - so leaders should stick to their guns! www.thetimes.com/comment/colu...

I had the experience of being cited in a publication, and the paper credited to me was a hallucination. I told the author, they blamed their co-author and then ghosted me, and no response at all from the journal. Some people don't care as long as they get published...

The federal government has ended funding for missing and murdered Indigenous women and girls. See how Indigenous leaders are standing up for the cause, tonight on APTN National News. Watch live: www.youtube.com/@aptnnews

Le Port de Montréal prêt à s’endetter à un niveau inédit www.lapresse.ca/affaires/202...

Israel kills more than 300 in Beirut. Unclear what the targets were. 1/3 of victims women, children and elderly. Israel said it hit Hezbollah command and control centers, but the only Hezbollah official reported killed was a top aide to the group's secretary general. apnews.com/article/leba...

In a nutshell: it's wrong, it's illegal, but we won't pursue even the most obvious of consequences for it, namely sanctions. The people of Lebanon and the Lebanese people of Canada deserve better than this.

Un match historique grâce à Caufield, hélas gâché par des chamailleries inutiles…

C'est fait! 5️⃣0️⃣ ! Et on a eu le droit à un « ma parole ! » de Pierre Houde 🤣 #gohabsgo

Ma parole, c’est Coooooole!!!!

“Let those truckers roll 10-4” Liberal MP Marilyn Gladu promoted the Freedom Convoy’s GoFundMe fundraising campaign in the lead-up to the occupation of Ottawa

With these massive gains in ridership, all four cities saw decreases in the rate of cyclist fatalities. Incredibly, London and Paris, with a 189% and 751%(!!) increase in cycling respectively, both saw decreases in the number of cyclist fatalities in 2005-2023. In real numbers, not just rates!

Truly wild research on the change in bike mode share in NYC, London, Paris and Berlin. Between 2000 and 2023, Paris went from 1 out of every 100 trips being on a bike to *one out of 9!* Many people, including credible researchers, would have told you that that *could not* happen.

La nouvelle députée libérale avait flirté avec le mouvement d’opposition aux mesures sanitaires durant la pandémie.

Jordan Leichnitz: "It's clear that the Liberals under Carney are building a big tent, and apparently it's such a big tent you can drive a trucker convoy through it"