Using algorithms to detect fraud 🤦. In the Netherlands they targeted racialised & poor families. The accusations were BS, ppl were ruined, some committed suicide. See - What the Dutch benefits scandal and policy's focus on ‘fraud’ can teach us about the endurance of empire doi.org/10.1177/0261...

A complete, connected, comfortable network of protected bike-lanes is a climate mitigation strategy. It’s a healthy cities strategy. It’s a social equity strategy. It’s an affordability strategy. It’s an economic devt strategy. It’s a smart mobility & space saving strategy. Etc. Etc. Etc. Etc.

"Toronto neighbourhood wants to stop cheap homes so they can keep parking spaces" A headline that truly unites the entire world. 🙏♥️ www.blogto.com/real-estate-...

Pretty much all affordability discourse could benefit from just posting this chart. If you're in the better off America, all the luxury goods you want in excess are for the most part much cheaper. If you're in the poorer America, most of the shit you need to live/grow is more expensive.

I'm just one of a handful of housing folks quoted in this Globe piece, all saying the same thing: "Federal budget falls short in addressing housing affordability, experts say". Read here:

On dirait que tout ce que nos dirigeants savent faire, depuis qq décennies (à tous les paliers), c'est remettre tous les dossiers à plus tard. C'est... rien faire, finalement. Les cancres au pouvoir. Quand je me sens mal d'être improductive je pense à eux et je me console 😆

😒 M. Carney n'a visiblement pas encore compris que Climat et Économie sont intimement liés : que le premier impact largement et négativement le dernier. Oh well. Un de plus. #polmtl #polqc #polcan #CriseClimatiqueMondiale ici.radio-canada.ca/nouvelle/193...

UPDATE: Canada has announced that it has lost its measles elimination status. This is a direct result of the increase in anti-vax disinformation, which has caused large, sustained outbreaks in the country over the last year.

me when the AI bubble bursts

Guess who benefits from all the pro-business legislation and the new federal budget? “Elbows up” feels more and more like WWE-style kayfabe. www.thestar.com/opinion/cont...

The average SNAP benefit per month is $177 a person. The average ACA benefit per month is up to $550 a person. People want us to hold the line for a reason. This is not a matter of appealing to a base. It’s about people’s lives. And working people want leaders whose word means something to them.

Imagine coming off an incredible Election Day mandate from coast to coast and going 'you know what voters want? to be completely sold out by a bunch of craven cowards too pathetic to hold the line against a bunch of fucking weirdos'

Hey #BikeTO! @cycletoronto.bsky.social will be hosting a Bill 60 protest ride this Thursday. Leave 8 AM at Bloor & Spadina. #TOpoli #ONpoli #VisionZero www.cycleto.ca/bill_60_prot...

MJ Hélie, ex candidate PCQ, pense que nos mères/grands-mères accouchaient par amour de la Nation, alors qu’en réalité, elles n’avaient aucun choix: Pas de contraception/droits/autonomie économique, juste la pression du curé!

The vast majority of Canadians agree that the COVID-19 vaccine should be free — except Conservatives: 🔴 LPC: 90% 🟠 NDP: 91% ⚜️ BQ: 79% 🔵 CPC: 44%

"The AI industry’s most important product at this moment is not a chatbot or a video generator; it’s the story the AI industry is telling about itself.... According to an MIT study, 95% of businesses that have deployed generative AI have gotten no value from it." www.theringer.com/2025/11/04/t...

Modest proposal: in the same way that you should no longer be permitted to deem yourself a feminist if you're racist / gc / right wing, you should no longer be permitted to deem yourself a writer if you use commercial genAI for anything.

Un article à propos de moi dans La Presse aujourd’hui ⬇️

Sometimes I wonder if our many years of jokes about writers hating writing and doing anything but writing, etc, have convinced people that the writing part is the hurdle and the goal is just to have a thing in hand. But I am here to tell you: the writing is the best part. The act is the thing.

A wealthy safe streets advocate could do the most good by paying a team of maybe a half dozen journalists to aggressively and comprehensively report every single traffic death in every major city. Depicting the horrifying human cost, FOIing PDs and DOTS, contextualizing it in policy choices, etc.

So it turns out... the US air travel system was incredibly, deeply dependent on federal funding to just run day-to-day all this time, to the benefit of private airline shareholders, when everyone thinks that state-run trains are leeching off the government. Weird!

Ça fait vraiment, vraiment dur d'avoir une ex-apparatchik de Harper et de la CAQ, visiblement membre du 1%, qui fait passer ses intérêts de classe pour de l'analyse politique, À LA TÉLÉ PUBLIQUE. www.concordia.ca/ucactualites...

"[U]niversities are not tech companies. Our role is to foster critical thinking, not to follow industry trends uncritically."

A historic turning point for clean heating in Europe: For the first time, in the first half of 2025 sales of heat pumps in Germany have surpassed those of gas boilers. This is a big milestone, demonstrating that the transition away from fossil fuels in our buildings is not just a future ambition.

David Horsey, Seattle Times

L'immense perte de temps qu'est le non-enjeu des vélos. www.ledevoir.com/opinion/chro...

I often think about how the government hounded Aaron Swartz to death for scraping Jstor, yet all these AI companies scraped almost literally all of human knowledge (and continue to do so even when they're told to stop) and have had no criminal consequences.

Paris, City of bike lights. Rue de Rivoli by night.

Les chroniqueurs servent la "leçon de Mamdani" à la gauche supposément woke QS/NPD, mais la vraie leçon pour la gauche c'est de cesser de les écouter. Le secret de Mamdani, c'est de ne pas avoir plié le genou devant ses critiques médiatiques qui l'accusaient de ne pas respecter le Vrai Peuple.

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WATCH: Seriously, if you’re following ANY bike-lane debate, you HAVE TO WATCH this news story. You actually can’t make this up. Ford claims without evidence that bike-lanes are bad for small business, and THE ACTUAL BUSINESS ASSOCIATION obliterates him with data. Safe bike-lanes mean business.

There are several recent changes in Québec city that give back space to citizens. Here, Place des canotiers, used to be a slushy gravel parking lot when we moved here, now a space with trees, water games, benches, and access to the St-Laurent www.capitale.gouv.qc.ca/lieux/place-...

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Hi Bluesky 👋 Small life update: I’m at the centre of a multimillion dollar lawsuit in Alberta launched by a failed candidate for Jason Kenney’s UCP It may be the longest and most expensive media trial in Canadian history I’m ready to go public about it and I want to share more details with you 🧵

🚲🥰🚲 Le dimanche 16 novembre, on ira inaugurer le REV Henri-Bourassa! Pas juste qu'on ne cèdera pas un seul iota du 2% de la voirie, mais on en demandera partout! Venez nombreux en famille! #velomtl #polmtl ✊🚲✊🚲

Who do you know who has advanced the public understanding of evolutionary science and its importance? Who would you like to hear speak about their outreach work at #Evol2026? Maybe it’s you! Submit your nominations for the Gould Prize by January 15: shorturl.at/jornc

Buried deep in the omnibus bill for its fall economic statement, the Doug Ford government has moved to repeal its own law requiring a climate plan and emissions reduction targets be established, via @fatimabsyed.bsky.social and @meyer.bsky.social #ONpoli thenarwhal.ca/ford-repeals...

Près d’un mois après l’entrée en vigueur du cessez-le-feu, les livraisons humanitaires vers Gaza demeurent entravées. Selon les Nations Unies, les autorités israéliennes ont rejeté plus d’une centaine de demandes d’acheminement de matériel de secours depuis la fin des combats.

As the dust settles on Carney’s first budget, it’s become increasingly clear which Canadians he thinks need to make “sacrifices.” Hint: it’s not the ultra-wealthy. In fact, it’s clear why someone who still considers himself a conservative feels at home in this Liberal government:

The mobilization of the research community by Gaynor Watson-Creed and others has been successful, and Parliament has withdrawn its abusive data request. Via @widowweb.bsky.social on www.linkedin.com/posts/maydia...

DO IT!

The ON government will bypass committee hearings entirely on Bill 60. 😡 This gov. is: ➡️ putting people’s lives at risk ➡️ stripping cities of the power to make their streets safe for people outside cars We can’t afford to remain silent. Voice your opposition now! 👇 bikeottawa.ca/2025/11/06/b...

I used to live in Somerville. This is mind-blowing

Hey Bill Gates : Are you familiar with the logical fallacy known as "false dilemma"?

Sam Altman: Give me billions of dollars and I’ll destroy the world US Government: Don’t you mean “OR” you’ll destroy the world? Sam Altman: I said what I said

The thing about being a woman and navigating the world, is that you are never safe from being sexually harassed by strangers even if you are a freaking head of state. www.bbc.com/news/article...

Do not update to Tahoe if you have work to do

Notre maire réélu @brunomarchand.bsky.social a dit qu’il voulait entendre les idées citoyennes pour notre ville. Je propose tout ce qui est montré dans cette vidéo sur les Low traffic Neighborhood!

«De l'histoire, nous apprenons que nous n'en apprenons rien», a pensé Hegel. Le vélo a connu des avancées remarquables ces dernières années. Tout n’est pas parfait, et surtout, rien n’est acquis. Mais pourquoi se refuse-t'on collectivement d’évoluer? De braver le changement qui va mener à mieux?