Have you heard of “The Populist Playbook?” A few years ago, I posted what I still consider one of my most important messages. It was about “The Populist Playbook” that I’ve watched play out often over my 33+ years of city planning. Since then, it’s only gotten worse. Do the steps sound familiar?

used to live above this Costco. I'd go sometimes just for a gallon of milk.

Just in case you weren’t sure how awful Doug ford is. The courts ruled against him based on the Canadian Charter of Rights and Freedoms because PEOPLE WILL DIE IF HE REMOVES SAFE BIKE INFRASTRUCTURE. So he’s considering ABUSING the Notwithstanding Clause just for ego and some cheap suburban votes.

B.C.’s multiplex rollout hits speed bumps as cities diverge #Vancouver #MetroVancouver #YVR

Been away a while and I’m not really sure what’s considered funny here now so I’m just going to stick to sharing words of praise for Pierre Poilievre and asbestos gym shorts.

Don’t you realize…that would be like admitting…no, I can’t say it.

If u care about better cities for people in Ontario Canada, please pay attention to what Premier Ford is doing. Not only would his new bill block cities from building bike-lanes if they touch car lanes, he’s talking about imposing his own street standards & standardized official plans in EVERY city.

Ladies and gentlemen of Ontario, it is time to put this fucking parasitic morally inept petulant child out on the fucking streets, where he deserves with no financial or political strength to ever be held by him again. Time to tell this fucking bastard where to shove it.

Wait I’ve seen this one! 2020: “Covid is not airborne” 2021: “Covid infections build immunity” 2022: “Covid is over” 2023: “Covid is mild” 2024: “Covid is just a cold” 2025: “It’s not Covid, it’s flu” Actually, yes. Years of Covid infections damaged your immune system making you vulnerable to flu.

This definitely seems like a thing that we should run ads for everywhere to turbocharge tax revenue

Here goes UHN in Toronto (👉including the cancer hospital👈), repeating the same mistakes as always, because doing the right thing is less important for hospital admin than covering up having constantly done the wrong thing since COVID hit. MEDICAL MASKS ARE NOT AEROSOL PPE, YOU NEED AN N95! 🤬🤡

Omfg why can infection control not get their 🤬 clown car in order and do their 🤬 jobs and tell people that for an aerosol hazard you need aerosol PPE? Seriously, wtf is wrong with medicine that it tolerates this constant amateur-hour incompetence? We know this is killing people! "Do no harm"? 🤬🤡

Here’s what ION will look like soon. Let’s get more of it built

ION is a transit investment success story - it skipped the bells & whistles and got built quickly, runs great, has been successful at guiding new development to cluster in the built-up area instead of becoming sprawl. Now Waterloo Region needs funding to bring that ION light rail magic to Cambridge

You are absolutely right Mr. Carney that great cities need great public transit. That's why your government should fund ION light rail to connect Kitchener-Waterloo and Cambridge across the great rivers that divide them (Grand River, Speed River, Highway 401) But seriously please fund ION expansion

Please consider providing public comment on this wrecking ball piece of legislation that is being proposed. It will absolutely destroy the capacity of Conservation Authorities to effectively administer their respective watersheds across the province. ero.ontario.ca/notice/025-1...

Did PTSD play a part in Guelph police officer’s attack on a handcuffed teen? An expert weighs in

La gouverneure générale du Canada obtient son congé d'hôpital. www.noovo.info/nouvelle/la-...

“In a country like Canada, where it is winter a vast majority of the time” Gosh, CBC

I'm gonna go ahead and say the moose did not see that coming. www.forbes.com/sites/scottt...

My god, he’s a child. “Canada should be a dirt cheap place to eat, to house yourself and to live your life. Why…because we have the most dirt. We have the most dirt with which to build homes…we have the most dirt to dig up our resources and we have the most dirt on which to grow food.”

This is a fun local story from Hamilton, Ont., but what it's doing in the Washington Post I have no idea, unless the concept of a benevolent criminal is so alien to the American mind that it's internationally newsworthy.

Kitchener’s Downtown Cycling Grid project has earned the 2025 Active Transportation Achievement Award from the Transportation Association of Canada While there's always more to be done, it's great to see the city receive this recognition 😀🚴🏼‍♀️ kitchener.citynews.ca/2025/11/11/k...

Bitch!!🪶😡💔🏳️‍🌈🏳️‍⚧️🇨🇦👇🏽 #MAGADani www.cbc.ca/news/canada/...

I've filtered Ottawa's traffic collision data to show only collisions with injuries for each year, and then added the speed camera locations present in those years. It looks like speed cameras have made the roads much safer.

If a worker is killed using manufacturing equipment, they don't just clean it up and get back to using it immediately. But that's what happens at road intersections. Motonormativity is a dangerous disease.

Honestly, Ontario banning speed cameras and most bike lanes is a pretty big blow to urbanist optimism in Canada. The province is 40% of Canada’s population!

It does seem like the "community street" for Finch Store was chosen carefully

Hey Toronto: Mask up! Get your vaccines (Covid, Flu, RSV). Big jump in waste water values and that data is 2 weeks old. Source: @young.me (thanks!) wwater.ca/Ontario/Toro...

www.the519.org/events/trans... Everyone in the Toronto area please come 😊 #trans #2SLGBTQIA+

Slip lanes are a scourge in urban areas. Thankfully, Toronto has removed at least 40 of them in the last two decades, but there are many still remaining. The slip lane at Ossington and Dupont, which I encountered on a recent walk, had me thinking about these lately. seanmarshall.ca/2025/11/14/i...

TORONTO – Two of Canada’s wealthiest families have agreed to team up to open the bidding for the royal charter that formed Hudson’s Bay at $18 million. 

We need to wait for road reconstructions in order to remove slip lanes. They tend to hold utilities & are usually attached to the road base But we can do interim measures to make safety improvements while we wait for the larger opportunities More pink last night. 🩷 www.toronto.ca/services-pay...

Toronto, Ontario, Canada. November 14 2025. #POTD #POTD2025

Toronto blogger #JohnnyStrides- Toronto LIVE: Friday Night Downtown eh www.youtube.com/live/4TWoW-X... via @YouTube

Video shows Toronto police rescue couple and their baby who got lost at Rouge National Urban Park www.cp24.com/local/toront...

Toronto’s mayor says subway times will get faster this weekend. Here’s by how much www.cp24.com/local/toront...

Lovely to see you again, Toronto!

As speed cameras are banned in Ontario, Toronto says it needs more funds to cope https://www.newsbeep.com/250867/ As speed cameras are turned off in Toronto and across Ontario, the city’s mayor is asking the provincial…

Shan embodies that which is so deeply wrong with the NDP.

We're not against nice things, you see, we're just in favour of the rules that make nice things more-or-less impossible. It's very complex. Stop being mean to us on the internet.

So many of Toronto's issues boil down to its most privileged residents insisting that they have all the peace and quiet of living in the country while getting all the convenience of a major city

This is one of the purest encapsulations I've seen recently of someone who sees a city not as a destination but as something through which to drive. Imagine if there were popular stores? The horror

Zany is what makes life somewhat fucking interesting.

READ THIS! www.canadianaffairs.news/2025/11/12/o... $200K to litigate a case against a social assistance recipient who *may* have received $10K in CERB overpayments is not an "inefficiency", but collecting unpaid taxes on luxury yachts or planes *is* a waste of bureaucratic time? MAKE IT MAKE SENSE

Don't be ridiculous, everyone knows the best beef patties are inside TTC subway stations. They'll have to transit in.