"Canada will allow up to 49,000 Chinese electric vehicles into the Canadian market each year, at a 6.1 per cent tariff." Good! Nice to see @mark-carney.bsky.social not kowtowing to Ford and Trump. #onpoli www.thestar.com/news/canada/...

Adding 100% cost to Chinese EVs isn't a tariff, it's a ban. Doug Ford should encourage Cdn auto-makers to make better products, instead of simply demanding govt handouts. #onpoli #climateaction www.thestar.com/politics/pro...

“ 'What is broken in their souls?' It all makes clearer than ever that Trump’s America is not just in the grip of a political and social crisis. Fundamentally it’s a moral crisis as well." www.thestar.com/opinion/star...

Only FIFA would give the World Cup to Donald Trump. And then be shocked that fans don't want to go to a country where a Mom can get shot in the face and the VP will smear the dead woman. en.royanews.tv/news/66526/F...

Please reduce tariffs on Chinese EVs @mark-carney.bsky.social We need affordable EVs in Canada. #onpoli www.thestar.com/politics/fed...

The Globe and Mail

"The idea that somehow Canada can pull its punches forever and somehow be spared is delusional. Canada must find it within itself — along with other states — to defend international law." www.thestar.com/opinion/cont...

Trump says that when it comes to Greenland "we will do it the nice way or the difficult way." Canada is over being nice. We stand with our allies.

"In life, Renee Good was fully realized. In death, to them, she’s just another prop, a reminder of the utter moral emptiness of the Trump world, just one more thing that they can use." @rwarnica.bsky.social www.thestar.com/opinion/star...

"Despair prevents you from finding solutions. Despair stops you from thinking creatively. And it really is important for people to focus on what constructively we can do together.” Well said Bob Rae! www.thestar.com/politics/pol...

You and your wife drop your 6-year-old off at school. You just moved here. You see ICE terrorizing your new neighbors. You film them, as is your legal right. Your wife complies with orders. She is then shot in the head. You still have to pick up your child later today. This could be you.

TTC air-electric PCC #4250 turns from westbound Bloor onto northbound Dovercourt in HARBORD service, passing A11-class ex-Cleveland PCC #4638 running eastbound. Photo taken on the last day of HARBORD and BLOOR service. ⏰ February 25, 1966 📸 Richard Glaze #TTC #TakeTheTTC #Streetcar #PCC

Nailed it! Thanks @graphicmatt.com "Toronto likes to talk about transit priority — but often ends up with compromised plans that try to appease all road users." www.thestar.com/opinion/cont...

Please enjoy my cartoon for Wednesday's Toronto Star

The city's Vision Zero is taking us in the right direction. “Addressing road safety continues to be a priority for residents, elected officials and staff” - City of Toronto (And then came Doug Ford ...) www.torontotoday.ca/local/city-h...

Please enjoy my cartoon in today's Toronto Star

"Lessons from e-bike regulation can be applied more broadly. The auto industry markets cars for their speed + power. The community is left to address the resulting danger with huge expenditures on safety measures ..." www.thestar.com/opinion/cont...

The Truth about Venezuela.

Shake, shake, shake... shake your booty-hawk! 🪶🌿🦅🦉🍁 #Birds #OhMyDouglas

"The most urgent transportation problem that most Canadians face is getting around their own city, on gridlocked roads and underfunded urban transit systems." www.theglobeandmail.com/opinion/arti...

"Building a pipeline to export heavy oil? Is there no bigger ambition ...to grow our clean energy + value-added industries for future prosperity, rather than look to an old, dirty one contributing to the multibillion-$ cost of climate change?" -Miriam Diamond www.theglobeandmail.com/opinion/lett...

I *love* this street transformation in Edmonton, Alberta. I visited it under construction almost two years ago but more progress is visible in Google Street View.

102 years ago today: A haunting view of the first snowfall of the year on an unnamed street in Toronto - December 23, 1923. | 📸: City of Toronto Archives, Globe and Mail fonds, Fonds 1266, Item 1792. #OTD #OnThisDay #1920s #snow #winter #history #torontohistory #toronto #canada #jeremyhopkin

"A courageous leader would stand up to corporate oil and their servant, Alberta Premier Danielle Smith. It is not optional. Prime Minister Mark Carney should again read his book, “Value(s).” - Paul Kahnert #climateaction www.thestar.com/opinion/lett...

With 2025 almost over, it's time for my annual Year in Review! There have been some highs such as a new gravel bike and doing the 150 km Toronto to Niagara ride, as well as some lows such as Bill 60 and a stolen bike. #BikeTO #TOpoli #ONpoli #VisionZero www.twowheeledpolitics.ca/2025/12/time...

Happy Holidays! And our Winter 2025 Newsletter. #biketo www.communitybikewaysto.ca/campaigns/vi...

90 years ago today: Yonge Street, looking north from Queen Street, Toronto - Dec. 20, 1935. Congestion as far as the eye can see and a solid line of curb parked cars, 3:26 p.m. Most likely due to Christmas shopping. #OnThisDay #traffic #1930s #tranit #torontohistory #toronto #canada #jeremyhopkin

Start with regulating the companies that run the delivery app "Addressing the underlying problem requires both new provincial regs over e-bikes and a grant of authority to cities to license — and to make accountable to the public — the app-based food delivery companies." - @albertkoehl.bsky.social

Colbalt Sir Frederick Banting 1932

“Integrity Commissioner has power to subpoena witness, compel Ford gov to release documents - this is some serious, serious stuff and means Skills Development Fund Scandal continues despite government running away!” Ford can’t duck accountability #Onpoli youtu.be/0m8k6c8S9js?si…

"Not only are cars more powerful, faster and more dangerous, the entrenchment of driving as a God-given right has structured rules around driving to prioritize the people inside cars versus those outside them." #onpoli www.thestar.com/opinion/star...

So happy to hear @thewaroncars.bsky.social has finally added a Toronto stop for their book tour! Let's be sure to give them a warm #BikeTO welcome when they arrive on February 5! #TOpoli #VisionZero

Package of 20km of bikeways, as recommended by city staff --- including Kingston Road --- passes at City Council.

All motions on the cycling item CARRY via show of hands. So does this package of bike lane additions, achieved without removing any car lanes.

Up now: bikes! A package proposes 20.5 km of bike lane additions, including a 6 km section on Kingston Road. The new bike lanes won't take away any car lanes, because the province won't allow that anymore. Instead, car lanes will be narrowed a bit in some spots. secure.toronto.ca/council/agen...

“There’s power in numbers, and now that people have seen we’ve successfully stopped abductions, I hope they can get out there too...” www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025...

For children walking or cycling to school, "outside the school" is the least dangerous part of their journey. Children need 20mph limit protection on the whole of their home to school route. 20mph "just outside schools" contemptuously disregards duty of care on child mobility

"postsecondary education is a provincial responsibility. This is Ford’s mess. More than any other actor, he made it. He has a duty to clean it up." #onpoli www.thestar.com/opinion/edit...

With tomorrow's high being -9C, we're glad Cycling Good Cheer was last Sunday when it was a tolerable -1C. And as promised, here's the video of our pedal-powered Santa Claus Parade! youtube.com/shorts/jsQJ0... #BikeTO @bikewaysto.bsky.social

A nice payoff for a challenging ride along Bloor bike lane (ice & snow) this morning: cappuccino, blueberry scone + lively conversation at our 105th Koffee on the Kingsway at local Second Cup franchise (Bloor at Royal York). #biketo

Your Comeback Guide to all the Anti-Cycling Arguments You’ll Hear This Year. momentummag.com/your-comebac...

"unlike a number of other politicians, Mayor Chow is not raising revenue to fund tax cuts for the wealthy. She’s putting that money into improving the lives of everyday working families trying to make ends meet." #onpoli www.torontotoday.ca/local/opinio...

"Will Carney’s deal move us — and the rest of the world — a little closer to climate Armageddon? Sadly, the answer is, unequivocably, yes." Well said @lindamcquaig.bsky.social #onpoli #climateaction #climatejustice www.thestar.com/opinion/cont...

The power of community activism! "staff reports suggested delaying the bylaw by years, and shelved the emissions standards indefinitely. But councillors + the mayor rejected those recommendations amid an outpouring of public support." www.thestar.com/news/gta/two...

In US "no requirement for pickups to pass any kind of pedestrian safety test." So why, we ask you @stevenmackinnon.bsky.social are we copying US model + putting Cdn lives at risk -- instead of requiring auto-makers to act, including re-design of deadly front-end. www.youtube.com/watch?v=--83...

While pickups get larger, their trailers appear to be following same trend. In absence of bike lanes, there's even less room to safely pass cyclists. #oversizeddanger #biketo #roadsafety

"I view the latest federal-provincial energy deal as a significant step backwards in the fight against climate change — that it is in fact a fire sale rather than a grand bargain." Thank you @stevenguilbeault.bsky.social #onpoli www.thestar.com/opinion/cont...

"the $3.6B being spent on rehabilitating Gardiner Expresswy...would cover BikeShare’s annual expansion budget for ~450yrs. Good enough for our great-grandchildren+their great-grandchildren—and probably some cyborg +xenomorph cyclists too" Well said @graphicmatt.com www.thestar.com/opinion/cont...

Fairview St in Burlington, ONT could have made the grade (among the worst). It's probably the kind of bike lane even Premier Ford would support. #biketo