Steven Guilbeault tells @woodsideful.bsky.social about his decision to leave cabinet over the pipeline deal: “When the agreement came out someone texted me saying, ‘The only thing missing from the agreement is Pierre Poilievre's signature,’ and I went yeah, I think that sums it up."

Even more revolting when one learns Miller comes from a Jewish family that fled Russian pogroms - this would have been one of the arguments used to keep refugees like his family from fleeing persecution.

Routes with fewer stops that don't loop through side streets could help make transit work more effectively but only if the city also makes it easier to get to and from bus stops... preferably with shelters!

Get outside kids, enjoy the fresh air with your friends! Just kidding, stay the F inside.

This is the outcome I have been quietly hoping for all along - ditch the economically dubious green hydrogen but keep building the wind turbines and use them to displace polluting electricity sources. Or serve energy intensive industries. Just not AI datacentres or bitcoin mining, please!

I am not sure I would want to try walking or cycling through along that road either TBH!

When your kids don't need you as their chauffeur everyone is better off. by bsky @tomflood.bsky.social #Bike #Cycling #CyclingLife #CommuteByBike #NotJustBikes #Urbanism #Motonomativity #Fuckcars #Carfree #LowCar #Walkability #WalkableCities #PeopleOverCars […] [Original post on mas.to]

Great to see journalism making a difference in Newfoundland. The profession is definitely on its last legs - this is one more reminder of why the media is important. Though I hope asking the company responsible for the report to account for the errors is only the first step from the government.

from government by consultant to government by consultants using generative AI. decades of degrading government capacity to actually govern has left it open to further degradation through ai hype and perceptions it enables further cost cutting.

I think @ketanjoshi.co first pointed me to the @iea.org claim AI-led energy efficiencies would more than compensate for the industry's actual usage. I just looked up the claim to find the justification behind the pretty graphs... and there doesn't seem to be any?! www.iea.org/reports/ener...

I'm imagine he'll tackle this later but the word "collection" is doing a lot on this @parismarx.com' s slide. A lot of AI data was theft and there's plenty of work going on to retroactively legitimise it and give AI companies legal cover for future theft or forced content purchase "deals".

I've been here in Newfoundland for 7 years now- I think @parismarx.com may be my first public lecture by a Newfoundlander public intellectual with an international following not talking about NL things (mainly the politics of resource extraction). Probably I missed a few? Better late than never?

TL;DR it looks awfully like a fraudulent freelancer probably using AI to help their inventions managed to get published across the Internet, including at some top tier publications like The Guardian. *sigh.

Freight transport was 14.7% of NL's emissions in 2023 and considered "hard to abate" (www.gov.nl.ca/eccc/files/2...). But we have lots of electricity and most travels along the TCH so maybe we should be examining how to support truck electrification if the Chinese are making it work?

Ontario to spend money to rip out bike lanes and speed cameras to disconnect people and hurt school children. 🙌

Car dependency is a hell of a drug.

Oh, Canada...

it’s not just suburbs either. Even relatively dense cities can be car dependent - I live in one!

This looks strangely familiar to those of us in NL - but since our "future of education" report was produced internally I guess we don't get a refund? pivot-to-ai.com/2025/10/07/d...

If your school zone infrastructure doesn't look like this, maybe it's time to start asking why not.

I have little insider knowledge but Drew Brown's analysis of the state of NL politics rings dismayingly true. His first step to a solution - keep big money donations out of provincial politics - is as obvious as it is necessary. It's a minor tragedy he's bowing out of covering the scene here.

Impressive - one of the region's few remaining independent news outlets managed (with Federal help) to get reporting about the Inuit community from an Inuk journalist actually living there.

There's always a local angle.

My favorite fact from the @happycity.ca issue guide: In 2024 only 80 new housing units have been started in St John’s itself, according to the CMHC (up from 48 the previous year). Meanwhile, across the St John’s Metropolitan Area excluding the city itself 791 housing units were started in 2024.

As the ballots start to go out for St Johns' council election, here's an issue overview from @happycity.ca for voters to consider. There are some under-discussed facts there and it's not too late to ask candidates for their thoughts! stjohnsvotes.ca/2025/09/18/e...

Join us for a walk exploring how urban infrastructure impacts pedestrian safety, comfort, and enjoyment in St. John’s. Hosted by a member of Challenge Car Culture, this walk invites conversation about building a city that puts people first. Parking (ironically) is available in Churchill Square.

🧵I helped @happycity.ca track coverage of candidates and issues in the last city election. We linked to 8 issue-based pieces in the Independent, five by the CBC, three by the Telegram, multiple interviews of candidates and more. This year there's been almost nothing. web.archive.org/web/20211016...

This Thursday! 👇

Meet the mayoral/deputy mayor candidates for St. John's! Join us Sept 15 at 7pm at Memorial University's Bruneau Centre to hear their plans for our city's future. Register at donorbox.org/events/81254...

Proud to be on the board of @happycity.ca which put on the first of its three municipal debates - did my heart good to see nine city councillor candidates nearly all of whom seemed to have a sense of the changes St John's desperately needs. And a packed house of engaged residents!

In The Guardian, London Mayor Sadiq Khan calls for urban 20-mph speed limits across the UK: "There is nothing to be gained by playing politics with speed limits – only people to be injured and lives to be lost."

🧵This book is definitely a mixed bag with some A+ content, some that has not aged well and some that looks... well... weird! First the best messages...

The city of Bonn is awarding craft businesses a giant cargo bike for one month so they can test whether they can switch to these vehicles. It's a great project. Craft businesses in 🇩🇪 in particular are small, often with only a handful of employees, who cannot afford to experiment with their fleet.

This Massachusetts town banned gas — and housing boomed anyway. Critics say stringent, pro-electrification building codes and restrictions on natural gas will impede housing developers. A Boston suburb is proving them wrong. www.canarymedia.com/articles/ele...

So far this year Canadian wildfires have burned an area (much) larger than the total area of Nova Scotia and PEI combined.

the journey. creative developed with @thebikinglawyer.bsky.social

So Canada's exports actually went up by 1% despite a 16% drop in exports to the US. That means that missing 17% of our exports all went to our friends, mostly in Europe. Pretty solid stuff […]

Goliath's Curse by Luke Kent sounds like a great "zoomed out view" of human civilization, how we got here and what happens next. I agree self-termination seems the most likely outcome but would prefer to stress that human choices got us here and the right ones can still get us out of this mess.

When people scream at me to get off the road, I know they are a staunch advocate of this type of infrastructure.

Never even considered that instead of going after the power grid foreign hackers could crush this country by blocking mediocre people from using ChatGPT at work

Samuel L Jackson swearily promoting wind farms - is this sweeping Newfoundland's social media? I hope so!

I am a strong advocate for better public transit and active transportation... but I don't think we will be able to eliminate private vehicles any time soon. Meanwhile those remaining vehicles should be EVs and will need easy, cheap charging options.

One of my favourite comedians and musicians and... well... people has gone. He stopped performing not long after I was born but he still had a special place in my heart. Pour one out for a unique talent. www.nytimes.com/2025/07/27/a...

I went at least a year without noticing that Spotify started letting people pay to influence its recommendations. Of course, of course, but it'd be great if I could just pay for a service and not have someone trying to wring a few more pennies out of making the experience crappier.

In 2023, Amsterdam lowered the speed limit on 80% of city streets to 30 kmh (19 mph). Since then: 🔹 Ped & cyclist crashes ⬇️ 15% 🔹 Car-related crashes ⬇️ 11% 🔹 Noise ⬇️ 5.5% (logarithmic) 🔹 Traffic ↔️ No change 60% of locals support the lower speed limits. openresearch.amsterdam/nl/page/1244...

This is crazy. This guy has been fighting for 8 years to get a well on his land designated as orphaned. Now he's told it'll be another 10+ years to clean it. The guy responsible for Alberta's weak clean up strategy? An oil insider & advisor to Danielle Smith www.nationalobserver.com/2025/07/22/n...

My @thestar.com column this week: More than a decade ago, Doug Ford helped usher in an era of outsourcing public services at city hall. The private sector contracts for services like garbage pickup were supposed to save a lot of money. The numbers say they haven’t. www.thestar.com/opinion/cont...