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Your turn, @govnl.bsky.social and its various departments...

Where I live now, a single inner city golf course (crazy, I know!) is being redeveloped to potentially allow 1,246 housing units (and that's not at v high density). That's 16 years worth of housing (at current building rates) www.engagestjohns.ca/100-logy-bay...

The snow hasn't stopped us! Join us tonight at 19:00 and if you can't make it in person you can still take part via Zoom: us06web.zoom.us/j/8476825094...

Sadly this idea that immigrant people should be used, then discarded when the state no longer wants them is becoming the norm in Canada and the UK as well. Even when newcomers agree in advance this is gross exploitation.

With the imminent closure of my local Dominion (Loblaws) this seems rather topical.

I somehow missed this the first time around. @justinling.ca drew my attention to @buildtoronto.com. A great collection of the success stories of congestion pricing in this latest report.

Turns out when I wasn't paying attention there has been quite a bit of stealthy Carney austerity going on. A civil servant friend of mine lost his job recently, the post office's subsidy for inter-library loans under threat, and now this?

Do you love overstretched ERs? Restrict meds to lucky people.

Spent years living in London mildly worried about it being an international target. Moved to St John's Newfoundland far from the madding crowds only to realise only Iceland is closer to Greenland than we are. And we used to have a bunch of US bases here...

Is Doug Ford calling for a boycott of Subaru, Kia, Hyundai, Mazda, Volkswagen, Mitsubishi, and Nissan too? Most of them sell more than 49,000 vehicles in Canada and don’t manufacture any here. This is all populist posturing that has nothing to do with what’s actually good for auto workers or buyers

Apparently some Canadian companies are happy to take ICE's money? betakit.com/hootsuite-dh...

Looks good if you want to see the Aurora Borealis in Newfoundland... if it weren't for the wind, rain and > 50% cloud cover. Still.... maybe look at the skies in the middle of the night if you're up and about?

Memo to Toronto transportation services: read this, visit KW, stop foot dragging on transit priority.

imagine a universe where this would be at all credible in St. John’s!

Mark your calendars evening of Feb 3rd to talk at MUN with the best lineup yet of both transit advocates and key decision makers in St John's!

🧵Reading @economist.com about the mess Jakarta (pop 43m!) is in, I was oddly reminded of St John's. "After years of expansion it now encompasses the neighbouring cities of Bogor, Depok, Tangerang and Bekasi (see map). Yet there is far too little co-ordination among these neighbouring authorities."

All the better for us here in St John's. Though many of those people who know what a proper public transit system is like are in for a nasty shock when they arrive...

Here I guess you would have to offer free parking for normal-sized cars because parking is already very cheap and so many of our vehicles are super-sized already.

I’m deeply grateful to have the support of David Suzuki. For decades, he’s been a clarion voice on climate, calling on Canada to listen to science, nature, and Indigenous teachings. His fire only burns brighter with time. The hour is late: we need to get to work. Join us: https://avilewis.link/join

Woah, this chart from Barry Saxifrage is something else (I know, a bit hard to see). It shows the percent of new passenger vehicle sales made up by EVs. A green arrow next to country means that share increased in 2025. A red arrow means it decreased. The ONLY red arrow is CANADA.

Yesterday because of snow, the city's offices opened atnoon... but Metrobus didn't start running until 13:30. We called in to OpenLine @vocmnews.bsky.social to point this out (1:05:25) and suggest at least we should have a smaller "priority" bus service when this happens. vocm.com/2019/08/01/o...

A joint statement on Arctic security defending Greenland's sovereignty... and Canada's prime minister (who wants to spend a fortune on militarising the Arctic) has not signed it? Whatever happened to elbows up?

The fact that Atlantic provinces continue to support online gambling (and other forms) just because it kicks back money to good causes continues to baffle me.

Chilling when you realise Elon Musk's racist grandfather was a key figure in the Technocracy movement - an obvious dog whistle here. www.cbc.ca/newsinteract...

This Sunday! Join me, Gabor Maté, Bill McKibben, Anjali Appadurai, Libby Davies, El Jones, Judy Rebick, Nas Yadollahi, and other guests for an All Day Outreach Party. Together, we’ll invite thousands of new members into the NDP before the Jan 28 deadline. RSVP: https://avilewis.link/january-11

Make a Bond movie academic: Skyfall: Increases in advection fog in Atlantic Canada - spatial modelling scenarios of AMOC variations.

Same issue with the postal service here in Canada where we may lose an important subsidy for libraries it provides. bsky.app/profile/drbr...

Me: I'm dreaming of a White Christmas Newfoundland: Hold my beer Me: Not like this

This is one of the best most thorough satirical #climatechange sites I have seen in some time.

Some of the nearly 1,600 people who received clemency from Trump over the Jan. 6 attack have met with Justice Department officials and provided advice on how to retaliate against those who helped put them behind bars, a Reuters investigation finds reut.rs/4qeX9mu

Canada Post said it doesn't plan to remove its discount for shipping inter-library books. But Bill C-15 removes specific mention of this as part of the corporation's remit. My MP Joanne Thompson seems satisfied with Canada Post's assurances. I hope she'll think again. www.ctvnews.ca/canada/artic...

Looks amazing! Meanwhile here in Newfoundland not all large pharmacies even have covid tests and I'm not sure any pharmacies stock multipurpose tests.

Let it snow, let it snow, let it snow …

Essentially, our premier welcomes cameras on our streets to catch "suspects in car thefts" but not to fine the owners of those vehicles who drive over the speed limit. www.ctvnews.ca/toronto/poli...

The problem with political pledges is they very often leave the bulk of the projected work to the end of the time period (ie after the current term in office) so can't be counted on. Eg look at Canada's consumer carbon tax, EV sales mandate... Tech advance will continue but policy may not follow.

OK, I’m an urbanist nerd but living in this mobility near-utopia over the summer. It was one of the top three reasons I plan to move there!

Canada's climate policy is backsliding—carbon price gone, emissions cap at risk, 2030 targets in jeopardy. This is why independent climate journalism matters. Help fund this work: $250K goal by Dec 25. www.nationalobserver.com/2025/12/09/o...

Dunno how this hasn't been picked up by the media yet but #BillC15 would remove the provision allowing libraries to send books to and fro by Canada Post at a cheaper rate. In Newfoundland about a quarter of the physical items signed out of libraries use this service! librarianship.ca/news/bill-c1...

I've a lot of respect for @humantransit.bsky.social but living in a city with profound "bus stigma" I think this is wrong. Sadly, people who don't see transit as something they or their friends use won't support adequate funding. They need visible, significant improvement to start mainstreaming it.

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.