Nice touch!

Because we got to a point of almost zero vacancies, and because a lot of people who were about to buy suddenly couldn’t because owned housing also went way, way up in price, we’ve had a few rough years for housing affordability. But that wasn’t caused by nice countertops or other finish choices.

Le capitalisme se fout de ta haine du transport actif, épisode 1233. Le capitalisme, ça finance la modernisation des cargos de vélos de livraison à assistance électrique. Eh oui, si le livreur veut tourner à droite, vous le saurez grâce aux clignotants ! S'il se gare, vous le saurez aussi.

I wish Canadian politicians would stop using cutting taxes as the only go to move for “affordability”

FOOD PROFESSOR DOWN

Hoisted by his own petard

The Canadian Federation of Independent Business says expanding WFH policies would “deal another blow” to businesses in downtown Follow the money. The really think we should all commute hours a day in a climate crisis so we can shop & buy $18 sandwiches www.ctvnews.ca/vancouver/ar...

High-speed rail in #China in 2007: 0 kilometers High-speed rail in China in 2026: 50,400 kms High-speed rail in China in 2030 (projected): 60,000 kms On routes where it competes directly with planes, HSR has led to a 28.2 % reduction in air passenger volume.

It's now easier to find a toilet in space than in the downtowns of most cities

for Halifax also need random "please get off your bike and walk across here" sign

"Walkway has to be so narrow because of minimum required distance from where site is under construction" which was Approved by the city, so this is on HRM not the developer #ZeroVisionHFX

With Halifax Transit also discontinuing printed maps and riders' guides (schedules), it will be harder than ever to use transit without a smartphone and data plan.

The borough even made a video about it 😊

After debating and voting on every single line item, to vote against the whole is a vote of non confidence in the council. And when you're the mayor that is a vote of non confidence in yourself and your leadership, an admission of failure.

Deploy the raccoon! A new front in #PylonWars has opened up & it is darn cute. A good likeness to our bike mayor too @seebo429.bsky.social #BikeHFX

IF YOU LIVE ON JOE HOWE YOU SHOULDN'T HAVE TO DRIVE TO THE PENINSULA AND THE TOLLS WOULD BE A DISENCENTIVE TO MAKE NEEDLESS DRIVES TO THE PENINSULA

“Axe the tracks.” (I can’t take credit for that.)

Morse explaining how tolls reduce congestion, says she won't support tolls.

Fillmore: When a budget fails, that's just democracy (note: in most democracies if a budget fails that's a no confidence vote and the governing body gets dissolved and we have an election)

Mancini says he’s disappointed in Fillmore’s leadership.

St Amand says affordability is more than just a race to the bottom on tax rates !!

Andy "Courting Disaster over $8 / month" Fillmore

This is all the pick-up most pick-up owners need. The rest of that shit you see on the road is for the driver's insecurity.

US Embassy in London

EVERY CITY COUNCIL HEARING: More* affordable** housing***! *: No more anywhere near anything **: Always rapidly increasing in value ***: Of the kinds I personally like already

RA's: density isn't appropriate in neighbourhoods, put it on main streets near transit Dev: Here's a proposal for a tower on Yonge Street next to Summerhill Station RA's: it is not compatible to add density next to our neighbourhood either.

I hadn't been paying much attention to onto the NDP leadership contest tbh and so didn't really know what to think about Avi Lewis. He's already made the Food Professor melt down, so that's a good sign.

It seems that moveable plastic objects are not infrastructure

The Mayor is touting the importance of literacy and early access to books, after having led efforts to: 1) spend the library reserve fund on non-library items; 2) reduce library staffing/funding; 3) cut school library staff.

Buying fire engines that fit the city you want is cheaper than building your entire city to fit the fire engines you have. This is true even after taking staffing costs into account.

The Socialist modern apartment blocks of Novi Zagreb. This is the 1974 “Mammoth”, one of Europe's largest residential blocks, measuring 250 meters long with over 1,100 apartments. And the 1968 “Rockets.”

Here’s the speaker of the legislature flipping off people during a vote. On TV. #nspoli

I dropped off more cones. Looking good!

Look Halifax, No Pylons involved in redesign, how does Montreal do it?? It's such a mystery #PylonWar

Well, I should have held off on putting up my beautiful signs that look so good in the window The building's owner noticed them at about 10:00 this morning and told me to remove them It's not unusual for condos and apartment buildings to have rules against signs in windows. Still, feeling sad.

Wow. Fucking disgusting. Pierre Poilievre is such a loser, man. Note to everyone: if your rights become politically unpopular, Poilievre will throw you under the bus in a heartbeat, apparently.

PYLONS HAVE BEEN MOVED/ KNOCKED OVER AT HARVARD AND ALLAN DRIVERS ARE GOING THROUGH THE DIVERTER #PylonWars

"Look mom, I want to remind you that the car had a broken tail light BEFORE I crashed it into the side of the house just now, so it's technically not my fault!"

Obviously the woke version of the Great Molasses Flood of 1919

It remains outrageous that no one in Canada even bothered with a proper inquiry into the massive failures of the pandemic.

Before and after in Ljubljana.

sending a document to print at the Library has to be one of the best little publicized benefit. I would be so lost without these services. Save our Libraries.

Toronto Council APPROVES the development of a pay-to-shovel program, similar to NYC's, in time for next winter. The vote is 17-9.

Ah dude. It's big. It's yellow. It's right in front of you.

Energy crisis. Oil shock. We've seen this movie before. In 1973. And 1979. And in 2022, when #Russia invaded #Ukraine. Some places got smart, and began to work on ways to free themselves from dependence on dictator-controlled fossil fuels by investing in sustainable transport. 🧵

This is how the genocide in Gaza was white-washed day after day by the media.

The receipts: 🚲 Paris: 500km of fully separated tracks = re-elected ✅ 🚲 Montpellier: €33/person invested in cycling = re-elected ✅ 🚲 Lyon: 75% of streets calmed to 30km/h = re-elected ✅ The "bikelash" might be loud, but it isn't decisive at the ballot box.