Rafraîchissante discussion sur notre rapport à l'auto (et notre difficulté à s'en défaire) avec Sarah Goodyear et Doug Gordon du balado @thewaroncars.bsky.social, qui signent Life After Cars : Freeing Ourselves from the Tyranny of the Automobile 🚗🚌🚲 ici.radio-canada.ca/info/long-fo...

Periodic reminder that this link will give you a totally random bird: ebird.org/species/surp... You can make it your browser's default page. You're welcome.

SUV crashes through storefront at Kelowna Starbucks #Kelowna

Mayor of #OttCity proudly supports having the lowest property taxes in ON; meanwhile our streets crumble; parks unmaintained; sidewalks are in ruins; community centres/libraries reduced hours & pt of $11b infra backlog; just look at the vote spread: inside red line is 50% of population 1/

So far this government has: - removed EV mandates (and moreover paused rebates to stall the market) - removed carbon tax - removed low carbon electricity policy - removed gasoline tax - removed oil and gas cap when does the Canadian Federal government do climate policy?

Gas tax breaks are bandaids at best. Real solution is to help low & middle-income Cdns get off fossil fuels. Invest in solar, heat pumps, batteries, EVs. Tackle barriers, offer real incentives & fund w/ windfall tax on Big Oil (who are laughing all the way to the bank). Cleaner, cheaper, healthier.

Forest Service biologist: "You can’t manage wildfire, whether it’s fuel reductions or climate, weather, invasive species, if you don’t know what changes are occurring in those dynamics." @jessimckenzi.bsky.social @thebulletin.org

Ottawa Police didn’t attend after a driver ran a red light and injured a cyclist. 🚲🚨 Here’s the problem: the City tracks only fatal & major injuries. Minor injuries and close calls go uncounted—yet they cause fear, deter active transport, and affect quality of life. www.cbc.ca/news/canada/...

You expect Norwegians to care about eutrophication?

There used to be a speed camera here.

Perhaps a spicy #OttBike take but this might be my favourite time of year for bike commuting. Snow and salt are mostly gone so I can pull out my summer bike. If you dress well, the weather is fine and bikeways aren't crowded with people yet.

My thoughts on Anthropic Mythos. It's not the end of world (and quite frankly so far appears to be completely irrelevant to the real world). cyberplace.social/@GossiTheDog...

I hate to be pedantic, but here in Canada we spell it a bit differently.

University of Ottawa has just issued an emergency lockdown alert citing a “violent threat on campus” Not immediately clear what‘s happening

My son said there is a potential shooter at U of Ottawa

Ecologists I need a favor! 🌎🌍🌏 I am teaching a GIS class for freshmen. I want to zoom in for like 15-20 min with other ecologists that are using drones, uav, collars, biologgers, telemetry, or any type of sensors to study wildlife. 1️⃣

New: 150 unionized ProPublica workers are on strike TODAY over AI, layoff protections, wages, and more. They're asking readers to not visit ProPublica or engage with content on other platforms. It's the first work stoppage of its kind at the newsroom. www.theverge.com/news/908401/...

I tried to explain to somebody about why sometimes people on bikes do things drivers might not understand in order to ensure our own survival and was informed that we are not actually entitled to survival. Which felt kind of aggressive. #BikeSky

Still ice on the river but nothing on the trail to stop our mini bike bus. It was - 7°C but just a few complaints of cold.

Reminder that Transport Canada wants to hear how much you love being blinded by passing headlights. tc.canada.ca/fr/services-...

Someone with the handle @velocity69.bsky.social is sharing a video with the caption: "The highest quality video of the moon was just released… so beautiful * Artemis II" It's gone viral, but it's not from Artemis II. If you've shared it, you might want to un-share.

Transport Canada is seeking feedback on experience of road users with headlight glare. Worth putting your comments in if you have strong feelings about being blinded at night. tc.canada.ca/en/corporate...

Few are brave enough to acknowledge the truth.

Media stop publishing stories based on pre-prints, difficulty impossible. Recommend checking out the take down of the paper. I agree this manuscript looks like trash, but anyone can put anything on a preprint server. They have uses, but should not be treated as anything but a draft submission.

No wonder folks don't want to stay. This 'solution' to homelessness in Fake London is a 21 min drive to downtown with zero transit access in the middle of nowhere. Feels more like a way to get them out of sight. www.cbc.ca/news/canada/...

Many of you asked for some DIY plans for building your own LaneSaber Bike Safety Flag. I understand that for some access to tools and skills to build these are not universal. I am here to help you through the steps or if you want you can buy one directly from me. DIY Safety Plans 👇

Il faut que je goûte au sirop d'érable illégal. ici.radio-canada.ca/nouvelle/224...

We have lost a giant, and a hero to countless social justice activists across Canada and around the world, @sethdklein.bsky.social writes.

Back on my bullshit: Biking into a city that hates me. Your anger and electricity fuel me. Welcome to Autowa.

Winter remains stubborn here in Ottawa/Gatineau, but it does make for excellent spring ski conditions.

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Glad to see American news outlets writing about Ottawa. defector.com/we-asked-the...

The e-book edition of LIFE AFTER CARS is available for just $1.99 on @bookshop.org for a limited time! bookshop.org/a/9252/97805...

The degradation of Windows is now at the point where Bluetooth works better on Linux.

WebinarTV hosts 200,000 “webinars.” A Zoom call you may thought was private might be one of them.

First Nations and the Impact Assessment Agency of Canada are studying the cumulative impacts of mining and other development in the Ring of Fire — but Ontario isn’t at the table. thenarwhal.ca/ontario-fede...

For non-Canadians: Bill 21 is a law in Quebec which bans any public employees from wearing "religious symbols". While this theoretically bans things like crucifix necklaces, in practice it bans hijabs, turbans, kippahs, etc. and has largely been used to ban non-Christian POC from public service.

"Visitors will discover that [Paris is] a dramatically different place than a decade ago: lines of bikes and throngs of pedestrians where lanes were once jammed with cars, greenery encroaching on former pavement, summer swimming in the once-grimy Seine river." www.bloomberg.com/graphics/202...

La balade de la victoire à vélo de @egregoire.bsky.social à la mairie de @paris.fr

Urbanist Tired: Amsterdam Urbanist Wired: Paris

New paper in IBIS: I surveyed GenAI policies across the top 20 ornithology journals. 40% had no discoverable policy, and the rest varied widely in what’s permitted. Authors need clearer guidance. onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/epdf/10.1111/ibi.70054 #ornithology​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​

Statistical Rethinking 2026 is done: 20 new lectures emphasizing logical and critical statistical workflow, from basics of probability theory to causal inference to reliable computation to sensitivity. It's all free, made just for you. Lecture list and links: github.com/rmcelreath/s...

Grégoire is now continuing his victory evening by entering into the metro!

Saw this and thought of you. Family, mobility, joy, learning. So much good. Plus, the little handlebars!

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I've been seeing chatter about someone using ChatGPT to cure their dog's cancer, so decided to go find out what that was actually about. Short 🧵>>

Nature published another pile of trash i am trying to catch up on some of my reading but this one is getting under my skin so here’s a thread highlighting why this piece is either ill-informed or intentionally ignorant of a wealth of knowledge from embodied cog sci and related fields 1/