The future is here. And it does not desperately need Venezuelan oil.

The technology to make Toronto’s LRTs and streetcars faster already exists. It’s the political will that’s lacking.

A friend in Minneapolis just sent me this video. Looks like thousands have come together for a vigil after an ICE agent shot and killed 37-year-old Renee Nicole Good. This was my neighborhood for several years before coming to Portland.

Lots of new transit lines are opening across North America in 2026, including in Toronto, ON where we're heading for the 2026 Mpact Transit + Community Conference! Thanks to Yonah Freemark for the roundup!

Wonderful example of attempts to build community within high rise buildings - something we should try in Toronto as we go through the great condo reset.

Tonight! Community meeting about how to improve the Finch West LRT and ensure that promised community benefits are delivered. 6PM at Jane/Finch Centre, unit 50A in Jane Finch Mall.

How 300,000 commuters built a retail destination — Why retail at Toronto's Union Station was inevitable brandondonnelly.com/how-300000-c...

The ‘multipolar’ world…

12 apartments built behind an historic facade, in Barcelona. By AMOO Architects Love the pale mint green features!

My thoughts are with the FIFA Peace Prize committee at this difficult time.

Just imagine being an IR Realist this morning

Don't be fooled by this op-ed in @theglobeandmail.com. Choice isn't between a "$75-billion funding injection...for Canada’s urban transit systems" (not on the table) + high-speed rail. It's between clean, fast, frequent trains serving half Canada's population and even more pipelines, LNG + mining.

This is how a lot of Western media constantly normalises Russian imperial violence toward Europe’s East: and for that, the media bears co-responsibility

Lots of cities have Christmas Trains but does your city have a Christmas Tank like Zabrze?

I did this interview at Yonge & St Clair, the reporter hoping he'd catch a gig worker bombing down the sidewalk. Instead a pickup truck was parked in the bike lane behind us, and for the entire conversation rider after rider was forced into traffic. www.cbc.ca/news/canada/...

🇨🇦🇵🇱 Can't stress enough how surreal this paragraph reads to someone born in Poland in a year starting with "1".

Increasing tariffs on Canadian potash the same week you lift sanctions on Belarusian potash sure sends a message.

Jonathan David staring to warm up at the right time. #CanMNT

Wild to think that Tani Oluwaseyi was in USL in 2023. And now he has his 1st #UCL goal for Villarreal CF in 2025 What a calendar year he’s had for club: he has 6G/1A for Villarreal and had 12G/7A for Minnesota United, giving him 26 G+A (and 31 G+A for club and country, he had 2G/3A for the #CanMNT)

What would you put on the radio?

"there's a new serif in town"

Looks like City of Toronto and TTC will put in more aggressive signal priority to speed up the trip by 10 min. Great. Now do it citywide. www.cbc.ca/news/canada/...

Fuck this shit.

Cool job alert!

Cool job alert!

The people want transit. This is an hour early and it’s freezing cold. Bigger than the crowd for the Elizabeth line (more places to wait for that though…)

The first train... #Toronto #Line6 #FinchWest

An Alstom Citadis Spirit train pulls into Finch West Station. Its been many years delayed but its finally here. #ttc #ttcriders #toronto #LRT #Line6

The Nobel Prize committee should announce the World Cup winner tomorrow

Russians just attacked Kyiv’s commuter rail station and MSF in Fastiv, destroying numerous trains.

OTD in 1994 Russia signed the Budapest memo, guaranteeing Ukraine's territorial integrity in exchange for their nukes, 44 Ukrainian Tu-22 heavy bombers and 1,068 Kh-55 cruise missiles. Which have been fired at Ukraine in this war.

World Cup draw is at noon today. As a host, Canada is in Pot 1 and will avoid favourites like Spain, France, Argentina or England. Worst case: 🇲🇦 Motocco 🇳🇴 Norway 🇮🇹 Italy Best Case: 🇦🇹 Austria 🇿🇦 South Africa 🇳🇿 New Zelandia

Really explanation of how Toronto streetcars and LRTs stack up (hint: it doesn’t look good) but also some hopeful suggestions on how we could do better.

This ambulance *zoomed*, unimpeded, down the “red carpet” on Bathurst today. Good to see. There can be benefits of transit priority that extend beyond transit.

#Montreal 's just leap-frogged other cities in North America by opening the REM. Automated. Electric. Frequent (2.5 minute headways). Fast (Capable of 110 km/h). Cheap to build. (One tenth the price of other systems) And really fun to ride... 🧵

Blasting past rush hour traffic on the completed portion of Dufferin RapidTO (up to Dundas)

🍁 GOAL | Tani Oluwaseyi Villarreal CF vs. RCD Mallorca, La Liga November 22nd, 2025 #CanMNT 🎥TSN

🍁 GOAL | Promise David Galatasaray vs. Union St-Gilloise, UCL November 25th, 2025 #CanMNT 🎥DAZN

🍁 GOAL | Jonathan David Bodø/Glimt vs. Juventus, UCL November 25th, 2025 #CanMNT 🎥DAZN

This is the largest transit expansion in North America. And in this @macleans.bsky.social Magazine feature, I argue that other cities should be looking at the advantages of light metros like the REM: macleans.ca/society/mont...

Vingt rues de Paris avant / après en une minute

do you have any idea how much you have to piss somebody off to make them change their gauge

According to Metrolinx, 6 Finch opens on December 7, 2025. stevemunro.ca/2025/11/21/l... H/T to Steve Wickens for spotting this.

A seven-year-old Polish girl, Amelia, was among those killed during Russia's attack on civilians in the western Ukrainian city of Ternopil this week, the Polish foreign minister has announced.

Cosmic fucking horror

Children helping clear the rubble. 19 dead so far

It's great how every day of this war I have to explain to Americans that Eastern Europeans are not stupid and if they are asked to capitulate to Russia or die we will literally choose the rational option: death.

Handing over lands russia doesn’t even control, cutting military funding, halving Ukraine’s army, returning western equipment, making russian an official language, etc… I mean, giving your blackmailer everything they ask for *might* make them stop? english.nv.ua/nation/trump...

Good morning. Today, russia launched a cruise missile that blew several floors off of a residential apartment building while people slept in Ternopil.

CANADA WINS! 🇨🇦 In Fort Lauderdale, the #CanMNT defeated Venezuela thanks to goals from Ismaël Kone and Promise David. The former was sent off in the second half just minutes after the South American outfit lost David Martínez to a red card. 📸 CanMNT