Better cars are like better cigarettes. We stay dependent, they sell more. #UrbanTruth

YOUTH SUMMER EMPLOYMENT OPPORTUNITY! The London Food Co-op has positions open for store clerk. This is a full time, 8-week position from July 7 to Aug. 29. The work week is Tuesday to Saturday. If interested, bring your resume to the store at 621 Princess Ave.

The City of Ottawa posted the raw speed data from before and after Doug Ford banned speed cameras and the effect is so obvious it's not even necessary put a line marking when that happened. This chart shows the percentage of drivers going 15km/h or more over the posted limit.

"This pause is part of a much larger strategy to unwind the Clean Air Act, buying time for the administration to deconstruct large portions of the legislative framework regulating [U.S.] air quality — weakening regulations on everything from ethylene oxide emissions to plastics pyrolysis plants."

Paris urban biking investment helps cut pollution in half: “Between 2005 & 2024, levels of nitrogen dioxide & fine particulate matter — 2 of the most harmful pollutants to health — have been slashed by 50% & 55%, respectively.” Via @momentummag.bsky.social Bike-lanes make better cities. #UrbanTruth

I don't know who needs to hear this, but an economy controlled by a handful of oligarchs isn't a "free market."

Everybody agreeing the Nazis are the bad guys.

Thank you Shawn Lewis for sharing your ordeal with #shingles. Most cases happen to folks over 50. Nevertheless, Ontario provides the vaccine free to people aged 65 to 70. Workplace health plans might cover it.

Infrastructure upgrades are underway in #LdnOnt Ontario St between Central Av & Dufferin Av will be closed until November Beaverbrook Ave at Oxford St W will be closed until May 15 Fanshawe College Blvd between Oxford St &Cheapside St will be closed until May 29 Learn more london.ca/construction

Kids are such hard work...

The Canadian Cultural History Advocacy Committee now has a website: heritageadvocacy.ca We have converted our email list to a newsletter. If you want to be on the newsletter list, simply visit the website homepage and enter your email to subscribe.

The community of Beth Emmanuel British Methodist Episcopal Church in #LdnOnt is asking for your support in saving the church at 430 Grey St. There has been a request to repeal the building's heritage designation Learn more: www.change.org/FightForBeth...

I'm officially a Candidate for Ward 3 City Councillor! My Initial platform in can be found at bendurham.ca

HockeyFest #LdnOnt is partnering with the Children's Health Foundation to host a tournament #downtown from May 8 to 10 HockeyFest is where the love of the game meets the power of #community. It isn’t just about goals and wins—it’s about #hope To learn more, check out: www.hockeyfestgameon.com

“It’s worse than what Harper did, I agree,” said Steven Guilbeault, the Liberal MP and former environment minister. “This goes beyond what Harper proposed when he was in power, yes, that’s true.” www.thestar.com/politics/pol...

No clue how Meta’s algorithms are making this happen, but my Facebook feed is currently flooded with posts from Russian foreign ministry accounts and other weird pages I don’t follow celebrating Russian “Victory Day”

Author, bookseller, and publisher friends: Please keep posting your positive stories about selling books through Bluesky, and I'll package them up and show them to publishers so that we can get more book publishers and even more authors and book conversation here!

Join us this Saturday at #ScienceRendezvous 2026! Catch our wildlife talk at 3:00 PM and explore a full day of hands-on science fun for all ages. 📅 May 9 | 12–6 PM 📍 Thompson Arena, Western University #londonontario Free to attend!

It's the beginning of #MarketSeason in Ontario. So many local farmers' markets are opening this weekend. Get out and buy direct from the grower, support local, and eat better! #MasonvilleMarket in #LdnOnt opened today and it was marvelous.

I get Canadian companies threatening to move to Europe. Or China. Or dozens of other places around the world. But anyone threatening to move to the US right now is proving themselves to be utterly incapable of understanding the risk inherent in the current moment.

Seems a little late to send these out, no?

Teens! Need help finding a summer job? ☀️ Stop by our Teen Job Search Support Pop-Up Cafe for free resume help, interview tips, laptop access, snacks, and expert advice. 📅May 9, 12-4pm 📍Beacock 📅May 23, 12-4pm 📍Sherwood

If you see it, squash it! This bug could decimate our wonderful wine industry and we can't have that! 🍷 www.ctvnews.ca/toronto/arti...

Service Reminder: All Library locations will be closed tomorrow (Friday, May 8) for our Staff Development Day. Regular hours return on Saturday, May 9.

FLASH SALE: Effin’ Birds tees are $12 at Threadless until Thursday at 5pm CT. eatf.art/flash

It increasingly feels like we have re-elected Stephen Harper, just with a nicer suit & cloaked in the progressive shadow of the Trudeau Liberals. This government seems to be interested in making it easier to be wealthy & harder for the poor. #cdnpoli

PLEASE REPOST! Now only needing $100 for a leukemia patient in palliative care. She needs fresh food and supplements She has been waiting DAYS 💔Can anyone please help her? Even $5 will help so much🙏 DM and I will connect you directly or PayPal/e-transfer [email protected]

“Supervised consumption sites don’t work.” 4.6 MILLION visits. 12,926 overdoses reversed. 75,103 referrals to care. 0 deaths. Yeah… totally “not working.” 🙄

I don’t care if you work a “minimum wage” job or no job at all. Food, water, shelter, and healthcare are human rights... not rewards. Full stop 🛑

Short-sighted foreign policy increases your grocery bills. If you think food inflation has been bad so far, buckle up because it's going to get worse

The aim of the war is no longer regime change. The aim of the war is now to convince people this wasn't a mistake in the first place.

"Tobacco is, without question, the most deadly and harmful drug in the history of humanity. We owe it to ourselves to pull out all the stops to reverse its gruesome legacy, and spare future generations from its horrors." www.theglobeandmail.com/gift/302d69d...

Please enjoy my cartoon for Wednesday's Toronto Star

Defunding supervised consumption sites has lethal consequences. Doug Ford has a body count

Yes, the every day kind of cyclist. And kids.

It’s almost supper & ppl Desperately Need Help! 🚨$150 needed for Groceries 3 ppl $50 each 🙏$168 for Groceries & Supplements for Leukemia patient in palliative care URGENT 🚨$950 Eviction awaiting tribunal date PLEASE HELP🙏 DM & I will connect u directly or PayPal/etransfer [email protected]

I’ll be damned. The Pulitzer board did it. Good on them

“It’s not up to you Premier Ford to decide when we’re done with the Greenbelt investigations or with the Gravy Plane or the Skills Development Fund or any other scandal!” 🤬 Demand accountability Ontario! Stop this authoritarianism! @brenttoderian.bsky.social 🇨🇦 🔗youtu.be/Dfp1yxwuWiE?si… #Onpoli

“Mark Carney may be talking like a Nordic social democrat but he is governing like a Thatcherite.” This is exactly correct. Carney’s words do not match his actions. His sovereign wealth fund that isn’t is only the starkest example. There’s a word for someone who says one thing and does another.

Enjoying these beautiful tulips I bought from Almanac at the Punk Rock Flea Market this past weekend #SupportLocal

May the Fourth be with you. Illustration: Jeffrey Brown from his book Darth Vader and Son, published by Chronicle Books.

Somehow I missed that there was a petition to protect Beth Emanuel Church, one of the most significant sites of Black History & heritage in #ldnont. Please consider adding your name to the list: c.org/YqVGhgZrz4

The number of people who still willingly book cruises and pay for the privelege of getting a virus you've never heard of while stuck on a death trap with overflowing latrines in the middle of the ocean befuddles me

The federal government is currently discussing privatizing Canada’s airports. That’s a very bad idea. To explain, let’s look at a project we need: the proposed Alto high speed rail line from Quebec City to Toronto. And how it’s a much more difficult project because of privatization in the 90s.

People are still needing help🙏 👇

Liberal MPs have been playing playing passive, coy & cagey w their real island airport feelings, but they’re deeply implicated - even making concrete expansion plans! I go thru some of them in my @thestar.com column today & why they owe Torontonians some honest loyalty. They could stop it today.

Hi! My name is Monica and I'm a landscape painter from Canada 🇨🇦 This is my art, let me know what you think!

Swap, don’t shop! 🌱 Spring Plant Exchanges start this weekend. 👉 Bring labelled cuttings, bulbs, and plants 🚫 Skip invasive species 👩‍🌾 A Master Gardener will be on site Grow your garden and your community!

Interesting read. Scary, too.