Transport Canada wants to learn how headlight glare affects road users and what vehicle or lighting features may influence how people experience it at night. tc.canada.ca/en/corporate...

had to go see the landback skyscrapers for myself

While we sit on our hands in Ontario, agog at the anti-democratic direction the US is going, Doug Ford godzillas on, smashing and trampling local democracy here.

Whoa! As of today ALL bus lines within the municipality of Copenhagen are electric! Good for climate, local environment, passengers and public budgets. #dktrp #dkgreen via.ritzau.dk/pressemeddel...

Chess Set, 2005 by Rachel Whiteread #WomensArt

This is not a painting, it's the view from beneath an ancient oak. www.facebook.com/groups/86337...

I hate this so much, and now Carney is doing it too. www.cbc.ca/news/canada/...

looking good Mr President

The company behind a proposed gas-burning power plant in southeast New Brunswick faced heavy scrutiny on Wednesday night in Elsipogtog First Nation. Dozens of local residents attended the community meeting, many of them expressing strong opposition to ProEnergy’s proposed facility.

oil prices are about to make polyester a noble fiber

despite being concentrated in ameria’s largest cities, america’s media is terminally car-brained

War can have big environmental impacts, in addition to the human and economic impacts. An analysis reported in the Guardian found that the first 14 days of the Iran war caused 5 million tons of additional carbon emissions, about the same as a mid-size fossil fuel-using country emits in a full year.

“I mean, whether I free it, take it. I think I could do anything I want with it,” Trump said about Cuba. Empire as rape. Rapists as imperialists. apnews.com/article/cuba...

Western carmakers are retreating from EVs just as oil hits $100 a barrel. The parallels with Detroit in the 1980s are striking. They ignored fuel-efficient Japanese cars. Now they’re ignoring Chinese EVs. BYD just unveiled 600-mile range and 250 miles of charge in 5 minutes.

Here's another "Indigenous people already knew this, but *now* it's real because Western scientists studied it."

This is a lesson I thought would reshape the world when I was a child during the OPEC crisis. It’s been a lifelong lesson in the malignant drive to double down on a profitable status quo for those with vested interests, and the cultural power of the fear of change. What a missed opportunity.

Some really concerning funding cuts in Carney's budget (CRA, Indigenous relations, Canada Post, Public Works, CBC) but what stuck out to me as a transit nerd is: -50.2% cuts to "VIA Rail Canada Inc." +19% boost to "VIA HFR - VIA TGF Inc" globalnews.ca/news/1173746...

98.9% good luck finding a post office.

Yikes

Happy St. Patrick's Day, New York.

This survey that's circulating is also appropriate for non-drivers who are affected by vehicle headlights at night. (For example, I find the combo of bright lights and afterimages prevents me from making eye contact with drivers when I'm trying to cross at a crosswalk & I can't tell if they see me)

So everyone’s good with starving Cuba? Their electricity grid just collapsed which is the beginning of a humanitarian crisis

Transport Canada has a survey on headlights! You know I hate how bright they have gotten. Go fill it out? www.surveymonkey.ca/r/F9WBTLZ?fb...

Some of the world's largest businesses urging governments to back the electrification of economies as quickly as is feasibly possible. This is so self-evidently true that it remains utterly mad that it is somehow still up for debate. www.businessgreen.com/news/4526980...

WATCH: If your city is having a bike-lane debate that’s more about ideology than evidence, watch this news story from Toronto. The Province is attacking bike-lanes, and the local business community takes their arguments apart with data and smart messaging. Safe bike-lanes mean business. #UrbanTruth

Thanks, Rudy! Realized I missed adding tags after I posted.

Thanks, Michael!

If you’ve bought vinyl from our online store in last couple years, it shipped from our oldest (and very much still operating) post office. Support them if you can!

The lovely museum I work for just launched a GoFundMe fundraiser. If you can, please do throw a few bucks our way. One of the few slices of the city’s history that made it through multiple fires and much neglect. Whether you donate or not, I’d encourage anyone to visit Toronto‘s First Post Office.

He makes a good point about the flights a bigger YTZ would take. If expanded, it would be more like our London City or Reagan National than our Orly or SFO. It would likely be expanded for A220 or E2 jets, not B787s and A350s So those are flights to USA and Western Canada not Europe or Asia.

In short:

Would jets downtown be good for Toronto’s economy? As it turns out, no. @greglindsay.org explains the truth behind the vibes: www.theglobeandmail.com/canada/artic...

If you aren't keeping up with the Iditarod this year, here is a good reason to: Four mushers are Alaskan Native: Kevin Hansen, Inupiaq; Ryan Redington, Inupiaq; Kaiser, Yup’ik; and Jody Potts-Joseph. Another, Jesse Terry, Anishinabe, is Indigenous from Canada. #Uglydogs ictnews.org/news/iditaro...

For those who don't know the history of the Iditarod, it was started in 1973 to honor the dogs and mushers who brought diphtheria antitoxin to Nome by dogsled in 1925. The great serum run saved untold numbers of people, the last of whom died just this year. youtu.be/hVZi20mP6IU?...

Beat rising gas prices with this one weird trick.

You don't need complicated ideas to make great urban waterfront spaces. Start with the principle that places should a) be great for those of all ages and abilities b) let them engage with nature in an uplifting way. Copenhagen's harbour baths come to mind - great, simple third spaces.

A reminder that humans in cars - notably omitted from this thanks to motonormativity - kill 1.2m people every year

FYI the 1970s oil crisis was the impetus for Copenhagen turning into a cycling city

Imagine the rampant carelessness and utter lack of 'science', when over 16,000 human remains' in UK institutions are of unknown provenance.

When western museums have such a history of racism and violence, and continued behaviour of disrespecting ancestors in their vaults, it's outrageous that a key argument made against repatriation is always that communities don't have adequate facilities for safely housing artifacts.

The layers upon layers of racism of this situation boggles the mind.

The closing of the Gulf of Hormuz, and Ukraine's campaign blowing up Russia's very flammable oil storage, might remind nations how vulnerable it is to rely on fossil fuels and encourage the energy transition to renewables?

So, in essence, the recent rewriting of Tory's exit is an attempt to brush his actual conflict of interest under the rug with a shrug of It was just an affair. Get over it already.

1010 & TVO framed Tory misconduct as an affair. FTR he had a secret romance with a junior staffer who reported to him. He helped get her a job at Rogers-owned MLSE in a role dealing with him & his office on issues involving public funds. He then voted at city council on an issue she handled at MLSE

He was obviously hoping people would respond to his "I'm not running" announcement with "No, John, the city needs your august guidance!" so he could gallantly return. But that didn't happen, and now he's spinning out.

Between this and Paikin's column it's quite clear Tory is trying to get his columnist pals to clear a path for him to re-enter the race, and it's frankly disgusting. He stepped down because HE HIMSELF said the affair was an unforgivable breach of the public trust! That's still the case!