WATCH: When @penalosag.bsky.social asked me a few years ago to join him in his YouTube series on parks & cities, I knew I wanted to talk about the common (and frustrating) false choice between more density and more integration of nature into cities. So we went deep into that. Give it a watch/share.

"Sacrifices" sticker coming tomorrow.

got a shoutout on a techcrunch piece about europeans getting off US tech 🫡 article: techcrunch.com/2026/01/27/a... my guide: disconnect.blog/getting-off-...

No Canadian oil, minerals, food, auto parts, or electricity. Surely America is now “Great Again” and will be able to go without them for a little while?

Have you ever wondered why the car lobby is always happy to respond to environmental claims, but you never hear them talk about obesity or public health? That asymmetry isn’t accidental. It’s a strategic choice about which fights they can survive.

IMPORTANT: The Dutch invest €595 million annually on urban biking, resulting in €19 BILLION saved in public health care costs alone. That’s how smart governments do the math on investing in better mobility. Let’s be clear— it WASTES public money to NOT do it. #CityMakingMath HT @modacitylife.com

#Epstein #EpsteinFiles

The public consultation sessions for Alto HSR start next week and proposal details are now live on their website: en.consultation.altotrain.ca/shaping-the-...

Renationalize the water companies and remove the buffoons who put profit before resilience: www.theguardian.com/business/202...

ICE THUGS arrested a pastor & kept asking him "Are you afraid?" numerous occasions. The pastor said NO. Eventually the THUGS let him go stating that "You're WHITE, you're no fun to us!!" This is how sick & deranged these THUGS are, thanks to this REGIME‼️ youtu.be/lcSOyVrc5HM?...

If you want to mess with Canada, know that we’re united. #ForeverCanadian

Some inspiration! At SF Bay PSR we are working to safeguard and strengthen democracy: www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025...

WATCH: Seriously, if you’re following ANY bike-lane debate, you HAVE TO WATCH this news story. You actually can’t make this up. Ford claims without evidence that bike-lanes are bad for small business, and THE ACTUAL BUSINESS ASSOCIATION obliterates him with data. Safe bike-lanes mean business.

Transport Action Ontario and Environmental Defence have jointly published a major new report: Transit over Traffic - Hard Truths for Addressing Gridlock in the GTHA ontario.transportaction.ca/new-report-t...

Yes, Jólabókaflóð, but why stop there? Let’s make Reading Week happen after university. Twice a year, a week off to read books. Let’s do it, people. #booksky

From the Metro Toronto Planning Board's 1959 draft Official Plan (voted down by Metro Council). You could not say something this obvious in Toronto's Official Plan anymore.

Well played, Pizza Pizza!

Alto and the federal government have confirmed the construction between Ottawa and Montreal will commence in 2029: www.transportaction.ca/national-new...

Never forget, if you design a city for cars, it fails for everyone, including drivers. If you design a multi-modal city that makes walking, biking & public transit attractive options, it works better for everyone, including drivers. INCLUDING DRIVERS. The “war on cars” has always been a lie.

Before dawn on a snowy Sunday morning and there are at least a thousand people lined up around the block for the opening of Finch West LRT. Toronto has been waiting for better transit for decades!

The tunnel bus has been privatized, the LTW bus between Windsor and Leamington will soon disappear, and transit connections in and around Windsor are poor. Windsor-Essex needs to act like a region. seanmarshall.ca/2025/12/04/m...

Current US Policy: If you’re suspected of trafficking a small amount of drugs with no evidence, we will murder you, but if you’re convicted of trafficking an enormous amount of drugs with copious evidence, we will pardon you. Because we are currently a very stupid country.

Remember this picture, & others like it, every time you hear someone in your city say "we're not Amsterdam." This was #Amsterdam in the 1970s. Many of the cities we admire made better choices regarding cars in the past. and are still making better choices today. Better choices instead of excuses.

Remember - if you're financially in a position to do so, skip the #BlackFriday deals online from big companies and shop instead from small and local businesses. The big guns don't need your money, but for small traders it can be what keeps them going into 2026, so support your community instead.

Northern Ontario gets the short end of the stick again. Deposit Return for a wider range of containers - much like Quebec - would help it make sense for the grocery stores and reduce the amount of waste going to our already-full landfills.

Trains can cause wildfires. (Sparks from wheels and brakes ignite dry brush.) Trains can also put them out. CN has several fire-fighting trains, which they deploy to places roads can't reach. And they have excellent names: Poseidon, Trident, Amphitrite, Oceanus... www.cn.ca/en/stories/2...

Let's put this into context: There were 15,149 violent crimes in Winnipeg in 2024 (StatsCan). 284 of them took place on or near transit. That's 1/168,229 journeys. Meanwhile the average risk of being involved in a violent crime in Winnipeg in any given day was 1/20,326. www.cbc.ca/news/canada/...

1. Reform political systems to make them democratic; aligned with issue-based representation. 2. Expand climate awareness in everyday life; integrate it deeply into public dialogue & cultural norms. 3. Elect mayors who present concrete visions & actionable plans for climate & community resilience.

The "climate realists" in the pundit class are being wildly delusional. Our current trajectory sets the world up for impacts from global warming that will imperil our global economy and civilization. @theatlantic.com @peterbrannen.bsky.social www.theatlantic.com/science/2025...

Methane rules? Weakening. EV mandate? Paused. Oil & gas emissions cap? On the chopping block. New LNG plants? Back in fashion. Canada can still choose a better path. But it starts with honesty, accountability, and climate policy aligned with science, not petrostate logic.

Front-end view of the snowy first-day of service of the REM line to Deux-Montagnes. #Montréal ‘s elevated automated light metro adds 14 stations this week. I’ll be getting a sneak-peek tomorrow. (This video from my man on the scene. Thanks, Dan!)

Glad to see some campaigns to reform academic publishing. Allowing corporations to stand between research and the people who need it is the worst kind of unproductive, innovation-discouraging activity. www.rnz.co.nz/news/nationa...

Climate knowledge has been taken hostage to prevent climate action. “It didn’t happen by accident. It’s the product of a deliberate and systematic assault on knowledge by some of the richest people on Earth. Preventing climate breakdown means protecting ourselves from the storm of lies.”

“We’re afraid of walkable distances now?” I was one of the first to go after the liars & conspiracy theorists who targeted the “15 Minute Cities” message. Here’s my interview with Aussie National Radio with @greenj.bsky.social — give it a listen, and think about how we should push back on ALL lies.

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Cheers to all those repeating the “cars are freedom” propaganda from the oil industry!

High speed trains whose journeys continue beyond the high speed line and connect additional cities are often better than making passengers change trains.

When in Britain, get a BritRail pass…

This is my antifa membership card.

Horrific reporting from the AP on the Myanmar families watching their kids starve to death from Trump and Musk’s aid cuts apnews.com/article/myan...

I feel like this photo of masked, armed men pepper spraying a pastor protecting his community is going to be a defining picture of this moment in America for a long, long time.

Very happy to be part of this meeting today. We are getting closer to having the fast and reliable modern railway that Canada needs.

Making America the Great Depression Again. When farmers suffer and the banks swoop in, they’re not coming to ensure food security…

You pay, they profit, they leave a mess, you pay again. Repeat as necessary www.theenergymix.com/any-new-oil-... #abpoli #ableg #cdnpoli #ClimateChange

I like when a writer distills an idea I figured everybody knew but does it so that I still take things away. one of the harder tricks in the book springbett.substack.com/p/the-produc...

Listen to someone who has been through it under Putin.

Great, now release the Epstein Files. www.bbc.com/news/article...

Sure, I could drive to meetings in Toronto, but where would be the fun in being stuck in traffic rather than tucking in to dinner? #viarail

GO Transit, Ontario Northland, and Flixbus all drive into a bus station... The joke is on us, because only one service is tax-free, even to the same destination. It's time to make fares fair for rural Canadians too. www.transportaction.ca/topics/inter...

“We’ve crossed a dangerous line when it comes to threats against journalists for doing their jobs. It shouldn’t take an immense amount of bravery to state well-grounded views, and journalists should not have to fear for their lives after speaking up.” #canpoli #uspoli #CdnMedia