Ontario PCs are not fiscal conservatives — that much is clear. But every time someone gets angry at City Council for property tax increases, they should look at another target: Doug Ford. When cities are forced to fulfill provincial mandates, municipal property taxes fill in the gaps.

AI AND PIPELINES AND DATA CENTRES AND GAS PLANTS TO FUEL DATA CENTRES AND WILDFIRES FOR ALL! @juliedabrusin.bsky.social @mark-carney.bsky.social

For those of you wondering why @cycletoronto.bsky.social has a petition to save the Portland-Dan Leckie #BikeTO lanes with over 600 signatures, there's another petition calling for their removal which has almost 700 signatures. So effin frustrating! #shame #TOpoli #VisionZero www.cycleto.ca/portland

This is what Kamloops looks like right now while the liberals are building more pipelines and data centers

Canadian police forces are a shake down outfit. Prove me wrong.

Okay Toronto started the public survey on Church Street pedestrianization. I need you to tell the city it’s great. We only got 92% positive on Kensington market and it failed, let’s blow that out of the water. haveyoursay.toronto.ca/churchstreet

Internet trolls HATE him. Toronto reduced traffic congestion with this ONE WEIRD TRICK.

I’m cryinggggg look at the invite list for the US Ambassador to Canada’s 4th of July party dawg 💀💀

Yesterday's pipeline announcement is yet another reminder that Prime Minister Carney cares more about lining the pockets of his corporate friends than upholding the Constitutional rights of Indigenous peoples and protecting the public from the escalating climate emergency. (1/6)

Imagine what we could do to Church St with 10% of this funding. Would cover the required security + more enhancements! I was painting patios with the BIA director & he talked about how nice it would be to extend the pilot from Aug 21 to Sept/Oct since we’ve already worked so hard furnishing the St

And yes, it's more than 100% human-caused. Read this so you can stop asking ;) bsky.app/profile/kath...

A few years ago, I calculated the heat emitted by cars in New York City as patio heaters, to give people an idea of scale in a measure they could understand. Every day there are 157,000 patio heater equivalents running around New York. Turn them off! www.treehugger.com/cars-add-hea...

Pedestrianize more streets! Not only is it not novel, it's also not complicated — or shouldn't be. But doing it right requires the city to implement a formal “pedestrian street” designation — something that quixotically has taken years to develop. Why?

Virtually everyone who cycles on the road has stories about drivers nearly killing them out of carelessness or incompetence and then reacting to being appraised of having nearly killed them by threatening or trying to kill them.

Never in a million years did I think I'd be defending this ding-dong but... I've been to museums where you can "talk to" historical figures - i.e., a chatbot with animation. I'm assuming that's what's happening here because, if not, his handlers are failing miserably.

As you watch this, a reminder that Carney is cutting: * Canadian Space Agency * Environment and Climate Change Canada, Natural Resources Canada, DFO, Ag Canada * CBC * VIA rail * Canadian Heritage * Health Canada and PHAC * Indigenous and Northern Affairs * Indigenous Services

we must accept more extreme weather and more deadly natural disasters to achieve a few tenths of a percentage point of additional gdp growth in the short term 🥰

The park my place overlooks is usually filled with boisterous kids on a summer day, especially a holiday. Today has been eerily silent and I'm so damn depressed that that's the world our leaders want for kids. Stay home and chat with your AI bot I guess??

"In my judgment, that plan was not sustainable over the long term..." As a Canadian environmental scientist focused on climate impacts, I have a very different opinion on what is sustainable over the long term, @mark-carney.bsky.social www.cbc.ca/news/politic...

Carney’s flight to Edmonton, where he’d hear Danielle Smith’s pipeline plan pitch, is grounded due to extreme weather —which is exacerbated by the climate crisis that pipeline plan would worsen 🤗 WHEEEEEEEEEE WHAT A WORLD

We limit the speed of ebikes "for public safety", yet this study shows we'd need to limit SUVs to 5.7 km/h for them to pose the same risk to other people #motonormativity findingspress.org/article/1587...

My @thestar.com column: Toronto's not the only city in the world. It's true. I swear. I looked it up. And a lot of these other cities, it turns out, have car-free streets. With clear examples to follow, we REALLY don't need to make pedestrianization so complicated www.thestar.com/opinion/cont...

NEW: It's official. The Ford government has now applied it's restrictive new freedom of information law to our request for Premier Doug Ford's cellphone. NDP says that shows hiding phone records was the purpose of the changes. #OnPoli globalnews.ca/news/1194357...

Whispers - Ontario Greenbelt. Toronto waterfront.

Cars kill in more ways than one.

Local man says millions spent on ads is money well spent because ads give people something to watch during their 22-hour wait in local ERs.

Random reminder that Toronto Council timidly suggested once that they might, might trim the police budget and in response the police implemented a decade-long refusal to enforce traffic laws.

Doug Ford banned speed cameras so people (particularly people he personally knows who like speeding) could speed without consequence while raising the risk of injury and death to all road users but in particular pedestrians and cyclists. That was his goal. He wanted it to happen. He achieved it!

While you're cooking in the heat this week, do bear this in mind.

It’s impossible to get, say, a full time washroom attendant in Toronto to keep them nice. On example. Everything declines except the police supply of public money.

Their entire MO elsewhere is to increase their budget thru fear and bullying. Yet they themselves decide what's needed case by case. It's bananas. Fox/henhouse etc.

Toronto seriously needs to get event security costs under control which are responsible for tripling the Church Street pedestrianization pilot costs to $500,000! And to think TPS initially asked for $3M for paid duty officers? They get too much funding as is! #TOpoli www.thestar.com/news/gta/cit...

If you haven't already done so, please e-mail [email protected] (+ CC Mayor Chow and your councillor) by 4:30 PM tomorrow to show your support for Member Motion MM42.39, as well as call on the city to bring back open streets. #WalkTO #BikeTO #TOpoli secure.toronto.ca/council/agen...

Good morning, everybody! I just issued an action alert calling on open streets supporters to e-mail [email protected] (+ CC Mayor Chow and your councillor) to support @joshmatlow.bsky.social's pedestrian streets motion (MM42.39). #BikeTO #WalkTO #TOpoli secure.toronto.ca/council/agen...

The Toronto Pedestrian movement starts NOW!! (and ends August 21) 🏳️‍🌈 I’m volunteering Saturday & Sunday 8am - noon, come say hi and tell us whether you like car-free streets.

Our natural and cultural heritage — whether it's the waterfront, or irreplaceable cultural artifacts — are not for sale. But Premier Ford, for all of his masquerading as "Captain Canada," treats everything that makes Toronto and Ontario distinct and beautiful as an asset to sell. It's revolting.

Yeeeeesssss!!!

In defence of the Toronto street festival. It’s simple supply & demand. Their popularity proves we need more pedestrianized streets, yet Toronto makes it so hard. A city where the ethos is people in public space is a problem while Montreal’s is that’s where people belong. My @thestar.com column.

Mark Carney’s AI strategy suggests Canadians’ concerns about AI will evaporate if they become more “literate” about the technology. In trying to boost industry, Carney ignores many of the biggest concerns about generative AI and data centres. If anyone needs to become more AI literate, it’s him.

If we're going to say that social media is dangerous to people under 16, then we need to talk about Boomers. I have no desire to tie harm causing mitigations to age, but if you're going to, then we need to address the fact that our parent's generation believes everything they see and read.

Over 500 residents of Parkdale—High Park have signed my petition, and we're knocking on more doors tonight. We want our MP, Karim Bardeesy, to side with his constituents to stop the expansion of Billy Bishop Airport. Not consult on it — stop it. Sign: dianachanmcnally.ca/billybishop

Queens Quay at Little Norway, where police tackle cyclists for not stopping.

Reminder that there's also an email address provided for additional comments. Let them know you don't appreciate being condescended to with such leading questions and tell them what you really think. CC your MP while you're at it. [email protected]

Liberal MP are continuing to bullshit the city they represent. You’ll have to write and call again.

The demand in Toronto for public space where pedestrians can exist without cars whizzing by them is reaching a fever pitch and needs to be seriously addressed.

They are manufacturing consent. Answer very carefully.

“Public consultation” on Billy Bishop expansion. These survey questions suggest to me that this is a done deal. tc.canada.ca/en/corporate...

Brad Bradford continues to campaign against things that *he* supported under Tory's mayoralty, before Chow stepped foot into office. This time its the world cup deal that Tory negotiated and signed. Brad happily supported Tory in this awful deal at the time.

I don't know how to explain to the people who pop up when creatives complain about "AI" to say there are legit uses for it just how much they sound like someone saying "Well actually fire is used to make bread" when people are talking about an organized arson ring burning down their fucking houses