This is a great read and underscores that fighting car dependency is a basic quality of life issue. Lloyd makes an important here: Older residents who often oppose initiatives to reduce car dependency will also soon bear the burden. But they never imagine a future where they can't drive.

Content warning: suicide After May Pollard died on a late-January morning, a detective asked her parents a question: Had anyone wanted to hurt her? “A lot of America,” her mother answered. 1/ www.nbcnews.com/news/us-news...

Sorry about all that smoke and consequences, America.

great site and super easy action. I emailed my MP Karim Bardeesy

A group of TO civil society leaders (in a sea of people who aren't saying a peep) have created TO Reality Check to oppose the Island Airport expansion. Give them some time + share where you can. They've made it easy to send a letter to Liberal MPs who could stop all this today. torealitycheck.ca

These Blade Runner ass smoke days should henceforth be called Carney Days.

which way, canada?

These images of First Nations community members evacuating Collins, Ontario on motorboats are absolutely surreal www.facebook.com/reel/1548244...

"Do you understand? They didn’t just make me worse. They made me like them." A remarkable piece of writing, well worth your time.

Kid1, who is both an conductor and engineer for CN and has driven trains through SK wildfires himself, just sent me this video from Ontario. When I tell you they arent paid enough!!! vt.tiktok.com/ZSXkuEadE/

A police force under investigation should have zero hands on the driver's seat. You have been a councillor for 16 years. In that time, the police budget has almost doubled with them showing little evidence of proactive work against violent crime.

what’s the Odyssey about? I’m so glad you asked

You might need this little soapstone carving of a whale today… (1200-1600 CE, Chumash culture, California, held at Musée des Beaux Arts, Montreal)

We may not have always agreed on everything, but he was a decent, kind man

Georgia O'Keeffe, Red Poppy,1927 #womensart

The expanded class action suit accuses X “of shielding child predators by obstructing police investigations into Grok-generated child sex abuse materials (CSAM).” CW for descriptions of child harm and sexual assault.

*meredith brooks voice* im a mitch im mcconnell i help trump comma donald ive a turtle for a head im probably really dead

We need to always speak in these terms. How many deaths and life changing injuries will you, person who is against speed cameras and other infrastructure that are proven to slow drivers down, willing to accept? How many strangers? How many people you know? How many family members? Every time.

i think about "we hebben een serieus problem" probably every day

The police demanded full time paid duty. The greatest legal shakedown in Ontario. www.thestar.com/news/gta/cit...

Mona Khalil, Lebanon’s most well-known sea turtle conservationist, died of her wounds today after being injured by an Israeli strike I feel sick

Should The Government Stop Dumping Money Into A Giant Hole?

Portrait of a young woman as a sibyl. Just a wonderful painting by Orazio Gentileschi, whose day was today.

There were over 46k Bike Share rides in Toronto yesterday, more than the average ridership of the Queen streetcar. The cost to the city to operate that streetcar was over $50k/day in 2015. Bike share costs the city $8k/day. 6x as cost efficient. Smart cities invest in cycling.

The thing about Montreal’s summer “festivals” is that many of them last for weeks. Duration is a great strategy for relieving crowd pressure. Montreal also permits multiple closures to happen concurrently, creating more space. Put more time and more space together and overcrowding evaporates.

who in Toronto wants 8000 pounds of free Star Trek rocks because TODAY IS YOUR LUCKY DAY readysetrecycle.net/advert/free-...

Being against bike lanes is the number one red flag there’s deeper, darker views a person holds that we just don’t know about

everyone knows it ok but that’s because it’s one of the greatest artworks ever made

I scream every time I see a post like this; Bad infrastructure design leads to bad behaviour on bikes. If you design your infrastructure for everyone, then the laws are seen to be fair to everyone, and the majority will follow them. I wrote about this: www.treehugger.com/study-shows-...

✊🏻 NO JETS T.O.! Federal New Democrats stand with the Ontario NDP and the people of Toronto against Doug Ford’s destructive Billy Bishop scheme. The Prime Minister has the power to shut this down once and for all. Protect Toronto’s waterfront, reject Ford’s Wall Street giveaway!

You can go a little loopy if you begin thinking of yourself as a Political Operative simply because you post about politics. This is why it's so important to drop an occasional grounding post like "The brain is the ass of the head" to remind yourself that you are just some guy

In a June 4 letter to advocacy group Safe Parkside, staff from Councillor Gord Perks' office confirm that the safety redesign for Parkside Drive is stalled due to new provincial rules re: bike lanes. City spent years studying how to make the road safer, but dragged their feet and now, well, whoops.

Reminder that Bill 212 not only sought to rip out bike lanes, but also indemnify the province when people were killed or seriously injured as a result.

To our dismay, the artist and author Marjane Satrapi has passed away. As she wrote, ordinary Americans and Iranians have more in common with each other than we do with either of our governments, which have far too much in common with each other. We honor her memory and oppose the war.

If you haven't been reading about Marnie Goldenberg, the veteran Crown attorney who's had 2 cases tossed this month for improper conduct or procedure, it offers a chilling glimpse into the close (in her case, very close) relationship between Police and Crowns. www.thestar.com/news/gta/cou...

⏱️ Rooftop View for 5 minutes Today at Portland & Wellington Diverter: ~🚶‍♀️100 pedestrians ~ 🚲 35 people on bikes ~ 🚗 30 cars Only 3-days after installation of the new Bikeway 82% of trips are now much safer! #toPoli #bikeTO #visionZeroTO

4X Police 👮 officers are spending Sunday giving out tickets to cyclists for not fully stopping at stop signs 🛑 at Martin Goodman Trail (Lakeshore and stadium Road) Meanwhile people driving cars are responsible for 95% of deaths on toronto roads. #bikeTO @thebikinglawyer.bsky.social

Artists don't make art because they are looking to dominate the culture or make anyone famous. They're participating in a culture, being in the world together You people don't know how to do that and that's why your jokes will never be funny and your movies, art, and music will always be awful

Hey I love you

The Squamish people of what is now Vancouver were illegally dispossessed of their land 100 years ago. They sued, got the land back, and used their sovereignty to ignore local zoning and build 6,000 new homes over the loud objections of nearby wealthy NIMBYs. Now other tribes are getting in the game.

I love humans so god damn much.

The Toronto Classic: 3 shitty drivers versus 150 pedestrians trying to get to their train/subway.

just found out I'm on the FBI's "most beautiful" list

legs for spring…groundbreaking

Repulsive. Public money paying for fascist propaganda. Encampments are rare; they are not a danger; this government is doing nothing to help the people who live in them or to solve the underlying problems.

Good morning! It's Mary Cassatt's birthday, and here's her elegantly japoniste depiction of a woman washing, 1890.

Psychosexual breakdown happening at the Tucker Carlson merch store

I only have eyes for you. Saint Lucy, painted in 1521 by Domenico Beccafumi of Siena. It's his day today.