I'll suggest that any amount of crashing woth things you never have the legal ability to be anywhere near conflict with is a sign of poor driving skills at best. That it happens more than once a week really should make us question whether we actually teach & require sufficient skill of drivers

Quite something to read these, & find that, unsurprisingly, a business with "58 years of experience on Yonge Street" feels like a typical NIMBY hit list. We were here first. Change is not compatible with the city. They're ugly. Also let me tell you how to do your job re things that aren't your job.

So wait, you're saying good ol Doug Ford? The one who didn't want us to know how many greenbelt developers have been behind his highway 413 push & greenbelt destruction (and at his daughter's wedding fundraiser)? That Doug is now meeting privately with the illegally-undeclared Billy Bishop owners? 😐

Is this... is this a joke I just don't get? Are plastic bags labeled 'cool space helmet' and neodymium magnets labeled 'superhero pills: take one every 10 minutes'?

This is another area Ford resembles Trump, focusing on laws being for the benefit of corporations, not people, if these are for shoplifting but not speeding. Kinda like how the anti-scalping measures prevent individuals selling their tickets, but allow corporations to "dynamic/surge" to same effect.

I am struggling to find the charitable interpretation of the Chief of Police bringing up Jaywalking (crossing <99ft from a crosswalk) while talking about people crossing in the middle of a 2,000ft stretch without crosswalks. Does the Chief not know the law? Is this to deflect blame from drivers?

How many times's Ford on the other side, where 30 *monied* (donor?) ppl get to completely change the lives of innumerable others. Owners of expensive homes blocking housing? Developers w land reshaping entire cities & ecosystems? Execs w jets wanting to decimate 🇨🇦's largest city's public waterfront?

What a new work experience! Today I biked to the Bloor GO (would've been easier had Ford not intentionally & at extra cost delayed the Davenport Diamond greenway), worked on the train ride, at Kitchener's main library branch, & biked 12km visiting new housing. Even beat driving colleagues back to TO

In 3 minutes, I hope a lot of low-income and affordable housing advocates can see the kind of data and real life example we love, showing the thing we love, from a source all-too-often ignored, if not outwardly attacked. Creating better lives for far more than one family with each unit, for ~free.

I humbly suggest that it is not good wayfinding to name a station after: A) Something which ceased to exist prior to the current millennium. B) A geographic region nearly large enough to contain the entirety of all stops on the transit line the individual stop is on. Do better? Do better.

How do: Folk who don't live next to interchanges get their car to the highway? Folk whose airport isn't international get to the nearest international airport? Folk who don't live next to a park get their feet to one? Folk on bikes who don't live next to the Bloor lanes get there? Are you for real?

The Islanders really aren't helping combat Ford's narrative that they're spoiled squatters if they're complaining that bikes exist and suggesting that bikers on the island need special instructions, and to keep them away from public spaces.

I've been saying, now that they have the Kaz-adilla, I really should go to Oppo Taco at the Skydome

It feels so clear, so apt, that the first professional sport championship in a third of a century to deliver victory to Canada, will do so with not one second of the final yet played. This is already decided. In the PWHL. How fitting, for this moment. They have delivered the goods. Desbiens.

I'm in reds more than blues, my splitter isn't so nasty, my strikeouts nowhere near 2k, it's a hair tie not ears keeping hair out of my face... But the hair is long. The good (and bad) innings do happen. I am a quiet creature of bouncy habit during games. So maybe, maybe Gaus and I aren't so... 😂😅⚾️💙

Three times I've visited the Blackwood exhibit, up there with Haring and Wieland for recent multi-viewings. To me, a fantastic collection, made all the more touching for the personal and home province stories, and showcase of artifacts and techniques. Listening to David describe his process? 1/

So it seems like the impetus for jets is that Nieuport over-paid for the island airport and is desperate to make more money on it. A salutary case study in the dangers of private airports, perhaps, as the feds look at privatizing public ones.

Now, how do these change if we remove votes taken off camera, or while in (or operating, even!) an automobile? Being 'seen' doesn't always tell me you really care.

I would really not want to be the one to take anything associated with people from WWII and turn it into a parking lot. In general. But also, there's exactly 1 completely good usage of this tactic of parking history in a parking lot... but that's a treatment class no others should ever be parked in.

This quote reminds me of Mike Donnelly or Walt Kowalski. Neither is good. The latter may seem off, but it's about making someone think twice, because you know the only thing about them that matters, & their life is forfeit. Like having bad associates, stealing cars, dealing hash, or using coke?

What could possibly go wrong for government assets and finances, and public costs, in giving away public transportation infrastructure? -asks in Ontario 407

Seeing the amount of corruption that went into Ford destroying a carefully crafted shoreline island park for the private opaque gain of a grift impersonator spa: original east island adventure operator's ethics backed them out. Then OPP said "Corruption? Annexing public space? Sign us up!" Maybe?

I would really hope that Toronto can think carefully about what we're doing here. We allow so many laws to be meaningless (stop signs, speed limits) that we may be codifying and programming law-breaking into our system, even more than it already is. At what point do laws even exist anymore?

Ok, anyone in Toronto see any of these yet?

I hope that this includes tuning of the street lights. Wish I could find the before/after report I saw from KW, showing new lights both lighting street+sidewalk better than before, AND also lighting neighbours' homes (critically windows) far less. @alejandrabravo.bsky.social might this be confirmed?

Thankfully, while the Ford and Ford cabinet unanimously approved jet purchase, to enable the Premier to better get to our vast province, could not land at 160 of Ontario's 179 airports, including the one Doug plans to annex and rebuild in part for that, Billy Bishop, it could land at Muskoka. Phew.

Ok, after Saturday, I really need to be 1 for 6 in Ontario team triple-header records. Come on, Jays!

It astounds me how we choose to hurt our stated values. We say we want fewer sexual assaults but defund things enabling this. Want to end homelessness but spend more to criminalize it than eliminating it would cost. Want to reduce harm to/from drug users, but defund Safe Consumption Sites doing so.

My different view than the former councillor's: Vibrant park, school, library, amenity-filled neighbourhoods? People not needing to drive a Spadina Expressway to access Toronto? Communities hosting diverse incomes? St. Lawrence's many amenities? They're all enabled by density that mayor resisted.

'Old' show watch: folk'll focus on A Handmaid's Tale's initial setting when watching but I'd encourage the flashbacks. Mass demonization of others. Clampdown on academics. Penstroke status removal. ICE behind security at airports deciding who boards. Journalism 'eliminated'. That &more in just S2E2

Ontario pro teams are 0-2 today, Jays are in an injury-riddled slump, tie game, so there's no shortage of tension. But, for good Canadiana measure, a bonus bit comes from playing Angor (and other) Angine de Poitrine just a bit above softly. I swear Shulman and Siddall sound even more ominous.

Actually a surprisingly good bunch of ideas! Maybe one leadoff idea that's horrendous, one unsurprising proposal that amounts to harshen laws & punishment for others but the opposite for me, & a very suburban-appropriate vibes-only one, but the good ideas? Aplenty, as surprising as their champions

Ok if even Marte smiled at Vladdy barrel-rolling a sure 1B(2B?) into an out, maybe it could be a good game. When you're snakebit, can it really hurt to just go up to a Diamondback outright? Or, on city connect Friday, Los Serpientes? Yes, I took too long to write and I see him at 3rd, but it's done.

Gravy trains are for poor public-transit using saps. But wait, a (private) gravy plane? Set up my waterfront jet landing strip and now we're talking! This is the kind of gravy one's been scooping all life long; why else bother being born with a silver spoon in your mouth?

"When the focus settles on healing boys’ pain, instead of centering consequences for the underlying beliefs that both benefit men and boys and drive gendered violence, the centre of gravity shifts. Attention is drawn away from how harm is structured and distributed." This essay really nails it.

Last night, Florence remarked wishing to be old enough to not be writing songs about being left on read at this age (hi fellow 86er!), & the irony of it being so good it'll likely be played by them forever. Yet if we can aspire to be forever young at heart, we'll get those parts oft enough, too 😬

Second time in 48 hours, heading deep into Toronto for a show by e-bike. Scenery's hardly Florence, but I thank the machine. What a powerhouse show, just enough to distract from a therapy office canceling someone's half year advance booking thereof; it'd make everybody scream. They did make half 2 ❤️

Really appreciate how much easier low-event baseball is to listen to while working; thank you Jays, for avoiding a raft of baserunners and homers, truly.

Have 1 extra 🎟: Florence + The Machine tomorrow April 16th at the ACC (aka Scotiabank Arena 🤷) alongside my partner & I. DM if interested. & shake fist at therapeutic providers who'd counsel clients suffering unreasonable boss demands, who also cancel employees' 6-month-old 3h-past-end-of-day plans

I had desire last night, to be with good health, and to put a carpenter to work, and they all did indeed go down in history, with much zestful joy, and thanks to a 30km bike, no less. This is a skeet about a show.

Hmm. Around the world I see oil/gas price caps, subsidizing demand for things in short supply. We have seen this before. Doesn't end well!

I ride my bike when it's 40C, or -40C. In a blizzard, when there's ice, when there's rain. Yet today was my first run of the year, and I'm pretty picky about conditions for my good ol feet. Is this typical, or am I revealing too much of myself with this choice?

I'm all warmed up downing dogs, DeMarlo, I am ready to pinch hit, run, or make them absolutely down Eephus'. Eephus? Ephii? Whatever, I'm a soft tosser.

My living nightmare in emoji, 4th edition. 🦖🚫👻 🙌👩‍🍼🏍 It's Halloween week and such all over again. At least hot dogs are $0.77?

There's been tears shed for Wall-E, for a bunch of alphanumerics in a galaxy far away, and a decade behind schedule, for The Machine. Tricking me into feeling things from a case of the week format is pretty sneaky, and not since Hotline Miami have I had as Glitch Mob-esque songs as stuck in my head.

Even though the Jays lost, and Kirk isn't looking so good, I got to put a screen outside and watch the game alongside the sidewalk, and I'll call that a win.

Why's there a Dodds Gate in Markham? Because my family farm was expropriated. Govt won, as the 407 moved people. Private biz won, as Conservatives tossed that moneymaker. Developers won: so many new suburbs. Don't pretend your hands aren't dirty, or that nation building is tidy. Just aim to do good.

Weird. The president who said: He didn't want homes to be affordable, as those who owned homes benefit from the unaffordability. Has said USA is an oil superpower. Takes oil corp donations. Has seen the largest oil cost increase asides when oil superpowers intentionally sought to make oil expensive

I seriously challenge you to find a stadium which has lost this many fans, whose team is down this much, still cheering this loud. If this is what you get out of this game, it's far from being of no consequence. I also appreciate good eephus pitches as much as the next true fan.