IN THE USA… Anderson Cooper: So it's more expensive to have a chronically homeless person living on the streets than it is to actually subsidize an apartment for them? Answer: Yes, we’re paying more as taxpayers to walk past that person on the street and do nothing… www.cbsnews.com/news/100000-...

“Fascism” isn’t a slur for politics we don’t like. It’s a precise word with precise meaning. And in the face of what’s happening right now in America, it’s the most honest one we have. I’ll lay it out as plainly as I can. 🧵

Good and about time.

One of the weird things that happens to politicians, especially on FB, is waves of weird sovereign man of the land types come out of the woodwork (the woodwork is mostly in rural Ontario + SK _ AB) about "things" & this just happened with my Disney+ post on FB. But since I am not a politician now...

Last week, Israel targeted and massacred 34 newspaper reporters in Yemen. According to the Committee to Protect Journalists, it was the second deadliest attack on journalists ever recorded.

Amazing work by the Cogswell team and three consecutive Councils to make this happen, but it never would have happened if then-Mayor Mike Savage had not insisted on it, despite the odds and risks. Great to see this done!

The first amendment is the first for a reason and they’re going after it with all they have.

“Tesla is attempting to conceal the details of three separate accidents involving its Robotaxi service in Austin, Texas, despite having only two months of service with a small fleet.” There are names for that kind of thing… electrek.co/2025/09/17/t...

We've gone from me being laughed at for buying a digital TV antenna... to us loving it because Oscars etc... to now the family debating dumping all non-Canadian streaming (Crave and CBC, maybe it?) and going back to watching tv OTA.

well sure, when you say it like 𝘵𝘩𝘢𝘵 it sounds bad

It is no fun watching the USA become a failed state in real time.

"If you don’t move and protect the rights you have, you lose them. And it’s so much harder to reclaim them.” www.theguardian.com/world/2025/s...

To be clear: NO evidence to support this move. Harmful, science-free, doubtmongering BS. CDC advisers make their first childhood vaccine edit wapo.st/3K9OBNV

You know what to do. #IStandWith #Jimmy #freespeech #BoycottDisney #BoycottABC

It's pretty striking that there's no obvious indicator for radicalization. Generally with these shooters we tend to see an obsession — with ideology, or violence, or with the cult of personality around other acts of terror. It seems, thus far, to be missing. www.kenklippenstein.com/p/exclusive-...

The Happiest Cities in the World are also the most bicycle friendly. Surprised? Neither were we. 🫶 momentummag.com/the-happiest...

News Corp machine in overdrive, trying to diminish the National Climate Risk Assessment

Fun fact: emergency repairs due to deferred maintenance is also 'a significant financial burden.'

Great read from @justinlung.ca including that headlines like '“Charlie Kirk was practicing politics the right way” are inane efforts to over-eulogize the man' (though the article was better than the headline) open.substack.com/pub/justinli...

Sir, your tauntaun will freeze before you reach the first marker! Then I'll see you in Hell!

@colinmckerracher.bsky.social: "This is still probably the wildest chart from our Electric Vehicle Outlook this year: By Q4, China's EV sales will overtake total US vehicle sales of all types (gasoline, hybrid, battery electric combined). Chart excludes low-speed models and 2/3-wheelers"

I don’t believe there is ever a bad time to share the words from Jack Layton’s last letter to Canadians.

This is a huge shift for German, but also, about time.

Hell yeah

The evil that men do lives after them

Join us for the 12th Annual Community Bike Ride with Deputy Mayor Tony Mancini, members of Regional Council and municipal staff on Thursday, Sept. 25 in Dartmouth from 3–5:30 p.m. More info: halifax.ca/transportation/cycling-walking/community-bike-ride

I am afraid for a future where political violence is the norm. I think Ezra Kline sums it up well. You can read it for free without a subscription. www.nytimes.com/2025/09/11/o...

apple.news/A2OsphQB7TxW... Ontario and the Greater Toronto Area have more than enough urban land to supply their housing needs, but people’s aversion to higher-density housing often makes it politically impossible to build in the most sensible places. #Housing #Ontario #Canada

The Gorsebrook Research Institute for Atlantic Canada Studies invites all to its first fall event. “Rethinking Acadia in Canada and the World: A Conversation with Gregory Kennedy and Clint Bruce" is on Friday, Sept. 19, 4:30 pm in SMU's Atrium 101 & via Zoom. loom.ly/su9U5PM @historysmu.bsky.social

Such a good @bankfieldbecky.bsky.social + @steveclimate.bsky.social paper here: examining how "climate pragmatism" has become a major part of the new lexicon of climate delay Also see: "climate realism" theconversation.com/politicians-...

Better toss my cellphone since I don’t charge it while out of the house!

“Helsinki has not recorded a single traffic fatality in the past 12 months, city and police officials confirmed this week.” City engineer credits lower speed limits and smart design. I agree. #Helsinki #VisionZero

"Vision Zero forced the [traffic engineering] industry to confront a difficult truth. The more we prioritized speed & volume, the more we endangered the most vulnerable users of the road: pedestrians and cyclists, w particular emphasis on children & older adults" www.planetizen.com/features/135...

Or if you know your downtown is at risk of getting these again. 🙄

The solution isn’t to shut the door on TFWs. It’s to hold employers accountable. Pay fair wages. Offer decent conditions. Compete for talent. Retention improves when businesses treat workers like humans, not disposable labour.

Really important thread here:

This is gonna be a great watch. youtu.be/imm2qo4svGo

"Dartmouth Cove cannot afford more stalling," says Friends of Dartmouth Cove. Construction company spokesman says infilling project would be a positive for the community. shorturl.at/B0HN7

The developer of Doyle has been quite vocal that he doesn't want to build where there are no bike lanes or buses. Six years ago when they reinstated the sidewalk here after construction of the Doyle it was designed and built to put in a bike lane, very forward thinking!

sidewalk widening in progress at Spring Garden and Brunswick 🚶

this absolute loser wearing a cowboy hat like the only spurs he knows aren't bone spurs

Wow, what a rally!!! $1 mill from @cautdefencefund.bsky.social , supporters from across the country, a groundswell of student support - @dalhousieu.bsky.social better come to conciliation Monday with a genuine interest in bargaining! #keepdalstrong

The “problem” with vaccines? They so effective at preventing deaths that they create generations of people that question whether disease was a problem in the first place because they have never experienced the horrors of a world without vaccines.

they've created this entire delusional bubble cult and they have no choice but to keep setting cash on fire until it all collapses in a glorious fireball these are men without ideas building a simulacrum of innovation, all propped up by grifters cashing in on the front end of the hype cycle

Only someone who avoided the draft would want to rename the Department of Defense to the Department of War.

king’s co-op bookstore and vape shop

Tactical urbanism “is the rare participatory process where everyday people can physically participate in designing the place where they live… Inscribing it in the asphalt… says: This place belongs to us. And when it gets removed, it says the opposite.” via @henrygrabar.bsky.social