Do you think that the engineers that design roads know exactly what they’re doing? Do you think that governments are monitoring collisions and working to make roads & highways safer? Turns out all the data collected from collisions might be sitting in a box in a basement for a decade. Feel safe?

This is an absolutely damning indictment of idiot return to office policies, imo (among many other failures in our perverse and cruel existing system).

dawg you have Jean Chrétien talking like Mao

Andy needs to stop reading Facebook. Someone needs to take his phone away. California has an extensive system of HoV/express lanes and you know what? They were still either mostly empty (next to bumper to bumper traffic) or … also full! 🙄 If the lane isn’t congested it’s going to look empty! Man!

“What sometimes seems like millions being spent on bikes is actually millions being spent to avoid impacts to vehicle traffic.” Even though I am still learning about bike infrastructure, I say a version of this line to people who complain to me about bike lanes.

Fascinating story by Marco Oved for theToronto Star on real live job transitions happening as fossil fuel jobs continue to disappear. This one-time oil driller now drills for geothermal, and life is better. Cites our research on employment trends. www.thestar.com/news/gta/fro...

1) This is blatantly unconstitutional 2) Withholding funding from which judicial appointments? Provincial? Because federally-appointed judges get paid from the federal budget. That's why new judicial spots end up in federal budget bills 3) Withholding any funding will make the justice system worse

This model of private clinic isn't new. It's based on bundling private pay services & publicly funded MD care and selling the whole package as a premium product. These clinics pop up alongside trending health care issues, eg: ADHD clinics. What's new here is that menopause care has made the cut.

Canada is strengthening its Arctic presence — and this week I will be in Denmark and Greenland to open our consulate in Nuuk. This is a clear signal of our commitment to sovereignty, security, and regional stability.

CCPA is so embarrassing dawg

We could even do two way HOV lanes instead of widening on Robie which would also improve transit and save $200 million.

The crisis is a shortage of housing. This is crystal clear in the data; rents go up when there are fewer empty homes on the market, and rents go down when landlords can’t find tenants for their rentals.

Just because conservatives - or any politician - show a different face t"behind the scenes", that doesn't mean that face is real and their public performance is fake. Brought to you by a "progressive" 🇨🇦 journalist doing a "CPC voters in diners" piece with a chat with a CPC MP anecdote.

"Luxury" is a marketing term to make ppl get past the dumb American stereotypes of apartment living as cramped and filthy and a bunch of ppl take it as a given that it's some kind of palace for the rich inside.

Does anyone know anyone writing about automotive transportation and its implications on sovereignty, a la energy or digital sovereignty?

Here's some analysis by the Bank of Canada. www.bankofcanada.ca/2026/02/unde...

Here's some analysis by TD Bank. economics.td.com/ca-grocery-p...

Every Lego catalogue, in full, from 1966-2015. At the link brickset.com/library/cata...

It's pretty simple, it's literally an "all hat no cattle" scenario. 🤠

I love this series. The accompanying short story collection "The History of the World Begins in Ice" is a very worthwhile follow-up.

Many thanks to @serenajenk.bsky.social for bringing this Spiritwalker Trilogy ebook sale to my attention, and I now bring it to yours. These are great deals for the entire trilogy. Likely on sale on all USA platforms

Furthermore, this is why we need more reporters covering local politics. We've lost so many excellent reporters in smaller communities. Halifax is fortunate to have solid City Hall reporters, but we also covered other beats, too. There's only so much time in day.

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In our interview, Bridgewater Mayor David Mitchell said there should be a course on what you need to know when you are elected as a councillor and a mayor. I know people get into local politics because they love their communities but there is A LOT of info you need to know, including the financials.

Deregulation. Property rights. Economics. - Welcome to the solar age. It’s more transformative than you think, no matter how transformative you think it is.

I am finding some irony that pro-life Cardus, a non-partisan, faith-based think tank in Canada, has taken a position that supports voluntary vaccination while critiquing government mandates while lecturing on such things as universal child care www.theglobeandmail.com/canada/artic...

Floor-crossing goes interjurisdictional. (She's an NDP MPP.) bsky.app/profile/libe...

There are a lot of affordable choices from China’s EV market that could be suitable for Canada's roads. Here's our rundown of the major contenders. insideevs.com/news/786172/...

Get in the province, loser, we're ... Juicing single family home demand?

Nature Conservancy Canada secures wetlands in rural southwest #Ottawa www.ctvnews.ca/ottawa/artic...

Canada's incredible environmental regulations actually resulted in nearly a decade of stalled renewable builds and decayed capacity that's hindering attempts to change course. We made it safer to *not* build for fear of projects running afoul of the regs meant to encourage them.

A human writer uses a dash to set off a relatively abrupt jump in thought. But the machines are constantly calculating the most predictable next thing to say, plodding around the same area. So the machine dash looks like it's gesturing toward something new, only to always land on something obvious.

Require that any MP posting a clip of QP to social media include their entire question and the entire answer without any editing, including any on screen text that isn’t subtitles.

iPolitics asked me to expand on my thoughts on question period reform - which I was happy to do. 1. Have longer exchanges 2. Set a roster for who's up 3. Stop the repetition 4. Experiment This week, we talk about it as MPs. What changes would you make? www.ipolitics.ca/2026/02/02/c...

Anytime a Canadian public service of any kind comes on here, it's really worth boosting to ensure that they get a lot of follows from their users (also, public policy nerds). Keeping them on alternative social media requires decent engagement metrics.

As a software engineer I’m sorry to say this scans, and I apologize for the dismal state of our sorry excuse for a profession.

Recently in the (amazing) central library and realized if the current leadership had been involved, it never would have been built.

The CPC would have an extraordinarily hard time with the “affordability” messaging its leader has embraced lately if it actually voted against giving a decent chunk of cash to the most needy. But yeah it’s totally hollow - esp given all their whining about how gov’t spending drives inflation.

America is alienating what could become a superpower (the "mighty middle powers") “ If U.S. allies are less dependent on America for trade and security, they will become much harder to boss around and less likely to do business with America.” By Max Boot via The Washington Post

All of these words from the Conservatives, and none of them point out that Trump's trade war is the primary cause of this economic malaise (for which we have been surprisingly resilient to date). No, it's all the Liberals' fault.

By the by, this chart really clarifies that food prices were abnormally stable for almost a decade from 2012-2022, which is a big part of why the grocery inflation freaked everybody out so much.

A good call with Prime Minister Mette Frederiksen of Denmark today. Greenland’s future is for Greenland and Denmark alone to decide. We reaffirmed our commitment to sovereignty and territorial integrity and discussed our ongoing work to strengthen Arctic security.

Canada welcomes the reopening of the Rafah Border Crossing, a key element under the Gaza Peace Plan. The crossing must remain open without undue restrictions to enable freedom of movement for Palestinians, including access to medical care and humanitarian aid.

"Staff... didn't consider how the lanes would be used" Incredible [derogatory]

This Friday, the House of Commons will be debating our Standing Orders. I think this would be a great time to talk about whether Question Period is serving Canadians well as currently constructed (35 second questions, 35 second answers). Here's some ideas: 🧵 (1/6)

Today in Ottawa, I brought together more than 200 members of the diplomatic corps to outline Canada’s foreign policy priorities in this moment of geopolitical volatility.

Also the province and feds need to team up and force CN to electrify that freight line so we don't have a bunch of new high-density housing next to diesel fumes.

www.cbc.ca/news/politic... (air farce preston manning voice) "Affordability!"