I take it all back, maybe it’s actually good that millennials can’t afford homes

We're not against nice things, you see, we're just in favour of the rules that make nice things more-or-less impossible. It's very complex. Stop being mean to us on the internet.

"they're making corner stores a culture war issue"

run the ad again doug

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The vibes, they are very good. 🍁⚾️

Your regular reminder that a minority of anti-everything people have de facto control over quality of life in our city. They spout easily refutable lies, eg. "neighbourhood interiors were never intended for commercial activity", but councillors still take their side, almost every time.

These miserable misanthropes moved to a neighbourhood with grandfathered retail and then have the audacity to say it and not they are out of place. www.torontotoday.ca/local/city-h...

In this neighborhood we say NO to good pizza ✊ www.reddit.com/r/toronto/s/...

happy halloween

Uh oh, is the baseball team from Canada maybe a bit better than some people were expecting?? 😤😘

Stop giving Dougie ideas, Matt

We must now make Shohei Ohtani pay for his crimes against the people of Toronto

this mf flipped the game 7 leafs curse heritage ahh moment

I LOVE BLUE JAYS BASEBALL

he jumped in front of the throw! watch the replay, he literally leaps and turns when the ball is thrown. easy interference call

Toronto’s Cycling and Pedestrian Projects Team continues to hit it out of the park. Out for a ride today and here’s just some of the new cycling facilities that I came across. New concrete planters and permanent curbs on Harbord Street. /1

YOU DARE BOO THE BEAUTIFUL CANADIAN NATIONAL ANTHEM. YOU PAY WITH BLOOD! YOU PAY WITH BLOOD!

DAAAAAAA YANKEES LOSE

Oh neat, in that case I guess Ontario and Quebec and the rest of us should all get a big say in how much oil is ripped out of the northern Alberta muskeg. Because there’s no such thing as Alberta’s oil sands, it’s Canada’s oil sands, right?? www.cbc.ca/news/canada/...

"There is nothing funny about calling me or Donald Trump a fascist, and if you do, we will ship you to Guantanamo."

just remember canada: all that climate, renewable energy, ev, electrification stuff is woke fluff. the only way to save our country's economy is to build more oil pipelines to tidewater. elbows up!

It’s blindingly obvious that this is the only way to meaningfully improve traffic in the short term, which is why I’m very confident we won’t do it buildtoronto.com/memos/conges...

behold: the style of politics that delivers three straight majorities in Ontario www.thestar.com/politics/pro...

This chart is wild. Near vertical direction on solar capacity globally, led by China. And as Ember notes in a new report today, that trend is accelerating with nearly 400GW new capacity in first 6 months of 2025.

The key empty-headed fatuity to the Ezra Klein approach is that if you engage in a pantomime of "debate" by going places and taking questions, you're still "doing politics right" even if you are calling for people to be deported for speech or stoned for being gay. It's civic society cosplay.

So forget about storage and transmission for a sec, let's explore the idea that assets are worthless if used <50% of the time. -Snow plows -substantial fraction of the poles and wires (built to peak) -The Red River Floodway (Most days Winnipeg wouldn't flood anyway!) -Every gun and private car

when blue-collar union members lean conservative, it's normal and rational, because the left doesn't represent their views or speak to their needs when academics lean progressive, it's pernicious woke-capture that is eroding their ability to function in society www.readtheline.ca/p/christophe...

A 4-storey, 10 unit apartment building at 877 Ossington, two blocks north of Ossington station, has been held up for 9 months and counting at the committee of adjustment. It has 66 letters of opposition by my count, including from the local councillor. MTSA zoning can't come fast enough.

For a while, there was some high-profile debate about whether “fascist” was an appropriate word to describe Trumpism. Nobody serious debates it now, and the fact that it was debated at all seems ridiculous in hindsight. Same process will apply here.

people who don’t bike will never know how good it feels to bike the entire length of Shaw on a summer’s night

they could have been even further ahead on electricity decarb if they hadn’t hated their nuclear so much 😭

some Very Brave™️ opinions coming from the Globe's semi-anonymized Editorial Board byline this morning. Clipping some highlights below! #cycleTO www.theglobeandmail.com/opinion/edit...

Stop theorizing the fictional American political leanings of Canadian provinces, it's meaningless and absurd. MAGA's fantasies of "obtaining" provinces would result in nothing but strife and destruction for both countries and likely civil war within the United States itself.

Best baseball headline of 2025 (so far)

I read the book and the energy stuff is all “more solar panels and wind turbines!!!” (agreed), but the only notable energy speakers at this conference are from the famously renewables-doubting Breakthrough Institute?? Apparently abundance is actually 100% NUCLEAR and renewables can get bent 🔌💡

Motherfucking wind farms…

anyway i was about to write something like, “you cannot live in a free society and also forbid people from living where they would like to live” but it occurs to me that many, many americans do not want to live in a free society

good morning speed camera study publishers

There is a guy in St. Catherines, ON selling a signed photo of the Premier of Saskatchewan on FB Marketplace for $40

The backstory here is that the Squamish people of what is now Vancouver were illegally dispossessed of this land a century ago. They sued, got their land back, and are using their sovereignty to ignore local zoning rules and build 6,000 new homes over the objections of nearby wealthy NIMBYs.

The @heatmap.news team really doing yeoman's work here. There may be no stronger anti-abundance force at work on renewable energy than local zoning laws. One in five counties in the US, and 17% of the total land mass, now has restrictions. heatmap.news/politics/law...

Just recorded a pod on solar+storage and holy shit y'all, if you are not tracking this market on a daily basis, you have no idea how wild it is. The global average price of a battery pack fell 40% *from 2023 to 2024*. That dropped the LCOE of a solar+storage plant by 22%. In a year!

The scale of this 2050 plan is truly immense. Ontario gov’t is fully nuclear pilled. To pull it off will require: - Brand new station in Port Hope with 8 units - Expanding Bruce with 4 new units (12 total at the site) - Refurbishing most of the existing fleet (some of that is already underway)

me: excluding areas with greater than 15 degree slopes from the project's buildable area meanwhile in china: