I don't know about any of you, but the AI chatbot that I use for work is getting more stupid in quite a few ways.

Edmonton is removing all scramble crosswalks from Whyte Ave. These intersections, where all pedestrians cross at once without vehicles were designed to make our busiest pedestrian streets safer. The city is using transit as an excuse to remove them, and make it faster for cars.

The best time to reduce your family's need for fossil fuels as much as possible was in 2003 when Bush invaded Iraq. The next best time is today.

they wouldn't allow me to crank it down any lower

Brand new homes two blocks from NAIT campus. The new zoning bylaw is cool and good.

Density is a false enemy of trees. The real problem is how much pavement we dedicate to cars. If we took only a few parking spots on each block to plant street trees, imagine how many more we'd have in the city.

Could be my favourite Troy video ever.

No Conservative can be trusted when they pretend to care about deficits. www.theguardian.com/us-news/2026...

Real decadence is people breaking the systems that protect and provide for them because they are too sheltered and stupid to understand that truly bad things can happen.

And there was ZERO accountability for anyone. Also never forget, Harper and his Conservatives wanted us in that war.

invasion of Iraq was 23 years ago today. A colossal failure of judgement that led to a million Iraqi deaths, and 4418 US forces deaths, for no goddamn reason at all

We should reconsider the term „energy crisis“ when speaking about the effects of the Iran war. This is very specifically a crisis of fossil fuels and their single point of failure. Fossil fuels are no longer synonymous with „energy“. We have other, better options.

As the world scrambles with another energy crisis, Edmonton is looking pretty good IMO. ✅ LRT buildout ✅ bike lane buildout ✅ zoning that allows many more people to live in central areas ✅ Bus service investment Nice work city council. We're less oil-dependent because of your political courage.

This sticker always makes me chuckle when I walk past it near the Kingsway LRT stop. #yeg #yegbike

People keep saying “oh so you want OPEN BORDERS” as some kind of gotcha and like. Yeah. When I was a kid you could just drive into Canada. On accident, even. It was great, and I think we should do that instead of kidnapping children. Normalize being normal instead of being kidnapping weirdos

Okay that is actually funny.

If only there were another technology that could move us around without relying on straits being open. Oh well.

"Caring for each other is a constant in all our lives… a prerequisite for us all being here, even in periods when we're healthy and self-sufficient. No one can exist without, at some point, being taken care of and treated as valuable by others. Caring is the work that makes all other work possible."

Eight plex near me. Let me reassure anyone clutching pearls about the design — this isn’t even a top five worst design finalist on this street. We’ve had infill for generations here and it’s either been utilitarian, baroque, or hyper expensive.

New piece for The Nation on the ubiquity of "performative" and "virtue signalling" as terms of derision. "Citizenship ... is inherently performative and that abandoning the performance of democratic life means courting democratic collapse." www.thenation.com/article/soci...

I bought into Ehrlich's BS in my younger adult years. It has taught me to always (try to) stay humble. Always remember, the policy that you are advocating for today may be wrong!* *does not apply to YIMBYism, that is certainly correct 😉

It's hard to believe or accept, but the reason the UCP destroyed billions in value was to own the libs. There is no other explanation.

The MAGA bubble simply is NOT going to break, regardless of how bad the Trump/GOP stories get. 30-40% of the public are hearing/reading nothing but right wing spin due to our toxified, consolidated, plutocrat-owned media. That's the #1 problem that will have to be dealt with.

Imagine the media firestorm if they were electric vehicles. www.ctvnews.ca/business/aut...

I know a deeply committed woman from Sherwood Park who has been running a school for deeply impoverished children in the slums of Mumbai for 25 years. Her school is in dire need of support at this moment, and if you can help it would make a huge difference. one-international.com/donate/

Edmonton Police: OOPS! All Israel! The Chief flew to Israel to meet with police leaders there, a decision panned across the board. Except for noted thin-blue-line enthusiast Councillor Mike Elliott, for whom the thin blue line remains stronger than ever.

There's a book to be written (maybe just a dissertation) about the Sohi-era's mishandling of EPS and the police commission. So it's nice to see that this council seems to recognize that the only thing that eps and the commission will do is make council look bad...

The renewables moratorium was economic sabotage by the Alberta government who believe an investment in renewable energy precludes making investments in traditional oil and gas assets. They don't understand the "yes, and" scenario in energy. It was 100% ideology-based damage to a thriving sector. 3/

such a meaningless waste

This can't be possible because the UCP is good for the economy, everyone knows that. They would never vandalize a thriving sector for made up reasons!

Hawrelak Park reopened today, now featuring a network of paved trails. They were clear and mostly ice-free before the snow started. It's great to have this important #yegbike link to the west end back.

Too cheap to meter. 😎

My official statement about Edmonton’s Police Chief’s decision to travel to Israel.

Yeessss

Let there be as much outrage from politicians in Washington when kids go hungry as there is when I break bread with New Yorkers.

"law and order" (except for the oil industry) www.westernwheel.ca/beyond-local...

Hawrelak park opens tomorrow! Friday March 13th www.michaeljanz.ca/hawrelek_par...

Imagine if anthropologists visited a remote village with no grocery store and one restaurant that only served hamburgers and then concluded based on their observations that the villagers prefer hamburgers. That's essentially the discourse surrounding Americans and their relationship to cars.

Red flags here. Boyle Street is one of the few secular programs. This is about an amazing agency focused on Indigenous programming. #abpoli Boyle Street housing program to lose Alberta government funding, province seeks new provider www.cbc.ca/news/canada/...

"Americans prefer a car-dependent lifestyle." I can't tell you how much I hate this glib sentiment. The only way to determine someone's true, enduring preference is to give them full familiarity with their options. Americans have no familiarity with their options! They've only seen sprawl!

It’s not a seamless analogy but what huge portion of North American holidays are essentially visits to walkable urbanism? Europe, Disney parks, even package resorts and cruises are all enticing because there’s no commuter hassle and there are lots of good public spaces to gather in

Never to be mentioned again. But $0.1B for bike lanes in Edmonton that you can *see with your eyes are actually there* was harped on for years.

Jim Cramer suggests on CNBC that Trump could “bomb Tehran into the Stone Age” until Iran reopens the strait, citing U.S. bombings of North Vietnam in the 1970s. Carl Quintanilla points out to him that Hanoi won that war.

More housing is helping to make renting more affordable in Edmonton… don’t take my word for it. Listen to the landlords talking about incentives for tenants! youtube.com/shorts/udD7J...

If you are wondering how upzoning in Edmonton is going; when I moved into my place last year it was $1300 for a 1 bed. Now my landlord is offering a slightly larger unit for $1200. Its crazy! If I wasn't moving cities I'd be down there renegotiating my lease as we speak @growtogetheryeg.bsky.social

At least Calgary is repealing 4-plexes though, that should help them pay for stuff!

Bad Religion knew way back in 2008. music.apple.com/ca/album/new...

This is what success looks like. Landlords having to provide a good service at a fair rate or face not being landlords anymore. More of this forever.