Doug Ford announces he will use the notwithstanding clause to ban speed cameras, as folks are sick of getting tickets for driving 4, 5 or 60km over the speed limit.

www.theglobeandmail.com/business/art... This is straight out of Harper's playbook in 2013. He announced end door-to-door delivery (making Canada the only G7 country without door to door delivery) after strikes/lockouts/disputes with the union during negos from June 2011 to Dec 2012. short 🧵

Canada nation built (and built and built and built) until the 1970s, then began the great dismantling. I'd pin it to Mulroney era when rails were ripped out across country & Chretien/Harris pulling out of housing funding/backstopping. Canada Post stuff is just another dismantling moment.

This is hugely thought-provoking, on many levels. I’d love to see one for Seattle. One thing it really puts into relief: bus speed is both super difficult and critical to enabling citywide growth when rail is hard to build. Our electeds MUST understand & care about buses for our cities to succeed.

This is where I always ask: Tell me about one example of a government service being privatized, and offering the same or better service for less cost. Just one example. Response: <crickets>

“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. 🧵

Stopping the use of such rhetoric would not change anything because we can just watch all the videos of ICE behaving like fascist goons.

America must have a secret police is the kind of argument you can only make in America if the implicit promise is to only secretly police "them."

1/ A longtime Wired editor just wrote a mush-brained essay about how he totally missed the political rot of Silicon Valley (& still doesn't get it). But in the late 1990s, a Wired journalist warned of a toxic ideology bubbling up from tech. Paulina Borsook has largely been erased. Let's change that

it will never not be wild to me that there are actual human people walking around our neighborhood streets dressed just like this I think we need to continue to remind our brains that this is extremely not normal

It's time to understand the science of pedestrian-friendly cities. Or, why streets should be designed like gardens.

Really can't stress this enough: When a city has 1,000 self-driving cars, they might seem like fun, innocuous novelties. But at 100,000+ it's another story entirely.

These people can be stood up to, people telling you they can’t are their dupes

“A majority of Canadians see Pierre Poilievre as a threat to national unity, and just 1 in 4 believe he's the best choice for prime minister. Instead of embracing a more likeable party leader, the Conservatives are doubling down on rage-bait and division.”

yeah she has (some serious) issues but we may have made a mistake

between this clown and eby oozing to the right, BC not looking good right now.

ugh. just unfit

I hope this helps others also see how I believe Palestinian Statehood will lead to Haudenosaunee, Diné, Cherokee, Dakota, Lakota, Pueblo, and so many other overdue formal Statehoods here too. None of us are free until all of us are free. Land fu-ducking-back baby.

Opinion| Could releasing the Epstein files cause autism?

Is it possible for the child of a prime minister to have thoughts of their own and be a good journalist? Maybe! One potential problem is when they also work for several lobbyists / businesses at the same time as they are hosting news programs and repeatedly have their business partners on as guests

The majority of British Columbians support red light and speed cameras. www.ctvnews.ca/windsor/arti... #safety

Meta appoints anti-DEI and anti-LGBTQ+ conspiracy theorist Robby Starbuck as AI bias advisor with a mandate to make the company's chat bot less 'woke.' www.advocate.com/news/meta-ro...

"We tend to think of misinformation as a universal problem, with all sides of the political spectrum equally guilty of bending the truth or spreading falsehoods. A new study shows otherwise." Misinformation isn’t just a problem — it’s a political strategy.

Health Canada's response to the idiocy from the US...

There's a wrong way and a right way to report this

Snort laugh. Those damn Epstein files

No, you do not need to add these technologies to your repertoire - especially to write IEPs - and rather than invest in and solidify Big Tech's capture of education, may I suggest using that money to support relationships between teachers and students unmediated by OpenAI, Microsoft, and Anthropic?

It’s the “In any event, I wish both Countries well” that gives this the soupçon of absurdity that is apparently necessary in 2025.

yeeks i remember wondering as a kid why mickey and minnie had black arms and legs but caucasian complected faces (or “flesh”-coloured per my 60s-70s crayola box 🫥)

One might think the only Jewish head of state in North America - and also the most popular Jewish head of state in the world - recognizing a Palestinian embassador and calling on Israel to end its genocide might you know, be news

Seems bad for our society when you can’t make racist terrorists the villains

jeeezus he’s such an asshole.

and just coming right out with the mafia shit.

Obviously they only polled Bluesky weirdos and not real american twitter democrats lile Nate Silver

It really is this simple. The idea that there’s this deluge of people out there that “want” to be homeless no matter what society would try to do for them is a political myth; ginned up so that we all have more people to hate and we’ll maybe not look more closely at income inequality.

How many Schedule 1 substances must be consumed in order to understand these words? The number certainly is not zero.

this is excellent www.thenation.com/article/cult...

UBCM leaders call on B.C. to fill housing gaps that led to increased homelessness

Do you realize that the CBC produced a consumer information program aimed at teenagers that was basically "Ad Busters for Kids" FOR SEVENTEEN YEARS???? They cancelled that show nearly 20 years ago. Can't imagine today's CBC doing anything like that #cdnmedia

I did a deep-dive into Ben Mulroney's extracurricular activities: At the same time as Mulroney is filling-in as host of The West Block, he is also working for two registered lobby groups and as an adviser to several companies – some of whose CEOs he's interviewed on Global News 640 Toronto radio

Ben Mulroney is blurring the lines between journalism, business, lobbying and partisan politics The new host of Global News’ national political news show also works for registered lobby groups, advises businesses and hosted election events for Pierre Poilievre’s Conservatives earlier this year