My @thestar.com column: There’s lots of disagreement about Toronto transit projects, but damn near everyone can agree about one thing: electrifying and increasing GO Train service is a great idea. It’s a real shame Doug Ford’s government has screwed it up again. www.thestar.com/opinion/cont...

Editorial: Here’s why Avi Lewis is the wrong choice to lead the NDP – by a centrist Liberal

BrightDrop electric delivery vans should've been a Canadian success story.  Instead, after $500M in federal investments, GM abandoned the 1000+ @unifor.org Local 88 workers at the plant. I was in Ingersoll recently hearing about how we can save these good, union jobs and Canada's EV future.

Some wildly poor economics from Calgary's blanket rezoning. 1. If no one will buy it, you've priced it too high and it's not a starter home. 2. If no one buys such houses, no rowhome conversions. 3. Ask your grandkids if you should spend $20k to block their friends without inheritances from homes.

Here’s just a small sample of the Liberal government's devastating cuts: 🧵 globalnews.ca/news/1173746...

NASA map shows temperatures of up to 160 degrees on Phoenix streets & sidewalks. Really hot city to begin with. Will get a lot hotter with the #ClimateCrisis, which car-centric cities like Phoenix are fuelling. Unrelenting concrete & asphalt and not enough landscaping make it hotter. #UrbanTruth

Like many European cities swept up in the promise of the automobile, in the 1930s Aarhus paved over its namesake river to accommodate rising motor traffic. In the 1990s, this mistake was reversed, and today the restored waterway boasts one of the most vibrant pedestrian environments in Scandinavia.🧵

Would jets downtown be good for Toronto’s economy? As it turns out, no. @greglindsay.org explains the truth behind the vibes: www.theglobeandmail.com/canada/artic...

A reminder that humans in cars - notably omitted from this thanks to motonormativity - kill 1.2m people every year

Our next contract negotiations started last week. The PMG always plants a story like this in the media so they can cry poor about why they can't give us a raise.

Saturday night cyclists in Paris

The long-winding saga for the Eglinton Crosstown LRT goes back further than you think... Check out this super fun and interactive timeline made by McKenna Hart with words from me! thestar.com/interactives... via @thestar.com

Bait & switch for 10s of 1000s of people + loss of a music venue. All for nothing.

The entire cities of Amsterdam (red), Paris (blue), and Barcelona (purple) can fit inside Chicago. All borders use the same geographic scale (1:175000). The European cities have been rotated and/or flipped, but not resized.

"Maybe the city's full" says the man living in a 2.7 million dollar house on Palmerston, while sipping $170 scotch after defeating a multiplex proposal across the street. www.pressreader.com/canada/toron...

“It’s hard to overstate (the damage done), because contractors will now not bid on Metrolinx projects or they will bid vastly higher prices because of their expectation — a completely reasonable expectation based on the way that Metrolinx behaves — that Metrolinx will not honour its contract”

"The provincial government has made it potentially illegal... to make public transit, and just mobility for everybody, really fast." — @shoshannasaxe.bsky.social (@civmin.bsky.social) on dedicated bus lanes, tonight at 8pm with @jeyantvo.bsky.social

How have I reconciled being an American in Canada, well aware of everything unravelling where I grew up? I focus on what I have power to change: my city. I attend consultations, send letters to my representatives, donate, talk to others. @shawnmicallef.bsky.social brilliantly captures this spirit:

"Conspiracy theorist relieved that proposed local amenities have been voted against and will now be a 30 minute drive away."

I wanted to compare what I saw on Seattle's Line 1 LRT with Toronto's Finch LRT. In Seattle, you can see left turning cars waiting while fast-moving transit gets priority. Help TTCriders make it happen in Toronto: www.ttcriders.ca/greenlight 📸: @wk1998.bsky.social / @kevinrupasinghe.bsky.social

If only the pros outweighed the cons.

Look at this image (and thread - use the translate service). This one reads along the lines of: "..Comet C/2025 A6 (Lemmon) without cleaning. In just 15 minutes of acquisition, we counted 1,659 satellite trails (about 400 individual ones). Words cannot describe the pollution of near space." 🔭

😭 Toronto would proudly do the reverse.

Pedestrian struck by motorist on Parkside a block from the speed camera that vigilantes kept tearing down that caused ford to remove them from all Ontario. Drive as you wish Ontario. Nobody matters. This is what you voted for.

Notice Mamdani charmed Trump on live TV without backing down on any stances. He didn't water himself down, he didn't even take back calling Trump a fascist. Moderates would say butter him up, or try to appear more right-wing. Voters can see through that—and evidently so does he!

Nostalgia about neighbourhood retail is not a strategy — the City's heavily compromised decision on neighbourhood retail may result in no new neighbourhood retail, writes senior editor @johnlorinc.bsky.social. spacing.ca/toronto/2025...

This is one of the purest encapsulations I've seen recently of someone who sees a city not as a destination but as something through which to drive. Imagine if there were popular stores? The horror

Thanks to everyone who participated but it turns out that none of you were able to imagine the greatest horror: a successful small business with beef patties.

Councillor Myers: "Just so I have it clear, the city is paying $1.5 billion for these GO Train stations. Who's going to own these assets when they're complete?" The province, says staff. Myers: "So the City of Toronto has paid $1.5 billion to build assets for the province." Staff confirm, yes.

Me finding out @zohrankmamdani won. Captured by the great Faraz Ansari

Except Budget 2025 proposes cutting funding from the Canada Public Transit Fund towards a more generalized fund, leaving less money on the table for important transit projects and state-of-good-repair 👎 This a step backwards for faster commutes and achieving our climate goals. Not good! 1/4

In Jane Jacobs’s old neighborhood, more heritage rules will mean more exclusion and gentrification. We know how the story ends. It shouldn’t be allowed to happen again. www.theglobeandmail.com/canada/artic...

The Ford government already eliminated rent control for buildings built after 2018. They are now taking steps to eliminate rent control in Ontario altogether. This is shameful and disgusting given the affordability crisis that so many people are facing.

Israel violating a ceasefire deal as a mob of Israeli settlers attack an American journalist and Palestinian grandma & an Israeli soccer match has to be cancelled because of violent fans is all the worse when you remember the deal calls to "de-radicalize" Palestinians and not Israelis

The Venn diagram of urban density and average household GHG emissions is pretty much a circle. Interesting study on “Mapping household GHG emissions in the Greater Golden Horseshoe” from the University of Toronto School of Cities schoolofcities.utoronto.ca/mapping-hous...

A State Department inspector general report says U.S. Ambassador Ronald Johnson dismissed an embassy contractor at Salvadoran President Bukele’s request. The contractor had talked to a journalist about a suspected government pact with the MS-13 gang. ➡️ Read more: https://propub.li/42WCOcc

I can’t believe that as recently as a few months ago, the consensus Democratic Party position, even on the left, was that you couldn’t call to ‘abolish ICE.’ Good luck to the Democratic candidates who run in 2028 while opposing the abolition of ICE. A rogue fascist agency.

Rather than heed the advice of his government’s own experts that ripping out protected bike lanes WILL NOT solve traffic congestion, Doug Ford is wasting taxpayer money and playing politics with your fundamental rights and freedoms.

"A heartwarming story of how being an unethical and talentless hack is no barrier to success when you are willing to endlessly flatter the wretched views of rich dipshits."

This new Paris neighbourhood is VERY good. Clichy-Batignolles (former rail yard), 1 of many transformations at Metro transit stations around the city. Dense+mixed (urban IKEA, grocery store, schools, jobs etc), diverse (50% public housing, 20% middle class rental), 1/3rd beautiful park, 20k people.

We’ve officially entered the “war = peace” part of the dystopian horror show

These Project 2025 videos were intended to train a second Trump administration’s political appointees "to be ready on day one." Last August, ProPublica & @documented.net obtained 14 hours of the videos, which covered everything from passing new regulations to rooting out left-wing language:

BREAKING: - Jimmy Kimmel jokes about Charlie Kirk's killer - FCC's Brendan Carr threatens to pull licenses of TV stations airing Kimmel unless ABC fires him - Nexstar owns a lot of TV stations - Nexstar says their stations will stop airing Kimmel - ABC does this www.theverge.com/news/780471/...

Exactly where I cross w my students each term on a field trip to North York. In part to see those condo shops in background (good streetscape w condos is possible). We also discuss deadly streets. This days after a toddler was kill & six injured up the road, a week after Ford says OK to vigilantism.

If the Ford government decides it doesn't like how a university sets its admissions standard, the new Bill 33 would give the province the ability to unilaterally change them. The implications for university autonomy, critics say, are unprecedented. thelocal.to/bill-33-onta...

In Ontario, criminal vigilantism works and will influence gov't policy. Keep that in mind.

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