A lot of people assume that Amsterdam has been biketopia since time immemorial but it actually was car hell for decades before the citizens became fed up with car fatalities and forced the government to rebuild everything around mass transit and bikes. It took time and will, but they did it.

"I cycled to school when I was a kid, and we didn't need fancy cycle lanes." Yeah, but there's three times more traffic than there was in 1973.. Twice as many cars as there was in 1982.. ..36% more traffic on urban minor roads than there was in 1994.. ..and cars were *way* smaller, and lighter.

Habs fans watching Lane Hutson shooting the puck better 👀

Yet more fatuous, constitutional nonsense from Alberta. www.cbc.ca/news/canada/...

New post from me: "Speed cameras work!" glengower.substack.com/p/speed-came...

Elon Musk went to Pedophile Island www.politico.com/news/2025/09...

"In some places, French postal workers now pick up prescriptions, return library books, and deliver flowers. Last year, only twenty eight per cent of La Poste’s revenue came from sending mail." Services can evolve in positive ways to meet new and growing needs.

No matter what this meeting is about, Pete will always be a National Guardsman assigned to a Civil Affairs unit who got a bunch of crusader tattoos in his 40s because he wants you to think he's a cool, war-criming operator instead of an extremely online wife-beating loser

In 2017, Catherine McKenney and I traveled to Queen's Park to fight for safer streets in Ottawa-Centre. The government listened to residents. Now, Premier Ford is proposing to make our streets more dangerous. It's the wrong move for intensifying neighbourhoods. www.ola.org/sites/defaul...

To anyone who came out to the open house yesterday about bus lanes on bank... Wow, what an amazing amount of support. Unanimously every speaker, besides the BIA, said they want the city to be BOLDER! We've written a summary of the event here : strongtownsottawa.ca/2025/09/25/t...

I watched the Premier's announcement on speed cameras. Not only is it full of incorrect claims, he also lists a litany of complaints about their implementation that are *entirely* within his jurisdiction to tweak... without having to entirely gut the program. www.youtube.com/watch?v=SHvI...

So now taxpayers will have to pay for traffic safety measures, rather than having law-breakers foot the bill through fines. How is that good for taxpayers? www.cp24.com/local/toront...

Yes, speed cameras work.

I've been seeing this a lot on tiktok and I think it's the true death knell of AI- young people instinctively reject inauthenticity. It's been great seeing comment sections roasting brands for using AI while championing human made art.

Doug Ford like to talk tough on crime, except when it comes to lawbreaking motorists who illegally increase the risk of your kid being killed by a car.

Someone who 1) realizes that A LOT of the rhetoric around AI is empty hype, and 2) who cares very much about the many dangers, problems, and flaws of what we call "AI" and wants to see protections and regulatory caution embedded in any governmental approach to it.

Gonna pop a Tylenol and look at some trains to see what all the fuss is about.

It doesn’t matter to Doug Ford that doctors supprt them, or that police chiefs support them, ot that 3/4 of those surveyed support them. It doesn’t matter that all available evidence supports them. Doug doesn’t like them. And so they go. That’s Doug Ford’s Ontario. www.thestar.com/politics/pro...

Look I'm not the man to do this but if somebody isn't making a supercut of Rapturetok influencers realizing they have to remain on this dogshit planet right now then I don't even know why I have a computer anymore.

This watermain is from 1976. Ottawa has 1009km of watermains older than this one. Council just deferred $2 billion in identified water and sewer renewal work for the next decade. You're going to see a lot more of this happening in the future.

AI is cooked

Another reminder that the city is doing an open house TOMORROW about bus lanes on Bank Street. It will be at Blessed Sacrament Parish, 194 Fourth Avenue from 6:30 - 8:30 pm. Come help support 24/7 bus lanes on Bank! Info at the link below. engage.ottawa.ca/bank-street-...

Oh dear. It seems Dr. Oz’s company sells Trump‘s big autism cure. What a crazy happenstance.

Trump: don’t take acepitoemponoene RFK Jr: *moth crawls out of mouth* A nude man is in the background, only referred to as “the colonel” Person watching on tv: well if they say so

Trump, et al are monsters, etc. But this is an objectively hilarious thing to say given who is currently running things. "Does he mean me?" - RFK Jr. Also, lady on the rights face.

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

Very kind of the Mayor to throw the city manager under the bus twice.

This is like when Trump was suggesting we could treat COVID with bleach or ultraviolet light but instead of having a real doctor behind him to be like “uh, yeah, don’t do that” we just have people who are like “yes, do that, and also all of science has been lying to you”.

Hey guys, is it good that theyre setting up a ban on a painkiller at the same time theyre attacking vaccines for diseases that have painful side effects?

There is an argument that seems compelling to me, although I am certainly not an expert, that the AI bubble is propping up the entire US economy right now.

If the AI bubble ever bursts, and I think it will, it's going to be a bloodbath.

I'd start informing your friends and loved ones they're going to need to get off of TikTok it's indisputably going to be converted into yet another right wing surveillance and propaganda machine

Sean Speer is a clown. MAID represents the very *core* of what the Charter should protect. If you dont believe that people should have autonomy over end of life decisions, you dont believe in individual liberty or freedom.

Show me a picture on your phone that has your energy. Not a selfie.

There is some irony in this government directive, following their own attempts to limit or remove barrier-protected bike lanes in Toronto and the rest of the province.

Luckily, Sinclair has a helpful database of all their stations, so you can see if they're operating in your area and respond accordingly. sbgi.net/tv-stations/

Going forward, I will always see and pronounce this word with 3 distinct syllables.

There's so much to unpack -- his childish understanding of the world, his raw nerve of grievances, his sociopathy -- but I can't get past what a whiny, pathetic loser you'd have to be as president to stamp your little feet and cry that the media isn't "allowed" to be mean to you. Mom said so guys!

In the 2010s, this country's elites were thrown onto social platforms with everyone else and could finally read what we all think about them and it caused them so much psychic damage that they decided to destroy both the internet and democracy to make sure nothing like it ever happened again.

luddite pope

this is the kind of thing that makes you feel something needs to be done about the notwithstanding clause

The address to target is: Disney-ABC Home Entertainment and Television Distribution 500 S. Buena Vista St. Burbank, CA 91521-3515

We would probably be a better off as a society if we'd spent less time trying to get kids off their phones and more time trying to get Gen-X off Youtube.

can't really begin to explain the extent to which I do Not want to be filmed without my knowledge by someone wearing smart glasses while out and about

when the germans are like “yo rein this shit in” maybe someone should listen

it is no coincidence that the worst fuckin people u know are utterly incurious, proudly anti-science, and completely lacking any sense of humor

@theonion.com print edition is excellent, I recommend it.