Look how much Canadians hate the United States now www.politico.com/news/2026/02...

here you go

Hi @davidcoletto.bsky.social -- why did you choose these countries as a comparison for Canada rather than, I don't know, Australia, the United Kingdom, and the United States?

Endless thread where I ooh and aah about new shiny transit projects

Endless thread of outrage bait (and occasional cause for optimism) about urban governance, mostly in Toronto

Endless thread that strings together my thoughts and reactions to Japanese politics

Resurrecting the climate optimism thread

really enjoy that the bloke who won two golds on the luge is someone who was a national level taekwondo fighter until he got injured and then a government figure stepped out the shadows and said "let me tell you about project going down a hill really fast"

pronouncing headache like mustache

“A year after the $1.1 billion overhaul,” which added a new lane each direction, “the 405’s rush hour drive times were a minute slower than they were before the workers broke ground. Five years later, traffic was worse at all times of day.” www.bloomberg.com/news/feature...

the reason that it's dangerous to blindly chase the polls in between elections isn't that national politicians should be saying unpopular things to convince people -- honestly a bonkers idea that's not how minds are changed -- it's that Events change people's minds and you need to be ready to adapt

I really like this drawing. On one hand, gratitude for all the opportunities that are within reach for us, which previous generations would have killed for On the other hand - it is exhausting though! Expectations of us keep rising too, and all the opportunities that we *miss* loom ever larger too

Taylor Swift album called 1949 about the Confederation of Newfoundland

日本語でも書いてみます。 自分の計算によりますと、自民党が候補不足で失ったのは14議席（東京ブロックでは4ではなく5議席）。 その分議席数が増えたのは： 中道 6 国民 2 みらい 2 維新 2 参政 1 れいわ 1 自民の候補不足がなければ中道は43議席にとどまり（その内立憲出身は15）、そしてれいわは議席なしとなっていた。 mainichi.jp/articles/202...

Nerd Tardis.

little saturday experiment --- trying to parse out travel times and speeds from gtfs schedule data to style a route diagram for the new Eglinton Line 5 higher-res here: jamaps.github.io/maps/line5-t... #transit #toronto #maps #dataviz

These regions with significant votes counted put the LDP on its own over 40%, which hasn’t been seen since… 1990?

Ngl, as an LDP skeptic, this is impressively substantive. In my eyes, she needs to make the case for why this time will be different for the economy than the LDP record so far, and this is roughly what that case would look like (to be clear, I didn't vote LDP)

So it’s broadly recognized that Vancouver needs more hotel rooms, that high room rates driven by high occupancy are a drag on the local economy, that the city needs to facilitate the construction of more hotels. All of this is true I want speak to the human importance of hotels

It’s unfortunate then that a handful of neighbours with too much time on their hands have decided to dedicate themselves to raising a stink about having another hotel in the neighbourhood. Somehow this will destroy the neighbourhood, but I think grandma might stay there

Forcing young people, who are less likely to drive, into scarce pockets of new density and obliterating transit options between them has a much more profound impact than parking lots.

when your public moment of vulnerability undergoes memetic semantic degradation

Okay I think now we can say that the Carney Libs are the LDP of Canada

Is there a reason why Toronto-NY and Montreal-NY aren’t overnight trains? 12 hours is a perfect length

A colourful and interesting new map of building heights in Toronto, featuring 8 height ranges and using 2025 data from the City of Toronto. https://schoolofcities.github.io/toronto-buildings/heights-2025

actually communicating “I’m here and I’m working for you and here’s how” is an aspect of governing that’s neglected by far too many people who think the work speaks for itself (or, frankly, don’t have the communication chops Zohran does) this is how you combat the forces that want to make you fail

the snap election is one of those boring ass electoral system design elements that turns out to have immense political implications

Seems like Meta should just concede the younger generation isn't moving back to Facebook and recreate useful features like Events in Instagram (yes, I realize we would all ideally move off of Meta)

Honestly if you describe how zoning works to normies it sounds legitimately psychotic. Like, daycares are presumptively illegal in most parts of most cities. Hell, until recently in Ontario daycare was not a permitted use *in schools* as a rule.

AMERICAN GUY WHO THINKS “NARUTO” IS WRITTEN IN KATAKANA: Yeah man I love Nart. I haven’t gotten to the newer stuff with his son Bort yet though

Today, a FREE article on how ideas to "raise the birth rate" are usually just the pet issues of that writer/pundit and the birth rate is a convenient cover. www.cartoonshateher.com/p/the-answer...

Them, but also more directly: 285 people out of 535 could end all this (218 + 67). That fact should not be treated as an "oh they'll never do it" shrug, as if they don't have agency. They should be hammered constantly as traitors and cowards every day they don't.

Look, I believe in casts, but if a parent has strongly-held anti-cast beliefs, they should be allowed to let their kid’s broken arm grow back all floppy and fucked up, even to the point of lifelong, debilitating pain. And that’s not child abuse because a kid’s bones are their parents’ property

Was about to get mad at 1) like everyone else, but it is occurring to me that my recent book selection record (mostly browsing-based) has not been great!

Seeing a Canadian Conservative talking about domestic politics and using phrases like - "constitutional right" - "absolute/unlimited free speech" - "right to bear arms" - "keep (schools/the National Anthem/whatever) in English" - "parental choice" - "illegal immigrants" / "green cards"

In a speech to the World Economic Forum, Mark Carney says middle powers such as Canada must accept that the rules-based international order is effectively dead, and great power rivalry with is here to stay. Key excerpt:

”why didn’t the Russian people rise up against Putin‘s war?” hm. Look around you, maybe

"Local woman who just wants to be able to walk to a bar to drink and stumble home now a leading urbanist." creativebyrovelo.com/therovelorecord

Taipei! I’m ashamed to admit that I thought “street food” was basically a euphemism/term of art for non-gourmet food that might have once been served on the street but no longer is. Taipei very much disabused me of this notion (and converted me to street-food maximalism) 1/

Absolutely fascinating chart. www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...

90% of populist housing discourse is just this

VERY underwhelmed - no ideas so far beyond relitigating the consumption tax, indeed the very way they define "centrist" seems to mean "having no direction" But I think we underestimate how successful it might be? With Komeito's flip, LDP could get historic high of ~37% and still lose votes on net

I feel obliged to share this masterpiece from my brother:

as his 2022 election competitor Yoon received a death penalty recommendation in court, Lee Jae-myung was playing the drums with Japanese Prime Minister Takaichi, a heavy metal enthusiast, in their summit in Nara

👀👀👀 jen.jiji.com/jc/i?g=eco&k...

It does seem like a lot more people are connecting the dots that everything is getting insane in large part because the algorithms on our phones load garbage directly into our brains (accelerated by the pandemic when the phones were all we spent time with)

God I wish this was true. Unfortunately since 1984 (losing the Quebec hegemony), the LPC has only governed about half the time. Meanwhile the LDP remains the only government that even I can imagine (Part of this is federalism: when fed Libs govern, prov Tories win; there they gain experience)