There is no word for this other than "pathetic". Deeply, deeply pathetic. globalnews.ca/news/1174602...

Yes please! Now can we also have a Canadian version of this for ebooks? www.readthepeak.com/p/canada-s-i...

...and tomorrow you could, you know, use your bike or take the bus and be the one zooming on by...

Pardon me while I crumble into dust over here

“…disabled people are actually less likely to drive than nondisabled people and more likely to get around by walking and rolling and taking transit. Car-heavy cities are also disproportionately dangerous for disabled folks…”— @nondriver.bsky.social Don’t use accessibility “as a political football.”

Probably preaching to the choir here, but: this Paul Elie piece on the importance of nonfiction is good reading. newrepublic.com/article/2076...

Okay that is REALLY ENOUGH SNOW for this year, good grief #dlws

A 55/45 split on this question when public policy has provided 90% sprawl and like 10% walkable density is an opportunity for urban places if we'd just get the hell out of our own way.

"HP allegedly implemented mandatory, 15-minute wait times for people calling the vendor for help" even when a customer service agent was sitting idle. I'm amusing myself composing appropriate punishments for whoever thought that up. Need the bathroom, sir? Wait 15. arstechnica.com/gadgets/2025...

MAID is an incredibly difficult subject I think almost everyone wrestles with. But I’d be more open to criticism of the policy if it didn’t come from people who, on principle, won’t lift a finger to provide alternatives like better healthcare, accessibility, social assistance, or quality of life.

For shame. If they were serious about solving Ontario's issues with primary care, proper funding for NPs would be near the top of the list of "easy, just do it" solutions www.cbc.ca/news/canada/...

Many vaccines confer surprising knock-on, or indirect, health benefits when they have been put into widespread use. www.statnews.com/2026/03/19/v...

There's nothing wrong with methadone (if it works for you). It's the systems surrounding it that make it a nearly impossible choice for so many people. If you treat people badly, is it surprising they don't stick around? filtermag.org/methadone-cl...

Dance Your Ph.D 2026 winners! I don't know how I missed this last week. Always a terrific bit of knowledge translation. Always fascinating. www.science.org/content/arti...

This is excellent: "It would probably be pretty alarming to learn that, in the early 1980s, scientists decided to drop off a bunch of gophers at the site of a volcanic eruption. But don’t worry, it’s not as bad as it sounds." www.popularmechanics.com/science/envi...

It's nice not to be tied to an expensive, polluting box of steel and plastic. I'm glad more people are realizing this. www.blogto.com/city/2026/03...

As we all suspected, people who like corporate buzzspeak tend to suck boingboing.net/2026/03/18/h...

We design streets so a single person in a car can take up the width of two by default. Yet when we build bike infrastructure, we almost exclusively design for single-file movement. Cycling is naturally social. It's face-to-face with the world. We should design our infrastructure to enable it.

It's a start torontolife.com/city/more-th...

I've been around Ontario long enough to know that whenever they dangle booze in front of the voters like keys in front of a baby they're about to do something *unbelievably* corrupt. At THIS level of "Drinks Some Beer, Losers", I have to imagine Algonquin Park is becoming a chemical weapons plant

“Which is largely preventable with vaccines” is a phrase that should feature prominently in every single article about, well, diseases which are largely preventable with vaccines. Kudos SciAm.

Aaaah yes the prescribed burn! I can often smell it from my house, so it's good to know when it is so I don't assume things are burning that should not be burning. And I like to go walk around the burned-out landscape the next day; it's somehow scenic and peaceful

That sad feeling when you thought there was another cup of coffee in the pot but nooo, it's empty

“We’ve all trained ourselves to see car infrastructure as ‘normal’— and therefore its costs as invisible. Roads aren’t expensive, they’re just there. Parking spaces aren’t subsidies, they’re just ‘necessary’.” The “Framing Game” via @katjadiehl.bsky.social.

This site needs a break. Post 3 good things, none of which are the cessation of a negative. 1. The existence of rental hot tubs in general, and specifically the one now in my back yard 2. Electric heating pads 3. Cats who sleep behind your knees This post brought to you by the word "warm"

Cycle lanes, electric cars and other interventions have helped 19 global cities slash levels of pollutants by more than 20%, including London, San Francisco and Beijing

This is bizarre. If you admit more people to wards than there are beds... where will you put them? Who will care for them? You've just punted the problem upstairs from ER. It's got a definite deckchairs on the Titanic vibe. www.cbc.ca/news/canada/...

Help select names for Toronto's new island ferries; www.toronto.ca/news/online-...

The #WashingtonPost has been dumping hundreds and hundreds of not-new recipes into its RSS feed every day this week. Are they trying to drive people to unsubscribe from their #RSS? Stubbornly, I am not, and just keep clearing the feed, but WTF, guys?

Impressive that this is not just 250% growth in biking It's 250% growth in biking and the "number of reported bike crashes is on a downward trend" with bicyclists almost twice as safe on a per miles traveled basis with reduced sidewalk riding too Great work @cambridgemass.bsky.social!

The baby giraffe at the #TorontoZoo needs a name! No, Giraffy McGiraffeface is not an option; you get to choose among five pretty names chosen by the Kenyan Consulate. www.torontozoo.com/giraffe

Pink it and shrink it! (Good grief) globalnews.ca/news/1172438...

"When Republicans talk about parents’ rights, look for the child that is being harmed. This rule of thumb rarely fails." www.salon.com/2026/03/11/r...

"workers and job seekers in the province's softwood lumber, steel and automotive industries" -- this fails even the most basic, cursory gender analysis www.cbc.ca/news/politic...

I shouldn't laugh, but: hump inflation [makes Beavis and Butthead noises] www.vice.com/en/article/2...

Beat rising gas prices with this one weird trick.

...or where the racks should be placed, or how bikes need to be locked up (hint: not the wheel), or or or. I might start grading local bike racks, with a bit of description as to why they either suck or do not suck.

If these people think Ebikes are lazy, wait until they learn about cars.

Yes, hello, is that God? Yeah, hi. I have a complaint. You gave me this brain that’s designed for finding berries and avoiding lions and now people are ‘just circling back’ to see if we can ‘move the needle’ on ‘key initiatives’? NONE of those things are berries.

Yet again I choose the bear

Bleary-eyed night owl, thanks to a three-hour time change plus an extra hour of DST spring-forward. Sadly I have no time for a nap today, but at least it's sunny out.

My Canada-to-Canada flight is in US airspace and it’s making me uncomfortable

Gee, wouldn’t it be nice if the TTC had a nice inclusive attitude like this

My cartoon for this week’s @theguardian.com books.

WATCH: If you STILL don’t understand how car-dependent suburbia is HEAVILY SUBSIDIZED by downtown and all the urban parts of your city, watch this EXCELLENT video by #NotJustBikes with #Urban3 & @strongtowns.bsky.social. And PLEASE SHARE it as much as possible. I’ve sent it to a LOT of politicians.

Thoughts & prayers to the EPA :(

Sad tonight that I'm unlikely to ever have a career that will allow me to confidently slip under yellow police tape without objection.

“Wait, we’re afraid of walkable distances now?”* *best response ever to the manufactured conspiracy theories about “15-Minute Cities” and the simple idea of having more things we need nearby. #UrbanTruth

“No” 100% covers it, yeah

Musician Lou Reed takes a ride on the wild side Happy #BicycleBirthday, Lou! March 2 (1942-2013)