Chad Leddy
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Random Torontonian, litigator, dad, transit enthusiast and climate hawk
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Damien Moule
4 days ago
Certain members of Toronto City Council will insist to you that Toronto's development charges are 100% necessary and no municipality could fund its capital budget without them and that they have no impact on housing construction. I don't think those beliefs can survive contact with reality.
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JackTatt 🇨🇦
6 days ago
This is the TSP setup that must be standard on
#TTC
streetcar, LRT, and priority Ten Minute Network bus routes along with fully actuated signals to get transit moving and make TTC the better way then general traffic in
@toronto.ca
@ttcriders.bsky.social
@mayoroliviachow.ca
@moretransitso.bsky.social
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“To finish off survivors in the water” Sickening
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derek van vliet
10 days ago
so our government made a big deal about banning speed cameras but one city left theirs running to see what difference the ban would make and you are not going to believe this
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John Muller
10 days ago
This is a solid analysis, and a good counterpoint to some of the more knee-jerk reactions floating about. Very worth a read.
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Leon Simons
16 days ago
Another month of NASA CERES satellite data and it's only getting worse! 0.11 W/m² added to the 4-year average Net-flux increase over the North Pacific. Absorbed Solar Radiation is almost 5W/m² higher than at the start of the century. All added greenhouse gases since 1750 cause a 4.1 W/m² forcing
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Sean Marshall
16 days ago
Hopefully all the attention on the unacceptably slow streetcars lately will finally result in actions from the city to address this problem they’ve been ignoring for decades.
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Brent Toderian
16 days ago
Grizzly attack on 11 kids & teachers in BC. “one teacher jumped in front of the bear to allow the children to get away…he jabbed the bear’s eyes with his fingers and that’s how he was able to… how the bear just left him.” “That teacher was later airlifted from the scene.” Teachers are heroes.
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Teachers fight off grizzly bear attacking schoolchildren
A grizzly bear attacked a group of elementary schoolchildren and their teachers on a walking trail Thursday in British Columbia, injuring 11 people,
https://mynorthwest.com/local/grizzly-bear-attack/4161034
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Proposal to call these transit cocoons
16 days ago
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Alex Bozikovic
22 days ago
Almost everywhere in the City of Toronto has fewer people that it did 50 years ago
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Jealous, but congrats to Montreal and everyone who got the REM built
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22 days ago
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New Crosstown line extension bridge coming up
22 days ago
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Yet another reason to be grateful for coffee
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29 days ago
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Molly Knight
about 1 month ago
Congratulations to the Toronto Blue Jays on a magnificent season. It is a shame either team had to lose. And this was a gut punch. 💔💔 Classy players, fanbase, and truly one of the finest cities in the world. Future is bright with Yeasavage, Barger, and Vladdy. Now go re-sign Bo.
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Let’s gooooo
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IP, software, biotech, and pharmaceutical exports are not constrained by geography like auto parts and other heavy goods, so if we want to diversify our markets we should be investing in these knowledge sectors
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More Transit Southern Ontario
about 2 months ago
Good News! The Finch West LRT has successfully completed its revenue service demonstration. The line will be handed over to the TTC by November 3rd and will open shortly after.
news.ontario.ca/en/release/1...
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https://news.ontario.ca/en/release/1006632/ontario-completes-final-testing-on-finch-west-lrt
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Chris Hayes
about 1 month ago
I’ve been thinking a lot about a new kind of polling I’d like to see. We have polling that measures public opinion, which is obviously important, but I’d love to see a little more empirical work on public knowledge: what do voters know about politics and policy?
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David Roberts
about 1 month ago
MechaHitler now fully in charge on X. I wonder if this will cause any self-reflection among the pundits & journis still hanging out there.
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Brendan Dawe
about 2 months ago
the population-weighted density of Canada is higher than Germany
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Joey Politano🏳️🌈
about 2 months ago
NEW CANADIAN JOBS DATA: Employment Growth: +60k Unemployment Rate: 7.1% (+0%) Prime Age (25-54) Employment Rate: 83.3% (+0.6%) Employment Level: 21.0M
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Madeleine Bonsma-Fisher, PhD
2 months ago
Toronto is the greatest city in the world now. I don't make the rules
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Imagine we had a crime problem in school zones so cameras were added along with warning signs saying “remember, don’t do crimes here, camera present” and we had a study from SickKids that showed the cameras reduced crime in those zones, but then we turned them off because criminals didn’t like them
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Damien Moule
2 months ago
Nothing to see here just years on end of the streetcars miserably failing to meet an incredibly lax on-time departure metric.
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Marco Chitti
2 months ago
REM Automatic for the people.
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Justin Hendrix
2 months ago
Macron remarks are notable- some quotes: "We have been incredibly naive in entrusting our democratic space to social networks that are controlled either by large American entrepreneurs or large Chinese companies, whose interests are not at all the survival or proper functioning of our democracies."
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Stephen Jacob Smith
2 months ago
Pew finds something that everybody in codes and standards knows but few will say out loud: we apply far stricter fire safety standards to apartments than to houses.
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We shape our transportation infrastructure, and thereafter it shapes us
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Truly wild projected transition to EVs in China, if borne out would be great news for the climate and suggests countries that rely heavily on oil exports (like 🇨🇦) need to get cracking on building more sustainable industries
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2 months ago
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You love to see it - raised crosswalks being installed on road rebuilds in Toronto
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3 months ago
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In rare good news solar power continue to surge - China alone installed 250 GW of new panels in the first half of 2025. For reference, Ontario’s peak electricity demand is around 25 GW
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Be great to see this on the east side of University Avenue, except with larger barriers protecting the bike/emergency vehicle lane from regular traffic and a sloped threshold between the bike lane and the sidewalk to let cyclists easily clear the way when needed for 1st responders
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Sharon
11 months ago
a good arbiter of how close we are to bad hybrid regime shit is if the political comedy shows start getting pulled for whatever reason
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Transport Action Canada
3 months ago
This new sense of urgency is welcome and something we've been asking for. Commitment must now be turned into action, using part of the $3.9B committed to deliver tangible results for passengers in parallel with the co-development phase.
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High-speed rail construction could begin in four years, LeBlanc says
The federal government wants construction on a planned high-speed rail line between Toronto and Quebec City to begin within four years.
https://www.ctvnews.ca/canada/article/high-speed-rail-construction-could-begin-in-four-years-leblanc-says/
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Jason Kirk
3 months ago
Discovering computer as an adult makes you go crazy. Discovering computer as a baby makes you go crazy. In all of human history, there will only ever be one generation to discover computer at the correct age: 13
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Oliver Moore
3 months ago
The greatest story in Canada today is this guy, who wanted to get a slurpee while wasted so took his friend's daughter's toy jeep
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Man arrested after driving child-size pink Barbie Jeep through town | CBC News
Police and a legal expert say driving any motorized vehicle, including a toy, without a licence and insurance is a punishable offence.
https://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/british-columbia/barbie-jeep-arrest-prince-george-1.7626945
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Damian Carrington
4 months ago
"Solar power is transforming the world — and at record speed"
@ember-energy.org
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Stephen Jacob Smith
5 months ago
@englishrail.bsky.social
and I have a piece in the Globe & Mail about how Canada can make housing more affordable and accessible, and disentangle itself from its unreliable and hostile southern neighbor: give its elevator industry the option to use the European/global standard, not just the U.S. one
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Opinion: Canada’s outdated elevator rules are adding to the housing crisis
The high cost of elevators is a barrier to the development of affordable, accessible homes
https://www.theglobeandmail.com/opinion/article-canadas-outdated-elevator-rules-are-adding-to-the-housing-crisis/
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Eric Topol
5 months ago
How the electrocardiogram can identify previously undiagnosed structural heart disease with A.I. alone, better than cardiologists with A.I. support
@nature.com
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I am once again urging
@eleanorolszewski.bsky.social
to have 🇨🇦’s government place a large order for Alberta-made waterbombers to save lives & towns, to mitigate huge carbon emissions, to foster national unity, and to build a diplomatic asset when used abroad during our shrinking fire off season
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Matt Elliott
5 months ago
Seems pretty telling of Toronto Police's lackadaisical attitude toward traffic enforcement that an officer feels comfortable publicly calling speed cameras a "fucking scam."
www.thestar.com/news/gta/the...
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Dr. Mike P. Moffatt
5 months ago
A small Ottawa developer wants to build a small infill apartment, with 16 2- and 3-bedroom units. Exactly what the City needs. Yet they're laying on so many costs and fees to make the project unviable. 14 fees + 15 "cost-recovery" reports.
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John Michael McGrath
5 months ago
A culture of lawlessness.
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Cooper Lund
5 months ago
Here’s the bottom line for what’s going on with Grok - if the owner of the website is putting his thumb on the scale hard enough for the chatbot to turn into Goebbels, you should be deeply concerned about what he’s doing to the algorithm that you can’t so easily see, and what it’s doing to you
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Micah
5 months ago
hey every single journalist who still uses twitter as your primary site, does the fact that the chatbot is promoting the Final Solution rise to the level of a news story or no stop making this the global hub for news communication
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Seems bad that many Canadian institutions and politicians, including my MP
@lesliechurch.bsky.social
continue to use X, whose owner appears to have turned its AI tool into an an explicit nazi. Stop using Twitter/X, please, folks
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Matt Elliott
5 months ago
My
@thestar.com
column: Data suggests about 25% of license plates snapped by Toronto’s speed cameras are obstructed. Forget these silly driver gripes about the cameras. The real scourge is scofflaws with illegal plate covers. Time for a crackdown on “ghost cars.”
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Matt Elliott: Forget speed cameras. It’s ‘ghost cars’ that Doug Ford, Olivia Chow and others need to focus on
The recent debate around speed cameras has conjured the spectre of another problem.
https://www.thestar.com/opinion/contributors/forget-speed-cameras-its-ghost-cars-that-doug-ford-olivia-chow-and-others-need-to/article_d913d760-5ed9-4487-ae0b-3af62dd5b34c.html
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Stephanie Carvin
5 months ago
Over the last free months Canada has upped its border security, agreed to participate in the Golden Dome, and spend 5% of GDP on defence and it basically all means nothing. No agreement will be stable or secure, even if we can eventually reach one. The new normal in Canada-US relations.
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Matt Elliott
5 months ago
Chow says she wants the signs warning of speed cameras to be "as big and loud as possible — put it in their face! Put it everywhere! Warn them ahead of time, if the camera is just arriving."
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