Blue cities should tear up the roads in front of ICE facilities and then start decades of community engagement and input sessions to rebuild them. Let's harness our core competencies.

An example of why Waterloo Region is different than many other areas in Ontario: "Your neighbourhood character is going to get enhanced. You're getting new neighbours." was a response from a Waterloo city councillor to residents upset about townhomes going into their single family home suburb.

New development taking shape will be Montreal's own Dumbo. The developers call it Esplanade Cartier but I would like to submit "Dujco" for consideration.

Every legacy media has a Driving section, where journalists whose main concern is torque are occasionally asked to opine on micro-mobility. Of course this is how they react 🙄

Merci @philippemercure.bsky.social de contribuer à ramener les faits et faire avancer la mobilité active. Le 2 novembre, chaque vote est susceptible de sauver des vies des visées populistes de Soraya Martinez. #velomtl #polmtl www.lapresse.ca/dialogue/chr...

I think this is a worthy discussion until our housing Minister admits that *all* prices will need to come down. Right now they are trying to pretend they can build one type of housing without affecting the value of the other.

The Globe’s editorial board lives in an alternate universe, in which the Israeli conquest of Gaza will somehow “open up the possibility of a secure and sustained effort to ramp up aid to Gaza.”

Today the @theglobeandmail.com editorial board endorsed Israeli's decision to occupy Gaza 🤦 www.theglobeandmail.com/opinion/edit...

The ruelles are verte-ing

What other genocide euphemisms did Globe workshop for this piece? daring, edgy? "Israel's move to occupy Gaza is provocative, especially if it proves not to be temporary. But it does open up the possibility of a sustained effort to ramp up aid to Gaza". www.theglobeandmail.com/opinion/edit...

The Problem With Left-Wing NIMBYism

12:30pm: heavy rain 12:32 : umbrellas fold and life springs back to Ave Mont-Royal

I didn't get free school lunch and still feel like this everyday at the office lunch room.

I love that Mamdani takes inspiration from Bogota and Mexico City, rather than say, any other American cities. Seems like a good leader for a global city.

🎯 well put by @jm-mcgrath.bsky.social

CityCat street sweeper appreciation post

😬 he's trying to dodge the question so hard by referring to funding the non-market sector. Its dishonest because what the liberals are promising, 500 000/year market units, would impact all home prices, not just a magical class of 'housing for new buyers'.

I’m genuinely pissed Nate Erskine Smith is out at housing — and all together from Cabinet. It’s a terrible call. Whatever you think of Robertson — not much, for me — NES was a perfect fit for housing. He knew what he was doing. He could communicate it well. Own goal.

One of the signs of Bixi's growing success is that advertisers are willing to make custom ads to target their users.

Courts says that it's the job of the federal government to solve the ongoing dispute between ViaRail and CN about speed restrictions imposed by CN. The federal government will hate it. There is nothing they hate more than actually governing when it comes to rail ici.radio-canada.ca/nouvelle/216...

Pour désengorger les hôpitaux, il faut mieux aménager nos villes: « Une augmentation de 55 % de la “marchabilité” du quartier environnant se traduirait par une augmentation de 23 % des déplacements à pied, soit 19 minutes par semaine pour chaque habitant. » www.lapresse.ca/actualites/2...

Unfortunately housing supply works in practice but not in theory.

"Programming" energy should be for contentious space conversions where you need to help people think of a space differently (ie. Parking or street to activity space). People inherently know what to do when presented with some nice trees and a quiet patch of grass.

The Canadian mayors are alright 👍 www.cbc.ca/news/politic...

Sprawl “solves” the housing crisis by turning it into a transportation crisis.

"In the same way that you can’t spend your way out of debt, #Canada can’t lessen its economic dependence on energy exports with new pipelines" Don’t believe the hype: there is no export market for Canadian fossil fuels Latest @theglobeandmail.com #cdnpoli www.theglobeandmail.com/business/com...

Also important to note that when Trump gets UAW cheering on tariffs, he is gleefully stabbing a wedge between the workers and Unifor on the Canadian side of the border.

Love this paper - always keep it locked and loaded in my Zotero.

Tariffs are DEI for American Auto

Are there any urbanism podcasts specific to Montreal or Quebec ? I follow a few Canada/US shows but find it hard to follow what's going on here.

Les Montréalais se déplacent de plus en plus à vélo pour aller au travail, mais ces gains se font essentiellement aux dépens du transport collectif. Ces dernières années, beaucoup ont choisi de troquer leur carte OPUS contre un casque et deux roues.

$10B of the $18B budget is dedicated to risk management. That’s enough to build the previous regional metro plan (REM d’lest) that would actually deliver the network-level benefits being claimed. A street-level tram is also the lowest risk transit project possible - what is being managed here?

This was worse than expected. O'Leary lecturing about business "opportunities" unchallenged by Ian, as if we'd all be rewarded for welcoming annexation. Maybe a O'Leary would get a guest room at Mar a Lago but nothing but fascism, corruption, disenfranchisement for the rest of us.

Could not fit my bixi in the stand despite a prolonged digging struggle , so I just gave it to a random passerby who said he'd dock it in Rosemont. Something about the city being snowed in is raising my trust

Canadian government expected to announce plans for Toronto–Montréal–Québec City high-speed rail tomorrow: www.thestar.com/politics/fed... A very promising project that compares well with high-speed lines in Europe in terms of distance between major cities: www.urban.org/research/pub...

Bix-ski

Disappointing decision from the BIA but there will be push Back planned. 88% resident support is an incredible figure. Side note: Surprisingly good reporting from Gazette on this issue.

Crisp morning commute on St Denis @revmontreal.bsky.social

If we're doing desperate theatrics, at least hire the VFX people who the Quebec government put out of work to make a slick promo video of all the imaginary drugs we're busting. They're good workers on tight deadlines.

Déneiger sa voiture ou déneiger son vélo? Quand c'est possible, le choix est vite fait. #véloMtl #mtlmoments #bikemtl #wintercycling #Montreal @lobbycycliste.bsky.social

Matin spectaculaire pour un bixi

Last week I attended the launch of @lrabouin.bsky.social campaign. Was happy to hear speeding up the buses as a top priority - perhaps hes been reading @nicolasmarcotte.bsky.social & @chittimarco.bsky.social 🤭

This truck likes to park on the sidewalk so it got a new bumper sticker. It's been on for a week now.

I had a great time diving into housing policy with @beynate.bsky.social www.uncommons.ca/p/fixing-can...

First time seeing commercial AI art in the wild (it sucks), at a gas station. Because the actual surroundings of highway 417 are bleak, this one harkens to a Midwest landscape in the golden age of automobile travel.

Les candidats de Projet Montréal doivent s’engager à garantir que les bus ne soient jamais pris dans le trafic. C’était l’essence de mon témoignage à la commission prébudgétaire l’été dernier.

"A catastrophe was narrowly averted..." is a weird way to introduce a driver ploughing into 4 people waiting for the bus, sending one to hospital with serious injuries.

Les pistes cyclables n'occupent que 1% de la voie publique à Montréal, contre 75% pour l'automobile. Elles ne reçoivent que 7% du financement routier à Montréal. Il y a 1,1 million de cyclistes à Montréal et... 983 000 automobilistes. Mon texte dans @lactualite.com : lactualite.com/societe/pist...

One reason I left Twitter was because of the nonstop (in-) fighting between the centre/centre left and the left in housing circles. In an effort to build a bridge early on here, I’m going to talk about my experience, both lived, and as an academic/activist. To kick things off: zoning is racist.

Rue Milton