Kids being separated from their parents in the middle of the night, toddlers being zip-tied by masked government employees. How much more will it take before Americans have had enough and take action?

This is one of those mornings when I read the news and am flooded anew with relief at having left Ontario.

Vancouver is SO melodramatic once fall starts.

I took my daughter to downtown LA in March for a week: our goal was to enjoy the city itself. Disney and studios were not on the list. DTLA is a little rundown, but it did not seem dangerous. But it took forever to get anywhere. Transit is underdeveloped, and driving is a nightmare.

This argument reminds me of having to clean my plate when I was a kid because there were children starving in other countries.

Oh, this new path along Ross Bay is just a delight. I had seem some complaining on the Oak Bay FB group that there isn’t enough room for cars, but they did just fine when they slowed down - which I suspect is part of the point. Amazing work by @victoria.ca.

This can’t be right. I have heard repeatedly that housing prices don’t respond to supply, and that the real problem is stone countertops in condos. Why are they hiding the research on stone countertops? /s

1/ The TC published my opinion piece on Victoria's OCP. It's critical that Council pass this. The half-century old decision to stop building small apartments in Victoria, and much of Canada, is behind many of our problems. It's time to start fixing that. #yyj www.timescolonist.com/opinion/comm...

I'd rather be buried alive for 12 hours than attend a funeral for James Dobson. If it was 24 hours, I would go and make a ruckus. Let's not rule out indecorum. #restinpus

We need input from the cycling community, and others, on where to place our “parking zones” for the e-bike share program. Please provide input. @erikwdv.bsky.social @sarahfrumento.bike @kellyblack.ca @sv-rub-a-dub.bsky.social @raynarambling.bsky.social @bromptonymous.ca engage.victoria.ca/bikeshare

Trying to figure out if this carhugger argument is even more disingenuous than the one about making drivers stop more often being bad for the climate.

Joining the fun.

Folks, give @victoria.ca a follow on this platform. Our comms team is facing the reality of going from 40,000 X followers to 978 Bluesky followers. We’re doing the right thing by ditching the toxic platform, but we need those followers back. bsky.app/profile/vict...

Omg this. Ideas are the easy part.

Fresh research confirming chain-of-address filtering is as powerful in Class A residential as the "flight-to-quality" Class A office phenomenon 👇 New housing supply lowers rents the most in *Class C old buildings*, not the rents in other new Class A buildings! x.com/PewStates/st...

More and more I feel like we don't actually live in a city. More like a block of suburbs and exoburbs who have a singular focus on cutting everything except roads to keep taxes low. (Thanks for being an exception here)

Wow, this is such a great tool! @bikeottawa.bsky.social is a fantastic organization.

But but but housing isn’t subject to the laws of supply and demand like other commodities, because of landlord greed and luxury condos or something

Why I will oppose amalgamation in Victoria, exhibit 312.

Depressingly accurate. I visit the nation’s capital every few months, and each time the sidewalks look a little worse.

This is not the place to make anger your central identity.

“Police do not agree” that banning right on red will save lives. Welp, I guess that settles it.

As we reach the end of our sixth year in Victoria, I continue to feel like a tourist on vacation here. In Ontario, people talk about this period as the dog days of summer: hot, humid, with those evening thunderstorms. Do Victorians even use that phrase?

Our neighbourhood is ridiculously charming.

What an incredible achievement, and good news for people living under other provincial governments in Canada considering the same move.

I can not endorse this enough. The world is packed with “useful” advice designed to help you find love, manage your finances, advance your career, etc. Getting kids (and everyone else) interested in Jane Austen, jazz, silent film, astronomy and Silver Latin Prose is the real challenge.

Let’s just skip the middle and all start calling it Columbia Bible College now.

Congratulations to @shawnmenard.bsky.social, the people of Capital Ward, and all of the regular people who have been lobbying the City of Ottawa for years for finally getting the Alta Vista Transportation Corridor removed from the Transportation Master Plan and saving People’s Park.

Montreal and BIXI are decades ahead of the rest of us. I would *love* to have this option available, and am sure I am not alone.

“It’s just this one time.” “I’m just going to squeeze in here.” “I’m only stopped for a minute.” These must all sound reasonable inside the head of a single driver. But outside the cars, the impact is vehicle after vehicle blocking and endangering pedestrians and cyclists.

In Toronto, even amalgamation wasn’t enough to make bike lanes unpopular, so Doug Ford amalgamated the entire province to rally the necessary exurban anger to rip out bike lanes.

Just look at all that heritage parking

No fun for students living on the city’s margins, where transit is terrible and getting worse. But the university has no choice apart from increasing parking fees (which would be a better idea anyway).

This store has been getting more of our business since they started boycotting US produce.

Normal person: I’d love to be able to e-bike to the library, but there’s no safe route. Carhugger: you smug jerk. Has it occurred to you that you’re being ableist? *I* can’t (and don’t want to) e-bike to the library, so why should you? Plus, you’re a scofflaw. NP: 🤪

This video helpfully illustrates how and why bike infrastructure makes everything safer. Nobody except carhuggers thinks that the main problem in traffic safety is the moral purity of cyclists (the cyclist in the video is clearly not rigidly obeying every law).

I, for one, have learned my lesson: people who want their kids to be able to bike to school safely need to take accountability for being annoying before demanding better infrastructure.

Carbrain is incredibly powerful. Who cares if people walking on the sidewalk (which is what “pavements” means in the UK) are forced out into the road? The important thing is that drivers have space to park their cars!

Corey is right. Over and over, amalgamation in Canada has led to the preferences of suburban and exurban residents dominating the city agenda, leading to worse infrastructure for pedestrians ams cyclists, underresourcing transit, sprawl, and resistance to infill.

Twice today I was very nearly hit by a car while I crossed with the light - once on foot, once on a bike. It was broad daylight in light traffic and with clear sightlines. If you’re driving, please keep your eyes on the road!

So many responses to this post are Americans trying to protest that their regime doesn’t represent them, and asking Canadians to remember that they are the good ones. None of that matters if your president threatens or invades us. Being one of the good ones is not enough; you must act.

These are questions I quietly ask myself too.

Here are the things that I think make a city child-friendly that also make the city better for everyone else: - affordable transit coupled with parking chargers that together discourage driving, even for a family; - parks and shade that make it pleasant and safe to get around; - walkable schools;

Americans in the streets vs those respectfully at the edges of the streets.

Bike lanes up, injuries down.

Parking is such an important component of our society

What a week to choose to spend in Ontario!

I don’t even remember the circumstances that gave rise to this optimistic #ottbike wayfinder in Ottawa in 2009. Lots of things have improved since then, but the hard job of connecting new bits of infrastructure is largely not done.

Seen in Victoria, BC, Canada, on the cliffs above the Salish Sea, looking toward the Olympic Peninsula, Washington state, USA.

Oh oh oh I know this one! It goes “🎶 This parking lot is the heart of the community🎵!”