Takeout/delivery and cooking your own food are both wrong. Instead you should be extracting atmospheric dust, nutrients, and moisture using specialized microscopic hairs called trichomes.

“You’ll of course get pushback, especially at the neighbourhood level, whenever you’re proposing more housing,” Asling said. “We can’t rely entirely on nodes and corridors. We need to have it through neighbourhoods as well.” #MoreHousing www.therecord.com/news/council...

I've been getting my Bill C-22 updates from @openmedia.org www.openmedia.org/StopC22-bsky Bill C-22 is so alarming that @signal.org and @nordvpn.bsky.social have suggested they will leave Canada if it becomes law.

"It’s not just provincial politics keeping the grid balkanized: there are actual problems of geography and physics that make a truly national power grid extremely difficult regardless of how pleasing it is to draw lines on a map." — @jm-mcgrath.bsky.social

Yeah, there's a lot of issues with allowing chinese cars in Canada. This is the one I avoid talking about, since they can just buy the data from Toyota lol

I don't know where this bizarre idea that China has universal health care comes from, but it very much does not by any normal standard. It has a highly tiered system that brutally discriminates against rural patients and imposes often crippling financial costs.

I am not immune to this. You are not immune to this. Your favourite people are not immune to this.

A big anniversary: Hannah and I started dating 25-years ago today. Note to Married guys: Don't refer to your wife as your "ex-girlfriend". While technically true, they won't find it as funny as you do.

BREAKING: Signal, the #1 privacy protecting messaging app, is saying they will pull out of 🇨🇦 ENTIRELY if they're scoped into #BillC22 without large changes. This should be our final alarm bell:.We can have privacy or we can have C22, not both! #cdnpoli www.theglobeandmail.com/politics/art...

"The lesson isn’t complicated: If transit is frequent and convenient enough...even many people who can afford a car will choose to use it." Toronto is an incredibly fascinating case study, and I can't wait until @englishrail.bsky.social's book is ready to read more!

Infrastory is back with more posts this week - today’s is about how Toronto completely inverts expectations of what is possible for transit in car-oriented areas. Much to learn here for cities in North America and across the world! open.substack.com/pub/infrasto...

Yeah, I've noticed that transit debate where I live aren't really centred around climate

When there is a strong two party system promoters of PR say that we need to have PR to break the two party duopoly. When there is a fragmented party system promoters of PR say that we need PR to reflect the reality of the party system. It is an unfalsifiable position!

@dsartori.bsky.social , are you running for mayor lmfao?

Infrastructure projects routinely spend billions of dollars to avoid difficult conversations. I wrote a new piece on Infrastory on how we need to be better at recognizing the problems that can be solved with a phone call rather than big infrastructure. open.substack.com/pub/infrasto...

One of the worst ideas that have emerged in Canadian circles since Trump returned to office is EU membership. Setting aside its impossibility, contrary to what Lopez-Claros says here, delegating trade authority to Brussels in order to deal with the US is a non-starter. www.cbc.ca/news/politic...

It's time for the Immigrant Survey. This survey is for everyone 19+ years born outside Canada and now lives, works or studies in Waterloo Region (permanent residents, Canadian citizens, refugees, temporary residents, refugee claimants, and international students). Open until May 31st. Please share!

I see it in the replies to @whstancil.bsky.social, I get a bit of it, and I hear it from normie friends of mine: There's a genuine belief that being a keyboard warrior can enact real societal change by cowing certain influential figures/posters out of their political positions (real and imagined.)

Hey-o!

A number of dismissive quote post spin-off discussions for the below (fair, this is the opinion site!), but Toronto clears Chicago, NYC, LA, and yes, even London on one measure: % of foreign born residents. In terms of integrating people from beyond its borders, it is remarkably successful.

Yeah, people keep forgetting inbetweens exists.

Does anyone you know talk about public transit using the terms "choice rider" and "captive rider"? If so, point them here: humantransit.org/2026/05/word...

Perhaps I should find and re-upload the clip of Gord ruining Peterson's election launch. www.thestar.com/news/gta/gor...

You’re absolutely right. I’m in my slop era, vibing. I’m getting bot-pilled — agent-maxxing. I’m going goblin mode

Why hasn't transit kept up with growth? @bettertransityyj.ca Chair Sam Holland argues that the Province has never taken transit as seriously as highways. When deficits need fixing, transit is first on the chopping block.

Issue is that your taxes will go up because of loss revenue. I'm not necessarily opposed, but you gotta bring up the secondary airports to compete first

LMFAO Elections Alberta literally sat on a privacy breach for a month: www.readtheline.ca/p/scoop-jen-...

Because smoking helps the economy (don't actually do it)

Not that uncommon. La Lega in Italy and Catalan separatism are similar cases.

New piece at the Globe: If Canadian governments expect seniors to downsize, and capital gains taxes on primary residences are off-limits, Canada will need to adopt Australia-like tax-advantaged savings plans for seniors who sell their homes. Read here:

Take a break from the discourse and quote this with a business you would want to start if you could afford to lose money on it

Maps like this are trying to bully you. It is in the nature of county-level data to suppress the distinct characteristics of urban populations. Central Seattle is no less real because it doesn't have a county to itself.

the platforms are WOOD, the ironwork is OLD, the traffic patterns are CONFUSING, i love the L

I support it so more people can get trashed and get home safely.

Go bother your congressmen then. Theyre the ones who made it mandatory.

Does Vancouver really want an MLB team? It is going to cost a lot of money

In Australia, free public transport is usually offered to ticket holders for major sporting events, funded by the event hosts as part of the fees the state government charges for using the stadium (which is on state land) including security (which is provided by state police) and transport.

Atlanta: It's the first weekday for the new bus network that we helped design. Let us know how it's going. itsmarta.com/nextgen2.aspx

exciting news 😍 line 5 already hits 50-60 on the surface section between intersections, so this is essentially lifting intersection speed limits entirely. combined w/ future TSP changes in summer, line 5 east might become proof of concept for working surface LRT in toronto (and its limitations).

When Alberta temporarily removed its gas tax, almost all of the tax decrease was passed on to consumers through lower prices

After years of impressive growth, transit in my hometown is declining. I hope it doesn't turn into a death spiral. Meanwhile, Caledon is looking to add new on-demand service, replacing its contracted fixed-routes provided by Brampton Transit. seanmarshall.ca/2026/04/14/c...

I keep saying, the median voter would support internal passports.

I'm drinking delicious tankie tears 😆

Why would I ever, ever, ever think this is just a con? Why? No clue. State revenue as % of gdp, Denmark v Mexico

We drunk debating if we should go to the FIDESZ election party and belligerently ask people what they think of Israel.

The Kelsey (disability-forward affordable housing developer/advocacy org) is hiring a senior manager of land use/bldg code, who'd lead a coalition for…ELEVATOR REFORM! Remote, pays up to $120k + benefits. Would involve working some with me, happy to talk if you're interested thekelsey.org/careers/

I'm late to the game but this is a great argument from @fernkhahn.com to treat the YongeUniversitySpadinaFinchVaughanYellow1 Line as two separate lines. Love it!

Its a bit strange when one of the biggest cheerleaders of the Canadian auto industry these days are Americans.