Nothing says energy crisis like the Carney Liberals paying Ford to build pickups, where they were going to be building EVs.

We at @spacing.bsky.social are trying to answer Billy Bishop questions our elected federal and provincial officials are avoiding answering. What would it cost, who will pay, and who benefits? Please read and share with people you know who are asking questions. Post this on neighbourhood lists.

I guess that what they're doing with the bourbon Canadians aren't buying.

same with canada! wait, no. sorry, what we're doing is selling off our airports to private companies

As we write in the book, we need less focus on adults who scream "I've lived in the city for the last 50 years and don't need bike lanes" and more focus on kids who say "I am going to live in the city for the *next* 50 years and want to be able to get around safely."

starting to think this guy kinda sucks

I've spent the last week deep in the shit that is the state of canadian democracy today and, guys in Ontario, the fact that nothing has been burned down or occupied over Doug Ford's insane attack on democracy is a very, very bad sign. It's a five alarm fire out there.

Secret government is totalitarian government. Full stop. Any water carrier is on that side. There are many.

Municipal-level population projections are insidious. Where and how we grow as a region is a political choice; they obscure that choice and tell us we simply must pay for extensive new infrastructure in the exurbs for all the people who are coming.

ahem: all the farmland being gobbled up for exurban development in small towns across ontario

I think I have to write a column about how the 401 came to be.

tfw you start measuring nuclear power in "# of plants worth of solar that could be built during the inevitable construction delay"

I've been saying we need a progressive DOGE that actually focuses on making government work well rather than undermining it. But we need a better name. So how about DOPE: the Department of Public Excellence.

Fast-speed trains are bad because rural residents are mad, but infilling one of the Great Lakes for the convenience of plane travel is good even if urban residents' quality of life and health plummets. These guys...

Read this! It’s not just Ottawa. It’s Hamilton and Toronto and everywhere else in Ontario. While our premier flies around in jets and swipes his pen to cancel safety programs, effectively killing future pedestrians with each signature.

Ford shut down safe consumption sites and is now turning the TTC into a police state to hide his mistake. The answer isn’t more enforcement, it’s more care. More mental health and addiction support, fund affordable housing, build shelters. That’s the solution. toronto.citynews.ca/2026/05/04/t...

since it's May 4th, I suppose I should re-up the only thing I've ever written about a Star Wars. more specifically, it's about how Syril Karn is a metaphor for reactionary centrists who can't help but “punch left” even as fascism is unfolding all around them: juliaserano.medium.com/syril-karn-a...

On Toronto's island airport, only Carney can stop the madness. Where is the case for an expansion? And what else could this place be? My column: www.theglobeandmail.com/canada/artic...

We're all used to massive delivery trucks blocking our streets, but what if we shifted a large chunk of urban logistics to cargo bikes? It doesn't have to be for every package, but making this swap creates more jobs and makes our neighborhoods significantly safer.

Doug Ford: 413, 400 expansion, tunnel, bike lanes, speed cameras private jet Federal Liberals: airport expansion between Downtown Toronto and Ottawa these people are fucking pathetic

What a clown. Every word of this is the most obvious nonsense.

It is the year 2006 and Canadian policymakers expect baby boomer downsizing to close the housing gap It is the year 2016 and Canadian policymakers expect baby boomer downsizing to close the housing gap It is the year 2026 and Canadian policymakers expect baby boom www.ctvnews.ca/business/rea...

2019-McGrath says hey what's up, how is this headline* holding up? *grudgingly credited to @gbayliss.bsky.social www.tvo.org/article/wait...

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Every truck I see reminds me of this.

"robotaxis can't work if they have to pay fines" is so similar to "LLMs can't work if they have to pay for training data"

This is just blocks away from where I was hit on Wednesday night. I was only OK because I was mercifully hit by a car and not by an SUV.

not the only or even main problem with this but these requirements significantly increase the cost of installing solar panels, while reducing the size of the array and casting shadows on the panels

Planners only want one thing and it's disgusting.

It totally doesn't matter that there are v few women around the PM, what were you all complaining about?

speed via @thebikinglawyer.bsky.social

This reminds me of some math I did last year. There are over 3000 places where two one-way n’hood streets intersect in Chicago. If we bumped out the curb to prevent parking within 30’ of the stop sign (which is the law, by the way) at half those intersections, we could depave 3 million sqft of road.

hard not to see the Carney administration as a corporate looting

I am broadly okay with these proposed categories, but the one that stands out to me is helmets. If I'm reading this right, this new legislation would require helmets to use the bike share e-bikes, and I think that's not a good idea.

Submit comments on proposed legislation to make it not illegal to carry kids on cargo bikes! There are some details about throttles, vehicle weight, and helmets, and I hope the community can provide some consensus and guidance on what we should ask for here. @velocanadabikes.bsky.social

Is there one example where privatizing a public asset has turned out to be beneficial for Canadians as a whole? Between Petro-Canada, Air Canada, Highway 407, Hydro One, all I see are regrets.

The federal government must become a visionary economic leader. And a glorified mutual fund isn’t going to cut it. By @hadrianmk.bsky.social #cdnpoli @policyalternatives.ca www.nationalobserver.com/2026/04/29/o...

Every time I see someone talk about Claude I think about how they switched from female to male names as soon as they wanted the robots to seem like experts vs personal assistants.

Safe consumption facilities are the worst policy option aside from no safe consumption facilities

It's clear from this map that the problem is actually America

Good evening: this is your semi-regular reminder that you can’t preserve or strengthen democracy without democratizing the economy and giving workers a greater share of wealth and control in the workplace.

Selling organs on the open market: “unlocking personal assets.”

Privatize the upside. Socialize the guarantee. That's Carney's $25B Canada Strong Fund. New blog on who actually bears the losses on this "sovereign wealth fund," and what the fuck we're actually building when we say "nation-building." deadfortaxreasons.wordpress.com/2026/04/28/p...

It's absurd that Carney is calling this a "sovereign wealth fund" when it's exactly the opposite. Norway took wealth from its resources and corporations to provide for it's citizens. Carney is taking wealth from the citizens to provide for corporations. #cdnpoli

Someone needs to write a good explainer of how this isn't a typical sovereign wealth fund by any conventional series of definitions, because Canadians who do self-directed investing are gonna need to understand the risk levels, if any, of putting money in here.

hey! did you know that in Ontario it is technically illegal to put your kids on an electric cargo bike? even one with a speed lockout of 25 kph and a max power of 250W? tell the ministry of transportation that they should fix this ero.ontario.ca/notice/026-0...

Banning surveillance pricing should be a no-brainer for governments. Companies shouldn't be allowed to spy on people so they can charge them more than the person standing next to them. Ban snitch pricing. Do it now. www.davidmoscrop.com/p/i-cant-bel...

Sorry, but self-driving cars are still cars. They won't "de-center" autocentric streets; they'll reinforce them. Silicon Valley made a similar urbanist pitch about ridehail 15 years ago. Turns out, cities with ridehail have *more* cars and miles driven, not less. The same will be true of AVs.

Thanks to Councillor Maureen Wilson for her opinion piece in the Spec today. Vibrancy starts on our city’s Main Street. There’s nothing vibrant about it now. It’s a sacrifice zone and downtowners are over it. Everyone who calls our downtown home deserves safer streets. #HamOnt

This is literally madness and we cannot let this happen. It will transform Canada in to a shelled out hellscape, in the service of a dead empire's whims.