Glad to see Metrolinx reducing reliance on expensive third party consultants and building more in-house expertise!
If Ontario is going to spend $70 billion to build out “the largest transit expansion in North America,” we must build the institutional knowledge to do so effectively & efficiently.
i spent all summer organizing for dedicated transit lanes against typical toronto nimbys who claimed that "emergency vehicles would get stuck in traffic and more people would die"
anyways, here's real life:
‼️#España 🇪🇸 : 🏛️ Moncloa recuerda a Trump que debe respetar a las empresas y los acuerdos con la UE 🇪🇺
🌷 Yolanda Díaz: “España no acepta chantajes”.
💧 Feijóo acusa a Sánchez de dañar la posición internacional y promete firmeza en 🇪🇺 y alinearse con la OTAN.
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Is it really so hard for Mark Carney to say something like this instead of constantly defending US breaches of international law?
Car crash
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Safe Parkside, site of the speed camera that was cut down over & over leading to Doug ford banning them, reports another high speed crash on Saturday via their IG account. Somebody will die here again. Doug Ford’s Ontario.
This is an insane electoral system
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Replacement double blade switch assemblies with built in electronic controls with transponders and heaters are what should be on display at a Canadian rail transit conference in my opinion. Wouldn’t you think so too?
If you don’t think that separatism is not causing Alberta reputational and investment damage, think again.
Germany’s leading magazine highlights the instability.
”Separatisten in Alberta - diese Trump-Fans wollen raus aus Kanada - DER SPIEGEL”
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#ableg
Operation E. F. Subtle, real subtle.
Not a single person in this video by City News on Sixplexes is a 30 something struggle to stay in the city. It's all people who already got there's.
People who want to pull up the ladder behind themselves are free to their opinions, but that's not news.
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Douglas Todd: Jarring 18-storey tower on leafy Vancouver street a sign of the out-of-scale times About 10 steel-and-glass highrises, much like the one proposed for Yukon and 14th, are set to arise among character homes within the Broadway plan zone. https://vancouversun.com/opinion/columnists/douglas-todd-18-storey-tower-vancouver-out-scale-times
Douglas Todd: Hundreds of quiet east Vancouver side streets upzoned for six-storey apartment blocks Some residents in the vast Rupert and Renfrew area did not know their pleasant side streets had been upzoned for six- to eight-storey apartment blocks. It calls into question the city of Vancouver's murky "engagement strategy." https://vancouversun.com/opinion/columnists/douglas-todd-hundreds-of-quiet-east-vancouver-side-streets-upzoned-for-six-storey-apartment-blocks
'Monstrosities' or the evolution of housing? Multi-unit buildings on single-family lots gain traction in B.C. cities The number of multi-unit developments on single-family lots is increasing in B.C. neighbourhoods dominated by single-detached houses. Opinions vary over what these changes will mean for communities. https://vancouversun.com/news/local-news/multiplex-feature
Anakin/Padme meme I oppose this building because it's too tall It's just this building, not all new housing? You are not against all new housing, right?
A storey in four acts as captured by local news media:
18 storeys is too high, we’d be fine with 4-6 storeys
6 storeys are too big, we'd be fine with multiplexes
Multiplexes are monstrosities, we are fine with existing post-Second World War bungalows
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i will never not sing the praises of living in a city where the subways come every 3 minutes on a saturday.
trains aren't just for 9-5 office workers, and I'm glad toronto understands that
Not only that, but the U.S. is also Vietnam’s top export market, not China. If Vietnam can successfully avoid over-dependence on its giant neighbour, why can’t Canada? A message for continental determinists.
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Je condamne fermement les bombardements américains et israéliens sur l’Iran. Il s’agit d’une dangereuse escalade qui risque d’emporter toute la région dans un conflit majeur. Le régime oppressif et sanglant actuel est condamnable mais son programme nucléaire doit être surveillé par l’ONU et l’AIEA.
Sánchez rechaza la “acción militar unilateral” de EE UU e Israel: “Supone una escalada y contribuye a un orden internacional más incierto” dozz.es/9fe645
"The system's power comes not from its truth, but from everyone's willingness to perform as if it were true, and its fragility comes from the same source. When even one person stops performing, when the greengrocer removes his sign, the illusion begins to crack"
- Mark Carney
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Dozens of districts where the conservatives are simply not competitive but people still tactically voted for this man.
They better learn, or Canada will become a 2-party system and a 51st state in all but name.
Lots of academics I really respect are highlighting this misunderstanding, which I’ve apparently also fallen prey to.
But there’s an important point here:
What did Carney think laymen would take away from his speech when he spoke of taking a sign out of a window in the face of a bullying regime?
Picture of a social/supportive housing project in the Yaletown community in downtown Vancouver. Text says “if we don’t build housing to solve homelessness, we don’t really want to solve homelessness.” Logo of the urban truth collective in the corner.
If we don’t build housing to solve homelessness, we don’t really want to solve homelessness. #UrbanTruth
Sometimes complaints about apartments talk about the lack of green space or how parks end up next to busy roads. "Why can't we have courtyards?" people wonder.
Yesterday, a TCHC proposal with a courtyard got called a prison yard. People just misusing words to make any negative association they can.
New Canadian trade deal with India only allows for 1 assassination per year
BART proves that more policing =\= safer transit (or the perception of safety)
it's more overpoliced than TTC, but means nothing because the underlying issue is the bay has a more dystopian housing crisis, there is little shelter space, & public services (esp health) in the US is abysmally funded.
Councillor Kandavel is dreaming if he thinks young families can buy bungalows. They are snapped up by builders who replace them with expensive monster homes. So much for "neighbourhood character" -- except giant houses are OK 'cause they keep renters out, right?
Traditional crapping on renters.
Colleague @poppedculture.bsky.social came into the office today ranting about this which I hadn't even seen yet but: "the rule of law for land use in Canada" remains an absolutely revolutionary political objective that nobody is interested in. www.thestar.com/news/gta/six...
“Never vote Conservative again”: Former Diageo workers say they feel betrayed after Doug Ford’s much-publicized Crown Royal stunt ends in plant closure and a $23 million settlement, less than 5% of which will benefit the affected communities www.cbc.ca/news/canada/... #onpoli #onlab
I think it should take fewer than 19 years to approve a new school.
