Cambry Ardship

Notaries don't have to be lawyers in Ontario, but all lawyers can be notaries.

At least the Shaw-ness has been extended through Winona all the way to Eglinton. The intersection at Davenport still needs a lot of work when heading south though.

I'm very confused about exactly which qualities of Tory it is that's causing so many people to embarrass themselves recently

Why do you think this is not how Canadians view things?

Holy moly, that gap between us and the country to the south. Jeepers!

A screenshot of an RStudio window. On the left-hand side is a new pain called Posit Assistant. The Posit Assistant had recently run code making a lat-lon plot of Washington state, colored by whether the point had been marked as forested or not.

Today we're releasing AI for RStudio. It's really, really good—I'd encourage you to point it at the messiest data sources you have and see what it can do.

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My hot take is that the battles over TDSB control are basically downstream from the fact that Toronto City Council forced rust belt budget problems on the TDSB by pricing out families with children through their policies.
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Looking at this again, even after years, still makes my palms sweat

Ride CK: A rural connection After amalgamation in 1998, Chatham-Kent has shown what transit in rural Ontario can look like with long-term commitment.

I recently visited Chatham-Kent, a municipality that has operated rural transit for two decades now; it even runs a seasonal route to nearby beaches.

But it can only do so much; a provincial transportation strategy and sustained funding is needed.

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When you realize what you've done is actionable

A Few Claude Skills for R Users – R Works The community has come together to create some great Claude Skills that you can try out today.

I rounded up a few Claude Skills for #RStats users.

Huge thanks to the creators who developed them. They share Skills for everything from tidyverse code to brand.yml files to learning while using AI.

Hope the list is useful, and please let me know what I missed! 🧡

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I'm curious what specific cultural difference you noticed we have that weren't being respected?

It's not that Toronto's perfect, but if we want to talk about Canadian vs. American development patterns and how growth is directed, well...

I don't know I'd exactly call Yonge St one of the 'the worst roads'. There's strong reasons why development is going there even if the yellow belt needs to be changed

So when cases like 397 Pharmacy fail despite being generally in line with the bylaw but with a bit more space for bigger units, and fail with comments from the Committee indicating they hate the very idea and no variance would be minor enough, it tells others not to waste time applying.

The other thing is that it's easy to take OMERS and similar for granted but they really are remarkable policy innovations

The goal is to transfer risk to the private party, and with the maintenance part it's supposed to incentivize good construction because they'll be paying to do it. As always, devil lives in the details. Private financing is typically more expensive than what the govt can swing

I believe finance means the government will make regular payments over the life of the contract, while the consortium arranges financing for construction up front (sort of like a mortgage). Maintain means consortium pays to repair and clean it for the 30 year period. The ownership is still ontario

I think we have a philosophical difference--while some fare types should be free/subsidized, there's benefit to having fares contribute to operating costs. To be consistent, I would apply tolls to many more roads and highways in this province as well. But this is getting away from the main point!

That NYT expose was wild. But again, time is going to be an issue and cancellation in 2.5 years may have different implications than cancellation now, which unfortunately isn't going to happen.

The contact to design/build/finance/maintain was awarded.

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It would just be GO for most trips from out of town, no transfers. Kids under 12 are free on ttc and go, but 13-17 are youth fares, so there is something to refund.

It would be good to have free fares up to age 18 to build habits and familiarity with transit, but is a cost to making that policy

Cheers, you too!

Some people were talking about using it as a community centre or university campus. I think there's more potential than just that. It's a fantastic building and a hell of a site. Maybe some kind of international competition is needed to find a new direction for it.

Sure, but that's not going to happen with this government. By the time the election rolls around construction will be well underway on the new site, and there will be two extra years of no maintenance. It's fixable, but I don't see any realistic path to keeping the science centre there.

I mean, there's nothing but graded earth there now. Just a complete levelling. So what's going to be the new backbone of the system if Therme is no longer there?

That's the big question to me, with Therme. I think there'd need to be careful considerations of the penalties but this whole edifice has started on such a rotten foundation. To the extent that the spa falls through, that whole bit of the islands will need to be completely rethought, though.

It's already closed, there's deferred maintenance needed, and there's signed contracts to build a new one. The next provincial election is in 2.5 years. This isn't about obeying in advance, it's about assessing the situation as it is, and deciding how best to go about from that point.

The parking garage is going to be very close iirc and the go station which is going to be greatly expanded is close by too.

Yeah, but this is the attempt. What's the best way for a future government to deal with the mess on the waterfront, I'm not sure, but I don't think the genie can be put back into the bottle. Maybe it's rethinking exhibition place.