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I should compile a page of these somewhere. Every single one of them is rhe same, whether it is Calgary, Edmonton, Ottawa, Toronto, Montreal, Halifax

Hey look, it is yet another ward map where suburbs try to kill urban things. But amalgamation is great!

Never forget, a 13-year study found that protected bike-lanes led to a drastic decline in fatalities for all road users. ALL ROAD USERS. What about painted bike-lanes? No safety improvement at all. For sharrows, it’s actually safer to NOT have them. Via @usa.streetsblog.org @nyc.streetsblog.org

5. On bike lanes, let’s stop fighting one street at a time and agree on what a complete network should look like: closing gaps, making it work for all road users and considering raised lanes or other compromises if that’s what consensus will take. We could advance that vision in year one. (6/12)

Just published @thelancet.com Declaring climate change as a global health emergency And what needs to be done about it www.thelancet.com/journals/lan...

Mad I live in a green box. I haaaaate my councillor.

This how Calgary City council voted today on whether to pause all building of bicycle lanes on streets. The premise was the province may intervene so stop now to prevent rip out costs later. #yycBike #yyc #Calgary

hope he's sad about it 😌

Only four days away from the greatest holiday of the year: the end of daylight savings time

Cries in “Pacific Time”.

Beautiful day for a little hike.

Civilization won’t withstand 3 degrees. All hands on deck to keep things under 2.0.

"…be ready for a 3°C rise in global temperatures" …says the European Commissioner for Climate @wopkehoekstra.ec.europa.eu @ec.europa.eu 🤡 Facts: link.springer.com/chapter/10.1... "With 3 degrees of global warming, we can therefore expect around 6 degrees of warming on land." #ClimateCatastrophe 😱

This headline is not subject to Betteridge’s law, Cambridge, Ontario *will almost certainly* get rapid transit before UBC.

Will Cambridge, Ontario get rapid transit before UBC?

New job idea: I want to be a city counselor. No, not a councilor, that sounds awful, but someone who sits down with a city and helps it talk through its problems.

The Time Zones experienced a very large magnitude earthquake resulting in a 700 km displacement along a sinestral strike-slip fault running approximately 49 degrees N across the entire continent of North America.

www.youtube.com/watch?v=yJyQ...

TLDR; there are a massive number of overseas manufacturers who are making their living off regulatory loopholes that make it too easy to import dangerous e-motorcycles if you *call* them e-bikes, or add enough "e-bike-like" features to get past customs. And often, they're being marketed to kids.

...and as a result, *real* e-bikes — which are basically traditional bikes that are a little easier to pedal up hills, and rarely go above normal-bike speeds — are smeared in the press, targeted for restrictive state laws, and have their potential to get people out of cars badly suppressed.

I’m not sure it’s a warning sign? She crushed Bradford, and won not just the downtown core (where she won *huge*), but also won enough votes deep into the suburbs that have been hard for progressives to win. There simply isn’t a path for bike-riding pinkos to win big in the deep amalgamated burbs.

I've always believed Oxford Street could be so much more than a road. Today we begin a new chapter as the nation’s high street goes traffic free, creating a place where people can spend time, enjoy the atmosphere and experience the very best of our city.

Sutcliffe is a symptom of a governance problem. Amalgamated Ottawa is a failure and needs to be divided into normal cities and towns again.

I mean, Amalgamation of Ottawa was meant to do just that - to end a progressive city council. And yet, if not for a mayoral candidate who had no business running for mayor (yet), the voters may have finally defeated Mike Harris.

Dude, I feel so bad for Ottawa. Toronto sucks because it got amalgamated with suburbs, but who the fuck thought it would be a good idea to amalgamate a city with farmland

Good try, really. It was worth it and honestly could have been yours if people read the writing on the wall. Want to lead the campaign for de-amaglamation? Everyone would get what they want and need. We never will with Ottawa in its current form, it will forever hold us back.

Well, it SUCKS here in Ottawa, man I just love it here in the Kingdom of the Parking Lot

Had a discussion on why voters would vote against their interests at my comparative politics seminar two weeks ago. I used Ottawa as an example. There is a proven winning formula, people vote for candidates that would keep the tax low, below the level truly required. www.cbc.ca/news/canada/...

Good morning Ottawa. Bonjour Ottawa.

Olivia Chow now has a strong mandate to pursue Toronto separatism.

It's voting day! But political participation is not evenly distributed across TO. We mapped the last 3 trips to the polls to the city's 585 census tracts and calculated turnout - it differs from election to election, but broad geographic patterns recur https://ow.ly/eUwL5100MH9

There are more people in Mississauga than the City of Vancouver

Don’t look now, but even London, Ontario elected a progressive council (and reelected a very centrist mayor) tonight. Good news there for a change.

Turnover at a glance: Nunziata –> Padovani Perks –> Chan McNally Saxe –> Layton Moise –> Stikuts Fletcher –> Ehrhardt Bradford –> Erskine-Smith Myers –> Chen Other than the loss of Myers, this is going to be a pretty strong Council for Chow.

Watching members of the Ottawa establishment fawn over Sutcliffe's win over in the Bad Place is just nauseating.

let's go toronto

The death of bike lanes have been greatly exaggerated.

Between tonight’s definitive Chow re-election and the people showing up for our bike lanes the last week goddamn does it feel good to love Toronto these days!! ❤️

Are there bike lanes in these places?

Fun fact: There are 443 municipalities in Ontario that are holding elections today, in addition to Toronto

Yup been saying this for the last 3 elections, what the suburbs and rural people want and need is so different then what us urban dwellers need and we are second thoughts. What is so close to being a great city is watered down again and again. Who's starting the campaign?

Burlington Ontario candidate hilariously handles her defaced signs 

Is this like the maybe surprising fact that Laval (the Mississauga of Quebec) has a mayor who wrote a book on car-free neighbourhoods?

Good job, Toronto.