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  1. Finally watched the "Cycling Toward a Cooler Toronto" film featuring @[email protected], @[email protected] & two other U of T civil engineers. Appreciated Shoshanna's desire to bring back open streets at the end. #BikeTO #TOpoli #ONpoli #VisionZero www.youtube.com/watch?v=gcPG...

    Cycling Toward a Cooler Toront...

  2. @Pkbwood Good advice.

    In Ontario, unfortunately, much of a candidate's honest answer about strengthening local democracy would have to be "take it up with your MPP."

    Canadian municipalities have no rights or responsibilities that the province can't take away at whim, as Premier Ford did with our safe-injection sites, bike lanes, and school boards. 🙁

    #ONpoli #elections

  3. @Pkbwood Good advice.

    In Ontario, unfortunately, much of a candidate's honest answer about strengthening local democracy would have to be "take it up with your MPP."

    Canadian municipalities have no rights or responsibilities that the province can't take away at whim, as Premier Ford did with our safe-injection sites, bike lanes, and school boards. 🙁

    #ONpoli #elections

  4. @Pkbwood Good advice.

    In Ontario, unfortunately, much of a candidate's honest answer about strengthening local democracy would have to be "take it up with your MPP."

    Canadian municipalities have no rights or responsibilities that the province can't take away at whim, as Premier Ford did with our safe-injection sites, bike lanes, and school boards. 🙁

    #ONpoli #elections

  5. @Pkbwood Good advice.

    In Ontario, unfortunately, much of a candidate's honest answer about strengthening local democracy would have to be "take it up with your MPP."

    Canadian municipalities have no rights or responsibilities that the province can't take away at whim, as Premier Ford did with our safe-injection sites, bike lanes, and school boards. 🙁

    #ONpoli #elections

  6. @Pkbwood Good advice.

    In Ontario, unfortunately, much of a candidate's honest answer about strengthening local democracy would have to be "take it up with your MPP."

    Canadian municipalities have no rights or responsibilities that the province can't take away at whim, as Premier Ford did with our safe-injection sites, bike lanes, and school boards. 🙁

    #ONpoli #elections

  7. Great clip from @[email protected] which shows how cycling can be more useful than transit for car-free families. Especially for trip chaining. Add this to all the other reasons why the Ford government's war on bikes is irresponsible! #BikeTO #TOpoli #ONpoli www.youtube.com/watch?v=zl9-...

    The Hidden Limitations of Publ...

  8. Great clip from @[email protected] which shows how cycling can be more useful than transit for car-free families. Especially for trip chaining. Add this to all the other reasons why the Ford government's war on bikes is irresponsible! #BikeTO #TOpoli #ONpoli www.youtube.com/watch?v=zl9-...

    The Hidden Limitations of Publ...

  9. Great clip from @[email protected] which shows how cycling can be more useful than transit for car-free families. Especially for trip chaining. Add this to all the other reasons why the Ford government's war on bikes is irresponsible! #BikeTO #TOpoli #ONpoli www.youtube.com/watch?v=zl9-...

    The Hidden Limitations of Publ...

  10. CW: #ONpoli cash bail?

    "Ontario’s cash bail system won’t make communities safer.

    Deterrence cannot be bought. This approach assumes that bail non-compliance is primarily a rational calculation. However, people may breach conditions because of unstable housing, addiction, mental health challenges or release conditions that are difficult to understand or realistically meet.

    … making the penalty more severe does not solve the problem."

    theconversation.com/ontarios-c #onPoli #CorrectionsReform

  11. CW: #ONpoli cash bail?

    "Ontario’s cash bail system won’t make communities safer.

    Deterrence cannot be bought. This approach assumes that bail non-compliance is primarily a rational calculation. However, people may breach conditions because of unstable housing, addiction, mental health challenges or release conditions that are difficult to understand or realistically meet.

    … making the penalty more severe does not solve the problem."

    theconversation.com/ontarios-c #onPoli #CorrectionsReform

  12. CW: #ONpoli cash bail?

    "Ontario’s cash bail system won’t make communities safer.

    Deterrence cannot be bought. This approach assumes that bail non-compliance is primarily a rational calculation. However, people may breach conditions because of unstable housing, addiction, mental health challenges or release conditions that are difficult to understand or realistically meet.

    … making the penalty more severe does not solve the problem."

    theconversation.com/ontarios-c #onPoli #CorrectionsReform

  13. CW: #ONpoli cash bail?

    "Ontario’s cash bail system won’t make communities safer.

    Deterrence cannot be bought. This approach assumes that bail non-compliance is primarily a rational calculation. However, people may breach conditions because of unstable housing, addiction, mental health challenges or release conditions that are difficult to understand or realistically meet.

    … making the penalty more severe does not solve the problem."

    theconversation.com/ontarios-c #onPoli #CorrectionsReform

  14. CW: #ONpoli cash bail?

    "Ontario’s cash bail system won’t make communities safer.

    Deterrence cannot be bought. This approach assumes that bail non-compliance is primarily a rational calculation. However, people may breach conditions because of unstable housing, addiction, mental health challenges or release conditions that are difficult to understand or realistically meet.

    … making the penalty more severe does not solve the problem."

    theconversation.com/ontarios-c #onPoli #CorrectionsReform

  15. Clown car stuff.

    “We are at a complete standstill on ALL of our FOI requests even if they don’t include political staff records?” one senior freedom of information coordinator asked in response to the freeze."

    #OnPoli

    RE: https://bsky.app/profile/did:plc:dmb64b62eb77vvvg2itoajb4/post/3muyyahgbzc2z

  16. Clown car stuff.

    “We are at a complete standstill on ALL of our FOI requests even if they don’t include political staff records?” one senior freedom of information coordinator asked in response to the freeze."

    #OnPoli

    RE: https://bsky.app/profile/did:plc:dmb64b62eb77vvvg2itoajb4/post/3muyyahgbzc2z

  17. RE: mstdn.social/@dalfen/117231110

    Just like Discount Trump here in #ontario
    Can't have bike lanes if they get in the way of burning fossil fuels. #topoli #onpoli #biketo

  18. RE: mstdn.social/@dalfen/117231110

    Just like Discount Trump here in #ontario
    Can't have bike lanes if they get in the way of burning fossil fuels. #topoli #onpoli #biketo

  19. RE: mstdn.social/@dalfen/117231110

    Just like Discount Trump here in #ontario
    Can't have bike lanes if they get in the way of burning fossil fuels. #topoli #onpoli #biketo

  20. RE: mstdn.social/@dalfen/117231110

    Just like Discount Trump here in #ontario
    Can't have bike lanes if they get in the way of burning fossil fuels. #topoli #onpoli #biketo

  21. RE: mstdn.social/@dalfen/117231110

    Just like Discount Trump here in #ontario
    Can't have bike lanes if they get in the way of burning fossil fuels. #topoli #onpoli #biketo

  22. One of the many upsetting things about the Ford government's attack on bike lanes:

    Prabmeet Sarkaria is the minister of transportation. He keeps saying that the bike lanes are unused and cause congestion.

    He is also the first turban-wearing Sikh to be appointed to cabinet.

    Any casual user of Toronto's bike lanes immediately notices that the most frequent year-round uses of the bike lanes are delivery drivers, many of whom are of Punjabi origins, just like Sarkaria.

    If Sarkaria doesn't want to hear "downtown activists", maybe he should hear from his own community.

    The people who will be most harmed by the bike lane removal are the delivery drivers. When a Punjabi delivery driver is killed in a car accident because he was cycling in a car lane, his blood will be is on Sarkaria's hands.

    I haven't seen cycling activists trying to organize Punjabi delivery guys. Probably has to do with race and class.

    #TOpoli #ONpoli

  23. One of the many upsetting things about the Ford government's attack on bike lanes:

    Prabmeet Sarkaria is the minister of transportation. He keeps saying that the bike lanes are unused and cause congestion.

    He is also the first turban-wearing Sikh to be appointed to cabinet.

    Any casual user of Toronto's bike lanes immediately notices that the most frequent year-round uses of the bike lanes are delivery drivers, many of whom are of Punjabi origins, just like Sarkaria.

    If Sarkaria doesn't want to hear "downtown activists", maybe he should hear from his own community.

    The people who will be most harmed by the bike lane removal are the delivery drivers. When a Punjabi delivery driver is killed in a car accident because he was cycling in a car lane, his blood will be is on Sarkaria's hands.

    I haven't seen cycling activists trying to organize Punjabi delivery guys. Probably has to do with race and class.

    #TOpoli #ONpoli

  24. One of the many upsetting things about the Ford government's attack on bike lanes:

    Prabmeet Sarkaria is the minister of transportation. He keeps saying that the bike lanes are unused and cause congestion.

    He is also the first turban-wearing Sikh to be appointed to cabinet.

    Any casual user of Toronto's bike lanes immediately notices that the most frequent year-round uses of the bike lanes are delivery drivers, many of whom are of Punjabi origins, just like Sarkaria.

    If Sarkaria doesn't want to hear "downtown activists", maybe he should hear from his own community.

    The people who will be most harmed by the bike lane removal are the delivery drivers. When a Punjabi delivery driver is killed in a car accident because he was cycling in a car lane, his blood will be is on Sarkaria's hands.

    I haven't seen cycling activists trying to organize Punjabi delivery guys. Probably has to do with race and class.

    #TOpoli #ONpoli

  25. One of the many upsetting things about the Ford government's attack on bike lanes:

    Prabmeet Sarkaria is the minister of transportation. He keeps saying that the bike lanes are unused and cause congestion.

    He is also the first turban-wearing Sikh to be appointed to cabinet.

    Any casual user of Toronto's bike lanes immediately notices that the most frequent year-round uses of the bike lanes are delivery drivers, many of whom are of Punjabi origins, just like Sarkaria.

    If Sarkaria doesn't want to hear "downtown activists", maybe he should hear from his own community.

    The people who will be most harmed by the bike lane removal are the delivery drivers. When a Punjabi delivery driver is killed in a car accident because he was cycling in a car lane, his blood will be is on Sarkaria's hands.

    I haven't seen cycling activists trying to organize Punjabi delivery guys. Probably has to do with race and class.

    #TOpoli #ONpoli

  26. One of the many upsetting things about the Ford government's attack on bike lanes:

    Prabmeet Sarkaria is the minister of transportation. He keeps saying that the bike lanes are unused and cause congestion.

    He is also the first turban-wearing Sikh to be appointed to cabinet.

    Any casual user of Toronto's bike lanes immediately notices that the most frequent year-round uses of the bike lanes are delivery drivers, many of whom are of Punjabi origins, just like Sarkaria.

    If Sarkaria doesn't want to hear "downtown activists", maybe he should hear from his own community.

    The people who will be most harmed by the bike lane removal are the delivery drivers. When a Punjabi delivery driver is killed in a car accident because he was cycling in a car lane, his blood will be is on Sarkaria's hands.

    I haven't seen cycling activists trying to organize Punjabi delivery guys. Probably has to do with race and class.

    #TOpoli #ONpoli

  27. My take: Doug Ford's success is inextricably tied to car dependency.

    Cars provide the illusion of independence: the driver does the work of piloting the machine, and is sealed off from everyone around them.

    Car dependent suburbs are stratified by income, reducing the income & race diversity of who folk are exposed to. All manner of unfamiliar people start to appear scary.

    Absent community, a folksy guy peddling low taxes and law & order looks just fine.

    #OnPoli

  28. My take: Doug Ford's success is inextricably tied to car dependency.

    Cars provide the illusion of independence: the driver does the work of piloting the machine, and is sealed off from everyone around them.

    Car dependent suburbs are stratified by income, reducing the income & race diversity of who folk are exposed to. All manner of unfamiliar people start to appear scary.

    Absent community, a folksy guy peddling low taxes and law & order looks just fine.

    #OnPoli

  29. My take: Doug Ford's success is inextricably tied to car dependency.

    Cars provide the illusion of independence: the driver does the work of piloting the machine, and is sealed off from everyone around them.

    Car dependent suburbs are stratified by income, reducing the income & race diversity of who folk are exposed to. All manner of unfamiliar people start to appear scary.

    Absent community, a folksy guy peddling low taxes and law & order looks just fine.

    #OnPoli

  30. My take: Doug Ford's success is inextricably tied to car dependency.

    Cars provide the illusion of independence: the driver does the work of piloting the machine, and is sealed off from everyone around them.

    Car dependent suburbs are stratified by income, reducing the income & race diversity of who folk are exposed to. All manner of unfamiliar people start to appear scary.

    Absent community, a folksy guy peddling low taxes and law & order looks just fine.

    #OnPoli

  31. My take: Doug Ford's success is inextricably tied to car dependency.

    Cars provide the illusion of independence: the driver does the work of piloting the machine, and is sealed off from everyone around them.

    Car dependent suburbs are stratified by income, reducing the income & race diversity of who folk are exposed to. All manner of unfamiliar people start to appear scary.

    Absent community, a folksy guy peddling low taxes and law & order looks just fine.

    #OnPoli

  32. Ontario's cash bail law is unconstitutional – and Ford knows it. BUT "they deliberately undermine confidence in #courts, plow under the Charter and #civilliberties, and use real human suffering to manufacture a political grievance." canadianlawyermag.com/news/opi

    #onpoli #judiciary

  33. Trump wants to rename Lake Ontario "Lake America" now?

    That's so funny! 🇨🇦We🇨🇦 are also planning to change it - to "Lake Release the Epstein Files You Hateful Diaper-Filling Troll!"

    #canpoli #uspoli #qcpoli #cdnpoli #onpoli #nbpoli #bcpoli #nfpoli #nspoli #abpoli #mbpoli #skpoli #trade #cusma #usmca

    Trump threatens to rename Lake...

  34. "Ford’s government has become one of the most #authoritarian and #undemocratic on record. He’s taken control of school boards and conservation authorities, undermined regulatory agencies and passed laws forbidding critics from running ads critical of his government or uncovering past or future scandals....It’s extraordinary how much power this government has centralized into the hands of the premier and the cabinet.” breachmedia.ca/the-rise-and-po

    #onpoli #grifters #corruption #DougFord #Ontario

  35. "Ford’s government has become one of the most #authoritarian and #undemocratic on record. He’s taken control of school boards and conservation authorities, undermined regulatory agencies and passed laws forbidding critics from running ads critical of his government or uncovering past or future scandals....It’s extraordinary how much power this government has centralized into the hands of the premier and the cabinet.” breachmedia.ca/the-rise-and-po

    #onpoli #grifters #corruption #DougFord #Ontario

  36. "Ford’s government has become one of the most #authoritarian and #undemocratic on record. He’s taken control of school boards and conservation authorities, undermined regulatory agencies and passed laws forbidding critics from running ads critical of his government or uncovering past or future scandals....It’s extraordinary how much power this government has centralized into the hands of the premier and the cabinet.” breachmedia.ca/the-rise-and-po

    #onpoli #grifters #corruption #DougFord #Ontario

  37. "Ford’s government has become one of the most #authoritarian and #undemocratic on record. He’s taken control of school boards and conservation authorities, undermined regulatory agencies and passed laws forbidding critics from running ads critical of his government or uncovering past or future scandals....It’s extraordinary how much power this government has centralized into the hands of the premier and the cabinet.” breachmedia.ca/the-rise-and-po

    #onpoli #grifters #corruption #DougFord #Ontario

  38. "Ford’s government has become one of the most #authoritarian and #undemocratic on record. He’s taken control of school boards and conservation authorities, undermined regulatory agencies and passed laws forbidding critics from running ads critical of his government or uncovering past or future scandals....It’s extraordinary how much power this government has centralized into the hands of the premier and the cabinet.” breachmedia.ca/the-rise-and-po

    #onpoli #grifters #corruption #DougFord #Ontario

  39. Are city-run grocery stores the answer to unaffordability of basic necessities and healthy food?

    I'm sure the Weston family and other oligarchs will find a way to lobby against such a things...

    ctvnews.ca/toronto/article/we- #hogtown #tdot #toronto #topoli #onpoli #onleg #cdnpoli #polcan #food #foodinsecurity #workingpoor

  40. Who mows a #swastika into their front lawn? A Nazi, that's who!

    "When someone shows you who they are, believe them the first time. People know themselves much better than you do. That's why it's important to stop expecting them to be something other than who they are." Maya Angelou

    cbc.ca/news/canada/london/swas #racism #antisemitism #nazisinontario #nazisincanada #cdnpoli #polcan #onpoli #onleg