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Aaron Binder
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Director betterwayalliance.ca | Where good business grows.

3X Business Owner | Serial cyclist
Toronto | Hamilton | Indonesia | Canada

Highly professional human desiring bad boy status.
Pinned
I too have remembered butter.
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here's the 60 minutes cecot video part 1 of 5 - recorded/uploaded by and all credit to @jasonparis.bsky.social

I just reduced background noise, chopped the 14 minutes into 3 minute segments each compressed under 100 mb for bsky's limits, cropped and rotated a few degrees for easier viewing on here
December 22, 2025 at 10:58 PM
Huge news for 4 million precarious workers in the UK.

"Measures include curbs on exploitative zero hours contracts, day-one sick pay and better protections for new mothers and expectant women"

A great step forward for UK workers & businesses: www.positive.news/society/good...
December 20, 2025 at 1:57 PM
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"How modern capital captures control, drains cash flow, and leaves economies weaker."

Your semi-ocassional reminder that you will own nothing and be happy was invented by hyper-capitalists who create zero actual value.

Read @rachelwasserman.bsky.social | graceblakeley.substack.com/p/parasiti-c...
December 15, 2025 at 11:35 PM
"Dogs find you unpleasant" is the most cutting insult I've ever read.
”rob reiner was a zionist achtually and its good he’s dead“

okay buddie, dogs find you unpleasant
December 15, 2025 at 11:53 PM
"How modern capital captures control, drains cash flow, and leaves economies weaker."

Your semi-ocassional reminder that you will own nothing and be happy was invented by hyper-capitalists who create zero actual value.

Read @rachelwasserman.bsky.social | graceblakeley.substack.com/p/parasiti-c...
December 15, 2025 at 11:35 PM
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AI-generated “synthetic respondents” can now pass the vast majority of fraud, attention, logic, and CAPTCHA checks used in opt-in online survey-based polling.

They can do this cheaply and at scale.

Often without being detected.

(1/3)
December 13, 2025 at 10:09 PM
Want to support Canadian businesses that give a damn about their employees?

Check out the @betterwayalliance.bsky.social 2025 gift guide:
betterwayalliance.ca/bwa-2025-hol...
December 10, 2025 at 6:25 PM
A truly heartwarming investigation ❤️❤️
November 27, 2025 at 1:13 PM
A sincerely thank you to @anotherglassbox.bsky.social for being a real champion on neighbourhood retail in Toronto.

It's weird we needed one for *corner stores* but there was and is nobody better for this fight.
The neighbourhood retail report as amended CARRIES 23-2.

Toronto Council votes to permit corner stores in all Old Toronto & East York wards, and expands permission for retail on some (but not all) major streets city-wide.
November 13, 2025 at 9:58 PM
Yeah, it's the rent.

Between 2019-2024, retail rents in Toronto spiked by 142%.

Data - betterwayalliance.ca/the-fixed-co...
Holyday now has a picture of a local strip mall. He says these businesses can barely survive on a busy street, so he doesn't believe this notion that any "lovely stores" will survive on local streets.
November 13, 2025 at 5:44 PM
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I'm hardly a hardcore free-market libertarian, but it does seem like the reality of market forces should be a bigger part of this debate. The basic reason you don't need to worry about a 24/7 bar/potshop/noise-making emporium setting up on a small street is basically "there's no demand for it."
November 13, 2025 at 3:58 PM
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These are absurd timelines for installing speed bumps and doing road redesigns. Twelve motions to investigate speed bumps? Sixteen months to install? A decade for a road redesign? www.thestar.com/news/gta/dou...
November 4, 2025 at 4:56 PM
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I don’t have a whole lot of advice for people younger than me but the earlier in life you stop worrying about what other people will think and just wholeheartedly enjoy the stuff you like the happier you’ll be
One thing people kind of tell you, but not really, about middle age:

One day you'll be like "oh [thing] looks fun but people will think I'm a loser" about a thing

And then you'll say. Wait a second.

Fuck 'em
Darn Tough turned me on to Cute Socks and I've never looked back
November 11, 2025 at 1:24 AM
"David Fleming says 267 square foot units like this tend to be built with investors, not tenants, in mind.

'No one is able to pull that off nowadays, which really makes me curious who are these condos for?'"

They're for investors. Story coming in post 2 👇👇

ici.radio-canada.ca/rci/en/news/...
November 10, 2025 at 5:03 PM
"Back in early 2020, about 11% of Amazon’s job postings were in offshore locations.

The percentage started climbing during the pandemic hiring boom and just… kept going. By 2023, it had hit 20%. Today? Nearly 28%."

Offshoring, not AI, is displacing US jobs at Amazon bloomberry.com/blog/amazons...
November 9, 2025 at 6:23 PM
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The budget.

It puts $5 billion into “health infrastructure,” which sounds like healthcare funding. But is it?

My breakdown for Canada Healthwatch looks at what’s new, what’s missing, and why health is now being framed as infrastructure.
November 8, 2025 at 5:59 PM
I wonder how this changes over the next 3 months.

"Which of the following politicians do you think is to blame for Canada not having reached an agreement with the United States to reduce tariffs since the last election?"

Empirical Intelligence poll data - empiricalintelligence.ca/budgetsurvey...
November 8, 2025 at 4:26 PM
Not everyone's cup of tea but the 2025 Distillery District Winter Village starts in 6 days!

I've put together a Planning Guide, FAQ & rundown of tours my company is offering. The village free most days/times & that's usually when crowds are sparsest.

Details | www.gotourscanada.com/2025-distill...
November 7, 2025 at 2:50 PM
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Toronto Bike Share is one of the best city programs ever.

While I own 5 bikes - Bike Share is fantastic for quick jaunts downtown. It's also huge for tourism in Toronto and we need to talk about this more!

Read @torontotoday.ca | www.torontotoday.ca/local/city-h...
October 20, 2025 at 9:33 PM
"Hey baby, wanna kill all humans?"

When I think of who should be in charge of a giant robot army - it's not a dude who gets FOMO about not being in charge of the robot army.

Or the world's richest human.

Yet, they're the same person.

@arstechnica.com | arstechnica.com/tech-policy/...
November 7, 2025 at 4:07 AM
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Right about now, the honk shoo brother
November 6, 2025 at 2:02 PM
One day we'll be a real city.

And Dan will be the real mayor that cares.
I wrote an op-ed on what I think about the fight for local neighbourhood retail (and the grousing about Badiali's) means for the urban vision of Toronto. Gift link here: www.thestar.com/opinion/cont...
When even the humble corner store is impossible to open in Toronto, it’s a sign of something deeply wrong
We need to accept that Toronto is now a big city.
www.thestar.com
November 6, 2025 at 12:18 AM
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November 5, 2025 at 2:41 AM
Yukon Voters: "Okay, yeah, let's adopt ranked voting!"

Yukon Party: "This whole exercise has been a waste of money,"

You were so close, Yukon: www.cbc.ca/news/canada/...
November 5, 2025 at 2:22 AM