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Is that why he got rid of speeding cameras that demonstrably worked in school zones? To stop people from being killed?
Ontario to strengthen dangerous driving laws in honour of father killed this year
Ontario to strengthen dangerous driving laws in honour of father killed this year
TORONTO - Dangerous driving penalties are set to soon be strengthened in Ontario, as the government has tabled a bill in honour of a father of three who was killed
www.thestar.com
November 25, 2025 at 8:27 PM
Is that why he got rid of speeding cameras that demonstrably worked in school zones? To stop people from being killed?
I used to live near here and loved how much people biked. Now I live in Scarborough and needed a second car because the bus can’t reliably get me to daycare pickup in time, so I drive and park at the subway. But it’s 3.5km from the subway to my kids daycare, which would be an easy bike ride.
I walked along a few kms of College St this morning before 9am. Day care drop then carried on. Watched the people push and cycle their kids around, some dad on a cargo bike waved & said hi to some tweens walking in front of me. All very Sesame Street.
And this gov't has contempt for it all.
And this gov't has contempt for it all.
November 24, 2025 at 6:15 PM
I used to live near here and loved how much people biked. Now I live in Scarborough and needed a second car because the bus can’t reliably get me to daycare pickup in time, so I drive and park at the subway. But it’s 3.5km from the subway to my kids daycare, which would be an easy bike ride.
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Think of your favorite celebrity, whether they’re an actor, musician, athlete, whatever.
They’re probably pretty well-off, financially. But they are still closer to auctioning off their possessions to cover medical bills than they are to being a billionaire.
They’re probably pretty well-off, financially. But they are still closer to auctioning off their possessions to cover medical bills than they are to being a billionaire.
James Van Der Beek is auctioning off ‘Dawson’s Creek’ and ‘Varsity Blues’ merchandise to pay for his cancer treatments.
James Van Der Beek Sells Dawson’s Creek Merch to Pay for Cancer Treatment
James Van Der Beek is auctioning off ‘Dawson’s Creek’ and ‘Varsity Blues’ merchandise to pay for his cancer treatments.
www.vulture.com
November 14, 2025 at 4:20 PM
Think of your favorite celebrity, whether they’re an actor, musician, athlete, whatever.
They’re probably pretty well-off, financially. But they are still closer to auctioning off their possessions to cover medical bills than they are to being a billionaire.
They’re probably pretty well-off, financially. But they are still closer to auctioning off their possessions to cover medical bills than they are to being a billionaire.
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A man (a crossing guard!) is dead at the hands of a dump truck driver, and the Mayor is here to tell us that people walking and cycling have "a role to play in keeping our community safe."
No, Andrea. The dump truck driver has to not kill people, and you have to not let him kill people. That's it!
No, Andrea. The dump truck driver has to not kill people, and you have to not let him kill people. That's it!
November 14, 2025 at 12:48 PM
A man (a crossing guard!) is dead at the hands of a dump truck driver, and the Mayor is here to tell us that people walking and cycling have "a role to play in keeping our community safe."
No, Andrea. The dump truck driver has to not kill people, and you have to not let him kill people. That's it!
No, Andrea. The dump truck driver has to not kill people, and you have to not let him kill people. That's it!
Can someone make this shirt but say “November Baseball” instead?
November 2, 2025 at 2:03 AM
Can someone make this shirt but say “November Baseball” instead?
Canadians take pride in the whole “we burned down the White House” thing that happened during the revolutionary war before Canada was even a country.
I never thought the next time the White House was badly damaged would be by the act of their own president.
I never thought the next time the White House was badly damaged would be by the act of their own president.
October 31, 2025 at 12:22 PM
Canadians take pride in the whole “we burned down the White House” thing that happened during the revolutionary war before Canada was even a country.
I never thought the next time the White House was badly damaged would be by the act of their own president.
I never thought the next time the White House was badly damaged would be by the act of their own president.
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An adult driver angry at a child they hit with their car.
Our car culture summed up in one video.
Our car culture summed up in one video.
Police in Airdrie, Alberta (just north of Calgary) say this driver hit a 17-year-old girl in a marked crosswalk, got out of the vehicle, and appeared to get upset at the teenager before driving away.
They released this video and are now trying to identify the driver.
They released this video and are now trying to identify the driver.
October 7, 2025 at 7:15 PM
An adult driver angry at a child they hit with their car.
Our car culture summed up in one video.
Our car culture summed up in one video.
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I see pieces like this a lot, often w/ a spin of lamenting cultural degeneration, but reading is a LABOR issue, it’s declined because so many people are working overtime or two jobs & employers expect after hours work. France has Earth’s highest reading rate b/c long lunch breaks & labor protections
October 7, 2025 at 12:25 AM
I see pieces like this a lot, often w/ a spin of lamenting cultural degeneration, but reading is a LABOR issue, it’s declined because so many people are working overtime or two jobs & employers expect after hours work. France has Earth’s highest reading rate b/c long lunch breaks & labor protections
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So just to be clear, all taxpayers will pay for traffic calming instead of fining the people that speed and leaving everyone else alone. We like this for a policy change? Are we so afraid of going after the actual rule breakers that we would rather put it on the back of everybody?
September 25, 2025 at 11:56 AM
So just to be clear, all taxpayers will pay for traffic calming instead of fining the people that speed and leaving everyone else alone. We like this for a policy change? Are we so afraid of going after the actual rule breakers that we would rather put it on the back of everybody?
You can never convince me that getting a fine for doing something illegal is a cash grab.
There’s a speed camera in front of my house so I go by it a lot. You know what else is in front of my house? An elementary school with a daycare inside, four bus stops for two bus lines, and a crosswalk.
There’s a speed camera in front of my house so I go by it a lot. You know what else is in front of my house? An elementary school with a daycare inside, four bus stops for two bus lines, and a crosswalk.
#StarExclusive: Premier Doug Ford is set to ban the speed cameras that he has denounced as a municipal “cash grab,” the Star has learned.
Doug Ford will outlaw municipal speed cameras this fall: Sources
Sources say Ford's Progressive Conservatives will table legislation later this fall to outlaw the "automated speed enforcement" devices.
www.thestar.com
September 25, 2025 at 12:00 PM
You can never convince me that getting a fine for doing something illegal is a cash grab.
There’s a speed camera in front of my house so I go by it a lot. You know what else is in front of my house? An elementary school with a daycare inside, four bus stops for two bus lines, and a crosswalk.
There’s a speed camera in front of my house so I go by it a lot. You know what else is in front of my house? An elementary school with a daycare inside, four bus stops for two bus lines, and a crosswalk.
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In the UK he would have lost his license within a month or two. In Canada he apparently gets infinite leeway to drive dangerously as long as he's rich enough to pay the fine, and apparently entitled enough to feel bullied.
Driver who racks up between $300 and $400 a month in speeding and parking tickets feels like he’s "being bullied.” www.ctvnews.ca/toronto/arti...
September 24, 2025 at 3:08 PM
In the UK he would have lost his license within a month or two. In Canada he apparently gets infinite leeway to drive dangerously as long as he's rich enough to pay the fine, and apparently entitled enough to feel bullied.
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I like Jimmy Kimmel. I really do. I have no issues with him.
I'm talking about something very different.
Kimmel was only suspended. But he's back now. Karen Attiah and all the other Black journalists are still fired.
Y'all do know how to fight, when you want to.
But you don't really want to. 🤷🏿♂️
I'm talking about something very different.
Kimmel was only suspended. But he's back now. Karen Attiah and all the other Black journalists are still fired.
Y'all do know how to fight, when you want to.
But you don't really want to. 🤷🏿♂️
September 23, 2025 at 11:55 AM
I like Jimmy Kimmel. I really do. I have no issues with him.
I'm talking about something very different.
Kimmel was only suspended. But he's back now. Karen Attiah and all the other Black journalists are still fired.
Y'all do know how to fight, when you want to.
But you don't really want to. 🤷🏿♂️
I'm talking about something very different.
Kimmel was only suspended. But he's back now. Karen Attiah and all the other Black journalists are still fired.
Y'all do know how to fight, when you want to.
But you don't really want to. 🤷🏿♂️
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This is an important point about keeping the focus on fascism instead of on Kimmel himself. There's a decent chance this ends with Kimmel getting his show back by making a statement about how we should all try to get along and how he supports ABC blah, blah. You don't want to tie yourself to that.
I wish people would stop simplifying this to "I quit Disney because they fired Kimmel." Nah. I quit Disney because they bent the knee to a fascist. I don't even like Kimmel but next will be someone I do. Below is the right take.
DISNEY: Wins 5 Emmys for ANDOR, a show about resisting fascism
ALSO DISNEY: Bends the knee to the federal government and suspends Jimmy Jimmy Kimmel for resisting fascism
ALSO DISNEY: Bends the knee to the federal government and suspends Jimmy Jimmy Kimmel for resisting fascism
September 22, 2025 at 6:12 PM
This is an important point about keeping the focus on fascism instead of on Kimmel himself. There's a decent chance this ends with Kimmel getting his show back by making a statement about how we should all try to get along and how he supports ABC blah, blah. You don't want to tie yourself to that.
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one of the most important technological revolutions in modern history and you're likely not hearing anything about it because it's making the oligarchs who control our information environment poorer instead of richer
Time for the world to install a gigawatt of solar power capacity
2004: A year
2010: ~ a month
2015: ~ a week
Now: A day
ourworldindata.org/data-insight... 🧪
2004: A year
2010: ~ a month
2015: ~ a week
Now: A day
ourworldindata.org/data-insight... 🧪
September 15, 2025 at 5:04 AM
one of the most important technological revolutions in modern history and you're likely not hearing anything about it because it's making the oligarchs who control our information environment poorer instead of richer
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This was just last month and we have already memoryholed it. A cop killed by an antivaxxer.
September 11, 2025 at 4:15 AM
This was just last month and we have already memoryholed it. A cop killed by an antivaxxer.
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Remembering MN house speaker Melissa Hortman, her husband Mark and their beloved dog Gilbert. Murdered in June at their home by a rightwing Trump-voting evangelist, who also shot another MN lawmaker and his wife at THEIR home, 9 and 8 times, respectively (miraculously, they survived).
September 11, 2025 at 5:50 AM
Remembering MN house speaker Melissa Hortman, her husband Mark and their beloved dog Gilbert. Murdered in June at their home by a rightwing Trump-voting evangelist, who also shot another MN lawmaker and his wife at THEIR home, 9 and 8 times, respectively (miraculously, they survived).
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every time there's political violence discourse i think about how jo cox was assassinated in broad daylight by a fascist who shouted "britain first" as he shot her, and now nine years later her party is dedicating every moment in power to placating the ideology of her murderer
September 10, 2025 at 11:41 PM
every time there's political violence discourse i think about how jo cox was assassinated in broad daylight by a fascist who shouted "britain first" as he shot her, and now nine years later her party is dedicating every moment in power to placating the ideology of her murderer
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Our politics seems to be entering a phase of "right supremacy" where only the lives of right-wingers have value. Assassinating the leader of a state legislative body in her own damn home was business as usual, but all of America has to have a reckoning if it's a far-right online influencer.
September 11, 2025 at 2:34 AM
Our politics seems to be entering a phase of "right supremacy" where only the lives of right-wingers have value. Assassinating the leader of a state legislative body in her own damn home was business as usual, but all of America has to have a reckoning if it's a far-right online influencer.
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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.
And 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
ALL ROAD USERS.
And 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
Separated Bike Lanes Means Safer Streets, Study Says — Streetsblog USA
Cities that build protected lanes for cyclists end up with safer roads for people on bikes and people in cars and on foot, a new study of 12 large metropolises revealed Wednesday.
usa.streetsblog.org
September 1, 2025 at 5:04 AM
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.
And 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
ALL ROAD USERS.
And 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
I’m about to take a toddler and a 7 year old on VIA to Montreal. Definitely thought about driving instead.
We did 2 weeks in Italy in the spring w a toddler and some big luggages + stroller. Two coasts, some big cities, some small towns. We could never do it in Canada, not because of lack of rails (well) but our weird rules that encourage people to just rent a car.
Travelling Poland by train with a toddler the last two weeks and it’s been great! Dining cars, unlimited luggage, bike racks, special accessible cabins, plugs at every seat, easy online purchasing apps, etc…
August 21, 2025 at 12:54 PM
I’m about to take a toddler and a 7 year old on VIA to Montreal. Definitely thought about driving instead.
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It's really weird to demand accountability from a NYC mayoral candidate for a deadly NYC shooting rather than the current NYC mayor, an ex-cop who campaigned on a "tough on crime" platform and promptly got indicted for crimes
July 31, 2025 at 4:53 PM
It's really weird to demand accountability from a NYC mayoral candidate for a deadly NYC shooting rather than the current NYC mayor, an ex-cop who campaigned on a "tough on crime" platform and promptly got indicted for crimes
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July 30, 2025 at 4:45 PM
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oh my fucking god
July 27, 2025 at 2:56 PM
oh my fucking god
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ozzy osbourne dies
everyone: "enjoy hell (complimentary)"
hulk hogan dies
everyone: "enjoy hell (derogatory)"
everyone: "enjoy hell (complimentary)"
hulk hogan dies
everyone: "enjoy hell (derogatory)"
July 24, 2025 at 10:26 PM
ozzy osbourne dies
everyone: "enjoy hell (complimentary)"
hulk hogan dies
everyone: "enjoy hell (derogatory)"
everyone: "enjoy hell (complimentary)"
hulk hogan dies
everyone: "enjoy hell (derogatory)"