siglinde99
@siglinde99.bsky.social
Interested in Canadian and world political issues, the environment, active transport, swimming and medieval history.
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Years ago, while watching the incredible transformations of places like Paris, we asked ourselves, “Why are these leaders breaking through the status quo?”
After analyzing eleven cities around the world, we found some answers, and it starts with prioritizing impact over power.
youtu.be/jHDKb0l4nHg
After analyzing eleven cities around the world, we found some answers, and it starts with prioritizing impact over power.
youtu.be/jHDKb0l4nHg
November 8, 2025 at 11:54 AM
Years ago, while watching the incredible transformations of places like Paris, we asked ourselves, “Why are these leaders breaking through the status quo?”
After analyzing eleven cities around the world, we found some answers, and it starts with prioritizing impact over power.
youtu.be/jHDKb0l4nHg
After analyzing eleven cities around the world, we found some answers, and it starts with prioritizing impact over power.
youtu.be/jHDKb0l4nHg
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Exactly what we said would happen when the Ford govt forced the supervised consumption site at Somerset West Community Health Centre: more overdoses in public. Bad for people with addictions, a burden on city services and terrible for the vitality of Chinatown.
www.ctvnews.ca/ottawa/artic...
www.ctvnews.ca/ottawa/artic...
Increase in Ottawa paramedic calls for overdoses near closed drug consumption site: data
Data from the City of Ottawa shows an increase in the number of overdose incidents paramedics have responded to since the closure of the supervised consumption site at the Somerset West Community Heal...
www.ctvnews.ca
October 28, 2025 at 12:19 PM
Exactly what we said would happen when the Ford govt forced the supervised consumption site at Somerset West Community Health Centre: more overdoses in public. Bad for people with addictions, a burden on city services and terrible for the vitality of Chinatown.
www.ctvnews.ca/ottawa/artic...
www.ctvnews.ca/ottawa/artic...
I’m so happy to have my ebike back at last! fitisafeministissue.com/2025/10/24/m...
My E-Bike is a Mobility Device
I have written About this before. So has Sam, multiple times, all the way back to 2018. Our focus was on bikes more generally and how they can help with disabilities, but three years ago I predicte…
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October 24, 2025 at 4:19 PM
I’m so happy to have my ebike back at last! fitisafeministissue.com/2025/10/24/m...
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“If the new omnibus bill becomes law, corporate interests will succeed in setting every city in Ontario back by a decade: more cyclists and pedestrians will be killed by cars, and more carbon emitted on our roads will intensify climate change. And traffic won’t even get better.” 👇
Doug Ford’s Ontario Govt plan to ban bike lanes “is ripped from the business lobby’s wish list…Ford’s war on bikes is more than a vendetta—it’s a gift to corporate lobbyists.”
It’ll make Ontario’s cities weaker, less competitive, more polluted, & more dangerous for everyone. AND the traffic worse.
It’ll make Ontario’s cities weaker, less competitive, more polluted, & more dangerous for everyone. AND the traffic worse.
Ontario’s plan to ban bike lanes is ripped from the business lobby’s wish list ⋆ The Breach
Buried in a new omnibus bill, the latest salvo in Doug Ford’s war on bikes is more than a vendetta—it’s a gift to corporate lobbyists
breachmedia.ca
October 24, 2025 at 4:14 PM
“If the new omnibus bill becomes law, corporate interests will succeed in setting every city in Ontario back by a decade: more cyclists and pedestrians will be killed by cars, and more carbon emitted on our roads will intensify climate change. And traffic won’t even get better.” 👇
Mayor Mark Sutcliffe, we’re looking at you. Heck, it has been so bad here in Ottawa we would probably settle for the “balance” Brent complains about.
Imagine a 100m race where we’ve given cars an 80m head start after many decades of building almost ONLY for them. If we then set a transportation goal of “balance” between many more choices in getting around, by definition we have to prioritize the new choices for a while, or they’ll never catch up.
October 20, 2025 at 12:27 AM
Mayor Mark Sutcliffe, we’re looking at you. Heck, it has been so bad here in Ottawa we would probably settle for the “balance” Brent complains about.
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“Since the bicycle makes little demand on material or energy resources, contributes little to pollution, makes a positive contribution to health and causes little death or injury, it can be regarded as the most benevolent of machines.” Here’s the article by @carltonreid.com HT @sciam.bsky.social
Pedal Power Remains Most Efficient Way To Travel, Confirms Scientific American
Scientific American confirms that human on a bicycle more efficient than salmon, seagulls, or jet planes, updating a piece from 1973.
www.forbes.com
October 17, 2025 at 12:59 PM
“Since the bicycle makes little demand on material or energy resources, contributes little to pollution, makes a positive contribution to health and causes little death or injury, it can be regarded as the most benevolent of machines.” Here’s the article by @carltonreid.com HT @sciam.bsky.social
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🤤 (shocked, shocked I tell you)
Vehicles registered to Ford cabinet ministers caught by speed cameras more than 20 times | Globalnews.ca
Documents obtained by Global News reveal that, over three years, vehicles registered to Ford’s cabinet minister received more than $3,300 in fines for speeding.
globalnews.ca
October 6, 2025 at 12:31 PM
🤤 (shocked, shocked I tell you)
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I am not allowing myself to think of the devastation of the parents, children, and families (😭) - but seeing enough posts in my timeline about the headlines and lack of agency given to the driver does have me thinking about him.
His life has also been irrevocably changed. 1/4
His life has also been irrevocably changed. 1/4
September 11, 2025 at 2:16 AM
I am not allowing myself to think of the devastation of the parents, children, and families (😭) - but seeing enough posts in my timeline about the headlines and lack of agency given to the driver does have me thinking about him.
His life has also been irrevocably changed. 1/4
His life has also been irrevocably changed. 1/4
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What if, for one week, you experienced your daily life without relying on a car? How might it change your perspective on the way our community moves?
Join the challenge Sept 29-Oct 5. Experience life without driving. Share your stories.👇 #WeekWithoutDriving #OttCity
bikeottawa.ca/2025/09/04/j...
Join the challenge Sept 29-Oct 5. Experience life without driving. Share your stories.👇 #WeekWithoutDriving #OttCity
bikeottawa.ca/2025/09/04/j...
September 10, 2025 at 8:19 PM
What if, for one week, you experienced your daily life without relying on a car? How might it change your perspective on the way our community moves?
Join the challenge Sept 29-Oct 5. Experience life without driving. Share your stories.👇 #WeekWithoutDriving #OttCity
bikeottawa.ca/2025/09/04/j...
Join the challenge Sept 29-Oct 5. Experience life without driving. Share your stories.👇 #WeekWithoutDriving #OttCity
bikeottawa.ca/2025/09/04/j...
Horrifying but sadly not surprising.
After the earthquake in Afghanistan, "many male rescuers helped men but not women." The Taliban's "prohibition on contact between unrelated women and men meant many women’s wounds went untended and some were left trapped under rubble."
www.nytimes.com/2025/09/04/w...
www.nytimes.com/2025/09/04/w...
After Afghan Quake, Many Male Rescuers Helped Men but Not Women
www.nytimes.com
September 7, 2025 at 3:41 PM
Horrifying but sadly not surprising.
That’s the correct high-level message that cities HAVE to understand if they ever truly want to become less car dependent and really multi-modal. And let’s be honest — I’ve seen very few cities claiming to want balance in policies/visions, that are doing anything even CLOSE to achieving balance. 3/
September 5, 2025 at 11:05 PM
I wish this was what Ottawa’s mayor meant by balance. What he really meant was the status quo, which heavily favours the suburban car drivers.
I’m once again working with a city writing new integrated transportation & land use policy, and we’ve been discussing whether to PRIORITIZE walking, biking and transit, or achieve “BALANCE.” This is a key conversation where I sometimes give a fast and simple answer, but the truth is more complex. 1/
September 5, 2025 at 11:03 PM
I wish this was what Ottawa’s mayor meant by balance. What he really meant was the status quo, which heavily favours the suburban car drivers.
August 23, 2025 at 1:41 PM
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Sign our petition here: www.ecologyottawa.ca/rtor_petition
#VisionZero #OttCity #Ottawa #OttWalk #OttRoll #OttBike
#VisionZero #OttCity #Ottawa #OttWalk #OttRoll #OttBike
Protect pedestrians and cyclists in Ottawa! Protégez les piétons et les cyclistes à Ottawa !
www.ecologyottawa.ca
August 7, 2025 at 9:12 PM
Sign our petition here: www.ecologyottawa.ca/rtor_petition
#VisionZero #OttCity #Ottawa #OttWalk #OttRoll #OttBike
#VisionZero #OttCity #Ottawa #OttWalk #OttRoll #OttBike
Women can’t compete in “Men’s” Sports? Really!?! fitisafeministissue.com/2025/08/22/w...
Women can’t compete in “Men’s” Sports? Really!?!
The whole “women in men’s sports” and trans women in sports has gotten completely out of hand A post on social media commenting negatively on a news article about a woman cyclist in Belgium who was…
fitisafeministissue.com
August 22, 2025 at 11:17 AM
Women can’t compete in “Men’s” Sports? Really!?! fitisafeministissue.com/2025/08/22/w...
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E-cargo bikes can transform family transportation for the better. It is not hyperbole for me to say that getting this bike changed my life.
My story (from a few years ago - now we have two e-cargo bikes 😂):
www.forourkids.ca/family_ebike...
@forourkidscanada.bsky.social @forourkidsog.bsky.social
My story (from a few years ago - now we have two e-cargo bikes 😂):
www.forourkids.ca/family_ebike...
@forourkidscanada.bsky.social @forourkidsog.bsky.social
A Family E-Bike Changed My Life. Now I'm on a Mission to Help More Families Bike For Our Kids
www.forourkids.ca
August 20, 2025 at 4:44 PM
E-cargo bikes can transform family transportation for the better. It is not hyperbole for me to say that getting this bike changed my life.
My story (from a few years ago - now we have two e-cargo bikes 😂):
www.forourkids.ca/family_ebike...
@forourkidscanada.bsky.social @forourkidsog.bsky.social
My story (from a few years ago - now we have two e-cargo bikes 😂):
www.forourkids.ca/family_ebike...
@forourkidscanada.bsky.social @forourkidsog.bsky.social
Father with three children today at Wellington & O'Connor: "Do you mind if we follow you? I thought there was supposed to be a bike lane here and I'm not really sure how we're supposed to get back downtown." Just Autowa things.
August 21, 2025 at 12:20 AM
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What does this mean for driving a car after #covid?
"Compared to HCs, patients recovering from COVID‐19 presented higher risk attitudes"
pmc.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/articles/PMC...
"Compared to HCs, patients recovering from COVID‐19 presented higher risk attitudes"
pmc.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/articles/PMC...
Reduced risk tolerance and cortical excitability following COVID‐19 infection
pmc.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov
August 19, 2025 at 1:26 PM
What does this mean for driving a car after #covid?
"Compared to HCs, patients recovering from COVID‐19 presented higher risk attitudes"
pmc.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/articles/PMC...
"Compared to HCs, patients recovering from COVID‐19 presented higher risk attitudes"
pmc.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/articles/PMC...
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@bunda91.bsky.social listening to this morning’s comments on the Air Canada strike. Did you know that flight attendants actually have a very rich history of fighting for labour rights? The history of women’s rights and civil rights intersects with the airline industry.
Fly With Me | American Experience | PBS
The story of the pioneering women who changed the world while flying it. Maligned as feminist sellouts, “stewardesses,” as they were called, were on the frontlines of a battle to assert gender equalit...
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August 18, 2025 at 12:40 PM
@bunda91.bsky.social listening to this morning’s comments on the Air Canada strike. Did you know that flight attendants actually have a very rich history of fighting for labour rights? The history of women’s rights and civil rights intersects with the airline industry.
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The bike is not a perfect replacement for the car, as it lacks the required range. Likewise, the train lacks the door-to-door convenience. But combine these two modes into a single system, and a seamless mobility option is unlocked—capable of reducing congestion by replacing thousands of car trips.🧵
August 18, 2025 at 12:53 PM
The bike is not a perfect replacement for the car, as it lacks the required range. Likewise, the train lacks the door-to-door convenience. But combine these two modes into a single system, and a seamless mobility option is unlocked—capable of reducing congestion by replacing thousands of car trips.🧵