Dave Edwards
@davelikesbikes.bsky.social
Here for baseball, cities, cycling, and music stuff
Therapist in training
Therapist in training
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Potentially big times for the Windsor-based shirt brand I found a while back that sells these tongue-in-cheek shirts for locals
October 10, 2025 at 11:51 PM
Potentially big times for the Windsor-based shirt brand I found a while back that sells these tongue-in-cheek shirts for locals
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🤘🏼I wrote about sweating the small stuff. The city parks dept answered city council’s request to look into destructive practices w a shrug. That’s not good enough. Total park reform is needed & needs to be an election platform. If Chow passes on it, someone else surely will. Pls read & share. 🙏🏼🤘🏼
Shawn Micallef: How Toronto can take a lesson from Van Halen, and learn to sweat the small stuff
Anybody who travels this city knows large vehicles are routinely in parks. It’s disrespectful to Torontonians, a scandalous waste of money, and intrusive to those trying to enjoy the outdoor
www.thestar.com
October 4, 2025 at 1:58 PM
🤘🏼I wrote about sweating the small stuff. The city parks dept answered city council’s request to look into destructive practices w a shrug. That’s not good enough. Total park reform is needed & needs to be an election platform. If Chow passes on it, someone else surely will. Pls read & share. 🙏🏼🤘🏼
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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?
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The Toronto Star’s City Report Card survey suggests six in 10 Torontonians believe that the city’s best days are in the past.
Given the challenges Toronto faces right now, it’s an understandable position, but it’s wrong. My column on teenage Toronto. The future is bright if we….(pls read n share).
Given the challenges Toronto faces right now, it’s an understandable position, but it’s wrong. My column on teenage Toronto. The future is bright if we….(pls read n share).
Shawn Micallef: There’s a good reason why some might think Toronto’s best days are behind it. Here’s how we change their minds
The best days for the city lie ahead of it, but there are things we have to get right to make sure that happens.
www.thestar.com
September 21, 2025 at 7:41 PM
The Toronto Star’s City Report Card survey suggests six in 10 Torontonians believe that the city’s best days are in the past.
Given the challenges Toronto faces right now, it’s an understandable position, but it’s wrong. My column on teenage Toronto. The future is bright if we….(pls read n share).
Given the challenges Toronto faces right now, it’s an understandable position, but it’s wrong. My column on teenage Toronto. The future is bright if we….(pls read n share).
Ford and Sarkaria out there convincing people it's the seven* people on the right who are causing congestion, not the three people on the left 🤷
*eight if you include me
*eight if you include me
September 17, 2025 at 9:45 PM
Ford and Sarkaria out there convincing people it's the seven* people on the right who are causing congestion, not the three people on the left 🤷
*eight if you include me
*eight if you include me
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Doug Ford’s attack on speed cameras shows how good politics can make for lousy public policy
#Opinion from @shawnmicallef.bsky.social
#Opinion from @shawnmicallef.bsky.social
Shawn Micallef: Doug Ford’s attack on speed cameras shows how good politics can make for lousy public policy
The premier’s comments on Tuesday should be a moment for Ontarians to think whether the province is a place of law and order or where vigilantes can influence government policy.
www.thestar.com
September 9, 2025 at 9:33 PM
Doug Ford’s attack on speed cameras shows how good politics can make for lousy public policy
#Opinion from @shawnmicallef.bsky.social
#Opinion from @shawnmicallef.bsky.social
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Remember last year when George and Karen Amaro reached out to Doug Ford urging him to not move forward with his anti-bike lane legislation because bike lanes might have saved their daughter Alex's life? And he never responded?
www.cbc.ca/listen/live-...
www.cbc.ca/listen/live-...
September 6, 2025 at 1:40 AM
Remember last year when George and Karen Amaro reached out to Doug Ford urging him to not move forward with his anti-bike lane legislation because bike lanes might have saved their daughter Alex's life? And he never responded?
www.cbc.ca/listen/live-...
www.cbc.ca/listen/live-...
Welcome back to Toronto, where drivers chase you and your gf down and challenge you to a fight while their psycho dog hangs out the window. Thanks to our provincial govt for stoking hate. I'd report to the police, but they're all at High Park ticketing rolling stops. What a wonderful place to live.
September 4, 2025 at 2:21 AM
Welcome back to Toronto, where drivers chase you and your gf down and challenge you to a fight while their psycho dog hangs out the window. Thanks to our provincial govt for stoking hate. I'd report to the police, but they're all at High Park ticketing rolling stops. What a wonderful place to live.
I don't see a return to posting like I used to, but Paris reignited my love for urban cycling. So many options, so much less aggression. Hard to come home to SUV-clogged, angry Toronto. Such a shame our govt is working to undo the progress we've made here. Sarkaria and Ford have such small minds.
August 29, 2025 at 2:56 PM
I don't see a return to posting like I used to, but Paris reignited my love for urban cycling. So many options, so much less aggression. Hard to come home to SUV-clogged, angry Toronto. Such a shame our govt is working to undo the progress we've made here. Sarkaria and Ford have such small minds.
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We need a charter city status of some sort for more local independence from the province.
August 1, 2025 at 9:14 PM
We need a charter city status of some sort for more local independence from the province.
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#topoli #onpoli New from me in @spacing: Some reflections on @cycletoronto.bsky.social’s huge legal victory in the bike lane war with Ford Nation. spacing.ca/toronto/2025...
Bike Lanes: 2 - Ford Nation: 0 - Spacing Toronto
In an intriguing aside a third of the way into Justice Paul Schabas’ extraordinary decision (issued yesterday) in Toronto’s bike lane war with Premier Doug Ford, he reveals how, about a month ago, he ...
spacing.ca
July 31, 2025 at 12:01 PM
#topoli #onpoli New from me in @spacing: Some reflections on @cycletoronto.bsky.social’s huge legal victory in the bike lane war with Ford Nation. spacing.ca/toronto/2025...
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#Breaking: Doug Ford government's attempt to remove Toronto bike lanes unconstitutional, judge rules
Ford government’s attempt to remove Toronto bike lanes is unconstitutional, judge rules
The provincial government had argued that road space dedicated to cyclists was adding to congestion. A Superior Court judge said the government’s decision would risk the lives of cyclsits.
https://www.thestar.com/news/gta/ford-governments-attempt-to-remove-toronto-bike-lan[…]judge-rules/article_2654addd-bf4b-4cd2-a734-45b3c4b03081.html
July 30, 2025 at 5:21 PM
#Breaking: Doug Ford government's attempt to remove Toronto bike lanes unconstitutional, judge rules
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The idea that somehow people speeding and getting a fine for speeding is anything but their own fault is crazy! The whole speed camera discourse totally ignores. The drivers actually need to be responsible when they're operating a dangerous vehicle on public roads.
June 27, 2025 at 9:51 PM
The idea that somehow people speeding and getting a fine for speeding is anything but their own fault is crazy! The whole speed camera discourse totally ignores. The drivers actually need to be responsible when they're operating a dangerous vehicle on public roads.
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“A Financial Times analysis of more than 350,000 posts on X related to the election, gathered since the snap poll was announced in March, revealed a network of co-ordinated accounts pushing content to boost Conservative leader Pierre Poilievre and tarnish his counterpart, the Liberal’s Mark Carney.”
Canadians bombarded with rightwing content on Musk’s X ahead of election
FT analysis finds network of social media accounts attacking Liberal leader Mark Carney
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April 26, 2025 at 2:45 AM
“A Financial Times analysis of more than 350,000 posts on X related to the election, gathered since the snap poll was announced in March, revealed a network of co-ordinated accounts pushing content to boost Conservative leader Pierre Poilievre and tarnish his counterpart, the Liberal’s Mark Carney.”
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Ontario judge's ruling on bike lane removal gives Ford & Ontario government an off-ramp and a chance to act like an adult, writes senior editor John Lorinc [ @johnlorinc.bsky.social ].
spacing.ca/toronto/2025... #ONpoli #TOpoli
spacing.ca/toronto/2025... #ONpoli #TOpoli
Judge puts Ford back in his lane - Spacing Toronto
Ontario superior court justice Paul Schabas this week granted an interim (“interlocutory”) injunction preventing Queen’s Park from ripping up three Toronto bike lanes pending a final decision, and the...
spacing.ca
April 25, 2025 at 1:36 PM
Ontario judge's ruling on bike lane removal gives Ford & Ontario government an off-ramp and a chance to act like an adult, writes senior editor John Lorinc [ @johnlorinc.bsky.social ].
spacing.ca/toronto/2025... #ONpoli #TOpoli
spacing.ca/toronto/2025... #ONpoli #TOpoli
This was top notch. I came away extremely confident in Canada's chance at a stronger future after listening to @mark-carney.bsky.social
Intelligence - political, emotional and economic. Full support here.
(the Carney interview starts around 16:44)
Intelligence - political, emotional and economic. Full support here.
(the Carney interview starts around 16:44)
April 18, 2025 at 1:46 AM
This was top notch. I came away extremely confident in Canada's chance at a stronger future after listening to @mark-carney.bsky.social
Intelligence - political, emotional and economic. Full support here.
(the Carney interview starts around 16:44)
Intelligence - political, emotional and economic. Full support here.
(the Carney interview starts around 16:44)
"A nation whispers,"We always knew that he'd go free.""
On this day in 1992, David Milgaard was released from prison.
He spent over two decades imprisoned for a crime he did not commit. His mother Joyce never gave up on him and fought for his release.
This is the story of the man who inspired the song Wheat Kings.
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He spent over two decades imprisoned for a crime he did not commit. His mother Joyce never gave up on him and fought for his release.
This is the story of the man who inspired the song Wheat Kings.
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April 17, 2025 at 12:10 AM
"A nation whispers,"We always knew that he'd go free.""
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Boycotting the grocery store until they start buying an equivalent volume of groceries from me
April 7, 2025 at 3:41 PM
Boycotting the grocery store until they start buying an equivalent volume of groceries from me
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Everyone wants there to be a grand scheme behind all of this but the terrible truth is that extremely stupid people are in charge and they have a fanatical devotion to wrong, childlike concepts of society and economics cooked up by right wing radio hosts in order to sell tainted dietary supplements
April 3, 2025 at 2:11 PM
Everyone wants there to be a grand scheme behind all of this but the terrible truth is that extremely stupid people are in charge and they have a fanatical devotion to wrong, childlike concepts of society and economics cooked up by right wing radio hosts in order to sell tainted dietary supplements
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Turns out the Wall Street Journal was understating. #TrumpsTradeWar
April 3, 2025 at 3:53 AM
Turns out the Wall Street Journal was understating. #TrumpsTradeWar
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Comical Ali
Agriculture Secretary Brooke Rollins next to a ticker showing the Dow down 1,200 points: "We are really, really excited, and very grateful for President Trump's leadership."
April 3, 2025 at 3:05 PM
Comical Ali
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(Reuters) - The "Buy Canadian" movement is sending new ripples of concern through the executive offices of U.S.-based consumer companies that banked on selling their products on Canadian retail shelves.
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As ‘Buy Canadian’ grows, more US companies say retailers turning away their products
The "Buy Canadian" movement is sending new ripples of concern through the executive offices of U.S.-based consumer companies that banked on selling their products on Canadian retail shelves.
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March 31, 2025 at 11:47 AM
(Reuters) - The "Buy Canadian" movement is sending new ripples of concern through the executive offices of U.S.-based consumer companies that banked on selling their products on Canadian retail shelves.
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Goddamn, this is so embarrassing.
JD Vance:
"The Canadian leadership threatening retaliatory tariffs against the Untied States... They just don't have the cards. There is no way that Canada can win a trade war with the United States."
"The Canadian leadership threatening retaliatory tariffs against the Untied States... They just don't have the cards. There is no way that Canada can win a trade war with the United States."
March 28, 2025 at 6:50 PM
Goddamn, this is so embarrassing.
Best baseball pod going 👇
NEW POD
(maybe our most loaded pod ever?!)
- TURBO MODE OFFSEASON RECAP
- ONE BOLD PREDICTION FOR EVERY TEAM
- SPECIAL GUEST GUNNAR HENDERSON (!)
- OPENING DAY STARTER DRAFT (lowest combined ERA on Opening Day wins)
- POSTSEASON/AWARDS PICKS
❗️❗️ 🔜 OPENING DAY 🔜❗️❗️
(maybe our most loaded pod ever?!)
- TURBO MODE OFFSEASON RECAP
- ONE BOLD PREDICTION FOR EVERY TEAM
- SPECIAL GUEST GUNNAR HENDERSON (!)
- OPENING DAY STARTER DRAFT (lowest combined ERA on Opening Day wins)
- POSTSEASON/AWARDS PICKS
❗️❗️ 🔜 OPENING DAY 🔜❗️❗️
March 29, 2025 at 12:50 PM
Best baseball pod going 👇
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Attacking our economy and threatening our sovereignty isn’t something you just forget with an “oopsie, did our government do that?”
Meaningless. Canada is anti trump, they love America and are completely dependent on us. When Trump's out in 2028, you won't remember any of this
I still don't think Americans appreciate the degree to which Canada is in the midst of a total anti-American vibe shift.
March 28, 2025 at 11:55 PM
Attacking our economy and threatening our sovereignty isn’t something you just forget with an “oopsie, did our government do that?”