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Some of the CDC's main channels for communicating urgent health information to the public have gone silent.
Diseases are spreading. The CDC isn't warning the public like it was months ago
Some of the CDC's main channels for communicating urgent health information to the public have gone silent.
www.npr.org
May 21, 2025 at 11:24 AM
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Who is going to do something?

This is Kim Jong-Un shit.
April 15, 2025 at 12:41 AM
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“This growing sense of Canadian national pride has trickled into the tech sector, where some investors and startup founders view the divisiveness between the US and Canada as an opportunity…“

“In hindsight we will look at these US tariffs as an important wake-up call for Canada.”

Via @wired.com
Trump’s Trade War Pushes Canadian Tech Workers to Rethink Silicon Valley
Canada’s top tech talent has long moved to the US for better opportunities, but Donald Trump’s tariffs and threats are raising questions about how to build a stronger ecosystem at home.
www.wired.com
April 3, 2025 at 4:30 AM
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Axa threatened to cancel cover for Briton with brain injuries in US, says daughter
Axa threatened to cancel cover for Briton with brain injuries in US, says daughter
Company said Jane Rubens, in a coma after being hit by vehicle on holiday, must be repatriated this week, against advice of neurologists The daughter of a woman who suffered brain injuries while on holiday in the US say they were told by her insurer that…
www.theguardian.com
November 26, 2024 at 4:37 PM
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Recently one of my nephews stopped by and I showed him the old Mac we had set up in our living room.

He immediately got sucked into Kid Pix. It’s so cool to see them enjoying the programs we grew up with.
November 23, 2024 at 2:24 PM
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Just a reminder that while some cities are still debating whether or not to transform a block or two of streets into places for people, this year Montreal transformed 11 such streets across 7 neighbourhoods, equalling 9+kms, from car spaces to people places.

Leadership.

www.mtl.org/en/experienc...
Walk Montréal's car-free streets all summer long! | Tourisme Montréal
Each summer, some of Montréal’s busiest thoroughfares close to car traffic and transform into pedestrianized centres, full of yummy restaurants, markets, bustling terrasses, boutiques and happily stro...
www.mtl.org
November 23, 2024 at 4:37 AM
The notwithstanding clause in Section 33 of the Charter allows governments to bypass certain Charter rights for up to five years, preventing judicial invalidation of laws related to fundamental freedoms and equality rights. It cannot be used for democratic, mobility, or Aboriginal rights.
Notwithstanding Clause - Centre for Constitutional StudiesNotwithstanding Clause - Centre for Constitutional Studies
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November 23, 2024 at 4:02 PM
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This is SHOCKING. Among everything else that’s despicable about this, ITS A CLEAR ADMISSION THAT THEY KNOW THAT DOING THIS WILL OBVIOUSLY ENDANGER LIVES.

People rode bikes on these streets before the bike-lanes (albeit fewer) and they will again after. The inevitable blood will be on Ford’s hands.
November 22, 2024 at 2:13 AM
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I’m going to say this again. Given that the Ontario Liberal, NDP and Green Parties are WELL AWARE of the likelihood that splitting the vote would hand the Doug Ford Conservatives another comfortable majority govt with a small % of the vote, I’d think they would put aside ambitions AND WORK TOGETHER.
This is SHOCKING. Among everything else that’s despicable about this, ITS A CLEAR ADMISSION THAT THEY KNOW THAT DOING THIS WILL OBVIOUSLY ENDANGER LIVES.

People rode bikes on these streets before the bike-lanes (albeit fewer) and they will again after. The inevitable blood will be on Ford’s hands.
November 23, 2024 at 12:14 AM
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“A city’s creativity doesn’t depend on cars. That’s the 20th century. We’re in the 21st.” - Paris Mayor Anne Hidalgo @annehidalgo.bsky.social www.ft.com/content/8fba...
Paris mayor Anne Hidalgo: ‘A city’s creativity doesn’t depend on cars. That’s the 20th century’
Accused of desecrating the French capital, the politician wants more bikes, green spaces and social housing
www.ft.com
November 23, 2024 at 5:42 AM
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it might be dark out, but lots of people are still cycling because of cycling infrastructure.

while crossing bloor/barhurst, counted 8 people on bikes quickly cross the intersection while about a dozen drivers remain stuck in their self-inflicted congestion 🙃
November 22, 2024 at 11:02 PM
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Never forget, if you design a city for cars, it fails for everyone, including drivers.

If you design a multi-modal city that makes walking, biking and public transit attractive options, it works better for everyone, including drivers.

INCLUDING DRIVERS.

The “war on cars” has always been a lie.
November 22, 2024 at 7:53 AM
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🧵 Joe and Mika's journey to Mar-a-Lago prompted a question that many members of the media are quietly asking: Just how worried should we be?

More specifically, and practically, what preparations and precautions should news outlets take ahead of Trump's return to power? Here are some answers >>>
November 22, 2024 at 11:10 PM
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Hey, remember when car and oil companies successfully lobbied governments to create car dependent cities and suburbs, and once we became almost completely car dependent, WE became the loudest, angriest champions of unhindered road space for cars, unnaturally cheap gas, and subsidized free parking?
November 23, 2024 at 1:22 AM
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“They cut speed limits, changed street design, removed space for cars… Now it appears that work is paying off. #Oslo & #Helsinki are reaping the rewards of committed action on making their roads safer, reducing pedestrian fatalities to zero last year.” #VisionZero www.theguardian.com/world/2020/m...
How Helsinki and Oslo cut pedestrian deaths to zero
After years of committed action, neither city recorded a single pedestrian fatality in 2019
www.theguardian.com
November 22, 2024 at 7:16 AM
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BREAKING: “Removing bike -lanes from busy city streets will increase traffic congestion, according to a government document leaked amid a furious row over urban infrastructure.

The findings undercut claims that the dedicated routes contribute to urban gridlock.” www.theguardian.com/world/2024/n...
Removing Toronto bike lanes will make traffic worse, official document shows
In preparation for plan, Ontario has indemnified itself from liability if cyclists are killed on streets that once had bike lanes
www.theguardian.com
November 22, 2024 at 10:10 PM
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I actively avoid calling people on bikes “cyclists.” It fuels an “othering” or “us vs them,” and makes it easier to claim that safe infrastructure is for a small in-group. None of which is helpful.

It may take more characters in a post, but I just say people on bikes. Because that’s what they are.
November 22, 2024 at 8:17 AM
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Doing good science is 90% finding a science buddy to constantly talk to about the project.
November 9, 2024 at 10:53 PM
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Underused public land in some of Canada’s larger cities could house a million people, study shows: The Toronto area and five other cities would altogether have enough underused government-owned land to build homes for as many as one million people, according to a new study by University of British…
Underused public land in some of Canada’s larger cities could house a million people, study shows
The Toronto area and five other cities would altogether have enough underused government-owned land to build homes for as many as one million people, according to a new study by University of British Columbia researchers
www.theglobeandmail.com
November 18, 2024 at 11:07 AM
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Canada’s security agencies suspect Modi knew of plot to kill Sikh activist: Intelligence has also tied India’s External Affairs Minister to interference operations, source says
Canada’s security agencies suspect Modi knew of plot to kill Sikh activist
Intelligence has also tied India’s External Affairs Minister to interference operations, source says
www.theglobeandmail.com
November 20, 2024 at 2:26 AM
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How a handful of rich Toronto businessmen with entirely too much political access and influence, but apparently zero understanding of how urban mobility actually works, appear to be getting their way with Ontario Premier Doug Ford on bike-lanes province-wide.
www.thetrillium.ca/news/municip...
How a handful of Toronto businessmen got their way on bike lanes provincewide
'Non-partisan group' Balance on Bloor includes a former PC candidate, donors, and real estate industry players
www.thetrillium.ca
November 17, 2024 at 3:58 AM
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Within MSNBC, there are a variety of opinions about what Trump and his allies might do to the media. For that reason, there are a wide range of feelings about the "Morning Joe" meeting with the president-elect, according to half a dozen employees 🧵
November 19, 2024 at 7:05 PM
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IMPORTANT: The Dutch invest €595 million annually on urban biking, resulting in €19 BILLION saved in public health care costs alone. That’s how smart govts do the math on investing in better mobility.

Let’s be clear— it wastes public money to NOT do it.

#CityMakingMath HT @modacitylife.bsky.social
November 18, 2024 at 10:05 PM
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Live updates: Canada’s inflation rate jumps back up to 2% in October: The last inflation report to be released before the Bank of Canada’s next interest rate announcement on Dec. 11
Live updates: Canada’s inflation rate jumps back up to 2% in October
The last inflation report to be released before the Bank of Canada’s next interest rate announcement on Dec. 11
www.theglobeandmail.com
November 19, 2024 at 4:04 PM