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Evan Boyce 🍁
@evanboyce.ca
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vive le Canada 🇨🇦 working in renewable energy 🔌💡hobbying in ✨opinions✨
energy, housing, cities, transit, cycling, politics
📍 Toronto, Ontario, Canada
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I take it all back, maybe it’s actually good that millennials can’t afford homes
November 13, 2025 at 10:48 PM
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happy halloween
October 26, 2025 at 5:15 PM
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Somewhere in here would be my recc, closer to Bloor if you need quick transit, but most of the main streets here have streetcars as well.
map of toronto with christie pits, little italy, trinity-bellwoods and queen west neighbourhoods circled
October 26, 2025 at 1:12 AM
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I do find it amusing that the proposed idea is basically "let's do DEI, but for conservative/anti-woke academics only"
My worry is that the talk of post-woke acts like a smokescreen — obscuring the many places where the generalization is untrue. It’s based much more on observations of what’s happening south of the border. The vibe shift definitely happened there. But in Canada — in universities — many are now doubling down on woke ideas precisely in reaction to what’s happening in the U.S. The stakes could hardly be higher: a democracy without trusted sources of knowledge cannot govern itself wisely. And peer review, like democracy, only works when everyone has a voice. All of this, though, depends on genuine viewpoint diversity amongst our expert peer reviewers. If only that were so.
September 4, 2025 at 2:06 PM
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Glad to see that a person being needlessly maimed and/or killed by a motor vehicle doesn't shock the conscience of the Editorial Board.

No conscience needed if you just ignore the death part and keep pretending this is nothing more than a debate about "who the streets are for".
Justice Schabas also called the law “grossly disproportionate,” meaning that what he deemed the government’s end doesn’t justify its means, which will cause serious injury and death to cyclists. Yet the Supreme Court has said only extreme cases that would “shock the conscience” of Canadians are to be deemed grossly disproportionate. Does it shock the conscience to give some big downtown streets over to cars? Governments may be right or wrong in their policy choices. (And as we’ve previously argued, we believe Mr. Ford was wrong to have meddled in city business.) But that’s what elections are for. Government is not run by “experts” or by courts, but by leaders accountable to the public. The problem here is a judge who refused to stay in his lane.
August 18, 2025 at 5:51 PM
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Breathtaking how weak this argument about purpose is. Claiming bike lane removals weren't arbitrary because the bill wasn't about fixing congestion, it was about "giving drivers priority"?

Strange how they constantly tied bike lanes to gridlock and their removal to "getting drivers moving" then!
Prabmeet Sarkaria @PrabSarkaria Oct 15, 2024 Too many drivers across Ontario are stuck in gridlock for hours every day and bike lanes are making things worse. Next week, we’re introducing legislation that would require cities to get provincial approval for any new bike lanes that require removing a lane of traffic. Doug Ford @fordnation Bike lanes belong on secondary streets, not clogging traffic on main roads. It’s time to get you moving again. Doug Ford @fordnation We are bringing sanity back to bike lane decisions. By removing and replacing existing bike lanes on primary roads, we will get drivers moving again.
August 18, 2025 at 5:51 PM
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The Editorial Board believes Mr. Ford's purpose for Bill 212 was "to give car drivers the priority" and had nothing to do with congestion. It's just about who roads are for!

That's of course why it was called the Reducing Gridlock, Saving You Time Act.
Another difference is that Section 7 – to quote the Supreme Court – is about the basic values that undergird the Charter. Justice Schabas called the removal of the bike lanes “arbitrary,” because traffic experts said it would not reduce congestion. When the government argued in court that “four lanes are better than two,” the experts countered that four lanes would merely increase demand. But is that really arbitrary? Clearly, Mr. Ford’s purpose was to give car drivers the priority on certain main arteries. That traffic congestion is improved by deterring cars and encouraging cycling doesn’t contradict the Ontario government’s point that these roads should be for car drivers.
August 18, 2025 at 5:51 PM
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here's an exciting idea: a new, lower tier of humanity reserved just for cyclists

women, drug users, sex workers, cyclists, one of these things is not like the other!
Consider the Supreme Court ruling striking down the criminal law on abortion. That law required women seeking a legal abortion to obtain permission from a hospital committee, an unwieldy procedure at odds with the law’s stated purpose, of protecting women’s health. Other cases since then have followed a similar principle. In 2011, the Supreme Court said the federal government could not shut down a nurse-supervised clinic for illegal drug users in Vancouver, because doing so would kill sick people. In 2013, the Supreme Court struck down the criminal law on prostitution, saying it relegated sex workers to the back streets where they were being murdered. Ask yourself which one of these subjects is not like the others: women seeking an abortion; drug users obtaining life-saving help; sex workers trying to stay alive – or bike riders looking for a protected lane?
August 18, 2025 at 5:51 PM
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Stop theorizing the fictional American political leanings of Canadian provinces, it's meaningless and absurd. MAGA's fantasies of "obtaining" provinces would result in nothing but strife and destruction for both countries and likely civil war within the United States itself.
Canada Projections🇨🇦 @CDNprojections Saskatchewan and Manitoba will give you 3 lean D seats (New Mexico style) btw
August 8, 2025 at 5:14 PM
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"waow" (thinking bubble: "based based based based")
August 7, 2025 at 2:03 PM
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There is a guy in St. Catherines, ON selling a signed photo of the Premier of Saskatchewan on FB Marketplace for $40
July 17, 2025 at 1:32 PM
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The scale of this 2050 plan is truly immense. Ontario gov’t is fully nuclear pilled. To pull it off will require:

- Brand new station in Port Hope with 8 units
- Expanding Bruce with 4 new units (12 total at the site)
- Refurbishing most of the existing fleet (some of that is already underway)
Planning for New Nuclear Energy OPG, Bruce Power and the IESO have confirmed that the deployment of up to 17,800 MW of new nuclear in the province by 2050 is feasible, to power economic growth and electrification of Ontario's economy. Achieving the capacity target in this scenario would require building at minimum the equivalent of eight large nuclear units or 8,000 MW (in addition to the four units already planned at Bruce C) and potential life extension of Bruce Units 1 and 2. In order to deliver on that level of build out Ontario's nuclear operators and the IESO concluded that the Province would be required to utilize OPG-owned generation sites such as Wesleyville and emphasized that early engagement and assessment work, such as the public and Indigenous engagement that launched in Port Hope earlier this year, is essential to being able to deliver additional new large scale nuclear builds. Figure 14: Illustrative Large-Scale Nuclear Deployment Schedule Year BRUCE C LARGE NUCLEAR Impact Assessment and Licence to Prepare Site Project Definition Construct and Commission Unit 1 Construct and Commission Unit 2 Construct and Commission Unit 3 Construct and Commission Unit 4 BRUCE UNIT 1 AND 2 LIFE EXTENSION Unit 1 Unit 2 WESLEYVILLE Impact Assessment and Licence to Prepare Site Project Definition Construct and Commission Unit 1 Construct and Commission Unit 2 Construct and Commission Unit 3 Construct and Commission Unit 4 Construct and Commission Unit 5 Construct and Commission Unit 6 Construct and Commission Unit 7 Construct and Commission Unit 8 2024| 2025 | 2026 | 2027 | 2028 2029 | 2030 | 2031 | 2032 | 2033 | 2034 2035 |2036 | 2037 2038 | 2039 | 2040|| 2041 2042 2043 2044 2045 2046 2047 2048 2049 2050 Impact Assessment and Licence to Prepare Site Project Definition Construct and Commission To meet a high demand scenario construction of new large-scale nuclear units would need to begin in the early 2030s.
June 13, 2025 at 4:24 PM
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me: excluding areas with greater than 15 degree slopes from the project's buildable area

meanwhile in china:
photo of a drone assisting with the construction of a solar farm on a very steep slope
May 30, 2025 at 1:49 PM
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dude is 100% gonna buy the Porsche lmao
Reddit conversation taking about buying a Porsche 911
May 30, 2025 at 2:57 AM
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dudes rock
screenshot from Reddit showing a user who has made 3 posts: 1. Asking for advice about a 900k gain made in a TFSA from a single stock 2. Asking if there are tax implications after selling his 900k stock 3. Asking how to buy a $300k Porsche
May 30, 2025 at 2:42 AM
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please don’t be mean to the smol bean anti-transit activists who used fake AI videos in their disinformation campaign, they made a mistake, they’re doing their best, and they’re really really sorry 👉👈🥺
They admit the optics aren't great [RE: use of AI]: "Civil engagement can be clunky and chaotic, especially for the inexperienced, and we're doing our best. We're just trying to get our voices heard, and represent our community; we made mistakes and we'll probably make some more, but it shouldn't stand in the way of our voices being heard."
May 24, 2025 at 12:16 AM
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Continuing to be unpleasantly surprised by the misanthropy the Kensington Market BIA shows towards any amount of pedestrianization. They cancelled May’s Pedestrian Sunday because of “illegal vendors”, apparently. Very ironic considering the history of the market.
www.torontotoday.ca/local/busine...
For Shamez Amlani, owner of Drom Taberna and co-founder of Pedestrian Sundays in Kensington Market (PSK), the popular car-free festival has become a “victim of its own success.” In recent years, Pedestrian Sundays have been plagued with various issues, he said: illegal vendors are increasingly taking up space and diverting business from brick-and-mortar stores, funding hasn’t caught up with how popular the festival has become and the event’s original mission of showcasing Kensington’s unique mosaic of cultures has been undermined. Amlani acknowledged that Kensington Market has a long history of people peddling wares on the street, and that this is part and parcel of the neighbourhood's identity as a welcoming place for newcomers and low-income people. Historically, the Market area has been a haven for various waves of immigrants, many of whom made a living through street vending. Today, some of the Market’s regular street vendors are beloved mainstays of the neighbourhood.
May 19, 2025 at 4:43 AM
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Devastating news for toronto transit optimists

I made this meme as a coping mechanism
Most people rejected His message meme “Leave North America and move to the Netherlands” “shut up!” They hated NJB because He told them the truth
May 17, 2025 at 8:42 PM
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This stinks, bring back NES
Higher housing supply, not lowering home prices, are the solution for Canada’s housing crisis, Canada’s new housing minister said on Wednesday. Gregor Robertson, the former Vancouver mayor who was sworn in as housing minister in Prime Minister Mark Carney’s new cabinet on Tuesday, attended the first meeting of the new cabinet on Wednesday. When asked by reporters if he thinks home prices need to go down, he told reporters: “No, I think that we need to deliver more supply, make sure the market is stable.”
May 14, 2025 at 5:30 PM
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*through extremely gritted teeth* Danielle Smith just made a great point
Danielle Smith post from LinkedIn: "Today I had the opportunity to take the Hayabusa high speed train from Tokyo to Sapporo. Topping out at 320 km/h, Shinkansen trains like these allow both locals and tourists to cross the country in just hours. If Alberta had one we could get between Calgary and Edmonton in less than an hour! We are currently developing a Passenger Rail Master Plan for the province. More information on what it might look like is available at https://lnkd.in/g-xgGQYw"
April 29, 2025 at 7:45 PM
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I posted Hamilton Centre earlier, but this one probably takes the 👑 for wildest vote split. Vancouver Island is built different.
Nanaimo-Ladysmith results with 183/205 polls reporting: Conservatives declared winners with 34.6% of the vote, Liberals in 2nd with 27.1%, Greens in 3rd with 19.1%, NDP in 4th with 18.8%
April 29, 2025 at 5:19 AM
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Here's the clip, for ...uh... anyone who wants it
April 29, 2025 at 4:58 AM
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Heinous vote split developing in Hamilton Centre
Hamilton Centre results with 50/227 polls reporting, Conservatives leading with 34% of the vote, Liberals with 32.8% and NDP with 29.5%
April 29, 2025 at 3:16 AM
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“Look at the sheer girth of this thing” (actual quote)
CBC’s David Cochrane holding up the extremely long ballot for the Carleton riding. It is at least 1 meter long
April 29, 2025 at 2:49 AM
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a serious election with serious parties focused on serious issues
CPC ad shown on Facebook: "FREE THE ZYN, We will let you buy nicotine pouches at stores! Vote Conservative"
April 28, 2025 at 10:36 PM