François Fortin
LightNews LightNews
francois-fortin.bsky.social
François Fortin
@francois-fortin.bsky.social
63 followers 150 following 56 posts
Urbanologue, woke, idéaliste anarchiste, intolérant à l'intolérance, au racisme et à la stupidité volontaire.
https://linktr.ee/fortin.francois?utm_source=linktree_admin_share
Posts Replies Media Videos
Reposted by François Fortin
brenttoderian.bsky.social
15+ years old, but still VERY relevent — and if we had acted 15 years ago, the “better world” we’d be creating would be a LOT better & easier to reach. There are real consequences we’re just starting to see to not heeding this cartoon a lot sooner.

Even worse if we don’t heed it now. #ClimateCrisis
“What if it’s a big hoax and we create a better world for nothing?”
November 12, 2025 at 5:04 AM
Reposted by François Fortin
yayonne.bsky.social
La dernière année de la CAQ au pouvoir (en rappel):
a man with a beard is holding a flamethrower in his hands
Alt: a man with a beard is holding a flamethrower in his hands
media.tenor.com
November 6, 2025 at 12:14 PM
Reposted by François Fortin
brenttoderian.bsky.social
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 governments do the math on investing in better mobility.

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

#CityMakingMath HT @modacitylife.com
Images of creative Dutch biking infrastructure
October 29, 2025 at 6:51 AM
Reposted by François Fortin
vinrryu.bsky.social
"À la lumière de ces données, Piétons Québec constate que dans 20 % des 184 collisions mortelles survenues pendant la période étudiée, le conducteur du véhicule avait omis de céder le passage au piéton."

Ouaip. Je ne tombe pas pantoute de ma chaise 🙃
Piétons Québec lance une campagne sur la priorité piétonne
L’organisme veut rappeler aux automobilistes et aux conducteurs de véhicules lourds l’obligation de céder le passage.
www.ledevoir.com
October 7, 2025 at 2:01 PM
Reposted by François Fortin
spbeaudet.bsky.social
« Ce qui s’est passé en 2016, ce n’est pas la "naissance d’Antifa", mais la création d’un Bonhomme Sept Heures par une extrême droite américaine en pleine ascension. »
« Antifa » : quand nos médias reprennent la rhétorique trumpienne – Pivot
Alors que le président Trump s’en prend à l’antifascisme, les médias québécois semblent peiner à départager la vérité de la propagande issue de l’extrême droite.
pivot.quebec
October 2, 2025 at 11:52 AM
francois-fortin.bsky.social
Tsé un gars courageux...

www.lapresse.ca/affaires/chr...
Excédé par le gouvernement | Groupe Dynamite envisage de déménager aux États-Unis
Le grand patron des boutiques Garage et Dynamite, du Royalmount et du DIX30, Andrew Lutfy, est « écœuré » de voir comment Québec gère certains dossiers. Notre gouvernement « à gauche qui manque de cou...
www.lapresse.ca
September 24, 2025 at 5:06 PM
Reposted by François Fortin
kendrawrites.com
This is a ten minute video broken up into parts for Bluesky from two australian doctors who made it into Gaza. The video starts with them saying the baby formula they brought with them was taken away and that Israel bombing the hospital in front of them and lying about giving warnings
September 20, 2025 at 8:28 PM
Reposted by François Fortin
nhervieu.bsky.social
Brillantissime Gorafi.
Sous couvert d’un très ordinaire professeur d’archéologie et d’un passionné pour les artefacts rares, il aurait été ainsi au centre d’une cellule d’ultra gauche radicale, dite “Antifa” et aurait opéré en Europe, en Asie et aux Etats-unis entre les années trente et les fin des années soixante. “Il s’est semble-t-il radicalisé tout seul mais il est possible qu’il y ait des complices” a estimé un porte-parole de l’université qui a annoncé qu’elle allait collaborer avec les autorités et le gouvernement de Donald Trump. “On sait qu’il a déclaré devant témoins, “les nazis, je hais ces gars-là” c’est un discours de haine radicale” a affirmé Laura Loomer, une chroniqueuse conservatrice.
September 19, 2025 at 11:23 AM
francois-fortin.bsky.social
Excellente illustration des résultats de la guerre et des déplacements massifs de population qui en résultent. Gaza la ville de tentes. www.nytimes.com/interactive/...
Israel Has Ordered Everyone in Gaza City to Evacuate. Where Will They All Go?
Tents stretch across the beach. Exhaustion and hunger are high. There’s little room elsewhere.
www.nytimes.com
September 12, 2025 at 2:32 PM
Reposted by François Fortin
mlleverob.bsky.social
Sur FB, actuellement. 😂😂😂
September 12, 2025 at 12:06 PM
Reposted by François Fortin
newseye.bsky.social
NEW: A devastating before and after montage of Rasheed Street in Gaza City.

Put together by local photojournalist, Motaz Azaiza.
September 2, 2025 at 5:18 PM
francois-fortin.bsky.social
Ajouter des voies d'autoroutes = le trafic induit.
Citation clée de cet article : Le trafic induit par l’agrandissement d’une autoroute n’est bénéfique sur le plan économique que si on néglige les coûts environnementaux de l’automobile.
www.lapresse.ca/actualites/s...
Démystifier la science | Plus on ajoute de voies, plus il y a de voitures
Chaque semaine, notre journaliste répond aux questions scientifiques de lecteurs.
www.lapresse.ca
September 2, 2025 at 4:15 PM
francois-fortin.bsky.social
Le racisme ordinaire... En plus il essaie de faire semblant qu'il est confus...

www.instagram.com/reel/DNSS7Ec...
Login • Instagram
Welcome back to Instagram. Sign in to check out what your friends, family & interests have been capturing & sharing around the world.
www.instagram.com
August 22, 2025 at 7:42 PM
francois-fortin.bsky.social
Un peu raffraichissant de lire des droitistes qui s'obstinent entre eux. Ça donne un break à Québec Solidaire...

www.lapresse.ca/affaires/chr...
Faut-il laisser le consommateur gérer l’environnement ?
« Le choix doit revenir aux consommateurs et non pas au gouvernement. »
www.lapresse.ca
August 22, 2025 at 5:22 PM
Reposted by François Fortin
porksweats.bsky.social
the desktop is the only computer that truly matters
granitetide.bsky.social GT @granitetide.bsky.social · Aug 22
we used to build household shrines to Going On The Computer and it's no coincidence that as we abandoned these we started straying further from god's light
August 22, 2025 at 12:41 PM
francois-fortin.bsky.social
Réfléchissons sur le logement, la propriété et le marché.

therover.ca/la-caq-a-sac...
La CAQ a sacrifié les locataires sur l’autel du profit – The Rover
Sans un virage immédiat, ce sont nos proches, ou nous-mêmes, qui suivront le fil déjà tendu entre un logement et la rue.
therover.ca
August 21, 2025 at 2:13 PM
francois-fortin.bsky.social
Le cocktail mobilité montréalais et la proportionnalité de l'espace consacré aux différents moyens de transport.

Automobiles = occupe 98% de l'espace pour 95% des utilisateurs;
Mobilité active = occupe 2% de l'espace pour 5% des utilisateurs.

www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...
The cars are going to be alright: Examining micromobility infrastructure space allocation and potential improvement scenarios in Montréal
Many cities today are redesigning their streetscapes to redress the historical privilege afforded to the automobile in planning and policy. Much stree…
www.sciencedirect.com
August 20, 2025 at 1:06 PM
Reposted by François Fortin
juliaposca.bsky.social
www.lapresse.ca/dialogue/opi...
Crise du logement | Construire des condos de luxe n’est pas la solution
Yaya Baumann et Hélène Bélanger réagissent à la chronique « Construit-on des logements inutiles contre la crise ?1 », qui cite une étude dont ils sont les auteurs.
www.lapresse.ca
July 30, 2025 at 3:26 PM
Reposted by François Fortin
alerigolon.bsky.social
The City of Los Angeles recently declared a fiscal emergency. They love low density, and they have pretty low property taxes due to California's Proposition 13. They should display a large version of this diagram at every planning commission and city council meeting.
brenttoderian.bsky.social Brent Toderian @brenttoderian.bsky.social · Jul 21
My semi-regular reminder of a really important reality about cities, density, services and taxes.

Any questions?

Graphic recently cleaned up by @kathrynmathias.bsky.social. #CityMakingMath
Venn diagram showing you can’t achieve stable services, low density and low taxes at the same time.
July 21, 2025 at 4:27 PM
Reposted by François Fortin
tomflood.bsky.social
Prioritizing Youth Mobility Is Prioritizing Adult Relaxing.
drawing of a cup of coffee When kids can walk/roll safely and independently to school, you can enjoy some peaceful time to yourself. prioritizing youth mobility is prioritizing adult relaxing
June 26, 2025 at 3:09 PM
francois-fortin.bsky.social
Oui les voitures à essence produisent des GES. Selon moi, leur plus grand dommage à la société est résumé en partie par cet article. L'espace que ça prend, la distorsion du tissu social et l'insécurité de nos milieux de vie.
brenttoderian.bsky.social Brent Toderian @brenttoderian.bsky.social · Jun 24
“To reduce the road deaths toll, we need to tackle ‘Car Brain.’

Any perceived inconvenience ignites ‘Car Brain’ as we justify our right to behave in a manner that would not be tolerated in any other aspect of urban living.”
To reduce the road deaths toll, we need to tackle ‘Car Brain’
Any perceived inconvenience ignites ‘Car Brain’ as we justify our right to behave in a manner that would not be tolerated in any other aspect of ...
www.echolive.ie
June 25, 2025 at 12:58 PM
Reposted by François Fortin
jeanfredmartin.bsky.social
Troisième lien, Northvolt, SAAQclic, etc.
#Godin #LeDevoir
June 19, 2025 at 9:30 AM
Reposted by François Fortin
mbonsma.bsky.social
Carrot or stick? In a massive dataset of over 10,000 cities around the world, the strongest association with distance travelled by walking and cycling was not climate, topography, or even infrastructure - it was *gasoline prices*!

doi.org/10.1073/pnas...
Figure 3 from "Global health and climate benefits from walking and cycling infrastructure" by Adam Millard-Balla, Monisha Reginalda, Yasmina Yusufa, and Christopher Bian. The figure shows factors associated with distance travelled by cycling and walking, arranged in order of effect size. For cycling, the largest effects are gasoline prices, GDP per capita, rail service, steep terrain (negative effect), minimum temperature (negative effect), population density, and bicycle lanes. For walking, the largest effects are population density, gasoline prices, bicycle lanes, and maximum temp (negative effect). Fig. 3 Caption: Factors influencing active travel. Each coefficient represents the impact of a one-SD change in each variable on the share of kilometers traveled by cycling (A) and walking (B). For each city-level variable such as density, the model estimates a separate coefficient for each country. The shaded area shows the distribution of country-level coefficients; for density, for example, the effect on walking ranges from about zero to ~0.11, excluding one outlier. For country-level variables such as gasoline prices, there is only a single coefficient. Variables are ordered by the size of their absolute effect in the median country—density and gasoline prices have the greatest impact on walking and gasoline prices and income (GDP per capita) on cycling. The minimum temperature variable shows the marginal effect of both the linear and squared terms. One might expect climate to have a major impact on active travel, and many studies highlight the impact of weather on daily and seasonal travel decisions (9, 25). However, in our model, there is a negligible association between precipitation and the mode shares of walking and cycling. Hotter temperatures decrease walking but have no effect on travel by bicycle. Colder temperatures only reduce walking and cycling in colder climates (SI Appendix for further Discussion). At the national level, gasoline price has the largest association with the share of travel by active modes. A one-SD increase in the price per liter (equivalent to US $0.40) is associated with a ~1.0 percentage point increase in walking and a ~0.5 percentage point increase in cycling—notable given that the mode share of cycling across the entire dataset is just ~0.9%. These findings echo a large volume of research that shows how vehicle travel declines in line with rising fuel prices (26). Gasoline prices also have an indirect effect in promoting denser, mixed-use development (27).
June 18, 2025 at 1:19 PM
Reposted by François Fortin
journaldequebec.com
Enquête origine-destination: le trafic routier entre la Rive-Nord et la Rive-Sud de Québec en baisse de 3,7%
Enquête origine-destination: le trafic routier entre la Rive-Nord et la Rive-Sud de Québec en baisse de 3,7%
Le nombre de déplacements interrives en voiture a baissé de 3,7% entre 2017 et 2023, selon des données inédites obtenues par Le Journal.
www.journaldequebec.com
June 19, 2025 at 11:25 AM
Reposted by François Fortin
deniscvallieres.bsky.social
June 19, 2025 at 11:48 AM