Karen
@karenm-to.bsky.social
🇨🇦 urban dweller with interests both personal and professional in urban issues.
Motorsport fan 🏁
Motorsport fan 🏁
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Starting up my old Twitter #fountainsTO thread on Bluesky with Toronto's most iconic fountain, Nathan Phillips Square. The theme of the thread is that fountains are good and Toronto should have more of them. Feel free to contribute!
June 2, 2025 at 5:40 PM
Starting up my old Twitter #fountainsTO thread on Bluesky with Toronto's most iconic fountain, Nathan Phillips Square. The theme of the thread is that fountains are good and Toronto should have more of them. Feel free to contribute!
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You can be a “car guy” and not like car dependency. You can be a “car guy” and get that too many cars in cities is bad for everyone, including drivers. You can be a “car guy” and be tired of lies & manipulations like “the war on cars.” You can be a “car guy” and know more choice means more freedom.
September 22, 2025 at 8:26 PM
You can be a “car guy” and not like car dependency. You can be a “car guy” and get that too many cars in cities is bad for everyone, including drivers. You can be a “car guy” and be tired of lies & manipulations like “the war on cars.” You can be a “car guy” and know more choice means more freedom.
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Reminder eleventy-billion that people's inherent differences are not diseases or problems to be solved. It is our systems (physical, political, policy) that turn a difference into a disability. Remove barriers, not variations in individual characteristics.
September 23, 2025 at 2:23 AM
Reminder eleventy-billion that people's inherent differences are not diseases or problems to be solved. It is our systems (physical, political, policy) that turn a difference into a disability. Remove barriers, not variations in individual characteristics.
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This week has been a long year. But you know what to do. 😍
September 13, 2025 at 2:52 AM
This week has been a long year. But you know what to do. 😍
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You are totally free to drive your car into Manhattan. When you do, you are seizing expensive real estate for your private use. You want that for free? That would be socialism.
Duffy: "She wants to take people off the road and she's taxing people to do it, raising money for the subway system in New York. But then, to put people in the subway -- the subway is dirty! There's violence. There's criminals. It's not safe ... By the way, I like freedom. Let me drive my car."
April 29, 2025 at 3:46 PM
You are totally free to drive your car into Manhattan. When you do, you are seizing expensive real estate for your private use. You want that for free? That would be socialism.
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We shouldn’t let this horrific attack at Vancouver's Lapu Lapu Day festival perpetuate the myth that all people with mental illness are violent. But it should remind us focusing on treatment is essential, by @picardonhealth.bsky.social www.theglobeandmail.com/canada/artic... via @theglobeandmail.com
We shouldn’t let this horrific attack perpetuate the myth that all people with mental illness are violent
We should endeavour to understand why violent acts like this occur and point the fingers of blame in the right direction
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April 28, 2025 at 11:17 AM
We shouldn’t let this horrific attack at Vancouver's Lapu Lapu Day festival perpetuate the myth that all people with mental illness are violent. But it should remind us focusing on treatment is essential, by @picardonhealth.bsky.social www.theglobeandmail.com/canada/artic... via @theglobeandmail.com
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You can’t overstate the historic importance of today’s speech to both American and Canadian citizens by Canada’s Prime Minister.
Please watch it and share it wherever you live, but especially if you’re in the United States. You need to know what Trump is doing, and why. youtu.be/wz_42pckM7w
Please watch it and share it wherever you live, but especially if you’re in the United States. You need to know what Trump is doing, and why. youtu.be/wz_42pckM7w
Watch Trudeau speak directly to Trump during blistering speech
YouTube video by CNN
youtu.be
March 4, 2025 at 8:37 PM
You can’t overstate the historic importance of today’s speech to both American and Canadian citizens by Canada’s Prime Minister.
Please watch it and share it wherever you live, but especially if you’re in the United States. You need to know what Trump is doing, and why. youtu.be/wz_42pckM7w
Please watch it and share it wherever you live, but especially if you’re in the United States. You need to know what Trump is doing, and why. youtu.be/wz_42pckM7w
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Turns out today is ANOTHER good day for Pierre Poilievre to prove to Canadians that he’s actually capable of passing the standard & normal security check, & get the security clearance that he’s refused to get.
Until he does, I’m continuing to assume that it’s because he knows that he can’t pass it.
Until he does, I’m continuing to assume that it’s because he knows that he can’t pass it.
March 4, 2025 at 1:27 AM
Turns out today is ANOTHER good day for Pierre Poilievre to prove to Canadians that he’s actually capable of passing the standard & normal security check, & get the security clearance that he’s refused to get.
Until he does, I’m continuing to assume that it’s because he knows that he can’t pass it.
Until he does, I’m continuing to assume that it’s because he knows that he can’t pass it.
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Today’s the day, Ontario. Get out and vote! 🗳️
February 27, 2025 at 2:35 PM
Today’s the day, Ontario. Get out and vote! 🗳️
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February 27, 2025 at 4:33 PM
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Not very many people can take a subject as esoteric as parking minimums and write an influential book that creates a following. He helped change how cities work
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Death of a Legend: Donald Shoup, Parking Reformer - Streetsblog New York City
The OG of understanding how "free parking" isn't free has died.
nyc.streetsblog.org
February 8, 2025 at 5:12 PM
Not very many people can take a subject as esoteric as parking minimums and write an influential book that creates a following. He helped change how cities work
nyc.streetsblog.org/2025/02/08/d...
nyc.streetsblog.org/2025/02/08/d...
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Here's the speech if you haven't heard it. 13 minutes of your time. Share it with your American friends and neighbours, because they won't see it otherwise. Circulate it in Mexico and Denmark, France and the UK, Panama and Germany, Poland and Estonia, and especially -- especially -- Ukraine.
Trudeau: Canada will retaliate with 25% tariffs on $155B of U.S. goods
YouTube video by CBC News
youtu.be
February 2, 2025 at 4:38 AM
Here's the speech if you haven't heard it. 13 minutes of your time. Share it with your American friends and neighbours, because they won't see it otherwise. Circulate it in Mexico and Denmark, France and the UK, Panama and Germany, Poland and Estonia, and especially -- especially -- Ukraine.
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Trump has deployed active military to help round up migrants and put them into detention camps.
The military forced us out of our homes at gunpoint in 1942 because we were considered possibly disloyal Americans. They sent us to internment camps for four years.
History is repeating. Pay attention.
The military forced us out of our homes at gunpoint in 1942 because we were considered possibly disloyal Americans. They sent us to internment camps for four years.
History is repeating. Pay attention.
January 23, 2025 at 7:55 PM
Trump has deployed active military to help round up migrants and put them into detention camps.
The military forced us out of our homes at gunpoint in 1942 because we were considered possibly disloyal Americans. They sent us to internment camps for four years.
History is repeating. Pay attention.
The military forced us out of our homes at gunpoint in 1942 because we were considered possibly disloyal Americans. They sent us to internment camps for four years.
History is repeating. Pay attention.
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Trump is now calling Canada, the USA’s closest ally, a “bad abuser” in his disinformation campaign to justify stupid tariffs.
WATCH THE VIDEO BELOW to understand how much of a lie that is, and how outrageously out-of-line an American President is by saying it.
Watch it, then please share it a lot.
WATCH THE VIDEO BELOW to understand how much of a lie that is, and how outrageously out-of-line an American President is by saying it.
Watch it, then please share it a lot.
IMPORTANT: If you live in the United States or Canada, you’ve probably heard Trump‘s constant claim that the United States is “subsidizing” Canada. It’s wrong of course, but here’s the best explanation I’ve seen about how & why it’s wrong. PLEASE WATCH & SHARE IT A LOT. Kudos to Andrew Chang & CBC.
Is Trump right about the U.S. 'subsidizing' Canada? | About That
YouTube video by CBC News
youtu.be
January 23, 2025 at 2:31 AM
Trump is now calling Canada, the USA’s closest ally, a “bad abuser” in his disinformation campaign to justify stupid tariffs.
WATCH THE VIDEO BELOW to understand how much of a lie that is, and how outrageously out-of-line an American President is by saying it.
Watch it, then please share it a lot.
WATCH THE VIDEO BELOW to understand how much of a lie that is, and how outrageously out-of-line an American President is by saying it.
Watch it, then please share it a lot.
The fall of the Berlin Wall
What’s the first major news story your remember as a child?
Mine is OJ Simpson
Mine is OJ Simpson
December 17, 2024 at 10:56 PM
The fall of the Berlin Wall
I need Lando to get ahead of Max in the race if for no other reason than I think it would be funny if Max clinched the title at the Qatar Sprint race for the second year in a row.
The Las Vegas Grand Prix is just 12 hours away.
Max Verstappen will start the race in position to clinch his fourth consecutive world championship.
Here's all the ways he can secure the title: https://buff.ly/4i0Nn42
#F1 #LasVegasGP #RaceFans
Max Verstappen will start the race in position to clinch his fourth consecutive world championship.
Here's all the ways he can secure the title: https://buff.ly/4i0Nn42
#F1 #LasVegasGP #RaceFans
Every way Verstappen can clinch the championship at the Las Vegas Grand Prix
Max Verstappen is poised to clinch the 2024 drivers' championship at the next race. Here's how he can seal a fourth title.
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November 23, 2024 at 8:50 PM
I need Lando to get ahead of Max in the race if for no other reason than I think it would be funny if Max clinched the title at the Qatar Sprint race for the second year in a row.
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Telling the truth is a virtue. The left does not corner the market on virtue. And they are deeply bad at housing because of this ideological streak that runs deep.
City of Toronto single-detached DCs.
2004: $4,370
2014: $27,774
2024: $137,864
Gord Perks to CBC: "Over a decade or two, our DCs are rising at not much more than the rate of inflation"
Our politicians lie to us, and our media amplifies those lies.
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2004: $4,370
2014: $27,774
2024: $137,864
Gord Perks to CBC: "Over a decade or two, our DCs are rising at not much more than the rate of inflation"
Our politicians lie to us, and our media amplifies those lies.
www.youtube.com/watc...
Why isn’t Toronto building more housing?
With construction of new homes stalled, developers and the City of Toronto are divided over how to best boost housing supply. CBC’s Shannon Martin explains.
00:00 Intro
01:07 The cost to build
02:00 Development charges keep getting more expensive
03:05 Defending development charges
04:24 Time to
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November 23, 2024 at 4:38 PM
Telling the truth is a virtue. The left does not corner the market on virtue. And they are deeply bad at housing because of this ideological streak that runs deep.
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Saw one more "cyclists should just take the side street" take online and reached my breaking point, had to make this meme 😭😭
November 23, 2024 at 6:56 PM
Saw one more "cyclists should just take the side street" take online and reached my breaking point, had to make this meme 😭😭
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It’s not “common sense” to ignore the people who’ve spent their whole adult lives learning about something complex. Imagine someone coming to your place of work, whatever it is, and telling you that you’re doing everything wrong because “common sense.” What would you think of them?
The reviews are in. The professional associations representing Ontario’s engineers tinyurl.com/5n6tuxv5 urban planners tinyurl.com/ytj3xuc2 and traffic engineers tinyurl.com/276hzzxd have all come out opposed to Ontario’s proposed law to override local governments and rip out local bike lanes.
November 23, 2024 at 7:17 PM
It’s not “common sense” to ignore the people who’ve spent their whole adult lives learning about something complex. Imagine someone coming to your place of work, whatever it is, and telling you that you’re doing everything wrong because “common sense.” What would you think of them?
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We got tricked by science fiction into thinking a futuristic city is all about flying cars and crystal towers and hologram billboards but what it really looks like is nice apartment blocks, good mass transit, pedestrian zones with shade trees and safe bike lanes.
June 26, 2024 at 9:14 PM
We got tricked by science fiction into thinking a futuristic city is all about flying cars and crystal towers and hologram billboards but what it really looks like is nice apartment blocks, good mass transit, pedestrian zones with shade trees and safe bike lanes.
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“We found there’s this perfect one-to-one relationship. If a city increased its road capacity by 10% then driving in that city went up by 10%.” Still one of the best articles on why building bigger roads leads to more driving. Understanding #InducedDemand Via @wired.com www.wired.com/2014/06/wuwt...
What's Up With That: Building Bigger Roads Actually Makes Traffic Worse
The concept is called induced demand, which is economist-speak for when increasing the supply of something (like roads) makes people want that thing even more. Though some traffic engineers made note ...
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November 21, 2024 at 5:40 AM
“We found there’s this perfect one-to-one relationship. If a city increased its road capacity by 10% then driving in that city went up by 10%.” Still one of the best articles on why building bigger roads leads to more driving. Understanding #InducedDemand Via @wired.com www.wired.com/2014/06/wuwt...
This is so egregious.
Why is Ford so hell bent on rolling back any little hint of progress. All the evidence, relevant professional associations, BIAs, and hospitals are against him.
Why can’t he leave the city to look after itself and focus on his provincial purview.
Why is Ford so hell bent on rolling back any little hint of progress. All the evidence, relevant professional associations, BIAs, and hospitals are against him.
Why can’t he leave the city to look after itself and focus on his provincial purview.
"Bans people from taking the Government to court for its decision to remove bike lanes, including any individuals who are injured or killed due to a collision between a bike and a vehicle."
Very normal stuff from a government confident that its decision won't harm anyone.
Very normal stuff from a government confident that its decision won't harm anyone.
November 21, 2024 at 8:28 PM
This is so egregious.
Why is Ford so hell bent on rolling back any little hint of progress. All the evidence, relevant professional associations, BIAs, and hospitals are against him.
Why can’t he leave the city to look after itself and focus on his provincial purview.
Why is Ford so hell bent on rolling back any little hint of progress. All the evidence, relevant professional associations, BIAs, and hospitals are against him.
Why can’t he leave the city to look after itself and focus on his provincial purview.
Date yourself, post your first computer.
We had two: the IBM 8086 and the Comodore 64. We used one monitor and had to switch the source back and forth between which one was being used.
We had two: the IBM 8086 and the Comodore 64. We used one monitor and had to switch the source back and forth between which one was being used.
November 18, 2024 at 5:06 PM
Date yourself, post your first computer.
We had two: the IBM 8086 and the Comodore 64. We used one monitor and had to switch the source back and forth between which one was being used.
We had two: the IBM 8086 and the Comodore 64. We used one monitor and had to switch the source back and forth between which one was being used.
