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When I'm accused of naivety for thinking the world can change for the better, I use this very example.
I'm not old & in my lifetime, smoking went from absolutely everywhere, to "smoking sections", to the current reality.
It took education, new laws, & peer pressure. All of it - no silver bullet.
I'm not old & in my lifetime, smoking went from absolutely everywhere, to "smoking sections", to the current reality.
It took education, new laws, & peer pressure. All of it - no silver bullet.
I lived thru the end of public smoking. Early in my career I presented to city councils who were smoking, in front of audiences who were smoking.
Smoking in restaurants, airplanes, hospitals…
All of that seems insane now, but it was very controversial when we DID change it.
We CAN change things.
Smoking in restaurants, airplanes, hospitals…
All of that seems insane now, but it was very controversial when we DID change it.
We CAN change things.
It’s crazy that people used to be able to just smoke cigarettes wherever they wanted
December 19, 2025 at 12:23 PM
When I'm accused of naivety for thinking the world can change for the better, I use this very example.
I'm not old & in my lifetime, smoking went from absolutely everywhere, to "smoking sections", to the current reality.
It took education, new laws, & peer pressure. All of it - no silver bullet.
I'm not old & in my lifetime, smoking went from absolutely everywhere, to "smoking sections", to the current reality.
It took education, new laws, & peer pressure. All of it - no silver bullet.
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They call this the Sunwing legislative session.
Ontario legislature to take 14-week winter break, following 19-week summer break | CBC News
Ontario's legislature is set to take a 14-week winter break, less than two months after resuming from a 19-week summer break.
www.cbc.ca
December 11, 2025 at 7:16 PM
They call this the Sunwing legislative session.
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It's funny how Trump never seems to know anything about the cases surrounding people he has pardoned. It's always "people tell me". But of course it's not what people tell him that counts, but what they pay him or intermediaries.
POLITICO: You pardoned the former president of Honduras even though he was convicted in a massive intl drug trafficking scheme. How is that 0 tolerance on drug trafficking?
TRUMP: Well I don't know him and I know very little about him other than people said it was like an Obama-Biden type set up
TRUMP: Well I don't know him and I know very little about him other than people said it was like an Obama-Biden type set up
December 9, 2025 at 6:40 PM
It's funny how Trump never seems to know anything about the cases surrounding people he has pardoned. It's always "people tell me". But of course it's not what people tell him that counts, but what they pay him or intermediaries.
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Universities will keep sexual predators on the faculty because their "hands are tied by tenure." Turns out protesting genocide is all it takes to loosen those unshakable chains.
Tenured US professor fired over pro-Palestinian protests contests dismissal
Sang Hea Kil is first tenured faculty member fired from a public university in connection to the protests
www.theguardian.com
December 6, 2025 at 4:04 PM
Universities will keep sexual predators on the faculty because their "hands are tied by tenure." Turns out protesting genocide is all it takes to loosen those unshakable chains.
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Anyone who thinks we should buy jets whose critical software is wholly controlled by a nation that has threatened us is insane
December 5, 2025 at 1:19 PM
Anyone who thinks we should buy jets whose critical software is wholly controlled by a nation that has threatened us is insane
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#Toronto wants to be a Bicycle Capital. But it’s surrounded by a Ford Nation. ( #Ontario premier Doug Ford never met an SUV he didn’t love.)
City has a workaround: narrow (rather than remove) vehicle lanes to add 20 km of new bike lanes.
toronto.citynews.ca/2025/12/01/i...
City has a workaround: narrow (rather than remove) vehicle lanes to add 20 km of new bike lanes.
toronto.citynews.ca/2025/12/01/i...
December 3, 2025 at 2:44 PM
#Toronto wants to be a Bicycle Capital. But it’s surrounded by a Ford Nation. ( #Ontario premier Doug Ford never met an SUV he didn’t love.)
City has a workaround: narrow (rather than remove) vehicle lanes to add 20 km of new bike lanes.
toronto.citynews.ca/2025/12/01/i...
City has a workaround: narrow (rather than remove) vehicle lanes to add 20 km of new bike lanes.
toronto.citynews.ca/2025/12/01/i...
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Any political “leader” still selling the obviously false choice between #ClimateAction and “the economy” is just reminding us that they clearly don’t understand either the climate crisis OR the economy.
Or they’re cynically hope that WE don’t understand the difference.
Or both.
Or they’re cynically hope that WE don’t understand the difference.
Or both.
November 25, 2025 at 7:02 AM
Any political “leader” still selling the obviously false choice between #ClimateAction and “the economy” is just reminding us that they clearly don’t understand either the climate crisis OR the economy.
Or they’re cynically hope that WE don’t understand the difference.
Or both.
Or they’re cynically hope that WE don’t understand the difference.
Or both.
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Ontario to spend money to rip out bike lanes and speed cameras to disconnect people and hurt school children. 🙌
The Netherlands is to invest up to €1 billion in cycling infrastructure to connect hundreds of thousands of new homes nationwide.
Read more: zagdaily.com/trends/dutch...
Read more: zagdaily.com/trends/dutch...
November 17, 2025 at 5:42 PM
Ontario to spend money to rip out bike lanes and speed cameras to disconnect people and hurt school children. 🙌
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Good morning.
If you live in Alberta, you should know that today your government will invoke the notwithstanding clause to wage war against transgender Albertans.
Not because transgender persons are harmful, but because the UCP is distracting you from their mountain of failures.
#ableg
If you live in Alberta, you should know that today your government will invoke the notwithstanding clause to wage war against transgender Albertans.
Not because transgender persons are harmful, but because the UCP is distracting you from their mountain of failures.
#ableg
November 17, 2025 at 4:02 PM
Good morning.
If you live in Alberta, you should know that today your government will invoke the notwithstanding clause to wage war against transgender Albertans.
Not because transgender persons are harmful, but because the UCP is distracting you from their mountain of failures.
#ableg
If you live in Alberta, you should know that today your government will invoke the notwithstanding clause to wage war against transgender Albertans.
Not because transgender persons are harmful, but because the UCP is distracting you from their mountain of failures.
#ableg
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WATCH: Seriously, if you’re following ANY bike-lane debate, you HAVE TO WATCH this news story. You actually can’t make this up. Ford claims without evidence that bike-lanes are bad for small business, and THE ACTUAL BUSINESS ASSOCIATION obliterates him with data.
Safe bike-lanes mean business.
Safe bike-lanes mean business.
Annex businesses tell Ford to back off Bloor bike lanes
Stores in the Annex say the Bloor bike lanes have been a big boost to business. As Michelle Mackey reports, the neighborhood's BIA wants the province to back off its new bill that could see the lanes ...
toronto.citynews.ca
November 8, 2025 at 3:13 PM
WATCH: Seriously, if you’re following ANY bike-lane debate, you HAVE TO WATCH this news story. You actually can’t make this up. Ford claims without evidence that bike-lanes are bad for small business, and THE ACTUAL BUSINESS ASSOCIATION obliterates him with data.
Safe bike-lanes mean business.
Safe bike-lanes mean business.
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Here’s something that’s really important for everyone to understand.
If we design our cities just for cars, they fail everyone, including drivers.
If we design our cities with many great CHOICES in how to get around, they work better for everyone, including drivers.
Spread the word.
If we design our cities just for cars, they fail everyone, including drivers.
If we design our cities with many great CHOICES in how to get around, they work better for everyone, including drivers.
Spread the word.
November 15, 2025 at 9:14 AM
Here’s something that’s really important for everyone to understand.
If we design our cities just for cars, they fail everyone, including drivers.
If we design our cities with many great CHOICES in how to get around, they work better for everyone, including drivers.
Spread the word.
If we design our cities just for cars, they fail everyone, including drivers.
If we design our cities with many great CHOICES in how to get around, they work better for everyone, including drivers.
Spread the word.
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“As conspicuously selective as this kind of heritage protection is, so is who gets listened to at city hall. Some very vocal residents groups opposed the neighbourhood business proposal… but it’s rarely clear if they represent the whole neighbourhood’s feeling…”
How Toronto killed Sesame Street. My column on the retreat from allowing shops in neighbourhoods
& other watering down of good ideas.
www.thestar.com/opinion/cont...
& other watering down of good ideas.
www.thestar.com/opinion/cont...
Shawn Micallef: How Toronto killed ‘Sesame Street’ with its heritage rules — and how we can bring it back
In the face of opposition from even small groups, the city ends up watering down even the best ideas.
www.thestar.com
November 9, 2025 at 11:49 PM
“As conspicuously selective as this kind of heritage protection is, so is who gets listened to at city hall. Some very vocal residents groups opposed the neighbourhood business proposal… but it’s rarely clear if they represent the whole neighbourhood’s feeling…”
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This is really important.
The main thing that makes it hard to achieve integrated nature and green in cities isn’t density of buildings or density of people — it's density of cars. And the more well-designed and integrated density of people & buildings you achieve, the fewer cars you need or want.
The main thing that makes it hard to achieve integrated nature and green in cities isn’t density of buildings or density of people — it's density of cars. And the more well-designed and integrated density of people & buildings you achieve, the fewer cars you need or want.
November 9, 2025 at 8:09 AM
This is really important.
The main thing that makes it hard to achieve integrated nature and green in cities isn’t density of buildings or density of people — it's density of cars. And the more well-designed and integrated density of people & buildings you achieve, the fewer cars you need or want.
The main thing that makes it hard to achieve integrated nature and green in cities isn’t density of buildings or density of people — it's density of cars. And the more well-designed and integrated density of people & buildings you achieve, the fewer cars you need or want.
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Amazon is helping fund a $300 million build of a ballroom for the White House.
Independent bookstores are donating to food banks and organizations that help with food insecurity.
They are not the same.
Independent bookstores are donating to food banks and organizations that help with food insecurity.
They are not the same.
October 30, 2025 at 4:01 PM
Amazon is helping fund a $300 million build of a ballroom for the White House.
Independent bookstores are donating to food banks and organizations that help with food insecurity.
They are not the same.
Independent bookstores are donating to food banks and organizations that help with food insecurity.
They are not the same.
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Pushing for a cease fire so you can look good in a genocide you specifically enabled, at the same time as you’re assaulting your own democracy & waging war on your own cities, is never going to get you a prize for peace. If there’s a prize for hypocrisy and narcissism though, you’ve got a real shot.
October 13, 2025 at 5:53 AM
Pushing for a cease fire so you can look good in a genocide you specifically enabled, at the same time as you’re assaulting your own democracy & waging war on your own cities, is never going to get you a prize for peace. If there’s a prize for hypocrisy and narcissism though, you’ve got a real shot.
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October 1, 2025 at 1:20 AM
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There is exactly one way to rapidly cut pollution at scale, save money both at the govt and household level, and do it without federal help.
The best fastest thing to do on climate is to just make cities safer for walking and biking. That's it.
Every climate person should be working on this.
The best fastest thing to do on climate is to just make cities safer for walking and biking. That's it.
Every climate person should be working on this.
City Hall: Experts at King’s College London estimated that, from when the Mayor came into office in 2016, without additional action it would take 193 years for London to meet legal limits. It has been achieved in nine years.
October 1, 2025 at 12:01 AM
There is exactly one way to rapidly cut pollution at scale, save money both at the govt and household level, and do it without federal help.
The best fastest thing to do on climate is to just make cities safer for walking and biking. That's it.
Every climate person should be working on this.
The best fastest thing to do on climate is to just make cities safer for walking and biking. That's it.
Every climate person should be working on this.
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This is a painful read. I mean seriously painful. But it’s also a must-read, and must-share, for everyone.
Maybe Rex Tillerson Was Right. Maybe Trump Really Is Just A Moron.
His lying and temper tantrums aside, evidence abounds that the president's most important, and dangerous, feature is his ignorance.
www.huffpost.com
September 1, 2025 at 5:45 PM
This is a painful read. I mean seriously painful. But it’s also a must-read, and must-share, for everyone.
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This means it's working. It's efficient. There is a whole cohort of people who will make political currency out of blowing up things that work. What a bloody moment in history. (see: vaccines)
One of the candidates in the race is running on undoing the latest piece of transit infrastructure in the ward. The calls are coming from inside the house folks.
September 2, 2025 at 5:58 PM
This means it's working. It's efficient. There is a whole cohort of people who will make political currency out of blowing up things that work. What a bloody moment in history. (see: vaccines)
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Trump’s Attacks on the #Climate are an Opportunity for Canada.
The US was never really a clean #energy leader. Will Canada will seize this moment or maintain its position as the world’s fourth biggest producer of oil while running a few #wind farms on the side
thewalrus.ca/trumps-attac...
The US was never really a clean #energy leader. Will Canada will seize this moment or maintain its position as the world’s fourth biggest producer of oil while running a few #wind farms on the side
thewalrus.ca/trumps-attac...
Trump’s Attacks on the Climate Are an Opportunity for Canada | The Walrus
The US was never really a clean energy leader. Can Ottawa step in?
thewalrus.ca
August 28, 2025 at 1:14 PM
Trump’s Attacks on the #Climate are an Opportunity for Canada.
The US was never really a clean #energy leader. Will Canada will seize this moment or maintain its position as the world’s fourth biggest producer of oil while running a few #wind farms on the side
thewalrus.ca/trumps-attac...
The US was never really a clean #energy leader. Will Canada will seize this moment or maintain its position as the world’s fourth biggest producer of oil while running a few #wind farms on the side
thewalrus.ca/trumps-attac...
How the 1980s Gave Us the Revenge of History — Episode 8
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open.substack.com/pub/charliea...
How the 1980s Gave Us the Revenge of History — Episode 8
Episode 8 of the Dangerous Memory Podcast
open.substack.com
August 24, 2025 at 2:34 PM
How the 1980s Gave Us the Revenge of History — Episode 8
open.substack.com/pub/charliea...
open.substack.com/pub/charliea...
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A bus isn’t charity, it’s concrete infrastructure that expands the reach of your feet.
Should We Treat the Local Bus As a Basic Right? — Streetsblog USA
There's a way of framing public transit that makes the bus a useful mobility tool for everyone: as a moving extension of the sidewalk network.
buff.ly
May 20, 2025 at 3:45 PM
A bus isn’t charity, it’s concrete infrastructure that expands the reach of your feet.
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US campaign entices Canada tourists: “Come visit America and also maybe El Salvador!”
US campaign entices Canada tourists: “Come visit America and also maybe El Salvador!”
OTTAWA - Following months of declining Canadian travel to the USA, Americans have launched a tourism campaign inviting Canadians to visit locations like New York, Austin, and possibly even take an all...
www.thebeaverton.com
May 20, 2025 at 3:58 PM
US campaign entices Canada tourists: “Come visit America and also maybe El Salvador!”