@taras-g.bsky.social
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“Which raises the question: If Trump can’t tell the truth even when it counts most, with legal jeopardy on the line and lawyers there to help prepare him, is he able to apprehend the truth at all?”
“This is not normal for a functioning adult.”
Read this.
“This is not normal for a functioning adult.”
Read this.
Unfit for Office
Donald Trump’s narcissism makes it impossible for him to carry out the duties of the presidency in the way the Constitution requires.
www.theatlantic.com
October 3, 2025 at 12:42 AM
“Which raises the question: If Trump can’t tell the truth even when it counts most, with legal jeopardy on the line and lawyers there to help prepare him, is he able to apprehend the truth at all?”
“This is not normal for a functioning adult.”
Read this.
“This is not normal for a functioning adult.”
Read this.
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A number of countries and even cities within the United States of America have tried this experiment.
Believe it or not, Salt Lake City, Utah did this a few years ago, and yes, it cost less money to house the chronically homeless than it did to provide EMS, police, and hospital services. Way less.
Believe it or not, Salt Lake City, Utah did this a few years ago, and yes, it cost less money to house the chronically homeless than it did to provide EMS, police, and hospital services. Way less.
IN THE USA…
Anderson Cooper: So it's more expensive to have a chronically homeless person living on the streets than it is to actually subsidize an apartment for them?
Answer: Yes, we’re paying more as taxpayers to walk past that person on the street and do nothing…
www.cbsnews.com/news/100000-...
Anderson Cooper: So it's more expensive to have a chronically homeless person living on the streets than it is to actually subsidize an apartment for them?
Answer: Yes, we’re paying more as taxpayers to walk past that person on the street and do nothing…
www.cbsnews.com/news/100000-...
100,000 Homes: Housing the homeless saves money?
Giving apartments to the chronically homeless can save taxpayer dollars, advocates say
www.cbsnews.com
September 22, 2025 at 1:16 AM
A number of countries and even cities within the United States of America have tried this experiment.
Believe it or not, Salt Lake City, Utah did this a few years ago, and yes, it cost less money to house the chronically homeless than it did to provide EMS, police, and hospital services. Way less.
Believe it or not, Salt Lake City, Utah did this a few years ago, and yes, it cost less money to house the chronically homeless than it did to provide EMS, police, and hospital services. Way less.
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Shawn is right. I’m really excited about the evolution of this city. Proud to call it home & here for all the growing pains because I love it ✨
September 21, 2025 at 9:49 PM
Shawn is right. I’m really excited about the evolution of this city. Proud to call it home & here for all the growing pains because I love it ✨
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In Ontario criminal vigilantism is acceptable, effective & can influence government policy. When Doug Ford gives his tacit approval of criminal vigilantism, indicating it can influence his government's public policy, it's a frightening moment for Ontario. My column on what we should think about.
Shawn Micallef: Doug Ford’s attack on speed cameras shows how good politics can make for lousy public policy
The premier’s comments on Tuesday should be a moment for Ontarians to think whether the province is a place of law and order or where vigilantes can influence government policy.
www.thestar.com
September 10, 2025 at 1:11 PM
In Ontario criminal vigilantism is acceptable, effective & can influence government policy. When Doug Ford gives his tacit approval of criminal vigilantism, indicating it can influence his government's public policy, it's a frightening moment for Ontario. My column on what we should think about.
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Yesterday a councillor wants to pause speed cameras. Today this. Unhinged city. Surely no connection, and leadership vs taking the lid off things means nothing.
A rash of Toronto speed cameras have been vandalized and cut down in the past 24 hours
Speed cameras have become a hot-button issue throughout the GTA.
www.thestar.com
June 26, 2025 at 7:42 PM
Yesterday a councillor wants to pause speed cameras. Today this. Unhinged city. Surely no connection, and leadership vs taking the lid off things means nothing.
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As Toronto prepares for its first heat wave, it’s important to recognize the impact waste heat from cars have on city temperatures.
Car traffic can generate up to 3 times as much heat as all a city’s body heat… even in cities where most people don’t drive.
www.preventionweb.net/news/how-tra...
Car traffic can generate up to 3 times as much heat as all a city’s body heat… even in cities where most people don’t drive.
www.preventionweb.net/news/how-tra...
How traffic increases urban heat stress
Waste heat from cars, together with sealed road and car park surfaces, contributes to the generation of urban heat. This affects the quality of life and poses a health risk. As temperatures rise, it i...
www.preventionweb.net
June 20, 2025 at 1:21 PM
As Toronto prepares for its first heat wave, it’s important to recognize the impact waste heat from cars have on city temperatures.
Car traffic can generate up to 3 times as much heat as all a city’s body heat… even in cities where most people don’t drive.
www.preventionweb.net/news/how-tra...
Car traffic can generate up to 3 times as much heat as all a city’s body heat… even in cities where most people don’t drive.
www.preventionweb.net/news/how-tra...
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Cool study from @bikewaysto.bsky.social detailing a traffic count on Bloor Street taken on June 11 with a camera at 412 Bloor West. During the peak of the afternoon rush, bikes outnumbered cars.
I repeat: bikes outnumbered cars.
drive.google.com/file/d/1ctd4...
I repeat: bikes outnumbered cars.
drive.google.com/file/d/1ctd4...
June 19, 2025 at 2:47 PM
Cool study from @bikewaysto.bsky.social detailing a traffic count on Bloor Street taken on June 11 with a camera at 412 Bloor West. During the peak of the afternoon rush, bikes outnumbered cars.
I repeat: bikes outnumbered cars.
drive.google.com/file/d/1ctd4...
I repeat: bikes outnumbered cars.
drive.google.com/file/d/1ctd4...
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Cars, trucks & SUVs have become driver weapons. Sometimes intentionally, sometimes in the way streets & vehicles are designed. We should admit that we are very much OK w a certain amount of death & life-changing injuries in order to not inconvenience driving. My column this week. Pls read n share.
Shawn Micallef: Vehicles have become weapons by design — and public space is in their crosshairs
A culture like ours weaponizes vehicles — from the way they are designed to the way the roads they run on are designed.
www.thestar.com
May 4, 2025 at 2:54 PM
Cars, trucks & SUVs have become driver weapons. Sometimes intentionally, sometimes in the way streets & vehicles are designed. We should admit that we are very much OK w a certain amount of death & life-changing injuries in order to not inconvenience driving. My column this week. Pls read n share.
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This iconic Fabian Todorovic cartoon is still one of the best I’ve seen at illustrating the remarkable amount of space we surrender to cars, leaving little space left for everyone and everything else. The text added later makes the bonus point that many drivers still manage to complain about it.
May 2, 2025 at 4:40 AM
This iconic Fabian Todorovic cartoon is still one of the best I’ve seen at illustrating the remarkable amount of space we surrender to cars, leaving little space left for everyone and everything else. The text added later makes the bonus point that many drivers still manage to complain about it.
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Lanrick does more in a morning than I do in a year. If you don’t know his work or follow him, you should change that.
Wearing your words this AM @tomflood.bsky.social with the @unitedwaygt.bsky.social and @uoftcities.bsky.social at the 2025 Leading Social Justice Collective session.
So excited to have you being a part of Unleashing the Power of Cycling on Monday. We’re going to make some noise! #BikeTO
So excited to have you being a part of Unleashing the Power of Cycling on Monday. We’re going to make some noise! #BikeTO
May 3, 2025 at 10:23 PM
Lanrick does more in a morning than I do in a year. If you don’t know his work or follow him, you should change that.
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What I found most sad was their incuriosity. I can’t fathom venturing into a new field and not being open, curious, humble. Nope. It was all about applying what they have known, branding that dynamic onto a new environment. Sclerotic mindset. All about reinforcing beliefs. Quite impotent, actually
February 24, 2025 at 5:01 AM
What I found most sad was their incuriosity. I can’t fathom venturing into a new field and not being open, curious, humble. Nope. It was all about applying what they have known, branding that dynamic onto a new environment. Sclerotic mindset. All about reinforcing beliefs. Quite impotent, actually
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Ford didn’t have a “mandate” to announce his US booze ban, so why is he saying the election is to give him one? His translucent excuse offers us a way to look back on his six years of doing dubious things without a “mandate”.
My @thestar.com column.
My @thestar.com column.
Shawn Micallef: Doug Ford hasn’t needed a mandate to make major changes in Toronto. So why does he need one for Donald Trump?
By framing his election call in terms of needing a mandate, Premier Doug Ford invites us to look back on all that he’s done to the city without such a mandate.
www.thestar.com
February 2, 2025 at 5:25 PM
Ford didn’t have a “mandate” to announce his US booze ban, so why is he saying the election is to give him one? His translucent excuse offers us a way to look back on his six years of doing dubious things without a “mandate”.
My @thestar.com column.
My @thestar.com column.
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The last paragraph is the biggest point (but worth reading everything leading up to it)
Removal of bikeways will lead to every road user losing.
Absolutely no one wins.
Drivers, pedestrians, transit user, cyclists - every road user loses.
#BikeTO
Removal of bikeways will lead to every road user losing.
Absolutely no one wins.
Drivers, pedestrians, transit user, cyclists - every road user loses.
#BikeTO
#BikeTO
"…in every scenario the researchers ran, a Bloor West bike lane that stretched into Etobicoke was deemed critical. Bike lanes on arterial roads are 'absolutely necessary. There are no parallel side streets that are suitable.' ” @mbonsma.bsky.social
By @katelunau.bsky.social
"…in every scenario the researchers ran, a Bloor West bike lane that stretched into Etobicoke was deemed critical. Bike lanes on arterial roads are 'absolutely necessary. There are no parallel side streets that are suitable.' ” @mbonsma.bsky.social
By @katelunau.bsky.social
The Bloor Street bike lane has become Toronto’s most contested strip of concrete, igniting fights over congestion, safety and the future of downtown
January 29, 2025 at 9:55 PM
The last paragraph is the biggest point (but worth reading everything leading up to it)
Removal of bikeways will lead to every road user losing.
Absolutely no one wins.
Drivers, pedestrians, transit user, cyclists - every road user loses.
#BikeTO
Removal of bikeways will lead to every road user losing.
Absolutely no one wins.
Drivers, pedestrians, transit user, cyclists - every road user loses.
#BikeTO
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The firm Stantec has been named. Put them on the shelf with Diamond Schmitt & Urban Strategies as corporate citizens who’ll take the cash to destroy part of the city (and here put lives at risk).
Stantec is working with the Ford gov't to rip out bike lanes in Toronto, despite the injunction that prevents this work taking place until March & despite the tens of thousands of Ontarians who don't want to see their money wasted ripping out perfectly good infrastructure we paid to put in:
Shame on you, Stantec
www.cycleto.ca
January 30, 2025 at 12:17 AM
The firm Stantec has been named. Put them on the shelf with Diamond Schmitt & Urban Strategies as corporate citizens who’ll take the cash to destroy part of the city (and here put lives at risk).