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Frédéric Demers @fredericdemers.bsky.social · 11h

Est-ce que Ville Mont-Royal va fermer les portes de ses belles clôtures Frost sur le boulevard Acadie cette année pour l'halloween ? 🫅🎃😿

Frédéric Demers @fredericdemers.bsky.social · 1d

La F1 et le automobilistes seront toujours plus importants que les usagers du transport en commun... 🙋🤷🙎

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Frédéric Demers @fredericdemers.bsky.social · 1d

La juge est tellement déconnectée de la réalité... 🙄

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Frédéric Demers @fredericdemers.bsky.social · 1d

Le transport en commun devrait être un service essentiel, non ?

C'est surtout les personnes vulnérables et moins bien nanties qui seront touchées...

Comment vont-elles pouvoir se rendre à leur travail ce samedi ?

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Frédéric Demers @fredericdemers.bsky.social · 3d

C'est un excellent moment pour commencer à donner à Wikipedia, non ? 🤓🤓🤓

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donate.wikimedia.org

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Rachel Gilmore @rachelgilmore.bsky.social · 4d

Canada’s largest white nationalist network marching down Ottawa streets in front of our Parliamentary buildings.

Not great!

Image of Jeremy Mackenzie in front of CBC on sparks st in Ottawa, with masked members of his active club Second Sons behind him holding a banner that reads “CBC hates white people”

Still from a video of the second sons active club members, masked, marching down sparks street in Ottawa in front of a building where parliamentary committee meetings are held

Post from a top Diagolon and Second Sons member, Alex Vriend, on Telegram reads: “There was a dozen or so CBC
employees frantically running around inside the building waving their arms over their heads like something out of a cartoon. Highly entertaining.”

Post from Diagolon Leader Jeremy Mackenzie on telegram reads:

“Telling CBC HQ to get fucked to their faces at their workplace while they stared fearfully, scurrying around in the windows was a high point of my year.
Immense thanks and respect to the club, their supporters and families.
I've carried this weight around for a long time and it was very satisfying and righteous to be able to physically point to those who are truly responsible for so much death of our people.
You wanted our "comments", СВС.
Soon the entire country will have them.
They hate you.
They hate me.
Fuck the anti-white CBC.”

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Emma Cardinal @emmacardinal.com · 5d

did you know that montreal once had the first fully automated metro in north america? the expo express was built for the world fair in 1967 and was in service until the 70s. today, you can still see an abandoned bridge that it used to run on.

📷 stm archives, apple maps, emma cardinal, apple maps

3d view of the abandoned bridge from apple maps.

view of the abandoned bridge from the cosmos bridge.

annotated apple maps screenshot showing the location of the abandoned bridge, as well as the location of the cosmos bridge.

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Wim Remysen @kwebek.bsky.social · 5d

Mon cœur de geek est comblé ;-) Voici le GPS médiéval version Europe de l’Ouest.

En 1350, pour aller de ma ville natale (Turnhout) à Amsterdam, ça m’aurait pris un peu plus que 3 jours à cheval.

Fascinant!

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Sébastien Gobert @sebagobert.bsky.social · 6d

Reportage saisissant sur le rythme de (re)construction "à la Dubaï" du Haut-Karabakh. Les autorités azerbaïdjanaises investissent 19,5 milliards de dollars pour édifier des nouveaux villages, des aéroports, des mosquées, etc.

Problème: les gens ne reviennent pas. 1/

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Frédéric Demers @fredericdemers.bsky.social · 7d

C'était bien mieux avant, non ?

Make Montréal great again, comme ils disent...

Et si Montréal avait sauvé son tramway?

Au moment où la métropole rêve à nouveau d’un tramway, l’histoire méconnue de nos « p’tits chars » peut-elle servir de leçon?

ici.radio-canada.ca

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Peter Norton @norton.bsky.social · Sep 1

Canadians fought for walkable streets.
Montreal, August 20, 1966.
Dorys Bernbaum: “Must we wait for deaths?”

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Peter Norton @norton.bsky.social · Sep 4

Canadians fought for walkable streets.

Montreal 1973: Following several injuries to children walking to and from school, local residents organized. On Friday, April 13, on Esplanade Ave at Van Horne Ave, about 30 people, including children, blocked all motor traffic for one hour.

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Peter Norton @norton.bsky.social · Sep 5

Canadians fought for walkable streets.

Montreal, November 12, 1974: At Clarke and Bernard streets, about 100 parents, organized as the Esplanade Street Association, blocked motor traffic for half an hour to demand safer conditions for walking. ...

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Peter Norton @norton.bsky.social · Sep 6

Canadians fought for walkable streets.

Montreal, June 27, 1973: After Sissy Brooks (age 5), her older brother, and other children were injured by motorists, residents demanded streets safe for everyone.

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Peter Norton @norton.bsky.social · Sep 8

Canadians fought for walkable streets.

Montreal 1973: To slow drivers down where children walked to school, residents resorted to installing home-made signs marked “20 mph.” ...

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Peter Norton @norton.bsky.social · Sep 12

Canadians fought for walkable streets.

Montreal, 1973: Following injuries and deaths to people walking, volunteers made stop signs and “20 mph” signs, posting them where needed. Police removed the signs. Volunteers then painted “20 max” on the pavement.

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Peter Norton @norton.bsky.social · Sep 13

Canadians fought for walkable streets.

Montreal, 1973: When Joan Couture posted a “20 mph” sign on her home, facing the street, police told her to take the sign down. When she refused, she was charged with posting an illegal sign.

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Peter Norton @norton.bsky.social · Sep 17

Canadians fought for walkable streets.

Côte-des-Neiges, Montreal, June 22, 1955, part 2:

After a driver injured a 7-year-old boy, about 40 women blocked the intersection of Clanranald and Van Horne avenues, demanding safer conditions for walking and letting no motorists through.

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Peter Norton @norton.bsky.social · Sep 16

Canadians fought for walkable streets.

Côte-des-Neiges, Montreal, June 22, 1955:

After a driver injured a 7-year-old boy, about 40 women blocked the intersection of Clanranald and Van Horne avenues, demanding safer conditions for walking and letting no motorists through.

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Jedwin Mok @jedwinmok.com · Sep 17

“The time [REM] went from ‘doesn’t exist’ to [revenue service] is mind blowing...”

A masterpiece from @hudsonyuen.bsky.social featuring @chittimarco.bsky.social & @englishrail.bsky.social. So proud to have played a small part.

MUST WATCH for planners who believe the status quo is inevitable

How Montreal’s miracle metro could change everything

YouTube video by The Flying Moose

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𝚃𝚊𝚛𝚊𝚜 𝙶𝚛𝚎𝚜𝚌𝚘𝚎 🚇 @taras-grescoe.com · Aug 5

I take a look at how my old hometown, K'emk'emeláy (aka #Vancouver), built on stolen land, is about to be changed for the better by the people dispossessed by railways and settlers.

www.highspeed.blog/the-future-o...

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Sébastien Gobert @sebagobert.bsky.social · Aug 2

Gaza, été 2025.

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Electronic Frontier Foundation @eff.org · Jul 28

Bill C-2 lets Canadian cops demand users' info without a warrant—and it paves the way for that info to go to U.S. government agencies.

Canada’s Bill C-2 Opens the Floodgates to U.S. Surveillance

The Canadian government is preparing to give away Canadians’ digital lives—to U.S. police, to the Donald Trump administration, and possibly to foreign spy agencies.Bill C-2, the so-called Strong Borde...

www.eff.org

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La Presse @lapresse.ca · Jul 26

Bandes riveraines à Saint-Hippolyte | Bras de fer au bord de l’eau

« On n’est pas des criminels ! », dénonce Alexandre St-Jacques Burke. Depuis le début de l’été, lui et ses voisins, riverains à Saint-Hippolyte, dans les Laurentides, reçoivent des amendes salées en raison de bandes riveraines inadéquates. La municipalité se défend en disant qu’elle sensibilise ses citoyens à cette situation depuis maintenant 15 ans.

www.lapresse.ca

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Mehdi Hasan @mehdirhasan.bsky.social · Jul 25

"Did the Department of Homeland Security Just Tweet Out a Nazi Dog Whistle?"

It does seem to many, writes @premthakker.bsky.social for Zeteo, like a white supremacist is in control of the social media account of a major US government agency.

Did the Department of Homeland Security Just Tweet Out a Nazi Dog Whistle?

It does seem to many like a white supremacist is in control of the social media account of a major US government agency.

zeteo.com

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