Henrik Bechmann (Toronto) 🇨🇦 #staywoke
@henrikbechmann.bsky.social
Retired software dev. he/him.
I sometimes discuss City of Toronto budget design and support issues.
IMO government is a collective enterprise, and should be fully transparent and forcefully managed for all, and for the health of the planet.
I sometimes discuss City of Toronto budget design and support issues.
IMO government is a collective enterprise, and should be fully transparent and forcefully managed for all, and for the health of the planet.
Pinned
I think one of the key responsibilities of government is to promote, and if necessary enforce, equity.
The result imo is a more prosperous, happier, and yes more productive society.
I think equity, in essence, is what "woke" means, and we progressives should embrace that.
The result imo is a more prosperous, happier, and yes more productive society.
I think equity, in essence, is what "woke" means, and we progressives should embrace that.
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#Montreal 's just leap-frogged other cities in North America by opening the REM.
Automated. Electric. Frequent (2.5 minute headways). Fast (100 km/h plus). Cheap to build. (One tenth the price of other systems)
And really fun to ride...
🧵
Automated. Electric. Frequent (2.5 minute headways). Fast (100 km/h plus). Cheap to build. (One tenth the price of other systems)
And really fun to ride...
🧵
November 26, 2025 at 2:17 PM
#Montreal 's just leap-frogged other cities in North America by opening the REM.
Automated. Electric. Frequent (2.5 minute headways). Fast (100 km/h plus). Cheap to build. (One tenth the price of other systems)
And really fun to ride...
🧵
Automated. Electric. Frequent (2.5 minute headways). Fast (100 km/h plus). Cheap to build. (One tenth the price of other systems)
And really fun to ride...
🧵
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Former NATO Secretary General Anders Fogh Rasmussen has called for Europe to deploy up to 20,000 troops behind Ukraine’s front lines, establish an air shield with around 150 combat aircraft and unlock frozen Russian assets.
November 25, 2025 at 11:22 PM
Former NATO Secretary General Anders Fogh Rasmussen has called for Europe to deploy up to 20,000 troops behind Ukraine’s front lines, establish an air shield with around 150 combat aircraft and unlock frozen Russian assets.
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X’s decision to show where its accounts are based “is, theoretically, a positive step in the direction of transparency”—yet Elon Musk may have instead revealed that the platform is “just a worthless, poisoned hall of mirrors,” @cwarzel.bsky.social argues.
Elon Musk’s Worthless, Poisoned Hall of Mirrors
How X blew up its own platform with a new location feature
bit.ly
November 25, 2025 at 6:45 PM
X’s decision to show where its accounts are based “is, theoretically, a positive step in the direction of transparency”—yet Elon Musk may have instead revealed that the platform is “just a worthless, poisoned hall of mirrors,” @cwarzel.bsky.social argues.
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Apple is anti-union.
Tesla is anti-union.
Amazon is anti-union.
McDonald's is anti-union.
Starbucks is anti-union.
Google is anti-union.
Walmart is anti-union.
These mega-corporations aren’t on workers’ side and their actions make it painfully clear.
Tesla is anti-union.
Amazon is anti-union.
McDonald's is anti-union.
Starbucks is anti-union.
Google is anti-union.
Walmart is anti-union.
These mega-corporations aren’t on workers’ side and their actions make it painfully clear.
November 24, 2025 at 11:05 PM
Apple is anti-union.
Tesla is anti-union.
Amazon is anti-union.
McDonald's is anti-union.
Starbucks is anti-union.
Google is anti-union.
Walmart is anti-union.
These mega-corporations aren’t on workers’ side and their actions make it painfully clear.
Tesla is anti-union.
Amazon is anti-union.
McDonald's is anti-union.
Starbucks is anti-union.
Google is anti-union.
Walmart is anti-union.
These mega-corporations aren’t on workers’ side and their actions make it painfully clear.
How the $55B ACLP Housing Program Might Actually Make Money (The Apartment Construction Loan Program) www.missingmiddleinitiative.ca/p/how-the-55...
How the $55B ACLP Housing Program Might Actually Make Money
Why rental builders line up for ACLP and why taxpayers aren’t footing a $55B bill.
www.missingmiddleinitiative.ca
November 25, 2025 at 6:02 PM
How the $55B ACLP Housing Program Might Actually Make Money (The Apartment Construction Loan Program) www.missingmiddleinitiative.ca/p/how-the-55...
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Surprise!! When you take away a safe place to do drugs that they are going to do regardless of what you think about it.... they do it on the street.
#canada #cdnpoli #ontario #onpoli #ontariohealthcare
www.reddit.com/r/toronto/co...
#canada #cdnpoli #ontario #onpoli #ontariohealthcare
www.reddit.com/r/toronto/co...
From the toronto community on Reddit: Toronto reports more visible drug use after supervised injection sites closed down
Explore this post and more from the toronto community
www.reddit.com
November 25, 2025 at 12:14 AM
Surprise!! When you take away a safe place to do drugs that they are going to do regardless of what you think about it.... they do it on the street.
#canada #cdnpoli #ontario #onpoli #ontariohealthcare
www.reddit.com/r/toronto/co...
#canada #cdnpoli #ontario #onpoli #ontariohealthcare
www.reddit.com/r/toronto/co...
Ridiculous
November 24, 2025 at 9:01 PM
Ridiculous
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Still reeling from the Stanford report on Brexit. Reduced GDP by up to 8% and investment by as much as 18%. The UK Treasury would have £40 billion more each year if Britain had remained in the EU. Devastating self-immolation.
The Economic Impact of Brexit
Other
siepr.stanford.edu
November 24, 2025 at 11:02 AM
Still reeling from the Stanford report on Brexit. Reduced GDP by up to 8% and investment by as much as 18%. The UK Treasury would have £40 billion more each year if Britain had remained in the EU. Devastating self-immolation.
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The transformation is extraordinary.
November 24, 2025 at 6:33 PM
The transformation is extraordinary.
Reposted by Henrik Bechmann (Toronto) 🇨🇦 #staywoke
The price fossil fuel forces on everyone else.
November 24, 2025 at 3:58 PM
The price fossil fuel forces on everyone else.
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We saw it with big tobacco, we saw it with the fossil fuels industry. When their own internal research showed the harm from their product, the defunded the research and attacked independent researchers coming to the very same conclusions.
#ScienceUnderSiege
#ScienceUnderSiege
Meta halted internal research that purportedly showed (young) people who stopped using Facebook became less depressed and anxious, according to an unredacted legal filing released on Friday. www.cnbc.com/2025/11/23/m...
Meta halted internal research suggesting social media harm, court filing alleges
Meta is alleged to have halted internal research suggesting social media harm, according to court documents.
www.cnbc.com
November 24, 2025 at 1:59 AM
We saw it with big tobacco, we saw it with the fossil fuels industry. When their own internal research showed the harm from their product, the defunded the research and attacked independent researchers coming to the very same conclusions.
#ScienceUnderSiege
#ScienceUnderSiege
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SOUTHCOM is curbing holiday leave as it prepares for potential land strikes in Venezuela within the next 10–14 days, NewsNation reports.
November 24, 2025 at 2:59 PM
SOUTHCOM is curbing holiday leave as it prepares for potential land strikes in Venezuela within the next 10–14 days, NewsNation reports.
From what I can see, Gripen wins.
This was a very interesting and fairly nuanced read:
Gripen E vs F-35? The Wrong Question to Ask
Mikael Grev is a former Gripen pilot and co-founder and CEO of Avioniq. In this column for Nordic Defence Sector, he compares the Gripen E and the F-35, arguing for a more nuanced view of fighter capa...
nordicdefencesector.com
November 24, 2025 at 3:58 PM
From what I can see, Gripen wins.
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Xi: “The return of Taiwan to China is a key part of the post-war international order.”
November 24, 2025 at 2:56 PM
Xi: “The return of Taiwan to China is a key part of the post-war international order.”
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China's CO2 emissions from transport fuel dropped by 5% year-on-year, while there were also declines from cement and steel production
The Blame China folks have to look elsewhere
www.carbonbrief.org/analysis-chi...
The Blame China folks have to look elsewhere
www.carbonbrief.org/analysis-chi...
Analysis: China’s CO2 emissions have now been flat or falling for 18 months - Carbon Brief
China’s carbon dioxide (CO2) emissions were unchanged from a year earlier in the third quarter of 2025, extending a flat or falling trend that started in March 2024.
www.carbonbrief.org
November 24, 2025 at 3:21 PM
China's CO2 emissions from transport fuel dropped by 5% year-on-year, while there were also declines from cement and steel production
The Blame China folks have to look elsewhere
www.carbonbrief.org/analysis-chi...
The Blame China folks have to look elsewhere
www.carbonbrief.org/analysis-chi...
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Spa could take 9 years.
Of course, it may never get built
5 years after signing the contract, Therme still does not have an investor to build the spa at Ontario Place
Not surprising, they lied about their financing to get the 95 year-lease on our parkland.
www.thetrillium.ca/insider-news...
Of course, it may never get built
5 years after signing the contract, Therme still does not have an investor to build the spa at Ontario Place
Not surprising, they lied about their financing to get the 95 year-lease on our parkland.
www.thetrillium.ca/insider-news...
November 24, 2025 at 3:28 PM
Spa could take 9 years.
Of course, it may never get built
5 years after signing the contract, Therme still does not have an investor to build the spa at Ontario Place
Not surprising, they lied about their financing to get the 95 year-lease on our parkland.
www.thetrillium.ca/insider-news...
Of course, it may never get built
5 years after signing the contract, Therme still does not have an investor to build the spa at Ontario Place
Not surprising, they lied about their financing to get the 95 year-lease on our parkland.
www.thetrillium.ca/insider-news...
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Video shot by astronaut Zena Cardman, commander of NASA’s SpaceX Crew-11 mission, shows a stunning display of the Northern Lights as seen from the International Space Station.
November 23, 2025 at 6:55 PM
Video shot by astronaut Zena Cardman, commander of NASA’s SpaceX Crew-11 mission, shows a stunning display of the Northern Lights as seen from the International Space Station.
The Chinese Social Credit system. Legal and financial tracking for trustworthiness.
'citizens could not be punished for having low scores and that punishments should only be limited to legally defined crimes and civil infractions'
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Social_...
File under surveillance state.
'citizens could not be punished for having low scores and that punishments should only be limited to legally defined crimes and civil infractions'
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Social_...
File under surveillance state.
Social Credit System - Wikipedia
en.wikipedia.org
November 23, 2025 at 6:19 PM
The Chinese Social Credit system. Legal and financial tracking for trustworthiness.
'citizens could not be punished for having low scores and that punishments should only be limited to legally defined crimes and civil infractions'
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Social_...
File under surveillance state.
'citizens could not be punished for having low scores and that punishments should only be limited to legally defined crimes and civil infractions'
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Social_...
File under surveillance state.
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November 23, 2025 at 2:36 AM
Reposted by Henrik Bechmann (Toronto) 🇨🇦 #staywoke
Canada joins Europe rejecting Trump’s Ukraine plan, Anand says sovereignty is key
Canada joins Europe rejecting Trump’s Ukraine plan, Anand says sovereignty is key
JOHANNESBURG - The world's most influential nations gathered in South Africa to work around Washington's disruptive foreign policy Saturday, reaching consensus on issues like climate change and gender...
www.thestar.com
November 22, 2025 at 5:32 PM
Canada joins Europe rejecting Trump’s Ukraine plan, Anand says sovereignty is key
Most extreme in Canada's northwest
Watch 100 years of August-October temperature departures over land areas (where we live) up through 2025...
Data provided by NOAAGlobalTemp v6.0.0: www.ncei.noaa.gov/products/lan...
Data provided by NOAAGlobalTemp v6.0.0: www.ncei.noaa.gov/products/lan...
November 22, 2025 at 3:23 PM
Most extreme in Canada's northwest
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Toronto deliberately killed apartment construction in the early 1970s, after a generation-long building boom.
Almost all of that housing was built by “the market.”
Almost all of that housing was built by “the market.”
Charting number of rental units in apartment buildings in Toronto by year of construction
(This is a quick update to a similar chart I made ~2.5 years ago)
#toronto #housing #dataviz #NationalHousingDay
(This is a quick update to a similar chart I made ~2.5 years ago)
#toronto #housing #dataviz #NationalHousingDay
November 22, 2025 at 2:41 PM
Toronto deliberately killed apartment construction in the early 1970s, after a generation-long building boom.
Almost all of that housing was built by “the market.”
Almost all of that housing was built by “the market.”
Reposted by Henrik Bechmann (Toronto) 🇨🇦 #staywoke
Washington state resident dies of new H5N5 form of bird flu
Washington state resident dies of new H5N5 form of bird flu
The person, who lived in Grays Harbor County, Wash., had been hospitalized earlier this month in Kings County, where Seattle is located.
www.latimes.com
November 22, 2025 at 3:01 AM
Washington state resident dies of new H5N5 form of bird flu
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'Iran’s capital must be moved because the country “no longer has a choice,” President Masoud Pezeshkian said on Thursday in remarks carried by state media, warning that severe ecological strain has made Tehran impossible to sustain'
#Iran 🇮🇷
#Iran 🇮🇷
Iran president says capital move now a necessity as water crisis deepens
Iran’s capital must be moved because the country “no longer has a choice,” President Masoud Pezeshkian said on Thursday in remarks carried by state media, warning that severe ecological strain has mad...
www.iranintl.com
November 21, 2025 at 4:52 AM
'Iran’s capital must be moved because the country “no longer has a choice,” President Masoud Pezeshkian said on Thursday in remarks carried by state media, warning that severe ecological strain has made Tehran impossible to sustain'
#Iran 🇮🇷
#Iran 🇮🇷
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I feel like evacuating a city of 14 million because they are going to run out of water should be a bigger story regardless of where it is.
'Iran’s capital must be moved because the country “no longer has a choice,” President Masoud Pezeshkian said on Thursday in remarks carried by state media, warning that severe ecological strain has made Tehran impossible to sustain'
#Iran 🇮🇷
#Iran 🇮🇷
Iran president says capital move now a necessity as water crisis deepens
Iran’s capital must be moved because the country “no longer has a choice,” President Masoud Pezeshkian said on Thursday in remarks carried by state media, warning that severe ecological strain has mad...
www.iranintl.com
November 21, 2025 at 3:34 PM
I feel like evacuating a city of 14 million because they are going to run out of water should be a bigger story regardless of where it is.