YIMBY re: people and services. Also YIMBY re: neighbourhood kitties.
June 14, 2025 at 8:03 PM
YIMBY re: people and services. Also YIMBY re: neighbourhood kitties.
More ActiveTO and OpenStreetsTO, pls
Happy Friday, Toronto! I just launched a petition calling on Mayor Olivia Chow & Toronto City Council to bring back open streets programs such as #ActiveTO and #OpenStreetsTO by 2026. You can read the call to action on my blog. #BikeTO #WalkTO #TOpoli www.twowheeledpolitics.ca/2025/05/acti... (1/3)
ACTION ALERT – Sign & Share Toronto’s Open Streets Petition!
A blog about cycling and political advocacy based in Toronto, Canada. (#BikeTO)
www.twowheeledpolitics.ca
June 1, 2025 at 2:49 AM
More ActiveTO and OpenStreetsTO, pls
I drove downtown every day for work this week, and all I could think was, "Why the fuck would anyone want to drive here." It's hell. More bike lanes now.
Is the Esplanade not, like, the canonical ideal of the “side street” where the anti-bike crowd say bike lanes should go? There’s no appeasing these people. www.cbc.ca/news/canada/...
Bikeway construction on The Esplanade draws community controversy | CBC News
Some downtown residents say they are opposed to a bikeway on The Esplanade but the city of Toronto says more than half of respondents it consulted four years ago said they supported the project.
www.cbc.ca
May 31, 2025 at 1:33 PM
I drove downtown every day for work this week, and all I could think was, "Why the fuck would anyone want to drive here." It's hell. More bike lanes now.
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Sadly, a couple of paragraphs later, I think it becomes clarified what the intention is here, and it isn't solving homelessness. These prisons will involve P3 contracts.
April 15, 2025 at 7:11 PM
Sadly, a couple of paragraphs later, I think it becomes clarified what the intention is here, and it isn't solving homelessness. These prisons will involve P3 contracts.
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Doug Ford has committed to criminalizing homeless people "[using] whatever legal tools" in today's Speech from the Throne.
All while tariffs threaten to end livelihoods. All while his government has overseen exponential growth in homelessness province-wide.
news.ontario.ca/en/speech/10...
All while tariffs threaten to end livelihoods. All while his government has overseen exponential growth in homelessness province-wide.
news.ontario.ca/en/speech/10...
April 15, 2025 at 5:29 PM
Doug Ford has committed to criminalizing homeless people "[using] whatever legal tools" in today's Speech from the Throne.
All while tariffs threaten to end livelihoods. All while his government has overseen exponential growth in homelessness province-wide.
news.ontario.ca/en/speech/10...
All while tariffs threaten to end livelihoods. All while his government has overseen exponential growth in homelessness province-wide.
news.ontario.ca/en/speech/10...
This photo shows all you need to live a good life. Hydrate. Scream. Be a cat.
April 11, 2025 at 11:01 PM
This photo shows all you need to live a good life. Hydrate. Scream. Be a cat.
All this elbow talk around tariffs has got me thinking about when I told my partner, who was rolling dough at the time, to put his elbows into it (no, I did not realize that what I was saying was, in fact, a malaphor).
March 13, 2025 at 2:39 PM
All this elbow talk around tariffs has got me thinking about when I told my partner, who was rolling dough at the time, to put his elbows into it (no, I did not realize that what I was saying was, in fact, a malaphor).
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today's leaders are not meeting the moment. it is time for a change. it is time for Chancleta.
March 9, 2025 at 1:08 AM
today's leaders are not meeting the moment. it is time for a change. it is time for Chancleta.
Saw a new-to-me duck species today!! A White-Winged Scoter. Celebrating with a Ducks IPA, though the depicted duck, which I believe to be a Northern Shoveler, still eludes me.
Times may be shit, but I can forget about that for a while when I see a cool DUCK.
Oh yea and buy local?
Times may be shit, but I can forget about that for a while when I see a cool DUCK.
Oh yea and buy local?
March 9, 2025 at 12:06 AM
Saw a new-to-me duck species today!! A White-Winged Scoter. Celebrating with a Ducks IPA, though the depicted duck, which I believe to be a Northern Shoveler, still eludes me.
Times may be shit, but I can forget about that for a while when I see a cool DUCK.
Oh yea and buy local?
Times may be shit, but I can forget about that for a while when I see a cool DUCK.
Oh yea and buy local?
Legend. Thanks @springmagca.bsky.social for this inspiring screening of Union and talk with Chris Smalls and co-director Brett Story!
March 5, 2025 at 4:59 AM
Legend. Thanks @springmagca.bsky.social for this inspiring screening of Union and talk with Chris Smalls and co-director Brett Story!
Harm reduction group I'm a part of is making soup for the meeting tonight and now I can't stop thinking about soup. For my family.
March 4, 2025 at 8:00 PM
Harm reduction group I'm a part of is making soup for the meeting tonight and now I can't stop thinking about soup. For my family.
Doug Ford not taking responsibility for how he has fcked up healthcare, housing, education, etc:
February 28, 2025 at 12:33 AM
Doug Ford not taking responsibility for how he has fcked up healthcare, housing, education, etc:
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This is important: A prospective Ford government has signalled its intention to expand prisons and put homeless people in jail rather than build the housing that people need and that is their fundamental right.
I don't want a province that makes people homeless then throws them in prison.
I don't want a province that makes people homeless then throws them in prison.
The Ontario PC platform has been released: static.ontariopc.ca/uploads/2025...
They have committed to re-tabling the Safer Municipalities Act, which makes being homeless in public a crime in Ontario.
Every other party understands that the solution to homelessness is housing — not criminalization.
They have committed to re-tabling the Safer Municipalities Act, which makes being homeless in public a crime in Ontario.
Every other party understands that the solution to homelessness is housing — not criminalization.
February 24, 2025 at 5:39 PM
This is important: A prospective Ford government has signalled its intention to expand prisons and put homeless people in jail rather than build the housing that people need and that is their fundamental right.
I don't want a province that makes people homeless then throws them in prison.
I don't want a province that makes people homeless then throws them in prison.
I've had this poster since 2018. TWENTY-EIGHTEEN.
HOW IS THIS STILL RELEVANT?!
It is pretty tho.
#StopFord #VoteFordOut #ONpoli
HOW IS THIS STILL RELEVANT?!
It is pretty tho.
#StopFord #VoteFordOut #ONpoli
February 19, 2025 at 6:51 PM
I've had this poster since 2018. TWENTY-EIGHTEEN.
HOW IS THIS STILL RELEVANT?!
It is pretty tho.
#StopFord #VoteFordOut #ONpoli
HOW IS THIS STILL RELEVANT?!
It is pretty tho.
#StopFord #VoteFordOut #ONpoli
Show uppp TO
#CountDownToSCSClosures #PublicHealthCrisis #SCSSaveslives #SaveOurSites #HarmReductionSavesLives #StopFord #HarmReductionIsLove #ONpoli
#CountDownToSCSClosures #PublicHealthCrisis #SCSSaveslives #SaveOurSites #HarmReductionSavesLives #StopFord #HarmReductionIsLove #ONpoli
February 19, 2025 at 2:21 PM
This was a damn good doc describing the experience of anti-fascists, particularly the Abraham Lincoln Brigade from the U.S., in the Spanish Civil War. Includes interviews with badass ALB survivors. Would recommend!
m.youtube.com/watch?v=f_G_...
m.youtube.com/watch?v=f_G_...
The Good Fight: The Abraham Lincoln Brigade in the Spanish Civil War | Full Documentary Movie
YouTube video by Kino Lorber
m.youtube.com
January 25, 2025 at 3:11 PM
This was a damn good doc describing the experience of anti-fascists, particularly the Abraham Lincoln Brigade from the U.S., in the Spanish Civil War. Includes interviews with badass ALB survivors. Would recommend!
m.youtube.com/watch?v=f_G_...
m.youtube.com/watch?v=f_G_...
thank god it's weird duck time
December 8, 2024 at 11:37 PM
thank god it's weird duck time
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This video is for Doug Ford, and all those in my replies saying bike lanes "stop emergency vehicles from getting to their destination". They *allow* emergency vehicles to get to their destination, as seen here on Adelaide. They were designed with emergency services in mind.
December 5, 2024 at 4:36 AM
This video is for Doug Ford, and all those in my replies saying bike lanes "stop emergency vehicles from getting to their destination". They *allow* emergency vehicles to get to their destination, as seen here on Adelaide. They were designed with emergency services in mind.
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AG released scathing report of the Ford gvt’s approach to opioids. even clearer now that they wanted to push the bill through before this report came out.
www.winnipegfreepress.com/arts-and-lif...
www.winnipegfreepress.com/arts-and-lif...
Ontario's opioid strategy outdated, auditor general says
TORONTO – Ontario’s opioid strategy, even with its new abstinence-based model for treatment, is outdated and does not serve the current needs of the people, the auditor general found in he...
www.winnipegfreepress.com
December 3, 2024 at 5:09 PM
AG released scathing report of the Ford gvt’s approach to opioids. even clearer now that they wanted to push the bill through before this report came out.
www.winnipegfreepress.com/arts-and-lif...
www.winnipegfreepress.com/arts-and-lif...
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Toronto showed up tonight and put Ford and his government on notice. This is just the beginning.
November 30, 2024 at 2:36 AM
Toronto showed up tonight and put Ford and his government on notice. This is just the beginning.
Mornings off are for robes and reading
November 28, 2024 at 2:50 PM
Mornings off are for robes and reading
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12 Ontario Mayors are formally requesting that Doug Ford invoke the notwithstanding clause to suspend encampment residents' Charter-protected rights so that they can be evicted. If you oppose this suggested abuse of the notwithstanding clause, please sign and share! www.change.org/OntarioEncam...
Sign the Petition
Oppose the Use of the Notwithstanding Clause to Clear Encampments
www.change.org
November 1, 2024 at 10:15 PM
12 Ontario Mayors are formally requesting that Doug Ford invoke the notwithstanding clause to suspend encampment residents' Charter-protected rights so that they can be evicted. If you oppose this suggested abuse of the notwithstanding clause, please sign and share! www.change.org/OntarioEncam...