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Cambry Ardship @cambryardship.bsky.social · 4h

I just have a hard time believing that

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Friends and Families for Safe Streets @ffsafestreets.bsky.social · 5h

Well, well, well. 👀

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Jack Hauen @jackhauen.bsky.social · 7h

New: Ontario's labour minister said he was personally involved in picking “lower-scoring” Skills Development Fund recipients.

He held up one whose lobbyist's wedding he attended as an example of a lower-ranked applicant with sizeable impact.

#onpoli

www.thetrillium.ca/insider-news...

Labour Minister David Piccini said he was personally involved in picking “lower-scoring” recipients of a $2.5-billion training fund that the province's auditor general recently labelled "not fair, transparent or accountable."

The auditor general found that less than half of the recipients of the Ministry of Labour's Skills Development Fund (SDF) were given "high" scores on their proposals by non-partisan civil servants who evaluated them, while the majority — 54 per cent — were ranked as having “lower” quality proposals.

Piccini defended the fund in a Newstalk 1010 radio interview on Wednesday.

"I mean, there were projects that were lower-scoring that we did select — and that's a conversation I have with our officials here — that align with government priorities,” he said.

“I mean, Peel Police — we supported (a) lower-scoring project. It supports mental health. Our first responders are more likely than the general population to commit suicide. That's a real reality,” Piccini added.

The minister was referring to a project by Keel Digital Solutions — the company represented by the lobbyist whose Parisian wedding Piccini attended this past weekend.

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Cambry Ardship @cambryardship.bsky.social · 11h

Yikes, not a good way to vote

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Cambry Ardship @cambryardship.bsky.social · 11h

Three cheers to, uh, Mike Colle, for truly getting to what this debate is actually about.

Matt Elliott @graphicmatt.com · 12h

"If you take away the cameras, it's gonna kill kids! Simple as that. Kids are gonna die. So the premier is willing to allow that to happen, because his election polling tells him his voters love this," declares Councillor Mike Colle.

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Matt Elliott @graphicmatt.com · 12h

Say what you will about city councillors, but they generally have a pretty good sense for when issues are radioactive with voters. I've seen no signs of any worry in this debate — even from the suburbanites — that support for speed cameras will cost them support in next year's election.

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Cambry Ardship @cambryardship.bsky.social · 12h

If more people are going to live on Avenues (great!), part of the consequence is that Toronto will need to make Avenues more pleasant places to live: wider sidewalks and bike lanes, narrower car lanes, and much slower speed limits set for safety and to reduce noise pollution.

Toronto City Planning and Development Review @cityplanto.bsky.social · 12h

We’re continuing to plan for more mid-rise housing along Toronto’s Avenues as part of Phase 2 of the Avenues Policy Review.

Avenues are major corridors across the city supported by transit, shops and everyday services. They’re key places where new housing and growth are planned to happen.

A modern mid-rise building with shops and restaurants at street level and several residential floors above. People sit on a patio with umbrellas, and cars pass along the street.

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Cambry Ardship @cambryardship.bsky.social · 12h

Whole lot of councillors working really hard to prove my thesis that Toronto politics is between those who want the place to be a city, and those who want it to be a small town circa 1950.

Matt Elliott @graphicmatt.com · 12h

"In some locations, we've made the speed limit ridiculously low," says Burnside, explaining why he wants a review. "Going 65 on Avenue Road? That's a problem. Going 51? I'm not so sure."

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Cambry Ardship @cambryardship.bsky.social · 12h

Ok, hear me out. Everything up to Nipigon becomes part of Manitoba, the GTA (Toronto/Durham/Halton/Peel/York) becomes a new province, and the capital of Ontario moves to Kitchener.

Cambry Ardship @cambryardship.bsky.social · 13h

Hell yeah. And the Toronto Island stations are particularly interesting because they lean almost totally to one side of the regular/casual user spectrum. Almost a completely different market.

Oliver Moore @oliver-moore.bsky.social · 13h

Fun fact: the $1.7M in increased revenue generated by putting Bixi stands on Toronto island cancelled out a $1.7M loss in on-street parking revenues due to heavy snow in February
secure.toronto.ca/council/agen...

Agenda Item History 2025.PA16.1

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Cambry Ardship @cambryardship.bsky.social · 13h

Lots of different situations in life where people tend to confuse the situation as it is with what the goal, or the optimal outcome, should be

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Cambry Ardship @cambryardship.bsky.social · 14h

Lots of anonymous sourcing in the article but feels like Carney's political hamartia is well-established and the question now is waiting for the future event that will react sufficiently against his personal flaws to end his ministry.

Rachel Gilmore @rachelgilmore.bsky.social · 15h

This is disgusting behaviour from Carney towards Karina Gould.

And frankly, coupled with the “boys club” stuff sources have previously told me and the way he tended to lose patience more quickly with female journalists during the campaign…he may need to “look inside himself.”

MACLEAN'S excerpt:

The attacks were genteel compared to most political mud-slinging, and Liberals warmed to her during the campaign. They embraced her as both a cherished member of the
Liberal family and, increasingly, the standard bearer for its left flank. But her needling got under Carney's skin, even though he was the front-runner (she ultimately received only three per cent of the vote). He and his staff made their irritation plain; one member of Gould's team told me that many of them were aggressive in their vitriol toward her.

MACLEAN'S excerpt continued:

“When someone from Gould's team texted to ask if she could stop by and congratulate the winner, Carney said no. In fact, according to one source I spoke with, he said he didn't ever want to see her again. Carney's staff sent Gould a non-committal answer, trying not to offend her, but she showed up anyway. That led to a brief, awkward meeting with Carney.
The incident rattled some of the people around the newly elected leader. Many had worked under Justin Trudeau, who, after a lifetime in politics, had skin like a crocodile.
Carney, after years of being celebrated, venerated and treated with the deference accorded to a titan of the financial world, seems to have a skin like a peach.”

Cambry Ardship @cambryardship.bsky.social · 15h

I dunno, just feels like it's a different world.

Cambry Ardship @cambryardship.bsky.social · 15h

The stories and anecdotes people are sharing here are fascinating, sociologically. Kinda feels like another area where Canadian and american societies/cultures may be shifting in different directions

Patrick Wyman @patrickwyman.bsky.social · 17h

Watching antisocial driver behavior in the school drop-off line makes it really clear that the pandemic destroyed whatever few shreds remained of the social compact, just pathological selfishness on display every day

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Cambry Ardship @cambryardship.bsky.social · 15h

In Canada most things seem back to normal-ish with behaviour the (few) times I've been in airports.

The sense I'm getting is that americans have changed behaviours more drastically for than people elsewhere, on the whole.

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Cambry Ardship @cambryardship.bsky.social · 16h

Ah, that makes sense. Your experience is that the bad behaviour is still continuing? Is this mostly americans or people from other countries too?

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Cambry Ardship @cambryardship.bsky.social · 16h

Is this more general aviation casual pilots, or the professionals?

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Cambry Ardship @cambryardship.bsky.social · 18h

Well, condolences to those stuck in it but it's good to see the busses moving fast

Cambry Ardship @cambryardship.bsky.social · 19h

Is this more typical, or a more recent change resulting from back-to-office policies?

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Cambry Ardship @cambryardship.bsky.social · 19h

And now with lowered immigration levels it's back to square one where they will have to make capital investments or get more people in the labour market. The underlying systemic issues haven't really changed since 2020, I think?

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Cambry Ardship @cambryardship.bsky.social · 19h

I feel that the labour situation during COVID really spooked a lot of business leaders who were really concerned about having no choice but to make capital investments. But the thing is, the resulting mmigration boom was welcomed by the same people, at least initially

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Cambry Ardship @cambryardship.bsky.social · 1d

And the need for a strong response and been very clear for (at the bare minimum) 20+ years. Informed people like Carney absolutely have known this for a very long time and his actions now do not reflect well on him

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Cambry Ardship @cambryardship.bsky.social · 1d

He's the King of the Suburbs, and sure, many of his supporters may not follow the news religiously but while they like to drive, they also care about children too

Cambry Ardship @cambryardship.bsky.social · 1d

They've settled on the 'cash grab' framing but, boy, it doesn't read to me as convincing, especially when set against the 'you want to hurt children' counter-argument

Cambry Ardship @cambryardship.bsky.social · 1d

It's always hard to judge these things but I don't think that the PCs taking a anti-speed camera approach is a winning political position in the long term (hopefully medium/short term too)

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