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Dylan Reid @dylanreid.bsky.social · 10h

Canada should make side guards on trucks mandatory; the usual excuse no longer works, writes @lloydalter.bsky.social open.substack.com/pub/lloydalt...

Canada should make side guards on trucks mandatory; the usual excuse no longer works

Now that we are plotting an independent course from the USA, it’s time to develop our own safety strategies and standards.

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Dylan Reid @dylanreid.bsky.social · 10h

Oh! That's sad to hear.

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Dylan Reid @dylanreid.bsky.social · 20h

I thought fielding was supposed to be the Blue Jays strength?

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Dylan Reid @dylanreid.bsky.social · 20h

Fortunate guess on round 3 made it easy on 4 (Tuesday October 7)

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Dylan Reid @dylanreid.bsky.social · 1d

The Roy Thompson Hall #fountainsTO - often not on, but captured here in action by @mccmolly.bsky.social

Dylan Reid @dylanreid.bsky.social · 1d

I did not know about this - interesting!

Andrew McCabe @andrewahala.bsky.social · Jul 31

Pre and post '24 is going to be like world war II deep water shipwreck steel - the only source of non nuclear radiation contaminated steel for sensitive measuring equipment.

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Dylan Reid @dylanreid.bsky.social · 1d

Sure, but it's a general revenue transfer rather than being engaged in supporting specific projects. There's an argument the feds shouldn't be doing that anyway, but it's striking how the US government was much more proactive.

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Isaac Callan @isaaccallan.bsky.social · 1d

NEW: A vehicle assigned to a Ford cabinet minister has been recorded at stunt driving speeds 12 times.

The premier's office suggested it was the same driver each time, and implied they still work for the government. #OnPoli
globalnews.ca/news/1146702...

Ford government vehicle recorded at stunt driving speeds on Ontario highways | Globalnews.ca

At least one cabinet-assigned vehicle was recorded driving more than 50 km/h over the speed limit multiple times in the past three years, according to documents.

globalnews.ca

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Dylan Reid @dylanreid.bsky.social · 1d

When seeing headlines like this, from a Canadian perspective it's a reminder that our federal government doesn't even give grants like this in the first place. www.bloomberg.com/news/article...

Trump Cancels Trail, Bike-Lane Grants Deemed ‘Hostile’ to Cars

The Trump administration canceled grants for street safety measures, pedestrian trails and bike lanes in communities around the country this month, each time offering a simple rationale for yanking ba...

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Professor KPA 🗃️😷 @kpanyc.bsky.social · 1d

THIS! I'm a goddammned humanities professor and book hoarder who has had my nose happily buried in books since I was 5 and even I can't do it nearly as much anymore and it's not really about the phone (I have books on it) it's that I rarely have uninterrupted time of more than an hour a day if that.

Ada Palmer @adapalmer.bsky.social · 1d

I see pieces like this a lot, often w/ a spin of lamenting cultural degeneration, but reading is a LABOR issue, it’s declined because so many people are working overtime or two jobs & employers expect after hours work. France has Earth’s highest reading rate b/c long lunch breaks & labor protections

After Dinner Conversation® @afterdinnerconversation.com · 2d

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Dylan Reid @dylanreid.bsky.social · 1d

Pleased with my deduction on this one. (Monday October 6).

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Carolyn Whitzman @cwhitzman.bsky.social · 2d

The underlying assumptions of 4 competing federal housing need assessments betray different visions of ‘housing 4all’. Featuring my rights-based work for @housinglogement.bsky.social spacing.ca/vancouver/20...

Four Projections, One Crisis - Spacing Vancouver

What happens when four different reports give four different answers to the same housing question? Every few months, a new report is released with a headline number meant to define the scale of Canada...

spacing.ca

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Isaac Callan @isaaccallan.bsky.social · 2d

Here are some of the automated speed enforcement tickets given to vehicles assigned to Ford cabinet ministers. #OnPoli

Story ▶️ globalnews.ca/news/1146373...

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Chris Barrett @mrchrisbarrett.bsky.social · 2d

A Romp Of One's Own

Laura Ashe @lauraashe.bsky.social · 2d

Epic; no notes

Headline from the Times: "Bestselling novelist Jilly Cooper dies in fall aged 88", illustrated with a rather famous black and white picture of Virginia Woolf

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Dylan Reid @dylanreid.bsky.social · 2d

Parents, children rally against Ford's planned speed cam ban
www.cbc.ca/news/canada/...

Parents, children rally against Ford's planned speed cam ban | CBC News

Concerned parents gathered with their children by a speed camera near Bloor and Dundas streets Saturday afternoon to protest a plan from Premier Doug Ford’s government to end automated speed enforceme...

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James Ball @jamesrball.com · 3d

*gasp*

“Everyone thought we’d come in and there were going to be these huge costs we could cut away but there just aren’t,” said a third senior Reform cabinet member in Kent.

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Melissa & Chris Bruntlett @modacitylife.com · 2d

When newly-elected Vancouver Mayor Gregor Robertson started converting car lanes to bike lanes in 2009, pundits claimed it was political suicide. In 2018, he stepped down after three terms as the longest-serving mayor in the city's history. So what can this tale teach us about so-called "bikelash"?🧵

People of all ages and abilities ride bicycles on protected cycling infrastructure on the streets of Downtown Vancouver.

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Dylan Reid @dylanreid.bsky.social · 3d

@mccmolly.bsky.social maybe of interest

Dylan Reid @dylanreid.bsky.social · 3d

It's hilarious that the top recommendation is "have more meetings and more committees" www.thestar.com/opinion/cont...

How Canada can finally prove it’s a nation that can get things done

Canada needs to turn this new sense of get-up-and-go into concrete action aimed at real economic results, all without falling into old habits and traps.

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Dylan Reid @dylanreid.bsky.social · 3d

This one was pretty much pure luck (Saturday October 4)

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Dylan Reid @dylanreid.bsky.social · 4d

After throwing off the Soviet yoke, eastern Europe is voluntarily becoming a Russian client.

Al Jazeera English @aljazeera.com · 4d

With most votes tallied, Babis’s ANO party is ahead, but it appears set to fall short of a majority in parliament.

Populist billionaire Andrej Babis’s party set to win Czech election

With most votes tallied, Babis’s ANO party is ahead, but it appears set to fall short of a majority in parliament.

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Melissa Bowman @dtkmelissa.bsky.social · 4d

Can we all agree that ticketing only those drivers going more than 10km/hr over a posted speed limit in a school zone is a pretty generous threshold? www.thestar.com/news/gta/wha...

Text: According to a source with direct knowledge of the ticketing process, the threshold for a ticket from a Toronto speed camera is never less than 11 km/h over the posted limit. And although sources say they’re aware of at least one Ontario municipality where driving less than 10 km/h over the limit can result in a ticket, the Star can confirm that the GTA’s other large municipalities use the same threshold as Toronto.

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Dylan Reid @dylanreid.bsky.social · 4d

It's funny that this (generally good) editorial about the Dutch adapting to greater flooding from climate change doesn't mention the new mouth of the Don river in Toronto, which does exactly what they are advocating for (creating floodplains)

www.theglobeandmail.com/opinion/edit...

Globe editorial: Why the Dutch are retreating from the sea

The country renowned for reclaiming land from the water is giving some of it back, to adapt to a changing climate

www.theglobeandmail.com

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Dylan Reid @dylanreid.bsky.social · 4d

Neat seeing the old city hall stained glass from the outside

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Ned Resnikoff @resnikoff.bsky.social · 5d

The fact that SF cameras have already caught thousands of people going more than 15 miles over the speed limit is a perfect illustration of why these cameras were needed in the first place. www.sfchronicle.com/sf/article/s...

S.F. speed cameras are generating mountains of tickets and fines. Here are the totals so far

August was the first month that San Francisco’s automated speed cameras generated citations with a fine. One camera accounted for a quarter of all the tickets, according to data.

www.sfchronicle.com

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