mathenpointe
@mathenpointe.bsky.social
🚲Cars ruin everything
😷Clean air indoors and out
🇨🇦Protect public healthcare and education
😷Clean air indoors and out
🇨🇦Protect public healthcare and education
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most people, left and right, treat traffic violence like the weather and not a specific policy choice
December 12, 2025 at 8:41 PM
most people, left and right, treat traffic violence like the weather and not a specific policy choice
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Less than a month after Premier Ford removed speed cameras and he already has blood on his hands. 🤬 #TOpoli #ONpoli
“The site of the collision was approximately 280 metres from a previously-stationed mobile Automated Speed Enforcement camera, which was removed following provincial legislation that came into effect in November 2025” www.ctvnews.ca/toronto/arti... #onpoli
Woman in her 70s dies after being struck by vehicle in Scarborough
A woman in her 70s has died after she was struck by a vehicle in Scarborough on Thursday morning, Toronto police say.
www.ctvnews.ca
December 12, 2025 at 9:55 PM
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do I have a right to walk? that's the question I'd like to ask. do I have a right to walk without some inattentive idiot nearly ending my life because I was crossing a street, on a daily basis? because it feels like no
More than half of Toronto drivers in a Universtiy of Toronto study didn't look for people walking or on bikes before turning right. Study used eye-tracking tech.
Increasingly deadly vehicles, dumb laws, and irresponsible driving equal people being injured and killed.
www.utoronto.ca/news/more-ha...
Increasingly deadly vehicles, dumb laws, and irresponsible driving equal people being injured and killed.
www.utoronto.ca/news/more-ha...
December 12, 2025 at 6:34 PM
do I have a right to walk? that's the question I'd like to ask. do I have a right to walk without some inattentive idiot nearly ending my life because I was crossing a street, on a daily basis? because it feels like no
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With billions of tax dollars spent, years of delays and businesses and communities impacted by construction, new Rapid Transit lines must be able to move faster than the buses they’ve replaced.
December 10, 2025 at 7:01 PM
With billions of tax dollars spent, years of delays and businesses and communities impacted by construction, new Rapid Transit lines must be able to move faster than the buses they’ve replaced.
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CANADIANS! 🇨🇦 The privatization of our universal healthcare system is happening. SIGN TO STOP IT! 👇 #cdnpoli
“Universal healthcare protects Canadians from financial hardship, improves national productivity, and reduces preventable illness, saving the Canadian economy billions of dollars each year.”
“Universal healthcare protects Canadians from financial hardship, improves national productivity, and reduces preventable illness, saving the Canadian economy billions of dollars each year.”
Petition e-6982 - Petitions
www.ourcommons.ca
December 10, 2025 at 6:51 PM
CANADIANS! 🇨🇦 The privatization of our universal healthcare system is happening. SIGN TO STOP IT! 👇 #cdnpoli
“Universal healthcare protects Canadians from financial hardship, improves national productivity, and reduces preventable illness, saving the Canadian economy billions of dollars each year.”
“Universal healthcare protects Canadians from financial hardship, improves national productivity, and reduces preventable illness, saving the Canadian economy billions of dollars each year.”
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This is why hating and mocking AI relentlessly and publicly is vital work.
McDonald's has taken down a Christmas ad made with AI following online backlash
The company said the moment served as "an important learning" as it explored "the effective use of AI"
The company said the moment served as "an important learning" as it explored "the effective use of AI"
McDonald's pulls AI-generated Christmas advert following backlash
McDonald's said the moment served as "an important learning" as it explored "the effective use of AI".
www.bbc.com
December 10, 2025 at 5:45 PM
This is why hating and mocking AI relentlessly and publicly is vital work.
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Talking to somebody yesterday about a Cdn oral history archive that disappeared - turns out LLMs were scraping it so much it crashed their servers so it’s offline. Vile vulture technology.
December 9, 2025 at 2:15 PM
Talking to somebody yesterday about a Cdn oral history archive that disappeared - turns out LLMs were scraping it so much it crashed their servers so it’s offline. Vile vulture technology.
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It’s wrong that the Finch & Eglinton LRTs don’t have signal priority. Billions of dollars were spent, only for “rapid transit” to go slower than the buses it replaced. Last Spring at Council, I moved for signal priority on these lines. The 2026 budget must fund this priority.
December 8, 2025 at 7:32 PM
It’s wrong that the Finch & Eglinton LRTs don’t have signal priority. Billions of dollars were spent, only for “rapid transit” to go slower than the buses it replaced. Last Spring at Council, I moved for signal priority on these lines. The 2026 budget must fund this priority.
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I don’t believe this for a second. He’s floated all of the above before. He’s told us what he wants to do. We need to push back #onted #onpoli
From the article:
The minister says he has not yet presented a plan to cabinet for approval, but he says definitively he will not close or amalgamate school boards, nor will he merge the public and Catholic systems, nor will he introduce charter schools.
#onpoli #onted
The minister says he has not yet presented a plan to cabinet for approval, but he says definitively he will not close or amalgamate school boards, nor will he merge the public and Catholic systems, nor will he introduce charter schools.
#onpoli #onted
Ontario education minister to make decision on school trustee elimination in early 2026 | CBC News
Ontario Education Minister Paul Calandra says he will make a final decision early in the new year on what changes to make to the role of trustees in the school system, but he is signalling he is incli...
www.cbc.ca
December 6, 2025 at 3:18 PM
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On this day in 1989, an armed gunman murdered 14 women at École Polytechnique de Montréal. Another ten women and four men were injured.
The anniversary of the massacre is commemorated annually on Dec. 6 as the National Day of Remembrance and Action on Violence Against Women.
The anniversary of the massacre is commemorated annually on Dec. 6 as the National Day of Remembrance and Action on Violence Against Women.
December 6, 2025 at 12:45 PM
On this day in 1989, an armed gunman murdered 14 women at École Polytechnique de Montréal. Another ten women and four men were injured.
The anniversary of the massacre is commemorated annually on Dec. 6 as the National Day of Remembrance and Action on Violence Against Women.
The anniversary of the massacre is commemorated annually on Dec. 6 as the National Day of Remembrance and Action on Violence Against Women.
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Chapter 886-15: "No person shall operate or stop a vehicle other than a bicycle or large cargo-power assisted bicycle in any cycle track... Exemptions: Ambulances, police or fire service vehicles or any other vehicle actively engaged in responding to an emergency"
Is a McDonald's run an emergency?
Is a McDonald's run an emergency?
December 5, 2025 at 4:03 PM
Chapter 886-15: "No person shall operate or stop a vehicle other than a bicycle or large cargo-power assisted bicycle in any cycle track... Exemptions: Ambulances, police or fire service vehicles or any other vehicle actively engaged in responding to an emergency"
Is a McDonald's run an emergency?
Is a McDonald's run an emergency?
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Like the way Canadian banks "lagged" their peers on sub prime mortgages?
December 4, 2025 at 3:02 AM
Like the way Canadian banks "lagged" their peers on sub prime mortgages?
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Remember Walkerton and the changes since to ensure water safety?
“Municipalities run drinking water systems under strict rules created after the Walkerton scandal in 2,000, when contaminated water killed seven people and sickened more than 2,000.”
No privatization of our water!
#onpoli
#Water
“Municipalities run drinking water systems under strict rules created after the Walkerton scandal in 2,000, when contaminated water killed seven people and sickened more than 2,000.”
No privatization of our water!
#onpoli
#Water
"The new corporation could set water rates for municipal residents, as a privately owned, for-profit organization. Municipalities would have to transfer all their water and wastewater assets, staff, debt, contracts and infrastructure to the new body." 🤮
www.nationalobserver.com/2025/11/28/n...
www.nationalobserver.com/2025/11/28/n...
Ford government dives into municipal business as it eyes water services
The province has assumed sweeping new powers to seize control over municipal water systems — one of Ontario’s largest public assets, worth $175.8 billion — raising fears the move could pave the way fo...
www.nationalobserver.com
December 3, 2025 at 12:36 PM
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Funny how when a person is killed in traffic, according to the Post it’s the “car” that did it but when anyone comes along to make streets safer it’s an attack on “drivers.”
November 30, 2025 at 2:25 PM
Funny how when a person is killed in traffic, according to the Post it’s the “car” that did it but when anyone comes along to make streets safer it’s an attack on “drivers.”
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Let’s talk about the size of trucks & SUVs in the city. My column on the virtue & status signalling of vehicle bloat.
Shawn Micallef: This truck ad shows why Toronto needs smaller vehicles — if only the carmakers wanted to sell them
A car comically overloaded with plywood? It’s a good ad for a pickup — but also a sign of the incredible amount of money, weight and energy being wasted on
www.thestar.com
November 29, 2025 at 2:39 PM
Let’s talk about the size of trucks & SUVs in the city. My column on the virtue & status signalling of vehicle bloat.
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I don’t know if anyone else notices or cares, but when I see a presentation in which the speaker uses obviously generated-AI images to illustrate their slides, it makes me immediately less confident in whatever other content they’re presenting.
November 28, 2025 at 3:07 PM
I don’t know if anyone else notices or cares, but when I see a presentation in which the speaker uses obviously generated-AI images to illustrate their slides, it makes me immediately less confident in whatever other content they’re presenting.
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That's right, folks, the Ontario government's Black Friday sale is back! And for this Black Friday, for a small donation to my reelection campaign, you'll receive a $10M Skills Development Fund grant! But hurry, because the OPP are having a look-see now, so this is a time-limited offer!
November 28, 2025 at 11:05 AM
That's right, folks, the Ontario government's Black Friday sale is back! And for this Black Friday, for a small donation to my reelection campaign, you'll receive a $10M Skills Development Fund grant! But hurry, because the OPP are having a look-see now, so this is a time-limited offer!
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so our government made a big deal about banning speed cameras but one city left theirs running to see what difference the ban would make and you are not going to believe this
November 28, 2025 at 12:56 AM
so our government made a big deal about banning speed cameras but one city left theirs running to see what difference the ban would make and you are not going to believe this
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November 28, 2025 at 1:16 PM
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Pedestrian struck by motorist on Parkside a block from the speed camera that vigilantes kept tearing down that caused ford to remove them from all Ontario. Drive as you wish Ontario. Nobody matters. This is what you voted for.
November 28, 2025 at 12:52 AM
Pedestrian struck by motorist on Parkside a block from the speed camera that vigilantes kept tearing down that caused ford to remove them from all Ontario. Drive as you wish Ontario. Nobody matters. This is what you voted for.
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everyone: we just want streets to be safe to walk near, especially around schools
ontario: best we can do is street signs so big they fully obscure schoolchildren
ontario: best we can do is street signs so big they fully obscure schoolchildren
November 27, 2025 at 3:12 PM
everyone: we just want streets to be safe to walk near, especially around schools
ontario: best we can do is street signs so big they fully obscure schoolchildren
ontario: best we can do is street signs so big they fully obscure schoolchildren
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Canada made weird tv shows because it was all being done with government funded art grant money so they fell in this wacky middle ground between “shoestring budget” and “no expectation to generate shareholder value” which is really the best way to make art
November 26, 2025 at 9:31 PM
Canada made weird tv shows because it was all being done with government funded art grant money so they fell in this wacky middle ground between “shoestring budget” and “no expectation to generate shareholder value” which is really the best way to make art
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It really has been interesting the last while to see Doug Ford's outbursts. The true Ford. From "get a job" to "audit orgs that might support left wing causes". The authoritarian belligerent bully that had no staff to muzzle him in City Hall days is still there. Does Ontario see? Do they care?
November 26, 2025 at 3:04 PM
It really has been interesting the last while to see Doug Ford's outbursts. The true Ford. From "get a job" to "audit orgs that might support left wing causes". The authoritarian belligerent bully that had no staff to muzzle him in City Hall days is still there. Does Ontario see? Do they care?
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Former CEO of his dad's company has job search tips for the general public.
November 24, 2025 at 5:42 PM
Former CEO of his dad's company has job search tips for the general public.