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Celeste Trianon @celeste.lgbt · 1h

Le gouvernement du Canada continue à ne pas reconnaître que le kidnapping commis par Israël est illégal et s'inscrit dans le cadre et le modus operandi du génocide à Gaza.

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Flottille pour Gaza | Le Canada demande à Israël de libérer rapidement les six Canadiens arrêtés

Le Canada demande la « libération rapide » des six Canadiens arrêtés mercredi par les autorités israéliennes, dont la Québécoise Nimâ Machouf. Elle se trouvait à bord du Conscience, un bateau en direc...

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Isaac Callan @isaaccallan.bsky.social · 1h

NEW: Toronto Mayor Olivia Chow on speeding minister vehicles in Ontario —

"By God, no wonder they don’t like speed cameras because they catch them while they’re breaking the law." #OnPoli #TOpoli
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‘No wonder they don’t like speed cameras’: Toronto mayor comments on Ford cabinet vehicles | Globalnews.ca

Documents show vehicles assigned to Ford's cabinet ministers racked up 23 speed camera tickets in the past three years, totalling more than $3,300 in fines.

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Nadia Aubin-Horth @naubinhorth.bsky.social · 3h

Dans sa biographie: "En 2011, il a reçu le prix Richard-Arès pour son essai, coécrit avec Guillaume Marois, Le remède imaginaire – Pourquoi l’immigration ne sauvera pas le Québec." eh ben.

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Celeste Trianon @celeste.lgbt · 3h

"Urging Israel" to release Canadian citizens?

No.

This is a fucking declaration of war by the State of Israel on the entire world — and we’re sitting here doing nothing.

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Mehdi Hasan @mehdirhasan.bsky.social · 6h

This Reuters headline. Oof.

Fascism isn't 'coming.' It's HERE.
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Justin Brake @justinbrake.bsky.social · 5h

Here's the latest on Canadians aboard Freedom Flotilla vessel the Conscience, who were taken by Israeli forces early this morning.

So far, political leaders have been silent. I also reached out to Canada's ambassador to Israel, who has not yet responded.

The Independent @independentnl.bsky.social · 5h

“If you are seeing this video we’ve been attacked at sea & abducted by Israeli forces or forces of another country complicit in genocide of the Palestinian people," Sadie Mees of St. John's says in a video posted Wednesday. #cdnpoli #nlpoli #Gaza
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6 Canadians, including 3 from N.L., taken by Israeli forces – The Independent

: Nimâ Machouf, Sadie Mees, Nikita Stapleton, Mskwaasin Agnew, Devoney Ellis and Khurram Musti Khan were the six Canadians aboard the Conscience vessel

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Nadia Aubin-Horth @naubinhorth.bsky.social · 5h

Si vous voulez un formulaire simple à remplir pour écrire à M. Carney amnistie.ca/participer/2...

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Matt Elliott @graphicmatt.com · 6h

Matlow asks about Ford's claim that speed bumps can replace speed cameras. Gray says the city already install lots of speed bumps and other traffic calming measures, but speed bumps aren't really appropriate on arterial roads because they can mess with transit and emergency services.

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Matt Elliott @graphicmatt.com · 6h

"We feel very strongly that automated enforcement is a critical piece of speed management. It's a critical piece of Vision Zero," says Transportation GM Gray. She's concerned that removing the cameras will reduce the progress the city has made reducing road injuries and deaths.

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Matt Elliott @graphicmatt.com · 6h

Councillor Chernos Lin asks about the highest speed recorded by Toronto's speed cameras. Transportation General Manager Barbara Gray says it was 187 km/h in a 50 km/h zone at Midland & Montgomery — on Jan 25 at 10 p.m.

"That's shocking," says Chernos Lin.

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Chris Hayes @chrislhayes.bsky.social · 5h

I was working an entire essay on this very notion this summer and this is reminding me I should pick it back up. TL;DR - every price is someone else's income and whether prices going down on something is "good" depends a whole lot on what you do for a living.

Carl Quintanilla @carlquintanilla.bsky.social · 5h

ANDREESSEN: Even if AI ends up destroying all the jobs, “the result would be hyper-deflation of prices, which is the thing that people miss. .. Things that today cost a lot of money will all of a sudden be cheap or free.”

@fortune.com
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Nadia Aubin-Horth @naubinhorth.bsky.social · 6h

L'Ontario va finir sur le dessus du MacLeans dans un reportage sur la corruption. On leur prêtera le bonhomme carnaval avec une valise pleine d'argent pour la photo de couverture.

Jack Hauen @jackhauen.bsky.social · 10h

NEW: David Piccini, the minister whose office picks Skills Development Fund recipients, was in Paris this weekend at the wedding of a lobbyist whose clients received millions from that fund.

From me and @charliepinkerton.bsky.social.

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Ontario labour minister attended lobbyist’s wedding after granting his clients millions in training funds

Two clients of lobbyist Michael Rudderham have received more than $8.5 million in Skills Development Fund grants, records show

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Nadia Aubin-Horth @naubinhorth.bsky.social · 6h

Ah la la tellement bon je ris toute seule dans mon bureau :) Merci c'est trop parfait.

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Nadia Aubin-Horth @naubinhorth.bsky.social · 6h

C'est de l'art à l'état pur!

Nicolas Marcotte @nicolasmarcotte.bsky.social · 10h

Je ne suis pas raciste mais… je fais campagne pour démanteler un moyen de transport écologique, économique, efficace et surtout qui diminue la congestion routière.

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Robert Zaichkowski @rzaichkowski.bsky.social · 10h

That line about infrastructure to slow down drivers - while technically correct - is rich coming from someone who restricted the ability of cities to put in a particular one last year which actually works. If Ford doesn't want speed cameras, then REPEAL BILL 212 NOW! #shame #BikeTO #TOpoli #ONpoli

Isaac Callan @isaaccallan.bsky.social · 1d

Ontario Premier Doug Ford responds to our story that someone driving a vehicle assigned to one of his cabinet ministers was recorded stunt driving, pivoting to talk about municipal infrastructure. #OnPoli

Story▶️: globalnews.ca/news/1146702...

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Cllr Eric Hanvey @erichanvey.bsky.social · 10h

There is nothing controversial about cycle lanes they are good for the environment, our health and wellbeing, and from all the research, business.

I've yet to see a city that's built cycle lanes that isn't more vibrant and beautiful than before.

Source: Ayr Advertiser
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MP urges council to reconsider controversial Ayr cycle lane plans

MP Elaine Stewart has urged South Ayrshire Council to reconsider controversial plans to install cycle lanes in Ayr town centre.

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Jon Owen @anotherjon.bsky.social · 11h

Droughts and floods, which have been exacerbated by climate breakdown, have created a deficit in wheat production in the UK of over 7 million tonnes.

Folk at the Energy and Climate Intelligence Unit (ECIU) have calculated that this is enough wheat to bake more than 4 billion loaves of bread.

ECIU @eciu.net · 11h

One year’s worth of bread lost in UK to wrecked harvests since 2020

Worsening droughts and floods have destroyed wheat for 4bn loaves of bread and forced record levels of imports.
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Ainsley S @americanbeetles.bsky.social · 20h

Wow that’s like a plants level of chromosomal absurdity

Bryan White, MS Bio, MPH 🧬 @crvscience.com · 3d

Homie got 229 pairs of chromosomes

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This tiny butterfly has the most chromosomes of any animal on Earth

Scientists have confirmed that the Atlas blue butterfly carries the most chromosomes of any animal, with 229 pairs. Unlike duplication, its chromosomes split apart, reshaping its genome in surprising ...

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Tom Flood @tomflood.bsky.social · 1d

An adult driver angry at a child they hit with their car.

Our car culture summed up in one video.

Robson Fletcher @robsonfletcher.com · 1d

Police in Airdrie, Alberta (just north of Calgary) say this driver hit a 17-year-old girl in a marked crosswalk, got out of the vehicle, and appeared to get upset at the teenager before driving away.

They released this video and are now trying to identify the driver.

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Coach Jerry (referee 🔵) @gopher33j.bsky.social · 1d

As somebody with asthma who uses inhalers - SHUT THE FUCK UP. THIS ARTICLE IS SHAMING PEOPLE WITH A CHRONIC CONDITION.

"Significantly" My ass. You know what else does? AI Data centers - corporations - cows - asphalt - THOUSANDS OF OTHERS THINGS THAT ARE NOT MEDICINE.

Fuck you - fuck you again.

Inhalers contribute significantly to global warming, study finds

Millions of Americans using inhalers for chronic lung diseases like asthma may be unknowingly contributing to global warming, according to new research.

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Nadia Aubin-Horth @naubinhorth.bsky.social · 1d

Our son just started volunteering for his university's radio station (CHOQ) with a chronicle on municipal politics! My job is done!

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Doug Gordon @brooklynspoke.bsky.social · 1d

Rode the new and still in-progress Court Street protected bike lane and it’s already a thing of beauty. Makes such a difference on what used to be a very dangerous street for cycling.

Cyclist on bike lane. Black asphalt and white lines.

Two cyclists on city bike lane with yellow school bus on right side

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Carl Quintanilla @carlquintanilla.bsky.social · 1d

“.. On closer inspection, however, it turned out that the image was not a photograph of a real event in Portland, but instead a fabrication created by combining two photographs of scenes that unfolded in South America nearly a decade apart ..”

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Streetsblog NYC @nyc.streetsblog.org · 1d

On an average summer weekday, there are 475 illegally parked cars along key corridors in Downtown Brooklyn — 57 percent of which had legit or fake parking placards that let the holder park anywhere with impunity.

Brooklyn Still Choked by Placard Elite Leaving Their Cars Everywhere With No Consequences - Streetsblog New York City

Drivers park illegally — often with city-issued placards — and virtually none ever gets ticketed by cops.

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Nadia Aubin-Horth @naubinhorth.bsky.social · 1d

We used to live not far from there and crossing Christophe-Colomb by foot was scary, as it was used as a car sewage with cars rushing up and down. I hope your city gets many more of these and that Québec city does too. Intersections are the final magic key for complete and safe bike networks.

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