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

The "wedding was held on Saturday, during Paris Fashion Week, at the five-star Four Seasons Hotel George V, a short walk from the Arc de Triomphe and the Eiffel Tower"

Saw it yesterday and was so moved to see the action many cities around the world are taking. Disappointed that my city of Ottawa as a G-7 capital city is doing crickets!

Free Greta Thunberg and the rest of the illegally detained flotilla activists.

According to the City of Paris, in the last 10 years 150K trees have been planted & 45ha of parks created in the already hot city, all intended to not only improve quality-of-life today, but also help the city adapt to & manage summer heatwaves of 50℃ (122F) by 2050.

Just the start.

Common sense.

My main problem with spending time in #Switzerland is coming back to North America. A country this sensible makes most transportation policy in other places look idiotic.

Which, of course, it almost always is.

“Expanding the average car length from 5 meters (16.4 ft) to 5.5 meters (18 ft) decreases street parking spots by 9.3%, while an additional expansion to 6m (19.7 ft) causes a further loss of 7%…the growing share of larger vehicles has caused many on-street parking spots to effectively disappear.”

Pete Hegseth, by @deAdder open.substack.com/pub/deadder/...

How much shit will the Ontario voter eat, and pay for, before they get upset?

In a city of world-class artists and production crew hunting for the next gig, Andrew Cuomo made a TV ad the same way he wrote his housing policy: with AI.

Then again, maybe a fake Cuomo is better than the real one?

Lies are never the truth.

Stupidity is never common sense.

Worse is never great.

Treachery is never patriotism.

War is never peace.

Death is never life.

No matter how much they want you to think they are.

#TakingWordsBack

This didn’t happen under Biden because he believed government should actually function on behalf of the people, not actively work against them in order to benefit the wealthy.

Government warns of disruptions as nationwide strikes set to shutdown schools, pharmacies and transport.

As always, there's a @tomflood.bsky.social (/ @thebikinglawyer.bsky.social) graphic to explain. A route is only as strong as its weakest (or missing) link.

The survey is open until Sept 29. Take a look & share your feedback too: engage.ottawa.ca/gladstone-an...

Bike-lanes don’t cause traffic congestion.

Car dependency, foolish land-use sprawl, too many (& bigger) cars driving too much taking up too much space, highly subsidized driving costs, and not enough choices in how to get around, ALL cause traffic congestion.

Think about it. THAT’S common sense.

Makiko Itoh's “Real Japanese Cooking: The Only Japanese Cookbook You Will Ever Need" cuts through the clutter to focus on the basics that every home cook should know. 👉 ebx.sh/Cr8lNI

Nice little Sunday in High Park...glad @tps.ca can find time to harass cyclists but can't prevent speed cameras from being cut down in a seemingly well coordinated criminal enterprise. You gotta ask why they hate us so much.

Air Canada flight attendants will rally on Parliament Hill this week to call on Ottawa to end unpaid work in Canada’s airline industry.

Canadians are on the side of flight attendants in the Air Canada labour dispute

High-speed rail is coming to #Canada!

This week, federal government fast-tracked the Alto project.

Will link #Quebec City- #Montreal - #Ottawa - #Toronto , a corridor with half Canada's population.

Projected to carry 30 million passengers a year—twice US Northeast Corridor—on 300 km/h trains.

🚄🧵

Hi @mayormarksutcliffe.bsky.social I got your email; it’s interesting that the only option is to support; no option to share thoughts without saying yes. 1/

Always useful to have reports with facts at your fingertips when advocating for better public transit. www.ottawatransitriders.ca/studies_on_b...

Now that would be good news. We should be encouraging EV car competition to lower prices..and we'll Trump not doing Canada any favours so why support his initiative.. www.cbc.ca/news/canada/...

It's fair to say Mark Sutcliffe inherited a mess of a public transit system when he was elected, but throughout his term as Mayor, despite running on a pledge to "fix transit" he's done everything he can to make that mess ten times worse.

From me today in the @ottawacitizen.com:

The #WeekWithoutDriving is coming to Ottawa Sep 29 - Oct 5. For drivers, it's a chance to experience other mobility modes. For those who take #octranspo, #ottbike or #ottwalk, it's time to advocate for easier, more reliable and more enjoyable travel.

More: bikeottawa.ca/2025/09/04/j...