"The legislature is free to legislate to remove a bicycle lane from a road – indeed, it may remove a road entirely – without implicating the Charter,,” says the Court of Appeal. Provincial government wins. coadecisions.ontariocourts.ca/coa/coa/en/i...
Cycle Toronto v. Ontario (Attorney General) - Court of Appeal for Ontario
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You think I won't take the whole lane but I absolutely will.
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It's interesting. Earlier in the verdict they say the court has no interest if bike lanes are good or bad, etc, but here they are making a value judgement based on....their own bad common sense
ℳatt@matttomic.bsky.social · 16h agoThe judge's ruling cites "common sense" as the reason that adding more lanes eases congestion IT DOESN'T!! THERE'S AN ENTIRE FIELD OF STUDY AROUND THIS VERY TOPIC!! WE'VE KNOWN ABOUT THIS SINCE, LIKE, THE 1960s!!
![[59] The question, then, is this: is there a rational connection between the purpose of reducing traffic congestion and the decision to increase the number of lanes for motor vehicles by removing bicycle lanes? The respondents were required to establish that there was no such connection. The appellants were not required to establish that the legislation will prove effective in reducing traffic congestion.
[60] Common sense provides the answer here: increasing the number of lanes available for motor vehicles must, at least to some extent, and for some period of time, be capable of contributing to reducing traffic congestion. The legislation is therefore rational. Assumptions grounded in everyday experience and common sense need not be established empirically: Gosselin v. Québec (Attorney General), 2002 SCC 84, [2002] 4 S.C.R. 429, at para. 56.](https://cdn.bsky.app/img/feed_thumbnail/plain/did:plc:bumu6s332o24fppobse7j3ms/bafkreienb36anol5lhe5bysgujtctbbldmjjth6jc4cybrowrmllarjrea)
Walmart and McDonald’s are among the top employers of workers who rely on food stamps. McDonald's CEO raked in $20.5M in 2025 — over 1,000x the company's median employee pay. Walmart's CEO pocketed $27.4M — 958x the company's median employee pay. See the problem?
If all income in excess of $400,000 were subject to the Social Security payroll tax, Social Security’s solvency would be guaranteed forever. We could also expand Social Security benefits. There’s no reason even to consider reducing Social Security benefits or raising the age of eligibility.
How to delay ovary aging? —Exercise —And the potential of targeting adiponectin receptor From 2 large cohorts ~165K participants and extensive studies in mice nature.com/articles/s43...
Physical activity delays ovarian aging in part through adiponectin-related signaling pathways - Nature Aging
Physical activity has geroprotective properties, yet its role in ovarian aging is incompletely understood. Here, a cross-sectional analysis of human cohorts links lower physical activity with menopaus...
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So, cities & towns where you can get things without using a car within, say, a 15 minute walk are key to winning Trump’s war? Makes sense.
Aaron Rupar@atrupar.com · 3d agoMinnesota Senate nominee Michele Tayofa on the Iran war: "Maybe you take one less trip to Starbucks and so that gas goes a little further. Until this thing is over and these gas prices come back down again, let's just try to be patriots about this."
ooh ooh I know this one, actually: in 2010 Rob and Doug Ford explicitly said they supported subways because they get transit out of the way of cars; the whole point is to reinforce car use not reduce it
Andy Fraser@andyfraser.bsky.social · 3d agoA Toronto traffic question - why do we allow *any* car traffic along Bloor? There is a freaking subway line that runs the entire length of Bloor. Yet people get in the cars and trucks and drive slowly and painfully right above the subway line while complaining about the bike lanes. Why drive at all?
I'm glad we / @spacing.bsky.social published that Op Ed. Nice to have people on the record. spacing.ca/toronto/2020...
BRADFORD OP-ED: Bike lanes are the path to main street recovery on the Danforth and across the city - Spacing Toronto
Toronto has approved the installation of 40 kilometres of cycling infrastructure across the city, including a significant portion along Danforth Avenue, in the community I represent as city councillor...
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Daniel Reynolds@akareynolds.bsky.social · 4d ago
Get your vaccine advice from trained healthcare professionals not from politicians. Expertise still matters.
If you charge a $10 search fee and 50 cents a page you do not have an open-court system, you have a government-sanctioned shakedown.
El-Sayed: "Imagine if instead of paying that to your health insurance company, whose CEO makes $20m a year, you paid a little bit more in taxes for healthcare you wouldn't lose. I think all of us would a lot more interested in that system if we knew our healthcare would be free at point of care"
Remember: There is nothing natural or inevitable about extreme inequality; it’s the result of an economic system that values wealth and power over human dignity and justice. It doesn't have to be this way.
People have been taking off their shoes at airport security for 20 years because one guy brought some liquid gel aboard. Not a thing can be done about car & driver. There, here.
The War on Cars@thewaroncars.bsky.social · 5d ago"Drivers struck and killed 7,080 people walking in the United States in 2024, 72% more than in 2009, when pedestrian deaths were at their lowest."
Any elected official or someone running for office going to talk about the police? www.thestar.com/news/gta/jud...
Judge finds Toronto drug squad officers ‘likely’ stole $5,000 from fitness coach, stays cocaine charge
Judge stays a man's cocaine trafficking charges after finding Toronto police drug squad officers "likely" stole $5,000 from the lifestyle and fitness coach's East Liberty Street one-bedroom apartment.
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NYT stating this like it’s normal when it’s absolutely berserk.
Writing is stupid and it takes too long. (Career observation)
Thank you!
National Media Awards Foundation@canadamediaawards.bsky.social · 2w agoWriting spotlight: Gold, NMA Short Feature Writing / University of Toronto Magazine @utoronto.ca @alisonmotluk.bsky.social Contributor: Scott Anderson, editor-in-chief 🔗 Learn more about the 2026 NMA winners: zurl.co/QrQbE #NMA26 #CanadianJournalism
Writing spotlight: Gold, NMA Short Feature Writing / University of Toronto Magazine @utoronto.ca @alisonmotluk.bsky.social Contributor: Scott Anderson, editor-in-chief 🔗 Learn more about the 2026 NMA winners: zurl.co/QrQbE #NMA26 #CanadianJournalism
I honestly don’t know how anyone can be in the room when he says this kind of shit and not say ANYTHING. That’s not how you talk to people! Hit him with a rolled up newspaper or SOMETHING.
Aaron Rupar@atrupar.com · 2w agoTrump says Jeanine Pirro "choked" and then snaps at a reporter who asks if her job is safe: "Don't ever talk again"
This is going to make it very difficult to know which sports we should ban them from.
Kat Kerlin@katkerlin.bsky.social · 2w agoSome avocados are female in the morning and male in the afternoon, while others are on the opposite schedule. This helps them avoid self-pollination. How do they do it? A @ucdavis.bsky.social study explains. www.ucdavis.edu/food/news/st...
Local man says thing that people need a lot is not a good bargaining chip.
PM Carney ‘doesn’t see the value’ in using Canadian energy as a bargaining chip with the U.S.
Prime Minister Mark Carney on Wednesday signalled he doesn’t want to use Canadian energy as a bargaining chip in the ongoing trade war with the United States, though he wouldn’t explicitly rule it out...
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man I will just never get over the fact that the collective response to the pandemic, and an absolutely miraculous vaccine development, was to destroy public health in this country and smear everyone involved I generally take a positive view of humanity overall but it's so depressing
Aaron Rupar@atrupar.com · 2w agoMoreno to Fauci: "Who the fuck did you think you were?"
Local man claims to have zero expenses unless you count his expenses.
Cool heatmap of Toronto intersections and red-light camera tickets. Kennedy Road & the 401 tops the list by a country mile. (via secure.toronto.ca/council/agen...)
When the US deports people with active asylum cases back to their home countries, we are often condemning them to death. "Their 14-month-old daughter, Giovanni, was found crying beside her mother’s body in southern Guatemala."
Timothy McBride@mcbridetd.bsky.social · 3w agoOverland, MO, couple killed in Guatemala after being deported by ICE | STLPR www.stlpr.org/law-order/20...
Shocking Video Captures Calm Police Officers Handling Situation Nonviolently
