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Dystopian and dehumanising: that’s what it felt like when I was interviewed by an AI assistant

Outsourcing the essential task of interviewing job applicants to a machine seems lazy at best, negligent at worst. I want better for all of us

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Very good arguments here against privatizing Canada’s major airports. www.thestar.com/business/opi...

Carney promises windfall cash from airport sales. History suggests Canadians should be wary

Three of the four airports PM wants to open for private investment rank among the world's top 100. They also generate $500M a year in rent for Ottawa.

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Olivia Chow and Brad Bradford have big housing ideas. But in Doug Ford’s Ontario, do they have a say?

Planning experts say the city’s role has become more “constrained” under Doug Ford, but it still has some levers to pull — if the premier lets them.

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Navi Pillay — the 2026 Nobel Peace Prize laureate and a former International Criminal Court judge — happened to be at the Nuremberg Court in Germany when she learned that she had won the Nobel.

Origins of the Kitchener GO line in 1856.

Toronto Railway Museum@torailwaymuseum.bsky.social · 4d ago

Oct 8, 1856: the Grand Trunk Railway officially opens its line between Toronto and Stratford. The line had opened as far as Brampton a year earlier and was extended to Guelph and then Berlin (Kitchener) during the summer of 1856.

One of the key lessons from Dutch cycling history is cities didn't start with protected lanes. They began by making streets safer, calmer and more inviting; with lower speeds, parking restrictions, traffic filters and reduced through-traffic to create an environment in which cycling could flourish.🧵

Anand is the best (and I'm doing an event with him at, yes, @cityartssf.bsky.social Thursday, for his new book Man in the Mirror). Couldn't agree more that cities are refuges or places of last resort for people kicked out of rural/suburban/pseudo-idyllic America.

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Holy shit.

"Ripping out these protected bike lanes against the will of Toronto city council is a colossal waste of $48 million. The province’s own experts know it will not ease traffic congestion, it will put people’s lives at risk, and there is no network of side streets that could replace these lanes."

Ontario will officially begin removing Toronto bike lanes on Tuesday | CBC News

Ontario will begin removing bike lanes from a stretch on Bloor Street W. in Etobicoke on Tuesday, the Ministry of Transportation says.

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Tuesday will be a sad day for Ontario. Ford's government is taking us backwards, spending millions taking away bike lanes in Toronto when people across Ontario desperately need money for hospitals, housing, schools and infrastructure.

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The Ford government is set to remove Etobicoke bike lanes next week. The government confirmed to the Star that work will begin Oct. 13 to remove bike lanes on a stretch of Bloor Street that has been at the heart of the city’s bike lane battle.

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An AI boom is sending San Francisco rents through the roof: ‘nowhere left for people to go’

According to city’s rent board, eviction notices are up 44% and tenants are on edge over landlords swooping in over their homes

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New density coming to north Waterloo! This proposal is quite a change from the current situation at the old National Cash Register site (pictured below). It's across the street from an LRT station, though adjacent roads are very wide & extremely busy. www.therecord.com/news/waterlo...

Poll modeling shows Doug Ford's PCs could win another majority government on just 34% of the vote. First-past-the-post bails out unpopular governments while the rest of us suffer. We need proportional representation so governments always represent a broad majority.

Quebec’s election saw one of the most distorted election results in Canadian history: the PQ won 46% of seats with 28% vote, while the CAQ got zero seats with over 500,000 votes. Read our write-up to see how proportional representation fixes this. www.fairvote.ca/06/10/2026/p...

Parti Québécois wins 46% of the seats with 28% of the vote

Quebec election 2026 with first-past-the-post. Parti Québécois wins 46% of the seats with 28% of the vote.

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NYC is opening 160 car-free (but treat-filled) streets and plazas to enjoy fun and safe fall festivities this spooky season. Find one near you at nyc.gov/trickorstreets.

In @thestar.com I write about agitslop seeping into Toronto’s election & politics. AstroTurf campaigns to AI-driven apps, we need a Blade Runner to help us understand what’s real & what’s fake, but it may inspire a renaissance of showing up in public space for protest or just conversation.

Shawn Micallef: AI slop is turning Toronto politics into a sci-fi dystopia, but it’s not too late to change course

The line between real and fake is blurring and it should be a cautionary tale for voters and candidates

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Shawn Micallef@shawnmicallef.bsky.social · 2w ago

I'm writing this week's Toronto politics column and opening with a reference to Blade Runner. You can probably guess the subject of the column.

Evening streetcars on King Street.

Evening streetcars on King Street.

Excited for this! Especially as an inaugural @pwhl-hamilton.bsky.social season ticket holder. www.cbc.ca/sports/hocke...

CBC/Radio-Canada reveals PWHL broadcast schedule, including return of Hockey Night in Canada | CBC Sports

CBC/Radio-Canada unveiled its broadcast schedule Friday for the upcoming Professional Women’s Hockey League season, which features more games on the network than ever before.

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#TodayInHistory: 🎬 #OnThisDay 52 years ago, the film “The Taking of Pelham One Two Three” opened in theaters. Now heralded as a classic, the 1974 action crime caper flick is the original film by this name. It was also remade in 1998 for TV and as a major motion picture in 2009.“

Except that in no way does it boggle the mind.

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Visitors to the US are on track to drop by almost two million year-on-year. “We’re the only major country in the world losing visitation,” the head of the US Travel Association said. “It’s mind-boggling.” www.semafor.com/article/09/2...

Andy Burnham expected to say he will push ahead with electoral reform plans

Andy Burnham expected to say he will push ahead with electoral reform plans

Exclusive: Labour conference speech will kick off process that could replace current system with proportional representation * UK politics live – latest updates Andy Burnham is expected to announce that he will push ahead with plans for electoral reform in his first conference speech as Labour leader, in the latest sign that he intends to radically transform the UK’s political system. The prime minister, a longtime advocate of reform, will kick off a process that could eventually lead to ditching the first-past-the-post system in favour of proportional representation. Continue reading...

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We've already got more than 200 people registered for tomorrow's film screening in downtown Kitchener! But still space for more people who want to join. Film screening: Tuesday 29 September, 7pm UW School of Pharmacy, 10A Victoria St S, Kitchener Free registration: www.eventbrite.ca/e/thinking-b...

Thinking Beyond the Market: a film about genuinely affordable housing

Film Screening followed by Q&A with director Dr Brian Doucet and editor-in-chief of the Waterloo Region Record

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S.N.C.F. 🚂 Le TGV fête ses 45 ans çe 27 sept 2026 ! RARE ''TRAIN EXPERIMENTAL A GRANDE VITESSE'' ( T.G.V. ) Record du monde vitesse du rail en février 1981

You take our bike lanes, we take the road. Toronto showed up Friday night. 📸 @geoffreybercarich via Instagram

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The west is in freefall – and the worst part is that we were warned, but chose not to listen | Owen Jones

Endless pursuit of wealth and power by western leaders led us here. What strikes me most is how many saw what was coming, says Guardian columnist Owen Jones

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A great article in @therecord.com about our upcoming film screening on Tuesday 29 September at 7pm. Join us for the film screening and a post-film discussion & Q&A with myself & Waterloo Region Record editor in chief Jim Poling. www.therecord.com/things-to-do...

University of Waterloo screens documentary that shows where affordable housing solutions are hiding

“Thinking Beyond the Market” explores successful affordable housing initiatives across Canada.

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Kitchener-Waterloo screening of 'Thinking Beyond the Market: a film about genuinely affordable housing' Tuesday 29 September 7:00pm University of Waterloo School of Pharmacy (10A Victoria St N, Kitchener) Co-hosted by @therecord.com Info & free registration here: www.eventbrite.ca/e/thinking-b...

Thinking Beyond the Market: a film about genuinely affordable housing

Film Screening followed by Q&A with director Dr Brian Doucet and editor-in-chief of the Waterloo Region Record

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“privatization doesn’t mean prices will go up,” they told us last week. but of course they will, and they’re starting to have to admit it. the reason why investors are so desperate to get our airports is precisely because they know they’ll be able to make monopoly profits.

T. Ryan Gregory 🇨🇦@tryangregory.bsky.social · 3w ago

Told ya. www.ctvnews.ca/canada/artic...

How much faster would GO trains be if they used electrical multiple unit (EMU) trains? Today, a 33.7km trip from Pickering to Union station makes 6 stops and takes 45 minutes Our proposed local EMU service would make 13 stops, and take only 36 minutes.