People are furious with ultra rich, powerful elites. The social contract has been broken. People who work for a wage or salary (not a dividend or bonus) just can’t make the household math make sense. And we’re looking up at the unlimited wealth of the 1% and we are pissed.

A wave of progressive populism is defying political gravity (ie big money) and upending primary season in the US. It’s exhilarating to witness. 🧵

Abdul El-Sayed@abdulelsayed.bsky.social · 12h ago

Money out of politics. Money in your pocket. Medicare for All. Michigan... We won. I am so proud to be your Democratic nominee for US Senate. Let's win in November.

And for those Toronto folks who support bringing back open streets, please join the over 1000 people who signed the petition if you haven't already done so and share. #BikeTO #WalkTO #OpenStreetsTO #TOpoli tinyurl.com/openstreetsp...

Mayor Olivia Chow & Toronto City Council: Bring back open streets programs by 2026

Please bring back open streets programs in Toronto by 2026 such as ActiveTO and OpenStreetsTO to provide spaces for walking, cycling, and physical activity! We call for a commitment to a regular event...

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Meanwhile, Toronto hasn't held #OpenStreetsTO - their equivalent to NYC's Summer Streets - since 2022. If Toronto were to bring it back, it needs to be every Sunday from May to September. Not just two Sundays a year as what happened in past years. #BikeTO #WalkTO #TOpoli

Clarence Eckerson Jr./Streetfilms@streetfilms.bsky.social · 2d ago

For 18 year now we have only had three Summer Streets events in Manhattan. People definitely want more. How many more? Watch to find out! @openplans.org @nyc.streetsblog.org www.youtube.com/watch?v=_JU-...

If you think garbage containers will ruin "the beauty of a street" and permanently alter the city's "character and history" but don't address how cars and SUVs affect those same qualities, you are telling on yourself.

Neil Flanagan 🧱🗃️@jgbollard.bsky.social · 4d ago

This is it boys, the platonic "New York can never get better" piece www.archpaper.com/2026/07/litt...

All the hysteria and rhetoric that consumed a community around these bike lanes ended and now no one talks about them and people use them (including those with mobility devices) all the time for work, school, play and everything in between. Change is hard for some people but we all adapt.

Which vehicles most endanger the drivers of other cars? Giant pickup trucks — and the Dodge Charger Source: www.iihs.org/news/detail/...

Chow's motion to make some of the traffic and transit changes implemented during the World Cup permanent CARRIES 25-1.

(Notable, again, that response times remain best in the downtown area, despite routine claims that bike lanes, transit lanes, etc will greatly hinder emergency vehicles.)

Hey #BikeTO! @cycletoronto.bsky.social will be hosting a rally this Thursday to mark one year since we won the court challenge though a decision on the appeal is still pending. Meet 6 PM at Ramsden Park and ride at 6:15 PM. Will be back in Canada by then for this event. #TOpoli #ONpoli #VisionZero

"Wildfires raging in northern Ontario appear to have pushed the province to its worst wildfire season on record." Human-driven climate change is the primary cause. Those who are against renewable energy or sustainable transportation, are the ones making this worse. www.cbc.ca/news/canada/...

Ontario is in the middle of its worst wildfire season, early estimates suggest | CBC News

The province's latest numbers suggest fires have burned through more than 7,250 square kilometres of Ontario's forest, surpassing the previous record set in 2021. Most of the burning has been in the p...

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Since we’ve been talking about Shopify bro this weekend - somebody sent me this screenshot of him advocating for more votes the richer you are. Total democracy perverts. His group Build Canada has the ear of the prime minister.

David Moscrop@davidmoscrop.com · last wk.

Just a quick reminder for when you’re thinking about who should vote in a democracy: the masses won us self-government and rights while billionaires gave us pervert glasses and personal-data harvesting.

More wasted time and energy undermining local democracy from the provincial Minister of Transportation on another losing scheme.

Jenny Lee Shee@jennyleeshee.bsky.social · 2w ago

Doug Ford’s Minister of Transportation - Prabmeet Sarkaria - isn’t taking no for an answer. prabmeet.sarkaria@pc.ola.org Constituency Office Tel.: 905-796-8669 Ministry Office Tel.: 416-327-9200 #NoJetsTO #BillyBishop

Not great to see that USDOT is spouting debunked conspiracy theory language about 15-minute cities and the World Economic Forum. thewaroncars.org/2023/03/21/c...

Darren Buck@bikepedantic.bsky.social · 2w ago

USDOT pulls down more bike lane web info, saying "This is a common sense approach despite the Left's belief that everyone should ride a bike to their shoebox-sized apartment to eat crickets to achieve a phony climate agenda." If you hate bike lanes, you ride with Trump. www.npr.org/2026/07/23/n...

Local woman ends interview abruptly after being asked about her doing her job.

Ontario's minister of emergency preparedness and response hung up during a CBC interview - Toronto Life

A handler disconnected the call after the minister was asked about the province's wildfire communications with Indigenous communities

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Thinking about the fact that Toronto has two 70MM IMAX projectors - at Ontario Science Centre and at Ontario Place, the world's first IMAX theatre - that have been closed by Doug Ford for nonsensical reasons.

Nina Metz@ninametz.bsky.social · 2w ago

Why Aren’t There More Imax 70mm Screens for ‘The Odyssey’? variety.com/2026/film/ne...

TTC says RapidTO lanes on Dufferin and Bathurst delivered about ~3 mins average time savings for riders on World Cup match days. They note “Small adjustments to signal timings can yield major improvements” and "Toronto Police and Traffic Agent support was crucial.” www.toronto.ca/legdocs/mmis...

Cool presentation from the TTC CEO at this morning’s board meeting, with match-by-match recaps of TTC service delivery during each World Cup Game. I really like this level of detail. www.toronto.ca/legdocs/mmis... (PDF)

My @thestar.com column: Drivers routinely speed past open streetcar doors. Riders have known this is a problem for years. Finally, the TTC has announced plans to do something about it. Eventually. It's good news, but I've got to ask: what took so long? www.thestar.com/opinion/cont...

Matt Elliott: TTC’s crackdown on drivers blowing past stopped streetcars is long overdue. But we need action, not studies

The TTC’s pilot project will gather data on drivers who drive past stopped streetcars over the next nine months — but no tickets will be issued.

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Municipal politicians talk a lot about meeting "TransformTO" goals. I have made a tool that actually tracks commute mode share in Toronto and measures how close we are to hitting these goals! See what your ward's transportation mode share is and hold candidates to account.

I was born and raised in Northern Ontario and I am absolutely boiling with rage at the ways in which people elsewhere are talking about the forest fires there as though this is a common occurrence. The air thick with smoke for kilometers, entire communities wiped out - this shit is not normal.

Pedestrians & cyclists without auto insurance who are injured by hit & run or uninsured drivers used to be protected by the Motor Vehcile Accident Claims Fund. Thanks to Doug Ford's cuts to insurance, key coverages for hit & run victims are gone. www.ctvnews.ca/toronto/arti...

Some people injured in hit and runs have benefits slashed under new Ontario insurance regime

An Ontario provincial government fund that pays insurance claims to people including those who were injured and killed hit and runs has scaled back the compensation it pays out to be in line with rece...

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There is NO "war on cars" only a war on non-motorists, and it come from the top-down in Ontario. Bike lane removal, fake trucker colleges, speed camera removal, now this. Impunity for motorists, death mayhem and suffering for the rests of us. #toronto #onpoli #topoli

The Biking Lawyer LLP@thebikinglawyer.bsky.social · 3w ago

Pedestrians & cyclists without auto insurance who are injured by hit & run or uninsured drivers used to be protected by the Motor Vehcile Accident Claims Fund. Thanks to Doug Ford's cuts to insurance, key coverages for hit & run victims are gone. www.ctvnews.ca/toronto/arti...

What the Carneys of the world ignore is even the business case for slashing environmental protections doesn’t work. I work for a small business. We won’t get foot traffic until the smoke clears. No one will buy a coffee, sit on the patio, anything. This hurts business, it’s bad for the economy.

NEW EPISODE: Is the way we think about criminal consequences for drivers who harm pedestrians and cyclists another form of motonormativity? A study from Professor Ian Loader of the University of Oxford challenges how the law sees driving and offers solutions. podcasts.apple.com/lu/podcast/r...

Forced car dependence is a real thing and the solution is not "make driving less expensive"

TTC ran a “pilot project” to track the number of cars illegally passing streetcars at stops: “Preliminary data indicates that near-miss incidents may be very pervasive and that there is likely merit to developing a technology-based solution to this problem” Shocker. secure.toronto.ca/council/agen...

We estimated the number of #Bike Share trips before, during, and after soccer/football matches hosted by #Toronto and identified a spike of activity after matches, especially for Bike Share stations near the stadium https://schoolofcities.github.io/fifa-world-cup-2026/bike-share-toronto

This is excellent -- and really disturbing. "I think of heatwaves as glimpses of the accelerating future, pushing their way through, ahead of time, to show you what the world will be like soon. At a bike race in France in July, the border between present and future is more permeable."

patrick@redford.bsky.social · 4w ago

Yesterday’s Tour de France stage was the hottest in recorded history. What sort of future does the race have in the face of climate change? defector.com/the-tour-de-...

We're in the midst of a transportation revolution. www.twincities.com/2026/07/11/c...

More Twin Cities families using ‘cargo bikes’ to haul groceries and children

People on such bikes are a common sight in the Twin Cities as residents increasingly embrace them for shopping and family outings — sometimes taking the extreme step of replacing a car with a cargo bi...

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