Lloyd the Comma Shifter
@lloyddavis.ca
Freelance copyeditor/proofreader of many Canadian best-sellers & award winners, and 5 (count ’em!) NYT best-sellers. Member of SABR & SIHR. WWOZ Guardian of the Groove. I’ve got a lot of patience, baby, and that’s a lot of patience to lose.
Research consistently shows that the reliability of speed safety cameras compels drivers to slow down. In comparison, police-based enforcement is spotty and biased. NHTSA awards the tactic 5 stars, declaring it has been “demonstrated to be effective by several high-quality evaluations.”
New report: SF drivers slowed down around cameras
Pilot program’s first year a success, transportation officials said.
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Your annual reminder that John Graves Simcoe was not, in fact, a lord.
Number go up. Economy good. Billionaires happy. Welcome to me TedTalk.
Mark Carney@mark-carney.bsky.social · 5d agoBuilding a stronger, more resilient Canadian economy.
Someone found a cat on the streetcar in toronto last night and is trying to find the owner. Cat isn’t microchipped. Story here (I know there are a lot of Toronto people in my Bluesky feed!) www.reddit.com/r/toronto/s/...
From the toronto community on Reddit: Found a cat on the streetcar tonight
Explore this post and more from the toronto community
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Dude even LOOKS like a wanker. But nobody would find 176 billion barrels of oil at the bottom of the sea and just leave it there, am I right? www.theguardian.com/environment/...
Burnham promises ‘pragmatic’ approach to North Sea oil and gas
PM tells reporters the government cannot ignore the energy resource ‘when people are struggling’
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We should be eternally grateful that nobody can run a meeting like Frances Nunziata.
Matt Elliott@graphicmatt.com · 6d agoChow thanks city clerks and staff for all their hard work over the last four years. "Perhaps the hardest job belongs to Speaker Nunziata, who keeps us in line! She's been doing this for a while -- and nobody can run a meeting quite like her!" says Chow.
I hear the wallet inspectors were out in full force in Perruzza’s riding last night.
Matt Elliott@graphicmatt.com · 6d agoCouncillor Anthony Perruzza says he still loves to pay cash. As evidence, he pulls some money out of his pocket. "I got my money here. Not much of it today, because I went out last night and I got soaked by some folks — but I love to pay cash."
The Queen’s Park bureau chief at the largest newspaper in the province thinks that when you get on an airplane at Billy Bishop, you climb a set of outdoor stairs. Has he been there at any time this century?
![A clip from a Toronto Star story by Queen’s Park bureau chief Robert Benzie. It says: “Billy Bishop Toronto City Airport has long evoked that movie aerodrome [the one in the 1941 film Casablanca] with windswept passengers boarding twin-engine propeller planes from outdoor stairs. Passengers boarding and disembarking from the Q-400 twin-turboprop planes at the airport use Jetway-style air bridges.](https://cdn.bsky.app/img/feed_thumbnail/plain/did:plc:iy2tvgamp5mjxepobehffii5/bafkreig5iqd742a5nlags3m6fdymxqtjarrvdsrf55m5qcjfop3fnih7fq)
I’d be all for the ramp-up in military spending if it meant we would keep our elbows up and shoot this bastard out of the sky. www.cbc.ca/news/politic...
Israel says it asked Canada for permission for Netanyahu to use Canadian airspace | CBC News
The Israeli government has told CBC News that it requested permission for wanted Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu to overfly Newfoundland and Nova Scotia on Monday en route to a meeting with ...
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It must be very degrading for the PM to have to honour the wishes of the dumdums who put him in office.
Theo Moudakis@theomoudakis.bsky.social · last wk.Please enjoy my cartoon in today's Toronto Star
Whatever his intent, Mark Carney’s overall strategy will almost inevitably — a word I rarely use as a political scientist — deliver Canada into a deeper relationship with the United States. This is because its two prongs — diversification and appeasement — are irreconcilable. 1/4
Blayne Haggart@bhaggart.bsky.social · last wk.This is worse than destructive; it's embarrassing. Carney is subordinating every single Canadian policy, not even to US aggression, but to the mere threat of economic pain.
The thing is, with a bit of work —and a speaker people would actually want listen to—that joke could land. It wouldn’t be the Aristocrats, but it could get a laugh.
Bill Grueskin@bgrueskin.bsky.social · 2w agoThink of the saddest thing that happened in your childhood, multiply it by 100, and see how it compares to these 36 seconds
You’ve gotta hand it to Ontario. Doug Ford’s government is always half a jump ahead of the Trump Administration.
Streetsblog NYC@nyc.streetsblog.org · 2w agoTaking a page from George Orwell, the government is now saying that bike lanes are unsafe and speed cameras are not proven to reduce crashes. In other words, freedom is slavery.
Politicians from Brad Bradford to Josh Matlow are talking about more policing but none of them are talking about the widespread corruption we’re seeing in the Toronto force (or across Canada). I think this is a big problem.
guys Nick Kouvalis swore to me (or maybe just swore at me) that the Island airport expansion was a political winner with Toronto Liberals, his push poll couldn't possibly have been wrong
while I’m *thrilled* the airport expansion has been put on ice (for now), interesting that this news was dumped on a Friday just seems the sort of thing a party that truly believed the area should be left alone would be falling over themselves to look like heroes - right?
Corporate welfare for one of the shittiest companies on Earth. Your tax dollars in action.
Rory White@rorywh.bsky.social · 2w agoNEW from me and Darius Snieckus: Export Development Canada financed the Greenlignt gas plant powering Meta’s data centre in Sturgeon County. www.nationalobserver.com/2026/07/24/n...
Even the late Walter O’Malley is looking up and saying, “Shmucks.”
Clare Blackwood@clareblackwood.bsky.social · 2w agoI posted about judging the Dodgers for visiting the White House and a bunch of people responded with, "Why do you care, they're just athletes, ignore it." This shit is why. We ignore the actions of the rich, famous, and influential at our own peril. I don't give a shit if they're just athletes.
Carney's mission in office is to finish Stephen Harper's project of "you won't recognize Canada when I'm done with it."
Patrick Canning 🇨🇦@patrickcanning.bsky.social · 2w agoI await the contortions of logic that argue this is somehow critical to fighting trump, is good for Canadians, and putting that money into fossil fuel projects that won't be built for a decade is a super-genius move.
“Could I have explained it better on a Sunday morning at Stampede? Yeah. With a cowboy hat on?” Well, let that be a lesson to the media. You’ll not get the truth out of him on a Sunday, because he’s off the clock. And he finds cowboy hats to be an impediment to clear communication.
Lloyd the Comma Shifter@lloyddavis.ca · 2w agoThe look on the face of Canada Inc.’s CEO when he was asked if he lied about the Gordie Howe bridge capitulation. He wasn’t getting that rough a ride, really, but a long way from the softballs he’s usually pitched by the gang at the Financial Times and Bloomberg.
The look on the face of Canada Inc.’s CEO when he was asked if he lied about the Gordie Howe bridge capitulation. He wasn’t getting that rough a ride, really, but a long way from the softballs he’s usually pitched by the gang at the Financial Times and Bloomberg.
Trust me, baby, there’s a lot we can’t do. We can’t stop building pipelines. We can’t expand pharmacare and universal dental care. We can’t stop giving billions to American branch plants. We can’t stop capitulating to Trump.
Mark Carney@mark-carney.bsky.social · 2w agoWhen Team Canada is united, there is nothing we can't do.
