Every conservative candidate these days: "Everything is broken. Elect me to to fix it, even though It may not actually be broken and I haven't layed out a plan for how to fix it." (I'm lookin' 'specially at you, Brad Bradford.)
Mary Louise Pigott 🇨🇦
@mlpigott.bsky.social
In the dark times Will there also be singing? Yes, there will be singing. – Bertolt Brecht #hamont
The Chedoke Golf Course Lands Review is an opportunity to rethink a major civic greenspace in Hamilton. Civicplan is a partner in the Rethinking Chedoke Creek project which proposed a big idea for this space – Daylighting the buried creek and transforming the area with trails and amenities.
READ: If you haven’t seen this yet, please take a look. Motonormativity ("car brain") is a bias that stops people from making rational judgements about driving. This study co-authored by @ianwalker.bsky.social looks at where this bias comes from & how it works. www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...
READ: Time to end the REAL war in our cities! “The road lobby’s war on walking, cycling, and transit have continued profitably for more than a century. The time has come for peace.” A NEW article on the #WarOnWalking by @grantennis.bsky.social @brenttoderian.bsky.social, and @tomflood.bsky.social
A time for peace: End the war on walking, cycling, and trans
The war on the motorist and 15-minute conspiracy theories are fiction. The truth is that there is a war on walking, cycling, and transit that has made a one-hou
transportxtra.com
I'm honestly kind of surprised we haven't seen this Margaret Thatcher quote deployed by referendum critics more often (this was during the first Brexit vote when the UK Conservatives were pro Europe)
No matter what happens in the upcoming midterm elections or even the 2028 presidential contest, Canadians will not forget how they are being treated right now — or how some Americans react when we fight back, @maxfawcett.bsky.social writes.
America still doesn't understand how deep the rift goes
Memo to our friends (and yes, our enemies) to the south: the problem isn’t just Donald Trump. It’s you
nationalobserver.com
Paris has been praised in recent years for their visionary, progressive city-building, but they don’t get enough credit for just being really pragmatic! Everything they’ve been doing is common sense. They’re moving a lot more people with less space while cleaning the air and cooling the city.
“Paris has embarked on a grand transformation, planting 155k trees, adding hundreds of kms of bike lanes, pedestrianising 300 school streets and banning cars from the banks of the Seine. Parking has been turned into green space…Fewer parents fear their child being run over when they walk to school.”
How Paris swapped cars for bikes – and transformed its streets
Under Anne Hidalgo – mayor for 12 years until last week – the French capital added bike lanes, cut traffic and reclaimed public space, but not without resistance
theguardian.com
Posted this morning by my good friend and celebrated writer Allan Stratton.
When we invest in walking, wheeling and cycling infrastructure we transform communities. Less congestion, less air pollution and safer streets benefits us all. 🙌
More bikes than cars recorded on Edinburgh rush hour route for first time
Highest figures also notched up on major Glasgow cycle routes too
scotsman.com
She deserves that dog: 🔊 #AGoodPlace Source: www.reddit.com/r/MadeMeSmil...
One of Canada's advantages is that we know a lot about the US. We follow their news and politics, get their TV channels, travel there. But Americans know nothing about us. They don't understand our politics, history or values. They constantly misjudge us, but we understand them completely. #cdnpoli
This was the last lake of its kind in #Canada. Now it's gone. In a polar epishelf lake, freshwater floats on seawater, creating a unique ecosystem www.cbc.ca/news/science...
Canada just lost its last ice shelf lake — and scientists say climate change is transforming the Arctic | CBC News
Canada's last epishelf lake — made up of freshwater floating on saltwater — is gone, along with the unique ecosystem it supported, scientists confirm. Here's what made the lake special, and what it di...
cbc.ca
Between 1920 and 1936, the war game most regularly conducted by officers at the United States Army staff college was War Plan Crimson - the full scale invasion of Canada. Only in 1936 did War Plan Rainbow 1 to 5 - for war against Japan and Germany - take priority.
You know who actually did show up at Ground Zero? Canadian emergency rescue crews.
Yes, the only country that has ever attacked Canada was the USA. The only times one of our nations mobilized to defend the other was ALWAYS when Canada defended US military interests, not the other way around. And the only time NATO article 5 was enacted was for Canada et al to defend the USA.
The Werewolf@thewerewolf.bsky.social · 4w agoMy favourite bit is when Vance says that no one has attacked Canada because we're protected by the US, someone should have reminded him... The ONLY country that has attacked Canada WAS the US... in 1812 (yes, we existed as a colony named "Canada")... With friends like that... who needs enemies?
Canada won’t forget this garbage and the lack of pushback from Americans. We shall remember.
These snivelling cowards. Canadians will not forget that America treated Putin's Russia like its best friend and us like an enemy. Ever.
Kate from Kharkiv@kateinkharkiv.bsky.social · last mo.Witkoff: "President Putin, thank you so much for having us. We were sitting outside just now, me, Jared, Kirill, Yuri, and we were talking about, when we retire, we'll have all these incredible stories and memories, and yours will be right at the top of it all."
Don’t tell Trump or he’ll rename it East America.
John@dtdeng.blacksky.app · last mo.The usual suspects will reject it, but this resolution is long overdue, well done Togo. Africa is truly very very very massive! “You could fit the United States, China, India, Japan, Mexico and much of Europe into Africa and still have land to spare,”
So you’ll follow the president’s preposterous orders. Got it.
Olga Nesterova@onestpress.onestnetwork.com · last mo.Adm Samuel J. Paparo was asked about a possible order to invade Canada and what would he do ⬇️