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Publisher at Great Plains Press, sustainable transpo with Green Action Centre, creating theatre with TBTR. Strong Towns!
The way a neighbourhood looks could influence how well people sleep, new research suggests, adding to growing evidence that urban design can affect public health.
Greener streets linked to longer sleep, study suggests
The way a neighbourhood looks could influence how well people sleep, new research suggests, adding to growing evidence that urban design can affect public health.
l.euronews.com
Canada’s new Food Security Strategy won’t end food insecurity. The strategy largely overlooks the single biggest contributing factor: inadequate incomes, by Nick Saul and Jasmine Ramze Rezaee www.theglobeandmail.com/opinion/arti... via @theglobeandmail.com
Opinion: Canada’s new Food Security Strategy won’t end food insecurity
The strategy largely overlooks the single biggest contributing factor: inadequate incomes
theglobeandmail.com
Canadians overwhelmingly demand wealth tax after Kevin O’Leary says it will make him move away
Canadians overwhelmingly demand wealth tax after Kevin O’Leary says it will make him move away
OTTAWA - Pollsters report a split among Canadians over the idea of higher tax on the assets of wealthy individuals, though support skyrockets after noting that Kevin O'Leary has vowed that he will res...
thebeaverton.com
Introducing, coming to Winnipeg this summer: Other Places Books. A bookstore specializing in science fiction and fantasy. opbooks.store
Other Places Books
Other Places is going to be Winnipeg’s science fiction and fantasy bookstore. It will be a friendly, inclusive, and very queer space. When we open in the summer, you’ll find us in the Omega building o...
opbooks.store
Neighborhood kid who just learned to ride bike now logging 14-hour shift delivering Uber Eats
Neighborhood kid who just learned to ride bike now logging 14-hour shift delivering Uber Eats
OAKVILLE, ON — Seven-year-old Ryan Driftwood has been making the most of his newfound love of riding his bicycle by "making bank" as a self-employed Uber Eats food courier.
thebeaverton.com
10,000 fewer on-street car parking spaces. That's the pledge from Amsterdam's new coalition government over the next four years. While many cities still argue whether change is possible, Amsterdam is reclaiming its public realm one tree, bench, bike rack, terrace, playground, and garden at a time.
“Everyone thought it would create gridlock.” It didn’t. “It’s difficult to imagine that just over 20 years ago, this was an elevated highway carrying 168k cars daily through South Korea’s capital.” Now it’s a world famous people-place. They’ve since removed 16 more elevated highways in the city.
‘Everyone thought it would cause gridlock’: the highway that Seoul turned into a stream
Cheonggyecheon stream in the South Korean capital has become an attraction – and helps with flood management, fighting air pollution and cooling the city
theguardian.com
A rational, credible audience wouldn’t have been “awkwardly silent.” A rational, credible audience would have booed, and walked out. Staying silent as Trump attacks female reporters has been one of the biggest failures of a consistently failing American media.
The Daily Beast@thedailybeast.bsky.social · 2w agoTrump was met with awkward silence as he used a speech that was supposed to celebrate press freedom to attack a female reporter.
Riding bikes is 10X more important than electric cars for reaching net-zero cities. And that’s just the climate emissions. Doesn’t include the massive public & personal cost difference, the air & noise pollution difference, the massive space difference, etc, etc…Via @theconversation.bsky.social
Cycling is ten times more important than electric cars for reaching net-zero cities
Active travel can help tackle the climate crisis earlier than electric vehicles – even if you swap the car for a bike for just one trip a day.
theconversation.com
#Winnipeg I'm frustrated by the Mayor's response to homelessness & addiction & the explosion of open drug use www.winnipegfreepress.com/breakingnews... My thoughts are informed by understanding the present is the result of people's past imaginations that they worked to make a reality. 1/9
West Broadway residents demand Winnipeg mayor take action on drug crisis
The laughter of children playing outside has been replaced by open drug use, vandalism and incidents of theft that have put residents of West Broadway on edge.
winnipegfreepress.com
Patty Thille@pattythille.bsky.social · last mo.I've been imagining what #Winnipeg could be, with a municipal election this fall. Ruha Benjamin's book, Imagination: A Manifesto stresses that we live in the products of people's imagination. So we need to strengthen & bring into reality our own.
When it comes to designing cities for biking and walking, Ghent Belgium may still not be as well known as Copenhagen, Amsterdam or Paris yet, but it’s one of the most inspiring cities in the world. I was honoured to do some work with them in 2019. Watch @streetfilms.bsky.social’s fantastic video:
Ghent Kicked Out the Cars So You Can Walk, Bike, Live & Thrive in the City (Velo-City 2024)
YouTube video by Streetfilms®
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Analysis: • Decent turnout for a byelection • Easy NDP hold • PCs underperform even with low expectations • Daudrich and Keystone fail to make an impact - and that in itself is a consolation prize for PCs
Kory Teneycke on Pierre Poilievre: “When you elect leaders who are completely and utterly unaccomplished prior to entering politics and who have entered politics in their 20s, you are going to be very vulnerable to running against somebody who has actually done something with their life.” #CdnPoli
Shannon Proudfoot@sproudfoot.bsky.social · 2w agoThis headline in the normally polite and technical Hill Times is quite something. www.hilltimes.com/2026/07/20/i...
This is terrible news. The number of drivers that just fling their doors open in my path is a reason I take the lane. My heart goes out to this man's family.
Vision Zero Kjipuktuk-Halifax@visionzerokh.bsky.social · 2w agoAnother tragic fatality. RIP. We are aware of three senior vulnerable road users this year in HRM who died whilst walking, cycling or riding. We need a reaction, and a genuine commitment to harm reduction www.ctvnews.ca/atlantic/nov...
⚡️Russian attacks kill 20, injure over 140 across Ukraine as missiles slam Kyiv, Kharkiv. Hours after the attack on Kyiv, a Russian missile strike hit Ukrainian postal giant Nova Poshta's terminal in the suburbs of Kharkiv, killing at least four people and injuring at least 19, authorities said.
Russian attacks kill 20, injure over 140 across Ukraine as missiles slam Kyiv, Kharkiv
Hours after the attack on Kyiv, a Russian missile strike hit Ukrainian postal giant Nova Poshta's terminal in the suburbs of Kharkiv, killing at least four people and injuring at least 19, authorities...
kyivindependent.com
Excuse the fuck me? They are using AI to put Black prisoners in conditions of greater torture in Canada? Does AI do anything that's not violently antiblack? @hypervisible.blacksky.app
The Breach@breachmedia.ca · 3w agoOntario jails are using an AI tool that claims to predict prisoners’ behaviour. And it’s disproportionately placing Black prisoners in maximum security. An investigation by @desmondcole.bsky.social reveals the province knew the tool would discriminate against Black people—and used it anyway.
IMO car dependent places are awful for raising kids (I was raised in one). You turn into an Uber driver for your own kids or they’re stuck at home. I’m raising my kids in a city where we have everything we need close by and freedom to choose how we get around: walking, biking, transit or driving.
“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
Oyer: "2 days after Blanche was confirmed as deputy AG, he fired me from my position as DOJ's career pardon attorney. I declined to rubber stamp a favor for a friend of the president, and it cost me my job. Mr Blanche's office had asked me to restore the gun rights of a convicted domestic abuser..."
Spotted a driver using his phone yesterday. He then pulled forward at the lights to tell me I should be wearing a helmet. Which is why the footage got uploaded to Northumbria police just now.
As @mjhaugen.bsky.social discussed with @premthakker.bsky.social, the buildout of data centers has coincided with both weakened environmental regulation and enforcement. We cover this in more detail here: stopgreedbuildgreen.climateandcommunity.org/posts/ai-first
Reuters@reuters.com · 3w agoElon Musk's xAI has installed more than double the number of gas turbines than it has publicly acknowledged to power its Colossus 2 data center project, without federal permits, and the pollution is hitting predominantly Black neighborhoods the hardest reut.rs/4bIghEm
AI is learning to lie — and then gaslight you about it. Researchers found that when AI models are gently nudged with false information, they’ll often invent details, defend the falsehood and stick to it even after being corrected. tcnv.link/oWfqz9R
This is just the most bullshit framing for pro-fossil fuel, anti-climate action conservative policy.
Scott Robertson@sarobertson.bsky.social · last mo.Carney: The climate plan we inherited from the previous government was well-intentioned and well-suited for the times in which it was designed ... In the current environment, the old plan was an open opportunity for those people who wish to pull Canada apart, both at home and from abroad.
This is what it looks like to take wildlife collisions seriously. There are >40 wildlife overpasses and underpasses with fencing along the Trans-Canada Highway near Banff, Alberta. They’ve reduced wildlife-vehicle collisions by 80%, saving human & animal lives while promoting connected ecosystems.
Obviously this is a dipshit opinion. But since I sometimes see people on the left rolling their eyes about those signs, I just want you all to know that the other night some lost Black teens came to our house after taking the wrong bus and we were able to get them home. Why’d they pick us? Signs.
FactPost@factpostnews.bsky.social · last mo.Vance: People hang out those hideous signs in their yard that say, "in this house we believe blah blah blah blah blah. You know, love is love, science is science, whatever. No person is illegal." That sign is such a disgusting butchering of the Nicene Creed
There is still time to register for our webinar on Switzerland's Federal Act on Cycle Routes. Monday, 29 June 2026 | 12:15–13:15 | Online via Microsoft Teams Language: German & French More information about the webinar, the speakers, and registration can be found here: buff.ly/T4vw00C
