Stochastic Parrot 🇨🇦

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Retired technical writer / voice&data comms sales / violinist 🎻 "Ah, but a man's screech should exceed his rasp, or what's a violin for?" Nasty Canadian™ 🏳️‍🌈Toronto mid-town, cat lover 🐱, curler 🥌, sometime cyclist 🚲 Born at 312.2 ppm NEVER VOTE CONSERVATIVE

I, in turn, disagree. The biggest problem with our transit is the idea that subways are the only acceptable form of it. Want to get from city to city? That's what regional transit is for. GO rail and bus services need to improved massively rather than just building the subway farther and farther out

JackTatt 🇨🇦@jacktatttran.bsky.social · 2d ago

I disagree. The biggest problem with our transit is the fractured thinking. We can and should expand subway capacity both within Toronto (like extending the Ontario Line west) and outside Toronto to surrounding dense suburbs to support regional transportation needs. The funding can be figured out.

One’s hardly ever a single issue voter. But rightwing nutbar Toronto mayoralty candidate Brad Bradford has pledged to rip out bike lanes. That means one’s vote this fall goes automatically to Ms Chow. 🤷🏼😠🤷🏼 #topoli

In New York, as air pollution fell, the toddlers' cognitive processing improved, the study found. In London, ULEZ coincided with improved lung health in children. When elected representatives take action to clean up air, our children benefit from better health: share.google/rnnWnmxNOzWF...

Improved air quality linked to better mental development in toddlers, study finds

Long-term research in New York shows efforts to reduce air pollution associated with higher cognitive test scores

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In between the rounds of applause for being the new "leader of the free world" standing up to Trump's authoritarianism, the Carney government continues a trend of restricting Canadians' rights and concentrating authority in the hands of a few cabinet ministers. www.cbc.ca/news/politic... #CdnPoli

Liberals looking to give minister explicit authority to end strikes: sources | CBC News

The Liberal government's marquee fall legislation is expected to strengthen a controversial section of the Labour Code, two senior government sources tell CBC News.

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Deep in Scotland's Pentland Firth, a grid scale tidal turbine at the MeyGen site just set a massive milestone: over 6.5 years of continuous operation without a single unplanned maintenance stop. ​Operating 40 meters underwater in one of the fastest tidal currents on Earth.

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