We're doing this about Bloor? Again? Reject the culture war. www.cycleto.ca/defendbloor

That's a good idea. I should have a city map handy, give them a pencil & ask them to mark routes where I can get where I'm going. They usually say to take side roads, but as you said our destinations are pretty much the same as drivers but we don't require as much space and we stop more often.

Matt Elliott@graphicmatt.com · 2w ago

Bradford also does the bike-lanes-belong-on-side-streets thing. Would be great if proponents of this kind of thinking could show us a map. Which streets? How do they lead to a cycling network that’s actually useful? Aren’t a lot of the places that cyclists want to get to on main streets?

The Canadian Women’s Chamber of Commerce submitted a “Care Economy” proposal to the Federal Major Projects Office, arguing that “childcare, elder care, home care, mental.. The Government Declined to Review Canada's National Care Economy Proposal. Read and sign the petition: canwcc.ca/mpo-proposal/

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NATION-BUILDING PROJECT PROPOSAL & PETITIONCanada's Missing Major Project: A National Care Economy Strategy SIGN THE PETITIONClick the button below to read and sign the e-Petition. It takes two minute...

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Meanwhile, in Canadian mainstream media.... I searched CTV News, CBC News, Global News and the Globe and Mail for any coverage of Shopify in the last 24 hours. Nothing (except business reporting from the Globe, nothing on the CEO suggesting poor people should have less of a say in our democracy)

Rachel Gilmore@rachelgilmore.bsky.social · 4w ago

Very cool that Shopify’s CEO thinks the poor should have far less of a vote than the rich. Still worth that ad read money, folks?

There is a way of thinking taking hold in this country — that building a stronger Canada means walking away from our climate commitments. Abandoning our climate commitments will not make Canada stronger. You cannot build a stronger country on the ashes of its communities.

Next time someone tries arguing that it’s “social engineering” (cue ominous music) to give people more CHOICE to walk, bike & take public transit in their city, tell them that designing our current car DEPENDENCY has been the largest and most damaging social engineering experiment in human history.

"... the Neanderthals of Shanidar Cave appreciated the intrinsic value of a person - outside of how much they worked or what it cost to keep them. If we are more 'evolved,' how come we haven’t figured out the same thing when it comes to the disadvantaged among us?" www.therecord.com/opinion/cont...

Can we really call ourselves evolved?

According to the Association of Municipalities of Ontario, nearly 85,000 Ontarians experienced homelessness in 2025.

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I'm really tired of seeing important, preventative and compassionate care being underfunded while our police budget grows by the millions every year. www.instagram.com/shorecentrew...

A reminder that having a public broadcaster like the CBC is an important staple that we should be happy to fund so we don't leave our local journalism to the whims and profit-making decisions of private companies like Rogers. #LocalJournalismMatters

Melissa Bowman@dtkmelissa.bsky.social · 2mo ago

Rogers Sports & Media is cutting 230 positions across the division as it announces it’s shuttering six radio stations, including 570 news Kitchener. broadcastdialogue.com/rogers-sport...

While #WRPS has started collecting for its annual backpack campaign, I want to remind everyone that there are great local community-led, police-free organizations already doing similar work. If you're interested in donating to a backpack campaign this year, please consider Send'em Off Smiling.

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Send’em Off Smiling – Kitchener-Waterloo Charity Supporting children in need Send’em Off Smiling is a registered charity in Kitchener-Waterloo dedicated to helping children in need through our impactf...

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We've chosen solutions from the past that we know destroy our environment and quality of life. We should be striving to be a world leader in green energy. That's a better, sustainable future for all.

In Mark Carney's latest "Forward guidance," he claims that we need oil and gas development in the short term to "establish stability amidst this chaos." I worry that stability is hard to find in the current climate chaos. The thermometer is telling us that we have run out of time.

Net Zero in 2050 is meaningless; this heat tells us that we have to cut carbon emissions now.

Prime Minister Mark Carney is trying to thread his way through short-term crises, but it will bite him in the long run.

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He says it would be too expensive to meet our climate targets…so who is saving money when we don’t? The people whose houses burn down in forest fires? Those who lose homes to flooding? The people who die in heat domes?

Rachel Gilmore@rachelgilmore.bsky.social · 2mo ago

This is what the entire video is intended to couch. It’s the only part that matters. “We can’t afford to restrain the growth of an important part of our energy mix, oil and gas, to meet a short term goal,” Carney said. “Our emissions will be higher in the next few years”

"We must establish stability amidst this chaos." As floods, fires, droughts and storms ravage the planet. Sure. Stability amongst the chaos. You do that.

And PM Carney... because you don't understand this, or choose not to understand this, I don't trust you at all on this issue. You can't fix social issues with technology. And you can't ignore social issues by focusing on the technology.

I appreciate former Regional Councillor Tom Galloway calling out the nonsensical nature of a Justice Centre being police-led, instead of community-led by groups such as Community Justice Initiatives.

Kitchener Council is voting on Kitchener 2051 (Official Plan) on June 29th. While the plan calls for some growth in all neighbourhoods, Council seems poised to exempt two neighbourhoods from this citywide growth. Read this week's Citified to find out why I'm concerned about that.

Growing Well...Together?

A closer look at Kitchener's Official Plan and two concerning amendments

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Today, I did not support the appeal of Justice Gibson's ruling on the 100 Victoria encampment for many reasons -- we know what we need to do to get on with Transit Hub construction, while also recognizing a place of last resort.

Disappointed that the Region of Waterloo and Ontario governments are appealing the 100 Victoria encampment ruling instead of following the judge's path to address the issues. Ontario's press release: news.ontario.ca/en/release/1... Region's press release:

So speeding is up and now we're spending more money to have expensive police-led traffic enforcement when we could have just had #ASE and used that revenue to build out safer streets across the region. How is this supposed to better? www.cambridgetoday.ca/local-news/s...

$198M / 3,500 parking spots = $56,571 per spot. But no money for affordable housing, healthcare, education, OSAP, and ODSP. Got it.

TheTrillium.ca@thetrillium.bsky.social · 2mo ago

Province to spend $198M on Ontario Place parking garage

Still no word on the state of CSIS and RCMP profits in the last quarter. www.cbc.ca/news/politic...

Canada Post announces 485,000 more addresses to lose home delivery | CBC News

Canada Post has announced nearly half-million addresses that will lose home delivery next year.

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This video camera study showed that less than 5% of people on bikes broke traffic laws while riding bikes, yet 66% of people did so while driving. And perhaps even more importantly, if you REALLY want even MORE bike-riders to obey laws, build more protected bike infrastructure. Via @carltonreid.com

Cyclists Break Far Fewer Road Rules Than Motorists, Finds New Video Study

Busting the myth of the "scofflaw cyclist" Danish Road Directorate studies reveal that while 66% of motorists routinely break road traffic laws only 5% of cyclists do so. Law breaking by cyclists is h...

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“Why don’t cyclists just follow the law!!!” local commentators saying that with a straight face in the same year that speed cameras were literally ripped out of the ground.

Before he ends up back in court, can we please remind Doug that he's had a lot of time to address this issue by funding more housing options in #WatReg? bsky.app/profile/dtkm...

Melissa Bowman@dtkmelissa.bsky.social · 3mo ago

Exactly this. For Doug Ford to call this decision ridiculous, when he, as Premier, pulls the levers that could direct more funding to Waterloo Region to build the affordable housing we so desperately need would be laughable if it weren't so frustrating. #ONpoli

IMPORTANT: The Dutch invested €595 million annually on urban biking, resulting in €19 BILLION saved in public health care costs alone. That’s how smart governments do the math on investing in better mobility. Let’s be clear— it WASTES public money to NOT do it. #CityMakingMath HT @modacitylife.com

This followed a process called "Who Does What". Former Toronto Mayor David Crombie, who chaired the Who Does What panel, said that housing was never intended to be among the responsibilities downloaded. He said that someone in the Cabinet must have come up with the idea "on the back of an envelope".

"One of the unheralded benefits of the speed camera program for municipalities was that the cameras produced timely data about how much speeding was happening, and where. This allowed city hall to target speeding hot spots for infrastructure upgrades like speed bumps or road redesigns."

The Ford government's Bill 98 opens the door to privatize municipal water systems and undermines public trust. Water privatization is a “failed experiment” - we should know better in 2026. I'm proud to vote against Bill 98. #onpoli

"In the long term, the thing that will tie us together isn’t cuts, but spending on ourselves and one another, on what we traditionally and narrowly define as medical care alongside dental care, pharmacare, disability supports, unemployment benefits, and more." -David Moscrop

One Small Trick To Save A Nation

If you want to build a country to stand the test of time, invest in the welfare state.

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