Good time to re-up: the Tumbler Ridge newspaper is literally one person who is doing his best to update his community while grieving along with them. One-time donations can be etransferred to publisher@tumblerridgelines.com or ongoing via
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I was on a resort snorkeling day trip in the Maldives and the voice of the woman behind me was familiar but I couldn’t place it. I eventually clued in. It was Kate Winslet. Both in snorkel masks, we shared a small smile before she went in the water.
It’s a shame that despite being the single largest line item in the City of Toronto budget the Toronto Police Headquarters can’t afford to clear their snow within the by-law mandated time limit
immigrants score the lowest on tests, but they also take all our jobs, while at the same time taking all the welfare and buying all the homes
It’s a “shared responsibility”
Ya, it’s 5% the people outside the car and 95% the people driving +4,000 lb vehicles while searching Google Maps on their phones
I can’t think of a more existential threat to journalism right now than AI-generated content masking as original reporting. Once the well is poisoned we’re all toast. @thelocal.to is taking a stance with our new AI policy. thelocal.to/ai-policy/
‘Ontario recorded the highest number of wait-list deaths: 10,634, including more than 9,100 diagnostic-scan deaths where patients died before reaching the point of receiving or being scheduled for surgery’
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Every office has an executive tier whose emails are like:
saw on news , , can we replce complianc dept with web 3
and a worker tier whose emails are like:
Dear Jim,
First of all, I *love* this idea! Unfortunately, I spoke with Legal and identified a few issues with this approach. For starters…
That’ll be a few stops on an eglinton crosstown considering how inflated & delayed our public projects are.
If the Rogers Centre had a parking lot that covered the same surface area as the Dodgers' parking lot, it would stretch from Queen Street on one end to the Lake Ontario waterfront on the other
Alejandro Kirk takes a hack for the fences. He looks beautiful
I know a lot of people talk about "Ken Griffey's swing", "John Olerud's swing" but for my money there is nothing more beautiful than Alejandro Kirk:
- 5'7 and built like a Welsh corgi
- basically drops halfway into a splits on each swing
- each swing is a Street Fighter "Shooooryuken" uppercut
We used to only have our song. Take me out to the ballgame is a relatively new addition
Good video with I think a lot of applicability to say, Ward 9 - Davenport in Toronto. But I had to fight incredible amounts of jealousy watching the mayor of the borough just straight forwardly expressing support for bike lanes and road redesigns and a desire to keep going proactively.
Toronto could use more of this. There are plenty of back lanes where it could work.
Photo of traffic on the Gardiner Expressway.
Because the average car only has about 1.5 people in it, the number of people in each lane of this photo can fit in a single TTC streetcar.
Palestinians have had to cope with the sound of Israeli drones overhead for years before Israel’s current war on Gaza.
I’m not defending Air Canada by any means, but unpaid crew labour is industry standard. Only Delta pays crew for pre departure time, and only an hour at that. AC’s union could set an industry-wide precedent with this negotiation.
1. Ask City to install traffic light
2. Hear traffic engineer explain why it “isn’t warranted” (not enough people using it)
3. Someone (or someone ELSE) is killed there
4. Traffic light finally installed
What @dylanreid.bsky.social calls the “Pedestrian Blood Sacrifice” in @spacing.bsky.social.
The fight for #BikeTO is more than just bike lanes.
"Here in Toronto, we’re riding on a fragile assumption: that the people fixing our bikes and a growing fleet of complex e-bikes will always be around, available, and properly trained. That assumption does not hold up to scrutiny."
MSN once famously published an AI-generated list of the top 10 places for tourists to visit in Ottawa and included a food bank on the list.
Something not limited to Sean Duffy is how people will get into their cars and think nothing of the risk they face of death or injury, which is several orders of magnitude greater than your risk of being hurt on public transit. Driving a car is the most dangerous thing most people do each day.
Screenshot from phone weather app that says: 2 Severe Weather Alerts Heat Warning Air Quality Warning
Today, Toronto is experiencing both a heat warning *and* an air quality warning because forest fires.
If your home has no indoor cooling, what are you supposed to do?
Green buildings and eliminating fossil fuels is no longer a nice-to-have. We need action or this will get worse.
#topoli #onpoli
Drivers really feel like they have a God given right to break the speed limit. www.insauga.com/petition-cal...
Watching @toronto.ca Council it’s not hard to see why municipal government is the most important. Council makes the decisions that affect your everyday life from garbage collection, road maintenance, schools, public safety and so much more. Next election please vote. #CityofTO #tocouncil
Ford knows better to focus on 3 bike lanes in Toronto
a graph of NYC approval of congestion pricing rising from 27% to 50%
It's insane how much more popular NYC's congestion pricing got when it was implemented and people started actually seeing it work
Toronto needs better transit leaders who envision a city with world class transit, and think a lot about how to deliver that.
Activists in Italy float a life-size mannequin of Jeff Bezos lying on a giant Amazon box through Venice’s Grand Canal, in protest of the billionaire’s upcoming wedding.
On the last day of school, instead of thanking teachers and staff for a successful year, Paul Calandra announced he’s taking control of four school boards.
Just thought I’d mention it in case you were ever in doubt about how Conservatives view public education and the important work educators do.
This is the fact missing from 96% of the news articles I read about the controversy over automated speed cameras: Automated speed cameras save lives.
