The City of Toronto says the traffic-calming measures needed to replace speed cameras removed by Ford will cost $52 million and take 13 years to install. The passing of Bill 60 (which limits new bike lanes) combined with speed camera removal, is concerning cyclists. For @nationalobserver.com #OnPoli
In Windsor, Premier Doug Ford reminds people to call him, reading out his personal number.
Reminder: The province is appealing against a court ruling which found Ford is using his personal phone for work and should make some records public.#OnPoli
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Can this be true??? “At least 13 hospitals and health facilities hit during attacks on Iran, WHO says” 3/5/26
The deranged fantasies being spun by the Christian Right, are what will lead 🇺🇸 into another multi-trillion dollar disastrous deadly destabilizing war in the Middle East. #JDVance, #PeteHegseth, members of #SCOTUS, the list is long, of Christian nationalist zealots who’ll manufacture a case for war.
Climate breakdown is occurring more rapidly with the heating rate almost doubling, according to research that excludes the effect of natural factors behind the latest scorching temperatures.
#climatecrisis #auspol www.theguardian.com/environment/...
Many people do not realise this.....
Scottish Opera offers hugely discounted tickets to people under the age of 26. In fact most of the theatres here do, usually for around £10. Which means you could see a whole live show for less than the cost of a ticket to one of Timothee Chalamet’s films. Just saying.
DHS nominee Markwayne Mullin is one of the most active stock-traders in the Senate — and violated the STOCK Act against insider trading as recently as last August.
He currently holds stock in L3Harris, which has millions in contracts with ICE and FEMA.
The grift continues.
b/w sticker on a green pole WEVE MADE IT SO THAT AUTOMOBILES CAN GO EVERYWHERE AT THE EXPENSE OF CHILDREN GOING ANYWHERE ROVÉLO CREATIVE
The Expense.
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Wide protected bike-lane filled with people riding bikes in central Paris. #UrbanBiking #UrbanTruth
Paris urban biking investment helps cut pollution in half: “Between 2005 and 2024, levels of nitrogen dioxide and fine particulate matter — 2 of the most harmful pollutants to human health — have been slashed by 50% and 55%, respectively.” Via @momentummag.bsky.social momentummag.com/paris-proves...
SCOOP: An internal DHS document obtained by 404 Media shows for the first time CBP used location data sourced from the online advertising industry to track phone locations.
This surveillance can happen through all sorts of apps, such as video games, news apps, weather trackers, and dating apps.
At Queen’s Park on Tuesday, advocates called on the province to reform a liability ecosystem that they say pushes private contractors to overuse salt in winter, driving up costs and contaminating waterways in an effort to avoid injury. For @nationalobserver.com
This follows a story I put out last week, which digs into the impact of salt on Toronto's waterways. For the story, I got salt figures from the city going back to the 80s: nearly five million tonnes of salt over the past four decades.
Chilling article from @rorywh.bsky.social. A new tool is being marketed by a little-known Israeli company (LogiVote) to Cdn political strategists + elected officials. You'll need to read the story to get the full rundown, but the tool uses *real voters* armed with AI-generated social media messages.
My latest story is out. Bots get banned on social media.
The workaround? Real humans posting AI-generated messages in a gamified system, coordinated by an AI command centre. And it's being offered to your local town councillor.
www.nationalobserver.com/2026/02/24/i...
“Almost all of the most viral posts reviewed by WIRED on Saturday came from accounts with blue check marks, meaning they…could be eligible to earn money based on how much engagement their posts generate, even if the content is false.”
From @davidgilbert.bsky.social
Just posting this again because I see a lot of earnest conversation on here about Trump not having a plan for "what next" in Iran....and also because @jennycohn.bsky.social is always many steps ahead of anyone else. Pahlavi was also featured on 60 Minutes tonight.....
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"American innovation" now refers to making a kind of atrocity cronut by combining insider trading with war crimes.
NEW, from me: I talked to Aliya Rahman, who was dragged out of Tuesday's State of the Union + arrested for... standing up.
Really.
Rahman, who is autistic and has disabilities, was a guest of Rep. Ilhan Omar + was previously brutally detained by ICE in Minneapolis. www.huffpost.com/entry/aliya-...
Seems that both Israel AND Palantir co-founder Joe Lonsdale are fans of Reza Pahlavi, the exiled Crown Prince of Iran… 1/
By the Israeli's own admission, recent negotiations were a ruse and there was never interest in a deal. Iran, per Oman, was willing to swear off enriched uranium stockpiling, which is essentially what America wants.
The point of the war is to wage war.
Rising global carbon dioxide levels can now be detected in human blood.
Governments continue to let oil and gas companies poison their constituents even as fuel-free energy like wind, solar, and battery storage has become the cheapest form of generating power in human history.
Colin Jost: "This attack might be a bad idea, I don't know. I'm not really an expert on Iran. So let's hear from someone who can explain why we might have done it." 😂
#SNL
'Bored Of Peace': Trump, Hegseth Scramble To Justify Iran Strikes In 'SNL' Cold Open
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"The Peace President." [Cartoon by Benjamin Slyngstad]
