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Benoît Chamontin ✌️❤️🇨🇦

@bchamontin.bsky.social
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FR - ENG De la mobilité, du sport, de la politique et bien d'autres choses de la vie Fier Marseillais à Montréal 💙 / Gestionnaire @ Logement et Infrastructure Canada / 🌈

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Benoît Chamontin ✌️❤️🇨🇦 @bchamontin.bsky.social · 06/08/2026
@cyclefunmontreal.bsky.social you have a new place to try... The new bike path between Brossard and the one already opened on the Samuel De Champlain Bridge just opened this afternoon 😁
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Benoît Chamontin ✌️❤️🇨🇦 @bchamontin.bsky.social · 05/08/2026
"Sometimes cause and effect is blindingly clear. Such is the case in Ontario, which last year banned speed cameras that ticket drivers who break the posted limit. [...] Nine months later, the impact is apparent: Outlawing Ontario’s speed safety cameras has triggered an explosion of urban speeding"
bloomberg.com
What Happens When Speed Cameras Get Shut Off
In 2025, Ontario banned automated traffic enforcement. Now the number of drivers exceeding the speed limit has surged, according to traffic data.
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Benoît Chamontin ✌️❤️🇨🇦 @bchamontin.bsky.social · 05/08/2026
"Sometimes cause and effect is blindingly clear. Such is the case in Ontario, which last year banned speed cameras that ticket drivers who break the posted limit. [...] Nine months later, the impact is apparent: Outlawing Ontario’s speed safety cameras has triggered an explosion of urban speeding"
bloomberg.com
What Happens When Speed Cameras Get Shut Off
In 2025, Ontario banned automated traffic enforcement. Now the number of drivers exceeding the speed limit has surged, according to traffic data.
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Benoît Chamontin ✌️❤️🇨🇦 @bchamontin.bsky.social · 27/07/2026
"We know what prevents deaths of people cycling, it’s the same thing that will shift people from “interested but concerned” to choose cycling: high-quality cycling infrastructure like protected bike lanes. The only thing standing in the way of us having that is political will [...]"
thecoast.ca
Cycling infrastructure saves lives - The Coast | News, events, restaurants, concerts and Burger Week for Halifax, Nova Scotia
When I opened Instagram on Monday night and saw the screenshot saying that a person cycling had been killed in Halifax, I felt deeply sad, but I was also angry. Many people I know and care about have ...
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Benoît Chamontin ✌️❤️🇨🇦 @bchamontin.bsky.social · 19/07/2026
"Keeping people divided is useful for some political interests, but it doesn’t help any of us get around any quicker or reduce traffic. We should resist being forced into a specific identity: we’re all just commuters, in it together, but using different kinds of transportation."
thestar.com
Shawn Micallef: I’m a cyclist, I’m a driver, I’m a TTC rider. Stop making me pick sides, just make it easier to get around
Cyclists, drivers, TTC riders and pedestrians can unite in service of a better commute
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Benoît Chamontin ✌️❤️🇨🇦 @bchamontin.bsky.social · 17/07/2026
"Cities need planting strategies tailored to local conditions rather than universal greening formulas [...] The findings also suggest cities should move beyond measuring success through tree numbers alone. The arrangement, density and type of vegetation matter just as much as canopy cover."
theconversation.com
Trees and greenery can cool cities by as much as 18°C – but only if they’re the right type
A new study has shown that more vegetation is not automatically better.
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Benoît Chamontin ✌️❤️🇨🇦 @bchamontin.bsky.social · 14/07/2026
Very interesting tool by @cjlm.ca to map the walkability of cities across Canada : aportee.ca You can select different types of amenities (grocery, library, hospital, park...) and visualize its accessibility on foot. For now it seems that there is no option to show by bike or public transit.
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Benoît Chamontin ✌️❤️🇨🇦 @bchamontin.bsky.social · 19/07/2026
"Keeping people divided is useful for some political interests, but it doesn’t help any of us get around any quicker or reduce traffic. We should resist being forced into a specific identity: we’re all just commuters, in it together, but using different kinds of transportation."
thestar.com
Shawn Micallef: I’m a cyclist, I’m a driver, I’m a TTC rider. Stop making me pick sides, just make it easier to get around
Cyclists, drivers, TTC riders and pedestrians can unite in service of a better commute
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Benoît Chamontin ✌️❤️🇨🇦 @bchamontin.bsky.social · 17/07/2026
"Cities need planting strategies tailored to local conditions rather than universal greening formulas [...] The findings also suggest cities should move beyond measuring success through tree numbers alone. The arrangement, density and type of vegetation matter just as much as canopy cover."
theconversation.com
Trees and greenery can cool cities by as much as 18°C – but only if they’re the right type
A new study has shown that more vegetation is not automatically better.
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Peter Norton @norton.bsky.social · 16/07/2026
Measuring passing distances on 8,753 occasions in which a motorist overtook a bicyclist, Laura Hamm and Marty Miller found that “painted bicycle lanes were associated with reduced passing distance and higher passing speed.” ...
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Benoît Chamontin ✌️❤️🇨🇦 @bchamontin.bsky.social · 14/07/2026
Very interesting tool by @cjlm.ca to map the walkability of cities across Canada : aportee.ca You can select different types of amenities (grocery, library, hospital, park...) and visualize its accessibility on foot. For now it seems that there is no option to show by bike or public transit.
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Benoît Chamontin ✌️❤️🇨🇦 @bchamontin.bsky.social · 14/07/2026
“Most Canadians are exposed to Ultrafine particles (UFPs) on a daily basis and these pollutants are not currently regulated, despite growing evidence linking them to increased mortality risk [...] While air quality regulations have reduced many pollutants, UFPs are not currently regulated"
mcgill.ca
Reducing vehicle emissions could prevent thousands of deaths in Canada
A shift to cleaner transportation could prevent more than 3,600 premature deaths in Montreal and Toronto by reducing ultrafine particle pollution, finds a new study led by McGill researchers. Ultrafin...
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Benoît Chamontin ✌️❤️🇨🇦 @bchamontin.bsky.social · 06/07/2026
“Extreme events are so far outside anything we have expected [...] It’s not so important whether it’s what we expected as experts. It’s whether it’s what we expect as people on the ground.” Extreme Heat Isn’t the Only Climate Impact Shocking Scientists : www.bloomberg.com/graphics/202...
Chart Showing That Global Warming Has Sped Up in Recent Years when comparing 2010 - 2026 earth's temperature to 1850-1900 avergae.

The recent warming trend is on a steeper trajectory, but still withing the range of decades-old projections.

Source: Berkeley Earth Note: Observed temperature is through May 2026. Projected temperatures rely on CMIP3 model 5th to 95th percentile trends.Bar chart shows that temperatures reach new highs while new lows become rare. 

Ratio of hot to cold records has steeply risen since the 1970s. Record heat is now four times more frequent than expected without climate change. Cold records are half as common.

Source: Fischer, Erich M. (2025). Record-breaking extremes in a warming climate, Nature
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Benoît Chamontin ✌️❤️🇨🇦 @bchamontin.bsky.social · 06/07/2026
“Extreme events are so far outside anything we have expected [...] It’s not so important whether it’s what we expected as experts. It’s whether it’s what we expect as people on the ground.” Extreme Heat Isn’t the Only Climate Impact Shocking Scientists : www.bloomberg.com/graphics/202...
Chart Showing That Global Warming Has Sped Up in Recent Years when comparing 2010 - 2026 earth's temperature to 1850-1900 avergae.

The recent warming trend is on a steeper trajectory, but still withing the range of decades-old projections.

Source: Berkeley Earth Note: Observed temperature is through May 2026. Projected temperatures rely on CMIP3 model 5th to 95th percentile trends.Bar chart shows that temperatures reach new highs while new lows become rare. 

Ratio of hot to cold records has steeply risen since the 1970s. Record heat is now four times more frequent than expected without climate change. Cold records are half as common.

Source: Fischer, Erich M. (2025). Record-breaking extremes in a warming climate, Nature
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Richard Waite @waiterich.bsky.social · 03/07/2026
Scientists being criticized for bias when they speak up for their science in policy arenas is how you get to science no longer informing policy
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I Travel Like Sound Dog @chadstanton.blacksky.app · 29/06/2026
It’s weird to be clearly living through exactly what was warned about with global warming and still have the concept treated as a future event or hypothetical.
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Clément Gaillard @clementgaillard.bsky.social · 28/06/2026
«La voiture réchauffe plus les villes que la climatisation» Depuis quelques jours, j’entends de plus en plus cet argument pour nuancer les rejets de chaleur des climatiseurs. Qu’est-ce qu’en dit la littérature sur le sujet ? UN FIL 1/19
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Benoît Chamontin ✌️❤️🇨🇦 @bchamontin.bsky.social · 14/06/2026
"The last decade has taught us that we have to build our own spaces, protect our own spaces, and use our own spaces to organize. We can’t depend on the “fair-weather” allies who join us at happy hour but vote against us at the polls."
truthout.org
10 Years After Pulse, Protecting Queer Spaces Is Critical for Liberation
LGBTQIA+ bars are places to dance and drink, but they are also sites for building our futures.
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Benoît Chamontin ✌️❤️🇨🇦 @bchamontin.bsky.social · 14/06/2026
"The last decade has taught us that we have to build our own spaces, protect our own spaces, and use our own spaces to organize. We can’t depend on the “fair-weather” allies who join us at happy hour but vote against us at the polls."
truthout.org
10 Years After Pulse, Protecting Queer Spaces Is Critical for Liberation
LGBTQIA+ bars are places to dance and drink, but they are also sites for building our futures.
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Benoît Chamontin ✌️❤️🇨🇦 @bchamontin.bsky.social · 18/05/2026
"Cities can start with paint and posts to establish a basic network quickly, demonstrate usage, and then harden high-priority segments with concrete as funding allows. This staged approach gets more streets safer for everyone sooner rather than delaying everything for premium designs."
fastcompany.com
When it comes to road safety, quick-build strategies may be better than ‘perfect’ solutions
A case in point: ‘road diets.’
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Benoît Chamontin ✌️❤️🇨🇦 @bchamontin.bsky.social · 21/05/2026
"The real challenge is ­building cities where people have ­multiple viable ­transportation choices [...] When every single person must drive for nearly every activity, congestion is not a bug in the system; it is the inevitable outcome of the system itself."
timescolonist.com
Comment: Cities need multiple ways for people to get around
Cars consume an extraordinary amount of urban space, both while moving and while parked.
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Benoît Chamontin ✌️❤️🇨🇦 @bchamontin.bsky.social · 18/05/2026
"Cities can start with paint and posts to establish a basic network quickly, demonstrate usage, and then harden high-priority segments with concrete as funding allows. This staged approach gets more streets safer for everyone sooner rather than delaying everything for premium designs."
fastcompany.com
When it comes to road safety, quick-build strategies may be better than ‘perfect’ solutions
A case in point: ‘road diets.’
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Benoît Chamontin ✌️❤️🇨🇦 @bchamontin.bsky.social · 16/05/2026
Trying the new branch of @remgrandmtl.bsky.social in Montreal before its official opening tomorrow. Nice to meet some contacts there. It is very interesting to see how the global public transit network changed those last few years in Montreal despite all the challenges (and attacks) it is facing.
Stamped REM passport held inside the new Des Sources station in MontrealPeople gathered at the front of a REM wagonSomeone standing at the front of a REM wagon while taking a picture of the track
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Benoît Chamontin ✌️❤️🇨🇦 @bchamontin.bsky.social · 15/04/2026
Artemis II inspired everyone at so many levels. This should not make us forget the current attacks on science and the need to continue to fight for science. "Without science, the stunning images of Earth from space are only pretty pictures. We all deserve so much more." - @drkatemarvel.bsky.social
nytimes.com
Opinion | NASA Flew by the Moon, but Behind the Scenes, Its Science Is a Chaotic Mess
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Benoît Chamontin ✌️❤️🇨🇦 @bchamontin.bsky.social · 15/04/2026
Artemis II inspired everyone at so many levels. This should not make us forget the current attacks on science and the need to continue to fight for science. "Without science, the stunning images of Earth from space are only pretty pictures. We all deserve so much more." - @drkatemarvel.bsky.social
nytimes.com
Opinion | NASA Flew by the Moon, but Behind the Scenes, Its Science Is a Chaotic Mess
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Benoît Chamontin ✌️❤️🇨🇦 @bchamontin.bsky.social · 04/04/2026
"One of the biggest problem we have in transportation planning in Canada is that we don't view our transportation modes as a comprehensive network" - @jedwinmok.com Nice to see @cbcnews.ca with @hudsonyuen.bsky.social for a video on what to learn from Copenhagen’s public transit solutions.
youtube.com
Canada’s flawed transit (and what we can learn from Copenhagen)
YouTube video by CBC
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Benoît Chamontin ✌️❤️🇨🇦 @bchamontin.bsky.social · 14/03/2026
"That may be the most important lesson about local speed mitigation tactics. These moves can clearly save lives; researchers don’t doubt their effectiveness. Even better, many residents are eager to see them implemented. The missing link: policymakers courageous enough to do the right thing."
bloomberg.com
The Best Tactics for Tackling Speeders
Drivers who exceed speed limits are the cause of about one-third of all crash deaths in the US. To slow them down and save lives, cities have several effective tools.
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Benoît Chamontin ✌️❤️🇨🇦 @bchamontin.bsky.social · 07/03/2026
"Canada and Mexico must urgently break the chain of deepened integration with the U.S., as the latter has proven to be driven by violence, openly hostile to regulation, dismissive of international norms and indifferent to the deleterious cross-border consequences of its policies."
rabble.ca
Trade without accountability, pollution without borders
No executive — in Washington, Ottawa or elsewhere — should have the unilateral power to dismantle protections, bypass accountability.
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Auschwitz Memorial @auschwitzmemorial.bsky.social · 27/01/2026
Auschwitz was at the end of a process. We must remember that it did not start from gas chambers. This hatred gradually developed: from ideas, words, stereotypes & prejudice through legal exclusion, dehumanization & escalating violence... to systematic and industrial murder. Auschwitz took time.
A bird's-eye view of a former Auschwitz II-Birkenau camp showing a wide dirt pathway flanked by parallel rows of barbed-wire fences. Groups of visitors walk along the path, surrounded by the remnants of brick structures and barracks, now reduced to foundations. Green grass contrasts with the somber history of the site, as the path leads toward a guard tower in the distance.
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Benoît Chamontin ✌️❤️🇨🇦 @bchamontin.bsky.social · 26/08/2025
“Europe now risks being flooded with oversized, under-regulated U.S. pick-up trucks and SUVs – vehicles that are heavier, more dangerous to other car drivers, pedestrians and cyclists, and completely out of step with Europe’s vision for safer, more sustainable mobility.”
etsc.eu
ETSC: Mutual Recognition Deal with U.S. Will Cost Lives on Europe’s Roads
By signing up to mutual recognition of vehicle standards with the United States, the European Union has waved the white flag on road safety. This is not a technical detail – it is a political choice…
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Benoît Chamontin ✌️❤️🇨🇦 @bchamontin.bsky.social · 20/08/2025
"The study introduces a new measure called the Equal Infrastructure Allocation (EIA) score, which compares how much dedicated infrastructure space is available per traveler, for different modes of transport."
mcgill.ca
Study finds Montreal cycling infrastructure doesn’t match demand
Bike lanes, BIXI stations and other micromobility infrastructure make up just two per cent of Montreal’s street space – even in neighbourhoods where cycling demand would justify more – according to a ...
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Benoît Chamontin ✌️❤️🇨🇦 @bchamontin.bsky.social · 12/06/2025
"Overall, limiting bonnet height is part of wider effort to discourage carspreading, which, intended or otherwise, amounts to a multi-pronged attack on public space, public safety and the common good that is steadily being advanced by the manufacturers of the biggest SUVs in particular."
transportenvironment.org
Ever-higher: the rise of bonnet height, and the case to cap it
Report calls on European law-makers to cap bonnet height by 2035, recommending an 85 cm limit for further study
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Dare Obasanjo @carnage4life.bsky.social · 01/06/2025
My favorite description of the term “privilege” is who gets the benefit of the doubt and who doesn’t. We see it every day in who gets the rules rigorously enforced against them and who gets a slap on the wrist or warning when the rules say there are heavy consequences for their actions.
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Benoît Chamontin ✌️❤️🇨🇦 @bchamontin.bsky.social · 25/05/2025
"The most dangerous part of Car Brain is that we don’t see it for what it is—a mass delusion that enables harm, excludes millions, and degrades mental and physical well-being."
fastcompany.com
‘Car Brain’ is killing us—literally
As millions of Americans take to the road this weekend, we would do well to rethink how we behave behind the wheel.
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Benoît Chamontin ✌️❤️🇨🇦 @bchamontin.bsky.social · 25/05/2025
“What makes dysfunction so dangerous is that we might simply learn to live with it. But understanding hypernormalization gives us language – and permission – to recognize when systems are failing, and clarifies the risk of not taking action when we can.”
theguardian.com
Systems are crumbling – but daily life continues. The dissonance is real
If everything feels broken but strangely normal, the Soviet-era concept of hypernormalization can help
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Benoît Chamontin ✌️❤️🇨🇦 @bchamontin.bsky.social · 14/05/2025
“Traditional buttons, dials, and levers had perceptible and actionable qualities—you could feel for them, adjust them without looking, and rely on muscle memory. A touchscreen obliterates this" www.wired.com/story/why-ca...
Chart titled "How drivers' reaction times slow"

This chart shows the percentage increase in distracted drivers' response times. An undristracted driver typically reacts in 1 second.

Drink Drive Limit : 12%
Using Cannabis : 21%
Hands-free Phone : 27%
Android Auto (Voice) : 30%
Texting : 35%
Apple CarPlay (Voice) : 36%
Hand-held Phone : 48%
Android Auto (Touch) : 53%
Apple CarPlay (Touch) : 57%

Source : IAM RoadSmart
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Rodney 🚧🚇 @chanface.bsky.social · 08/05/2025
Sometimes good urban planning means lack thereof planning—letting go & allowing things organically to happen! This goes for zoning, parks (see desire paths), and how we regulate/allow public streets/spaces to be used (informal events, art, commercial uses, resting spaces, transportation modes, etc)
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Benoît Chamontin ✌️❤️🇨🇦 @bchamontin.bsky.social · 13/05/2025
"When we design with the everyday needs of the most vulnerable in mind, we create environments that are more humane, more livable, and ultimately better for all."
gehlpeople.com
Designing cities for our youngest residents to thrive
We’ve drawn a few reflections from life during Ramadan. Reflections that speak to urban design, empathy, care, and the quiet power of time.
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Benoît Chamontin ✌️❤️🇨🇦 @bchamontin.bsky.social · 02/04/2025
“Any vehicle that’s on the road that is at or near a congested level is imposing delay on other vehicles behind them. SUVs impose a greater delay on the vehicles behind them than do smaller cars.” - @davidlevinson.bsky.social, professor at the University of Sydney’s school of engineering
bloomberg.com
How SUVs Are Making Traffic Worse
As larger, taller sport utility vehicles took over US roads, they also aggravated highway congestion, according to a new study. It’s yet another ill effect of “car bloat.”
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Justin Hendrix @justinhendrix.bsky.social · 26/03/2025
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We wrote our report to help at-risk people stay safe. Never thought we’d need to aim its lessons at the Pentagon. But here we are. Security is not just a tech issue. It’s a people issue. And some of the people in the highest offices in the land apparently need remedial OPSEC. Urgently.
washingtonpost.com
Why government workers and military planners all love Signal now
The encrypted chat app beloved by Elon Musk and foreign dissidents has been embraced by federal government workers, DOGE and military planners.
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Justin Hendrix @justinhendrix.bsky.social · 26/03/2025
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In our report, we warned: even when encryption is strong, user behavior can render it meaningless. Misunderstanding threat models, poor design, or just recklessness—these open the door. And this was recklessness of the highest order. www.techpolicy.press/what-is-secu...
techpolicy.press
What is Secure? An Analysis of Popular Messaging Apps | TechPolicy.Press
Results of a technical, design, and policy analysis of encrypted apps from Signal, Telegram, Google, Apple, and Meta.
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The New York Times @nytimes.com · 10/03/2025
Agencies within the Trump administration have flagged hundreds of words to limit or avoid, according to a compilation of government documents. These terms appeared in government memos, in official and unofficial agency guidance and in other documents. www.nytimes.com/interactive/...
A card reads: "These Words Are Disappearing in the New Trump Administration." A long list of words follows, including: biologically female; biologically male; BIPOC; Black; breastfeed + people; clean energy; climate crisis; climate science; commercial sex worker; community diversity; community equity; confirmation bias; cultural competence; cultural differences; cultural heritage; cultural sensitivity; culturally appropriate; culturally responsive; DEI; equity; feminism; genders.
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Benoît Chamontin ✌️❤️🇨🇦 @bchamontin.bsky.social · 11/03/2025
"Le peu d’accusations criminelles dans ces cas de collision donne aux conducteurs un sentiment d’impunité et renforce l’idée que ce type de mort résulte d’« accidents » inévitables." - Marie-Soleil Cloutier
ledevoir.com
L’inattention des automobilistes, danger impuni pour les piétons
Les morts de piétons restent souvent sans aucune conséquences judiciaires.
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Benoît Chamontin ✌️❤️🇨🇦 @bchamontin.bsky.social · 10/03/2025
"L’autre problème chronique vient de l’accroissement incessant du parc auto. Montréal, comme tout le QC, s’empêtre de + en + dans son empire de la voiture, alors que la sécurité routière pour tous, piétons, cyclistes ou automobilistes, exige au contraire la réduction du parc de véhicules motorisés"
ledevoir.com
Pourquoi les bilans de sécurité pour les piétons stagnent à Montréal?
Les efforts de la Vision Zéro pour Montréal sont bloqués par la croissance du parc automobile.
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David Ho @davidho.bsky.social · 08/03/2025
I think about this from @naomiaklein.bsky.social a lot. "Conspiracy theorists get the facts wrong but often get the feelings right." The sense that people are gaining wealth from human suffering while concealing reality is valid, but the root problem isn't evil people but the nature of capitalism.
Like my doppelganger projecting all of our surveillance fears on a vaccine app, conspiracy theorists get the facts wrong but often get the feelings right-the feeling of living in a world with Shadow Lands, the feeling that every human misery is someone else's profit, the feeling of being exhausted by predation and extraction, the feeling that important truths are being hidden.
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Benoît Chamontin ✌️❤️🇨🇦 @bchamontin.bsky.social · 08/03/2025
“It’s extremely alarming that grants that have been vetted by the scientific community and deemed important and impactful to understand the world are now being cancelled because of political ideology [...] For all this talk about free speech, this is direct censorship of scientific research.”
nature.com
Exclusive: NIH to terminate hundreds of active research grants
Studies that touch on LGBT+ health, gender identity and DEI in the biomedical workforce could be terminated, according to documents obtained by Nature.
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Benoît Chamontin ✌️❤️🇨🇦 @bchamontin.bsky.social · 07/03/2025
"No one likes to pay more. But here’s the truth of the matter: Congestion pricing is good for New York’s — and the whole nation’s — economy. And that’s something a businessman and native New Yorker like Donald Trump should appreciate." by @michaelrbloomberg.bsky.social
bloomberg.com
NYC’s Congestion Pricing Is Good for the US
Mass transit is the lifeblood of a city. Improving it for the workers in the nation’s economic capital benefits all Americans.
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Benoît Chamontin ✌️❤️🇨🇦 @bchamontin.bsky.social · 05/03/2025
"If you had to guess the leading cause of death for children and young people around the world, what would you say? [...] it’s road accidents [...] If these deaths were caused by a virus, it would be called a pandemic and the world would scramble to develop a vaccine to prevent them."
theguardian.com
If road deaths were a virus, we’d call it a pandemic. Safer transport helps us all – and we need it urgently | Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus and Jean Todt
Deaths on the road costs countries up to 5% of GDP. Centring transport around people, not cars, can propel development
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Benoît Chamontin ✌️❤️🇨🇦 @bchamontin.bsky.social · 04/03/2025
"So while it might seem like the opposition to congestion pricing is concerned with costs for lower-income commuters, the truth is that improving public transit access while making it more affordable is much more likely to benefit working class families than removing tolls from the roads."
vox.com
Congestion pricing is good for low-income residents
Why New York’s new traffic policy is the opposite of elitist.
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Eliot Higgins @eliothiggins.bsky.social · 28/02/2025
What we’re witnessing in America is what happens when disordered discourse captures a political party, then the state itself. The Republican Party was the first to fall - abandoning truth for conspiracy, ideology for grievance, and policy for performative outrage.
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