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David Colburn

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Home is in Guelph, Ontario. Interests include sustainable towns & cities, cycling, camping, arts, politics, and making lists.

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Tom Flood @tomflood.bsky.social · 5h
Doug ford standing beside bike lane 

one of these is a tool that
saves cyclists lives,
the other
is a tool that will kill them
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Tom Flood @tomflood.bsky.social · 14/10/2026
First bike lane removal truck blocked.
People blocking a construction vehicle
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Hermes-vector.buzz @hermesvector.bsky.social · 13/10/2026
Toronto cyclists seek Supreme Court appeal against bike lane removal Cycle Toronto and Ecojustice are asking the Supreme Court of Canada to review a lower court ruling that upheld Ontario's plan to remove bike lanes. Construction to remove lanes on Bloor Street West began Tuesday night.
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Toronto cyclists seek Supreme Court appeal against bike lane removal
Cycle Toronto and Ecojustice are asking the Supreme Court of Canada to review a lower court ruling that upheld Ontario's plan to remove bike lanes. Construction to remove lanes on Bloor Street West began Tuesday night.
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William Buckingham 🇨🇦 @wbuckingham.bsky.social · 11/10/2026
What’s different about Danforth? It’s not part of Dougie’s commute to work from “Ford Nation” to Queen’s Park.
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rudy.ca @rudydotca.bsky.social · 26/09/2026
this is extremely disheartening news especially the "tried to cover it up" part if you were a capitalist company, out to make all the money you possibly can, would you do anything different to customers in a country you're in a trade war with?
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Raywat Deonandan 🍁🇨🇦 @deonandan.bsky.social · 23/09/2026
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𝕊𝕦𝕟𝕕𝕒𝕖 𝔾𝕦𝕣𝕝 @sundaedivine.lol · 23/09/2026
“Sure, it could wipe out humanity, but what’s the recurring revenue model?”
Borowitz cartoon of the day
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daveelmore12 @daveelmore12.bsky.social · 22/09/2026
"There are real tensions between cyclists, motorists & pedestrians sharing the road, but Montrealers believe traffic-calming measures, bike lanes, speed humps & curb extensions can improve safety for all road users." True in every city! t.ly/GL1Qz
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Motorists in one of a Montreal’s busiest boroughs support bike lanes
There are real tensions between cyclists, motorists and pedestrians sharing the road, but Montrealers believe traffic-calming measures — bike lanes, speed humps and curb extensions — can improve safet...
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David Colburn @davidcolburn.ca · 15/09/2026
Do I need a commuter workhorse bike? No. But, boy oh boy, these are all tempting.
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Tom Flood @tomflood.bsky.social · 15/09/2026
See you next week Dublin! Still can’t believe it sold out and moved to a bigger venue - absolutely wild.
Poster of a kid in front of a large truck 
Reframing road safety - Sept 22
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Clare Blackwood @clareblackwood.bsky.social · 11/09/2026
Some thoughts: -Toronto crime is down -Toronto homelessness is down -Cops don't solve crime -Union Station is fine -It's FINE -Jesus Christ -Why is everything about cops with this dude -Stop trying to scare your way into office -Please don't elect this fucking guy www.cbc.ca/news/canada/...
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Brad Bradford says he will put a Toronto police outpost in Union Station if he’s elected mayor | CBC News
Brad Bradford has promised a Toronto police outpost at Union Station as part of his mayoral campaign platform.
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Lanrick Bennett @lanrickbennett.bsky.social · 06/09/2026
The invention of Jaywalking via Hannah Fry #WarOnWalking youtube.com/shorts/6W_s3...
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The invention of Jaywalking
YouTube video by Hannah Fry
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Catherine McKenna @cathmckenna.bsky.social · 05/09/2026
Hey Doug Ford, about the bike lanes…
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Madhu Pai, MD, PhD @madhupai.bsky.social · 29/08/2026
👏🏽👏🏽 Thanks to vaccines, Australia is on track to become the first country to eliminate cervical cancer by 2035 news.uq.edu.au/2026-08-20-y...
news.uq.edu.au
20 years. Millions of lives saved. One revolutionary vaccine
Gardasil 20-year anniversary story.
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Brent Toderian @brenttoderian.bsky.social · 28/08/2026
Does replacing parking with bike-lanes hurt restaurant business? Of course not, as this new peer-reviewed STUDY of 15 years of Montreal data showed. ACTUALLY, downtown experienced significant restaurant growth after bike lanes were installed. @momentummag.bsky.social momentummag.com/do-bike-lane...
Separated bike-lane with people riding in Montreal.
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Tom Flood @tomflood.bsky.social · 25/08/2026
Critical Mass This Friday.
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Jamin 🚲🚄🏔️ @jamin.app · 07/05/2026
hey #bikesky! I built an app that makes running a bike valet easier! a simple web app that sends SMS to riders instead of a clipboard and a roll of raffle tickets. i’m doing this just for fun, so share with your local bike group and DM if they’d be interested in trying it out for free!
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The Biking Lawyer LLP @thebikinglawyer.bsky.social · 17/08/2026
Toronto, rise up.
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Raywat Deonandan 🍁🇨🇦 @deonandan.bsky.social · 16/08/2026
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Tom Flood @tomflood.bsky.social · 15/08/2026
WHICH BIKE LANE DO WE BLAME FOR THIS TRAFFIC? Banner from December 2024 in Toronto over the Gardiner Expressway. 📸 @martinreis.bsky.social
B/W BANNER HANGING ON A HIGHWAY OVERPASS: WHICH BIKE LANE DO WE BLAME FOR THIS TRAFFICexpressway traffic with image of banner hanging on overpass
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Brent Toderian @brenttoderian.bsky.social · 14/08/2026
Don’t forget this. “Foreign actors are attempting to undermine Canadian interests by interfering in Alberta's separatist debate…” “Actors from Russia and the US are attempting to promote separatist ideas in what researchers behind the report described as a threat to Canada's democratic integrity.”
bbc.com
US and Russia fuelling separatist debate in Canada, new report says
Researchers warn that foreign actors are meddling in the Alberta separatist movement in ways that threaten Canada’s "democratic integrity".
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Andrew Lewis FC @andrewlewisfc.bsky.social · 26/03/2026
Cops parked in the bike lane directly in front of a Tim Hortons truck parked in the bike lane is the chef's kiss of policing in Toronto. Spoiler - the cops were not ticketing the doughnut & coffee supply truck. #BikeTO
Cop SUV parked in the bike lane in front of a Tim Hortons truck, both with lights on, just before dawn.
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The Beaverton @thebeaverton.com · 05/08/2026
Carney vows to fast-track West Coast Pipeline before entire West Coast burns to the ground
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Carney vows to fast-track West Coast Pipeline before entire West Coast burns to the ground
OTTAWA - Mark Carney has officially given notice that his government will be designating Danielle Smith’s West Coast pipeline a project of national interest, allowing the massive oil and gas project t...
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David Colburn @davidcolburn.ca · 06/08/2026
It’s a good day when you get to bicycle. It’s a great start to the day when the first news item that catches your eye is this one in the Guardian on creating cycling gender parity in Bogata. TLDR: build infrastructure, give lessons and encouragement. www.theguardian.com/global-devel...
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‘They were told bikes were for men’: how Latin America’s city of cycling is breaking gender barriers
With less than a third of cycling journeys taken by women, Colombia’s capital, Bogotá, is installing bike lanes, teaching cycling and making sure ‘stereotypes are left behind’
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Mark Jacob @markjacob.bsky.social · 02/08/2026
This New York Times article, which ran a week before Christmas last year, didn’t get the attention it deserved. It detailed Trump and Epstein's predatory behavior toward women – “a game of ego and dominance” in which “female bodies were currency.” Here’s a gift link and a thread. 1/6🧵
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‘Don’s Best Friend’: How Epstein and Trump Bonded Over the Pursuit of Women (Gift Article)
The president has tried to minimize their friendship, but documents and interviews reveal an intense and complicated relationship. Chasing women was a game of ego and dominance. Female bodies were cur...
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David Colburn @davidcolburn.ca · 29/07/2026
The topic needs way more attention and the starving of our public health system needs to stop.
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Mississippi Free Press @mississippifreepress.org · 28/07/2026
“Not vaccinating your kid is like saying, ‘I don’t want my car to have brakes,’” said Dr. Mark Roberts of the Public Health Dynamics Lab at the University of Pittsburgh School of Public Health. “Because it’s other people that you can hit. It’s not just you in your car. It’s other people.”
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There Are Already More US Measles Cases This Year Than in All of 2025
The number of measles cases in the U.S. has surpassed the record-breaking tally for all of 2025, with five more months of 2026 still to come.
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Ste Jormur @stejormur.bsky.social · 04/03/2024
I'll never get over how the best line in all of noir – "I've got eight slugs in me. One's lead, and the rest are bourbon" – doesn't come from Raymond Chandler or Dashiell Hammett, but Calvin and Hobbes
Calvin dressed as a noir detective, saying "Yeah. That's me, Tracer Bullet. I've got eight slugs in me. One's lead, and the rest are bourbon. The drink packs a wallop, and I pack a revolver. I'm a private eye."
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Coach Mustard (aka velospence) @velospence.bsky.social · 11/07/2026
this is such a problem in Philadelphia. not only do drivers swerve into bike lanes to “beat the light”, i also see them cross double yellow into oncoming traffic. i saw it yesterday on MLK and Landsdowne. only a matter of time until someone is seriously injured or killed… again.
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Raywat Deonandan 🍁🇨🇦 @deonandan.bsky.social · 11/07/2026
I dined on delicious homemade vegan lentil curry tonight. But I would also happily eat the rich.
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The Biking Lawyer LLP @thebikinglawyer.bsky.social · 24/06/2026
If police are permitted to roll stop signs when it's safe to do so, they shouldn't be ticketing cyclists doing the same in High Park on the MGT or anywhere... Video taken on Monday.
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Brandon - "Fietser" @americanfietser.bsky.social · 22/06/2026
One of the biggest joy-killers of US cycling infrastructure is how narrow it is. Forcing everyone into a single-file line ruins the experience. Cycling is social, and our paths need to be wide enough to actually enable that.
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Dread and Rosie @rosiemund.bsky.social · 19/06/2026
The idea that cyclists are less law-abiding than drivers has been discredited everywhere it's ever been studied but also it's a deeply weird argument: if it were true, it'd still mean legal driving is statistically far more dangerous than illegal cycling? This isn't a good argument for cars?
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Parakuihi tuarua @carb-on-carb.bsky.social · 17/06/2026
Agree
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Brent Toderian @brenttoderian.bsky.social · 10/06/2026
Lie: Bike-lanes cause traffic congestion. Truth: Bike-lanes help solve traffic congestion. Lie: Bike-lanes hurt street shops if they replace parking. Truth: Bike-lanes help street shops more than street parking does. Lie: Bike-lanes cost us too much. Truth: Bike-lanes save us all public money.
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Brent Toderian @brenttoderian.bsky.social · 08/06/2026
Here’s a SERIOUS question. What if our property tax system was actually fair, and was based on public costs actually incurred to support housing? What if low density housing had to pay its way, rather than being subsidized by responsible infill housing? What if we stopped incentivizing sprawl?
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David Colburn @davidcolburn.ca · 04/06/2026
Support from Guelph.
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Lanrick Bennett @lanrickbennett.bsky.social · 04/06/2026
#IdeasAtWork
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Drew's MAFS Moment: Pointing Down
ALT: Drew's MAFS Moment: Pointing Down
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David Colburn @davidcolburn.ca · 29/05/2026
Eglinton LRT has a ton of baggage … including my bike & me this afternoon.
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Guillaume @gguillaume.bsky.social · 29/05/2026
Bike lanes are good for gender equity.
transalt.org
Research Reveals Bike Ridership for NYC Women Rises with Protected Bike Lane Access at a Much Higher Rate Than Men; Advocates Call for Connected Bike Network to Achieve Gender Parity — Transportation ...
New research from Transportation Alternatives has revealed a significant “bike lane gender gap” in New York City, where women are substantially more impacted by incomplete or limited bicycle infrastru...
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Jeff Tiedrich @jefftiedrich.bsky.social · 28/05/2026
here's today's post: "James Talarico is a boss" — and Ken Paxton fucking sucks. thanks for reading, and please sign up for my daily newsletter to keep getting the good stuff —
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James Talarico is a boss
and Ken Paxton fucking sucks
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Robert Zaichkowski @rzaichkowski.bsky.social · 28/05/2026
Want to show your support for the cancelled Eglinton Complete Street? @cycletoronto.bsky.social will be hosting a Rally and Ride for Eglinton Redux on Tuesday, June 2 (6 PM) at Eglinton and Holly. Please spread the word. #BikeTO #TOpoli #VisionZero www.cycleto.ca/rally_for_eg...
Rally and Ride for Eglinton Redux
Show your support for the cancelled Eglinton Complete Street 
Tuesday, June 2nd, 6:00 PM
Meet Eglinton E & Holly (near Yonge)
cycleto.ca/events

Image is of a construction notice sign on Eglinton
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Seth Abramson @sethabramson.bsky.social · 28/05/2026
ATTENTION: If you speak English and can parse—or find news in—“closing in on a framework for negotiations that could extend the ceasefire, lead to the reopening of the Strait of Hormuz and set the table for more substantive talks,” please call the NYT because they’ve no idea Should move markets tho
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Tom Flood @tomflood.bsky.social · 18/05/2026
Do you know why there is a speed bump? Because drivers can't help but drive dangerously next to this elementary school Do you know why there are flex posts next to the speed bump? Because drivers would avoid the speed bump and use the bike lane to continue their dangerous driving
a street with cars parked on both sides and a speed bump with bike lane and flex posts next to a primary school
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Michael C Merritt @mikecmerritt.bsky.social · 16/05/2026
Separated bike lanes = 44% FEWER DEATHS
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Tom Flood @tomflood.bsky.social · 13/05/2026
Strange how so many will shame people on bikes for not wearing helmets yet don’t have much to say about bike lanes without protection. Via @thebikinglawyer.bsky.social
two images with text beside

image 1: person riding a cargo bike: if cyclists without helmets bother you
Image 2: painted sharrow: so should bike lanes without protection
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Urban Truth Collective @urbantruth.bsky.social · 27/04/2026
NEW: The One-Hour City Conspiracy! “Here's the REAL conspiracy: Too many people are forced into car-dependent lives, with more health harms, crashes, noise, air pollution, social isolation —& less space for everything our streets should be giving us.” Thanks @usa.streetsblog.org #1HourCityConspiracy
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Urban Truth Collective: The One-Hour City Conspiracy — Streetsblog USA
Here's the real conspiracy: Too many people are forced into car-dependent lives, with more health harms, more crashes, more noise, more air pollution, more social isolation — and less space for everyt...
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Addy Bross 🌈 they/xe @aebrossbooks.com · 09/05/2026
Fascinating, terrifying, and I have to wonder what other browsers are showing. I'm on a browser that's supposed to be very privacy forward. 🤔
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Brandon - "Fietser" @americanfietser.bsky.social · 03/05/2026
We're all used to massive delivery trucks blocking our streets, but what if we shifted a large chunk of urban logistics to cargo bikes? It doesn't have to be for every package, but making this swap creates more jobs and makes our neighborhoods significantly safer.
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Michelle @michelle-colleen.bsky.social · 02/05/2026
This is how Toronto's waterfront should look and be used. Nature, trails, recreation, parks. Not a corrupt spa, parking lots, infill for expanded runways, jets, noise. #NojetsTO #ONpoli #TOpoli #cdnpoli #toronto #LPC
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