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Ethan Sabourin

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Law Student @UofT. Green New Dealer. 🍊

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Ian @woolie.meowmeow.city · 27/01/2026
America is blessed with a world class megacity that has a perfect year-round climate and is mostly in a flat basin. And this is the best we can do for bicycles.
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Prem Thakker ツ @premthakker.bsky.social · 27/01/2026
My gosh. Alex Pretti was notifying neighbors that Trump and Vance's agents were chasing a family. A mob of agents then tackled him and broke his rib. He thought he was going to die. Then the very next week, he came back out to support his neighbors. And a mob of agents killed him.
The earlier incident started when he stopped his car after observing ICE agents chasing what he described as a family on foot, and began shouting and blowing his whistle, according to a source who asked not to be named out of fear of retribution.

Pretti later told the source that five agents tackled him and one leaned on his back – an encounter that left him with a broken rib. The agents quickly released him at the scene.

“That day, he thought he was going to die,” said the source.
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Jews For Racial & Economic Justice Action @jfrejnyc.bsky.social · 25/11/2025
❣️Mabrook + Mazal Tov to JFREJ Board Members, @kungernyc.bsky.social & Rabbi Ellen Lippman, for their respective appointments to @zohrankmamdani.bsky.social ‘s transition team & the more than a dozen other JFREJ members also named in this powerful list of NYers ready to roll up their sleeves & work!
Rabbi Ellen Lippman speaking at a protest in support of freeing Mahmoud Khalil earlier this yearKatie Unger wearing a JFREJ shirt!Rabbi Ellen Lippman's name highlighted on Mayor - Elect Zohran Mamdani's Committee on Social Services Transition TeamKatie Ungers name highlighted on Mayor-Elect Zohran Mamdani's Committee on Community Organizing Transition Team
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Mike Eliason @holz-bau.bsky.social · 25/11/2025
yes. all of them.
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Mike Eliason @holz-bau.bsky.social · 16/05/2025
'Shutters are one of most easily deployed devices when designing in adaptation. ‘Ultimately they’re for climate change-resistance,’ says Thielmann. ‘For the UK, it’s the future.’' this. decades behind - we need active solar protection in a warming world www.architectsjournal.co.uk/specificatio...
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‘Shutters are the future’: Maccreanor Lavington’s White City housing
Maccreanor Lavington associate director Prisca Thielmann tells Fran Williams about the practice’s recently completed affordable housing at the Television Centre development in White City – the UK’s la...
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Broadview @broadviewmedia.bsky.social · 07/05/2025
The United Church of Canada would never have existed unless each of the founding denominations believed that diverse approaches to faith strengthen the whole body of Christ Compromise. broadview.org/bold-church-...
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How a bold church merger shaped Canada 100 years ago | Broadview Magazine
As the United Church marks its centenary, its founding story offers a lesson on unity
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Broadview @broadviewmedia.bsky.social · 02/05/2025
The NDP's recent defeat carries sharper implications — not just for the party, but for progressive politics in Canada. broadview.org/ndp-election...
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After the NDP crumbles, what's next for Canada's left? | Broadview Magazine
Progressive movement faces a reckoning as Singh steps down and Conservatives surge
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Ariel Troster @arieltroster.bsky.social · 11/05/2025
For fans of (dearly departed) So Good on Somerset, I can confirm that the restaurant with the same name on Springfield in New Edinburgh inherited the original menu and they make the pepper salt tofu and peanut chicken just like the old place.
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Mike Eliason @holz-bau.bsky.social · 06/05/2025
wow so @alexbozikovic.bsky.social took me on an urbanist pilgrimage of sorts.
house of jacobs
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Jathan Sadowski @jathansadowski.com · 07/05/2025
This essay on "AI and Internet Hygiene" by @katewagner.bsky.social really how AI is ruining the experience of using the internet (and knowing how to use it), while also crippling the social infrastructure of trust that makes the internet work. web.archive.org/web/20250121...
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Oliver Moore @oliver-moore.bsky.social · 27/04/2025
Junius, a few months ago.. “It would be unacceptable if the cost of vibrant urban life is that a group of people have to be sacrificed every so often to a maniac behind the wheel … Soft targets need a hard shell around them” www.theglobeandmail.com/opinion/edit...
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Globe editorial: How cities can protect crowds against the threat of vehicle-ramming attacks
The murder of 14 people on Bourbon Street is a reminder that a vibrant street-life makes for an easy target, and that people need better protection
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Dennis B. Hooper @dennisbhooper.bsky.social · 27/04/2025
Fully on board with dems running for office promising to reinstate fired federal employees and jail this administration’s various criminals, but let’s go ahead and add “we will seize by eminent domain any national parkland sold to developers”
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Yair Wallach @yairwallach.bsky.social · 23/04/2025
The massacre took place on the night of 23-24 of March 2025. Ten days later, 4th April, the commander of the same army unit (Golani Recon) was filmed instructing his soldiers: "Everyone we meet in Gaza is an enemy. We identify a person, we shoot, we kill, and carry on. Don't get confused."
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The New York Times @nytimes.com · 21/04/2025
Pope Francis died on Monday at 88. His papacy promoted inclusivity, embracing survivors of sexual abuse by clergy members; LGBTQ Catholics; Muslim and Orthodox clerics; and leaders of developing nations, where he believed the church’s future was rooted. See Francis' life in photos: nyti.ms/4lEHXNZ
Pope Francis waves to a large crowd of people, some of whom are waving Cuban flags or holding up their phones to take photos. Photo credit: Daniel Berehulak for The New York Times
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The New Republic @newrepublic.com · 21/04/2025
In the clearest departure from the U.S. political class, Pope Francis wrote that “it is absurd to permit the continued exploration and expansion of fossil fuel infrastructures." Published June 2, 2023:
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The Vatican Is Way Ahead of the Democratic Party on Climate Change
Pope Francis’s recent draft text demands climate reparations and an immediate end to fossil fuel exploration. Why can’t the Biden administration do the same?
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Olúfẹ́mi O. Táíwò @olufemiotaiwo.bsky.social · 18/04/2025
"The agreement includes meaningful raises, smaller class sizes, and more classroom resources, but it also codifies some of the most comprehensive LGBTQ+ protections ever included in a public school labor deal." Check out "bargaining for the common good" www.advocate.com/news/chicago...
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Chicago Teachers Union ratifies groundbreaking contract cementing LGBTQ+ protections
Discrimination in education isn't welcome in the Windy City.
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Tom Fitton @tomfitton.bsky.social · 17/04/2025
“NOAA Fisheries does not anticipate any death or serious injury to whales from offshore wind related actions”. heatmap.news/sparks/offsh...
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Republicans Asked For an Offshore Wind Exposé. They Got a Letdown Instead.
“NOAA Fisheries does not anticipate any death or serious injury to whales from offshore wind related actions.”
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molly taft @mollytaft.com · 16/04/2025
NEW: i spoke with several young AmeriCorps volunteers around the country who were abruptly pulled off projects building homes, readying forests for wildfire season, and working at food banks Tuesday afternoon. they are now on their way home thanks to DOGE cuts —
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DOGE Cuts Pull AmeriCorps Volunteers Off of Disaster Relief Jobs
The youth volunteers who were working on projects ranging from rebuilding homes destroyed in storms to distributing supplies for hurricane recovery were suddenly pulled from service. Why? DOGE cuts.
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David Zipper @davidzipper.bsky.social · 16/04/2025
In Bloomberg CityLab, I explained why cities must build cycling *networks* – not just lanes. It’s a lesson that many elected leaders have yet to learn (esp Ontario’s Doug Ford, who is taking a sledgehammer to Toronto's cycling network). 🧵
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Why the Best Bike Lanes Always Get Blamed
A standoff over cycling infrastructure and traffic congestion in Toronto shows why building protected bike lanes on essential corridors draws controversy along with riders.
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Norm Di Pasquale🇨🇦 @normsworld.bsky.social · 16/04/2025
BREAKING: @nytimes.com investigation reveals that the Ford Government was sold a bill of goods by shell company Therme, who misrepresented themselves, adopting their name & brand from a CEO who died in a plane crash. www.nytimes.com/2025/04/16/w... #topoli #onpoli
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European Spa Company Therme Misrepresented Itself in an Effort to Expand Into Canada
A Times investigation shows Therme, a European firm, exaggerated its track record in securing a deal with Ontario, and government auditors found that the process had been unfair and opaque.
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Michael Caley @michaelcaley.bsky.social · 18/03/2025
I think this captures the intersection of those topics best whether someone reads books, informs themselves about the world, pays attention to current events, is a crucial indicator of political alignment and that is just a really fuckin weird new thing for Democrats to sort out
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Lex Rofeberg @lexaphus.bsky.social · 03/03/2025
I’m so overjoyed that No Other Land won. Film can move people in ways that you just can’t achieve with words. Thousands will feel called to watch, and be transformed. The fact that it won without a distributor will shed light on how Palestinian stories are consciously sidelined, all the time.
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Joel S. @joelhs.bsky.social · 01/02/2025
A profile of Albrecht Weinberg, a 99-year-old survivor of Auschwitz and Bergen-Belsen who received the German order of merit for his work on Holocaust remembrance - before returning it this past week to protest an anti-migrant bill passed with far-right votes. www.theguardian.com/world/2025/j...
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‘Did they learn nothing?’: Auschwitz survivor to return German honour over AfD vote role
Albrecht Weinberg ‘horrified’ that MPs relied on far-right party to pass anti-immigration motion
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jamelle @jamellebouie.net · 26/01/2025
oh what could the salute has possibly been
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Shawn Micallef @shawnmicallef.bsky.social · 22/01/2025
FOR INSTANCE: EU sunscreen! EU drugs! EU $3 bottles of very good Tempranillo!
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andyburnham.bsky.social @andyburnham.bsky.social · 05/01/2025
Despite all of the challenges - legal and meteorological - we did it! After 40 years of damaging deregulation, Greater Manchester has this morning successfully retaken control of the whole its bus network. 🙌🏻
The first Bee Network service pulls out of a snowy Altrincham Interchange early this morning.
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Joe Katz @joekatz45.bsky.social · 31/12/2024
We went through a long period where fire departments were a for-profit industry, paid for by insurance companies, where they responded only to fires in insured buildings. Eventually people realized that a terrible way to fight fires.
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How today’s public fire departments were born from private fire brigades
The evolution of emergency services provided by municipal fire departments and the fire service budget
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Oh The Urbanity! @ohtheurbanity.bsky.social · 30/12/2024
Inspired by programs in European countries like Finland, the City of Montreal now offers a “baby box” to new parents, distributed through libraries. Inspirée par des programmes en Europe, Montréal offre maintenant aux nouveaux parents une “Boîte Bienvenue bébé”, distribuée dans les bibliothèques.
City of Montreal “baby box”: a colourful box opened up with items for babies inside, topped by a letter saying “bienvenue bébé” (welcome baby).
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Observing The City @observingthecity.ca · 31/12/2024
Ridership on Toronto's Bike Share system reaches new heights, with 7 million rides for the year! Up 23% from last year. This is due in part to the expansion of the system, but also additional safe infrastructure. Toronto is a cycling city!
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Joel S. @joelhs.bsky.social · 24/12/2024
Art Spiegelman notably disagrees with the word "Holocaust" itself in this interview, preferring to speak of the genocide of the Jews of Europe. His argument is that "genocide" connects it to other historical events, while "Holocaust" separates and sacralizes it. hyperallergic.com/973444/art-s...
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Art Spiegelman Won’t Shrink Back From Controversy
The artist has illustrated more than one contentious New Yorker cover in his career, chronicled in a new film, and his next project will be no less gutsy.
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Brent Toderian @brenttoderian.bsky.social · 25/12/2024
STUDY of 82K+ Scottish adults: “compared with sedentary commuting, commuting to work or study by bike was associated with lower all-cause mortality risk, lower risk of any hospitalization, lower risk of cardiovascular disease, lower risk of cancer mortality & better mental health.”— @carltonreid.com
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18-Year Study Of 82,297 Adults Finds Cycle Commuting Halves Chance Of Early Death
Billionaires famously want to live longer. They should jump on bicycles, not spacecraft.
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Luke LeBrun @lukelebrun.ca · 20/12/2024
Careful, don’t ask the Fraser Institute fellow what he thinks the solution to CBC is
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Stephen Frost @sfrost.bsky.social · 20/12/2024
Good paper by @wrirosscities.bsky.social on how public transit is funded in cities around the world Fares important in some areas but also includes France’s Versement Mobilité (a tax on employers), reinvesting revenue from parking & congestion charges, gov subsidy, land value capture… and more
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4 Cities Looking Beyond Rider Fares to Fund Better, More Resilient Public Transit
COVID-19 decimated many cities' public transit funding, hampering their operations and growth. But those with more diverse funding models fared better.
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Paris Marx @parismarx.com · 20/12/2024
It’s sad how CBC has become so wedded to this narrative of Canada Post privatization. Where’s the big article about CUPW’s proposal to reinvent the postal service with postal banking and other community services? What happened to presenting both sides?
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Chris Hayes @chrislhayes.bsky.social · 20/12/2024
Got an email from an angry viewer for covering this last night so re-upping this article from @haaretzcom.bsky.social which is extremely extensively reported and disturbing. Here’s a gift link. www.haaretz.com/israel-news/...
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IDF soldiers expose arbitrary killings and rampant lawlessness in Gaza's Netzarim corridor
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Julie S. Lalonde @julieslalonde.bsky.social · 18/12/2024
If you're on social media or watch sports, you are downright bombarded with ads for gambling. Rules around it have loosened greatly in Canada, and as a result, there is a gambling related suicide in Canada on average every 9 days. Horrifying.
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Dying to win: Canadian provinces are expanding legal gambling despite one death every nine days
Investigation into gambling-related suicide data shows tracking of deaths lags while governments ignore risks to chase industry profits
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Peter Walker @peterwalker99.bsky.social · 18/12/2024
17-year-long Scottish study of 82,000+ adults finds commuting by bike reduces your risk of: • early death • hospitalisation for any reason • cardiovascular disease • cancer mortality • treatment for mental health problems. Yeah, but those LTNs and bike lanes are *really* annoying.
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Rude Law Dog @esghound.com · 18/12/2024
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The Beaverton @thebeaverton.com · 11/12/2024
Ontario passes bill allowing bike paths that lead to walls with tunnels painted on them www.thebeaverton.com/2024/12/onta...
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Ontario passes bill allowing bike paths that lead to walls with tunnels painted on them
TORONTO - Premier Doug Ford's government successfully passed a bill today allowing municipalities to create bike paths throughout the province so long as they lead to a wall with the image of a tunnel...
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Rodney 🚧🚇 @chanface.bsky.social · 08/12/2024
Some great graphs:
Declining homelessness in Finland from 18k in 1990 to 4k in 2020Increasing independent rentals and supportive housing in finland
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Jason Thorne @jasonthorne.bsky.social · 06/12/2024
I’m very excited to share the news that I will be taking on a new role as the Chief Planner at the City of Toronto! I’m looking forward to working with a very talented City planning team, with the Mayor & Council, and with all Torontonians on continuing to build an amazing city tinyurl.com/5n6ntrcy
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Toronto picks former Hamilton official as new planning chief
Jason Thorne called 'proactive' and 'a proven city builder' as he takes on the city's top planning role.
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Mike Eliason @holz-bau.bsky.social · 03/12/2024
this project is so so so good www.archdaily.com/1024273/plai...
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Gallery of Plaines-du-Loup Residential Building / Costea Missonnier Architectes - 1
Image 1 of 21 from gallery of Plaines-du-Loup Residential Building / Costea Missonnier Architectes. Photograph by Alan Hasoo
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Guillaume @gguillaume.bsky.social · 03/12/2024
"Cycle Toronto has retained legal counsel to explore challenging this dangerous law." (The law formerly known as bill 212) Great news!
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Brent Toderian @brenttoderian.bsky.social · 03/12/2024
One of the most successful pedestrian streets in the world, the Strøget in Copenhagen, was filled with cars until a 2 year pedestrianization pilot project in 1962. The opposition argued “no cars means no business,” but the street has been a massive retail success, the city’s busiest shopping street.
The central square on the Stoget pedestrian shopping street from the air in central Copenhagen, filled with people
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Rachel Cohen Booth @rcobooth.bsky.social · 03/12/2024
fascinating, relatable @kait.bsky.social piece on her experience with a course aimed at helping people reduce their phone use (I type from my phone in bed at 10:30 pm) www.theatlantic.com/technology/a...
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A ‘Radical’ Approach to Reclaiming Your Attention
It’s not just about putting your phone away.
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