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Evan Boyce @evanboyce.ca · 27/09/2026

it really is stark when you see it all laid out

Source: OpenStreetMap 2022, CER IPL Database, EIA U.S. Energy Atlas
Description: This map shows the high voltage transmission power lines in Canada that are over 100 kilovolts (kV) and high voltage transmission lines in the U.S. that are over 200 kV. Transmission lines link the following provinces to international markets: B.C. to the U.S. Pacific Northwest grid; Manitoba to the U.S. midcontinent grid; Ontario to the U.S. midcontinent and U.S. eastern grids; Quebec to the U.S. eastern grid; and New Brunswick to the U.S. New England grid. There are also power lines between Alberta to Montana and Saskatchewan to North Dakota.
The map also shows the 23 high voltage and extra-high voltage international power lines that are 230 kV and above at the Canada/U.S. border. International power lines, as regulated by the CER, are shown as a diamond shape on the map because they are relatively short in length. There is a list of 23 international power lines on the right side of the figure that spotlights where each international power line is on the map as many of the diamonds overlap each other. Note the map does not show all 86 international power lines. Lower voltage lines below 230 kV are not shown because of the overlap.

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Evan Boyce @evanboyce.ca · 18/09/2026

probably for the best

Bluesky add muted words and tags setting. The word "mandate" is typed in the box.

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Evan Boyce @evanboyce.ca · 18/09/2026

Turned off quote tweets cause they couldn’t take the Canadian smoke 💅 What mandate? This mandate you knuckleheads! See map!

2024 US election electoral college map. Harris 223, Trump 294

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Evan Boyce @evanboyce.ca · 04/09/2026

Unverified but if this is real, it’s a hilarious way to find out this information.

I texted the premier about 20 minutes ago and almost immediately got a call back from a private number. I recorded the whole call. He said that only 2% of the bike lanes are going to be coming out. I mentioned that Bill 60 says all of University, Bloor, and Avenue are coming out, and he said "no, it never said all the lanes".

This is a little ambiguous to me, because he may have been using 2% to mean 2% of all bike lanes in Toronto (which would explain why he said "it never said all the lanes"), whereas I was referring only to the three main roads mentioned in Bill 60.

He did however mention that it will only be a small portion of them near Royal York road being removed, that he is working with the mayor, and that we can expect to hear news about it within a week or so.

Should I send this conversation to any news companies or community members (biking lawyer/cycle toronto)? What the premier says to a random citizen isn't exactly legally binding lol but maybe it could be of interest?

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Evan Boyce @evanboyce.ca · 04/09/2026

Glad the OLP did everything in their power to keep Nate from running in SSW, great job everyone 👍

Scarborough Southwest byelection results
Previously an NDP riding held by Doly Begum.

50%
NDP - Fatima Shaban
40.5%
Liberal - Ahsanul Hafiz
30.3%
PC - Noor Tarun
23.4%
Green Party - Mark Bekkering
3.4%
Ontario Party - Gord Elliott
1.1%
New Blue - Chris Rees
0.8%
Independent - Michael Perdelwitz
0.6%
57 of 57 polls reporting as of 9:54 p.m. Unofficial results.

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Evan Boyce @evanboyce.ca · 21/08/2026

this is a core pillar of my politics

my tweet from Sept 2024: "I will vote for whatever provincial party proposes to carve Etobicoke out of Toronto and amalgamate it into Mississauga. I am so serious"

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Evan Boyce @evanboyce.ca · 14/08/2026

incredible, the court basically did the dril drunk driving tweet

[75] There is much that is wrong with this reasoning. It minimizes the purpose of the legislation, in effect trivializing it by characterizing it as saving some drivers a few minutes rather than reducing traffic congestion, which may in turn result in a wide range of positive effects. At the same time, it inflates the negative effects of removing the bicycle lanes, talking of injuries and deaths that will occur only if the bicyclists choose to ride on the roads that have no bicycle lanes – a situation that obtains on roads throughout the province. Having so characterized the purpose and effects of the legislation, the application judge rendered the outcome inevitable on a simple proportionality standard.

drunk driving may kill a lot of people, but it also helps a lot of people get to work on time, so, it;s impossible to say if its bad or not,

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Evan Boyce @evanboyce.ca · 07/08/2026

Ward 14 is shaping up to be a real nothing-burger of a race, assuming we get a last minute Fletcher registration. The only seemingly credible challenger is running as a soft-NIMBY at best.

Thoughtful Growth
Toronto-Danforth is growing rapidly. New housing and transit investments are essential, but growth must be planned alongside the services and infrastructure communities need to thrive. We cannot continue adding density without protecting parks, public spaces, schools, healthcare access, and the small businesses that give our neighbourhoods life and character.

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Evan Boyce @evanboyce.ca · 29/07/2026

no amount of self-selection bias can explain away a result of 87% opposed on an n=87,000 sample size as a "fringe group" cope, seethe, etc

In a post on the social media platform X, Transport Minister Steven MacKinnon says the government will focus exclusively on "approved safety enhancements" for the airport and Toronto residents will have a say in future plans for the facility.

MacKinnon said the government received more than 87,000 responses to its consultation on the airport, which ended Friday.

About 87 per cent of respondents to the public survey were opposed to changes to the waterfront airport, said spokesperson Marie-Justine Torres on Saturday. She said about 80 per cent of the survey responses came from Toronto and another 15 per cent from the GTHA.

Toronto Mayor Olivia Chow said at an unrelated event Saturday that while the province may have taken the land away from the city, the decision on what happens there falls with the federal government.

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Evan Boyce @evanboyce.ca · 24/07/2026

July 22, 2026: A Week of Smoky Skies Across North America (NASA Earth Observatory)

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Evan Boyce @evanboyce.ca · 24/07/2026

August 5, 2025: Widespread Smoke from Canadian Fires (NASA Earth Observatory)

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Evan Boyce @evanboyce.ca · 24/07/2026

June 9, 2023: Hazardous Air Chokes Northeastern States (NASA Earth Observatory)

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Evan Boyce @evanboyce.ca · 12/07/2026

It’s the shameless heel turning that makes the whole thing so pathetic. Literally doesn’t even delete his old pro-bike lane posts. Keep pretending you weren’t that guy, Brad!

Brad Bradford Facebook post from June 2019: “Today we took a meaningful step towards designing and implementing a bike lane pilot on the Danforth. Progress like this will help us improve road safety for everyone! Thanks Jennifer McKelvie - Councillor of Ward 25, Scarborough-Rouge Park for introducing my motion at committee.”

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Evan Boyce @evanboyce.ca · 01/05/2026

Toronto urbanism/city planning doomers to Jason Thorne after the new Ookwemin Minising plan drops

"I owe you an apology. I wasn't really familiar with your game" -Shaq

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Evan Boyce @evanboyce.ca · 22/04/2026

someone in the parks dept absolutely dodge rammed their way through withrow park last weekend

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Evan Boyce @evanboyce.ca · 08/04/2026

don't talk to me or my son ever again

a large excavator parked on the street, with a smaller excavator nested in the space between its arm and treads

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Evan Boyce @evanboyce.ca · 17/03/2026

he wants to be prime minister of this canada

a parody map of north america showing the GTA as extraordinarily large, and the rest of Canada, the US and others as small. A joke about how Torontonians see the world.

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Evan Boyce @evanboyce.ca · 20/02/2026

hilarious (derogatory) for Danielle Smith to now push a set of gross anti-immigration referendum questions when just a few years back we had to see this shit on the TTC for an entire summer

TTC Advertisements from 2023: BIGGER PAYCHEQUES. SMALLER RENT CHEQUES. AlbertaIsCalling.ca

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Evan Boyce @evanboyce.ca · 18/01/2026

Sunday morning Toronto transit discourse nuke

ITS SO SLOW thumbnail for Not Just Bikes video titled “How can a NEW transit line be this BAD? (Finch West LRT)

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Evan Boyce @evanboyce.ca · 13/11/2025

I take it all back, maybe it’s actually good that millennials can’t afford homes

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Evan Boyce @evanboyce.ca · 26/10/2025

Somewhere in here would be my recc, closer to Bloor if you need quick transit, but most of the main streets here have streetcars as well.

map of toronto with christie pits, little italy, trinity-bellwoods and queen west neighbourhoods circled

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Evan Boyce @evanboyce.ca · 04/09/2025

I do find it amusing that the proposed idea is basically "let's do DEI, but for conservative/anti-woke academics only"

My worry is that the talk of post-woke acts like a smokescreen — obscuring the many places where the generalization is untrue. It’s based much more on observations of what’s happening south of the border. The vibe shift definitely happened there. But in Canada — in universities — many are now doubling down on woke ideas precisely in reaction to what’s happening in the U.S.

The stakes could hardly be higher: a democracy without trusted sources of knowledge cannot govern itself wisely. And peer review, like democracy, only works when everyone has a voice.

All of this, though, depends on genuine viewpoint diversity amongst our expert peer reviewers. If only that were so.

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Evan Boyce @evanboyce.ca · 18/08/2025

Glad to see that a person being needlessly maimed and/or killed by a motor vehicle doesn't shock the conscience of the Editorial Board. No conscience needed if you just ignore the death part and keep pretending this is nothing more than a debate about "who the streets are for".

Justice Schabas also called the law “grossly disproportionate,” meaning that what he deemed the government’s end doesn’t justify its means, which will cause serious injury and death to cyclists. Yet the Supreme Court has said only extreme cases that would “shock the conscience” of Canadians are to be deemed grossly disproportionate. Does it shock the conscience to give some big downtown streets over to cars?

Governments may be right or wrong in their policy choices. (And as we’ve previously argued, we believe Mr. Ford was wrong to have meddled in city business.) But that’s what elections are for. Government is not run by “experts” or by courts, but by leaders accountable to the public. The problem here is a judge who refused to stay in his lane.

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Evan Boyce @evanboyce.ca · 18/08/2025

Breathtaking how weak this argument about purpose is. Claiming bike lane removals weren't arbitrary because the bill wasn't about fixing congestion, it was about "giving drivers priority"? Strange how they constantly tied bike lanes to gridlock and their removal to "getting drivers moving" then!

Prabmeet Sarkaria
@PrabSarkaria
Oct 15, 2024
Too many drivers across Ontario are stuck in gridlock for hours every day and bike lanes are making things worse.

Next week, we’re introducing legislation that would require cities to get provincial approval for any new bike lanes that require removing a lane of traffic.

Doug Ford
@fordnation
Bike lanes belong on secondary streets, not clogging traffic on main roads. It’s time to get you moving again.

Doug Ford
@fordnation
We are bringing sanity back to bike lane decisions.

By removing and replacing existing bike lanes on primary roads, we will get drivers moving again.

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Evan Boyce @evanboyce.ca · 18/08/2025

The Editorial Board believes Mr. Ford's purpose for Bill 212 was "to give car drivers the priority" and had nothing to do with congestion. It's just about who roads are for! That's of course why it was called the Reducing Gridlock, Saving You Time Act.

Another difference is that Section 7 – to quote the Supreme Court – is about the basic values that undergird the Charter. Justice Schabas called the removal of the bike lanes “arbitrary,” because traffic experts said it would not reduce congestion. When the government argued in court that “four lanes are better than two,” the experts countered that four lanes would merely increase demand.

But is that really arbitrary? Clearly, Mr. Ford’s purpose was to give car drivers the priority on certain main arteries. That traffic congestion is improved by deterring cars and encouraging cycling doesn’t contradict the Ontario government’s point that these roads should be for car drivers.

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Evan Boyce @evanboyce.ca · 18/08/2025

here's an exciting idea: a new, lower tier of humanity reserved just for cyclists women, drug users, sex workers, cyclists, one of these things is not like the other!

Consider the Supreme Court ruling striking down the criminal law on abortion. That law required women seeking a legal abortion to obtain permission from a hospital committee, an unwieldy procedure at odds with the law’s stated purpose, of protecting women’s health.

Other cases since then have followed a similar principle. In 2011, the Supreme Court said the federal government could not shut down a nurse-supervised clinic for illegal drug users in Vancouver, because doing so would kill sick people. In 2013, the Supreme Court struck down the criminal law on prostitution, saying it relegated sex workers to the back streets where they were being murdered.

Ask yourself which one of these subjects is not like the others: women seeking an abortion; drug users obtaining life-saving help; sex workers trying to stay alive – or bike riders looking for a protected lane?

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Evan Boyce @evanboyce.ca · 08/08/2025

Stop theorizing the fictional American political leanings of Canadian provinces, it's meaningless and absurd. MAGA's fantasies of "obtaining" provinces would result in nothing but strife and destruction for both countries and likely civil war within the United States itself.

Canada Projections🇨🇦
@CDNprojections
Saskatchewan and Manitoba will give you 3 lean D seats (New Mexico style) btw

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Evan Boyce @evanboyce.ca · 17/07/2025

There is a guy in St. Catherines, ON selling a signed photo of the Premier of Saskatchewan on FB Marketplace for $40

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Evan Boyce @evanboyce.ca · 13/06/2025

The scale of this 2050 plan is truly immense. Ontario gov’t is fully nuclear pilled. To pull it off will require: - Brand new station in Port Hope with 8 units - Expanding Bruce with 4 new units (12 total at the site) - Refurbishing most of the existing fleet (some of that is already underway)

Planning for New Nuclear Energy
OPG, Bruce Power and the IESO have confirmed that the deployment of up to 17,800 MW of new nuclear in the province by 2050 is feasible, to power economic growth and electrification of Ontario's economy.

Achieving the capacity target in this scenario would require building at minimum the equivalent of eight large nuclear units or 8,000 MW (in addition to the four units already planned at Bruce C) and potential life extension of Bruce Units 1 and 2. In order to deliver on that level of build out Ontario's nuclear operators and the IESO concluded that the Province would be required to utilize OPG-owned generation sites such as Wesleyville and emphasized that early engagement and assessment work, such as the public and Indigenous engagement that launched in Port Hope earlier this year, is essential to being able to deliver additional new large scale nuclear builds.

Figure 14: Illustrative Large-Scale Nuclear Deployment Schedule
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To meet a high demand scenario construction of new large-scale nuclear units would need to begin in the early 2030s.

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Evan Boyce @evanboyce.ca · 30/05/2025

me: excluding areas with greater than 15 degree slopes from the project's buildable area meanwhile in china:

photo of a drone assisting with the construction of a solar farm on a very steep slope

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Evan Boyce @evanboyce.ca · 30/05/2025

dude is 100% gonna buy the Porsche lmao

Reddit conversation taking about buying a Porsche 911

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Evan Boyce @evanboyce.ca · 24/05/2025

please don’t be mean to the smol bean anti-transit activists who used fake AI videos in their disinformation campaign, they made a mistake, they’re doing their best, and they’re really really sorry 👉👈🥺

They admit the optics aren't great [RE: use of AI]:
"Civil engagement can be clunky and chaotic, especially for the inexperienced, and we're doing our best. We're just trying to get our voices heard, and represent our community; we made mistakes and we'll probably make some more, but it shouldn't stand in the way of our voices being heard."

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Evan Boyce @evanboyce.ca · 19/05/2025

Continuing to be unpleasantly surprised by the misanthropy the Kensington Market BIA shows towards any amount of pedestrianization. They cancelled May’s Pedestrian Sunday because of “illegal vendors”, apparently. Very ironic considering the history of the market. www.torontotoday.ca/local/busine...