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Evan Boyce @evanboyce.ca · 28/09/2026

If people would just use MY preferred set of rules for micromanaging everything, none of this would be a problem!

Evan Boyce @evanboyce.ca · 28/09/2026

Renewables also tried to make the “landowners should have freedom to use their land how they see fit” case but still ended up with some of the strictest land use restrictions against wind and solar in the entire world.

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Evan Boyce @evanboyce.ca · 28/09/2026

Unfortunately, it seems like the Edmonton infill multiplex world is about to find out what happens when the UCP turns its heat-seeking culture war lasers toward their frothing base’s enemy du jour. The ghost of the Alberta renewable energy industry sends condolences in advance.

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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 · 24/09/2026

what happens to the young professional moving to portland and seeking housing if the major development doesn’t get built? some people think the young professional simply won’t move to portland actual reality: they move there anyway and outbid local guy or his neighbours for an older rental house

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Evan Boyce @evanboyce.ca · 21/09/2026

Any polling or surveys was done before people have actually lived through a winter under DST. People like DST in the summer, that’s clear enough. But I’m saying the downsides of it in winter are going to cause a lot of buyers regret on that choice.

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Evan Boyce @evanboyce.ca · 21/09/2026

And you know what, those people will be right. I ride for team Standard Time All Year Round.

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Evan Boyce @evanboyce.ca · 21/09/2026

I predict by February we'll have lots of articles featuring people across western Canada complaining about the lack of light in the mornings and how the little bit of extra light at 5pm isn't worth the tradeoff

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Rishi Maharaj @rsmaharaj.bsky.social · 20/09/2026

The high cost of domestic air travel is already a drag on the Canadian economy. Privatization of airports will only weaken us further while introducing more of the problem we actually need to be addressing: the prevalence of rent seeking oligopolies in so many key sectors.

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Evan Boyce @evanboyce.ca · 21/09/2026

Ford also has the benefit of being the only right wing party running against strategically inept trio of parties to his left. But it’s true that his brand of conservatism leaves aside a lot of that culture war stuff that tears other parties apart. Except for the bike lanes of course.

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Evan Boyce @evanboyce.ca · 18/09/2026

my "BC Conservatives Are Not Far-Right" t-shirt is raising a lot of questions already answered by my shirt

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Evan Boyce @evanboyce.ca · 18/09/2026

And yes, your definition of the word mandate is stupid. You have a mandate if you have the power. That's it.

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Evan Boyce @evanboyce.ca · 18/09/2026

Trump has completely broken millions of Canadians' worldviews, all at once. You can't undo it by soberly reminding us that his approval rating is low, or with reassuring tales of future Dem presidents taking power peacefully in 2029 (do we ask about 2032?)

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Evan Boyce @evanboyce.ca · 18/09/2026

Those bristling at the Canadian meaning of "mandate" haven't internalized the gravity of this for us. Having your existence threatened by the leader of the world's largest economic & military superpower changes everything. Most of you disagree with that? Ok, he still did it. Now what do we do?

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Evan Boyce @evanboyce.ca · 18/09/2026

Doesn't matter that "only" 48% voted for him, or that his approval is "only" 30%, or that you're confident Pres Ossoff is gonna throw them all in jail in 2029. All that matters is how the massive country next door keeps talking about ending us. And he has the keys to it right now.

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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

these are the worst vibes of my life the worst vibes of your life... so far

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Amrk @amrk.bsky.social · 17/09/2026

TIL Americans think mandate means landslide rather than just “winning power in a democratic election” and are very very mad about it

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Evan Boyce @evanboyce.ca · 18/09/2026

I’d be more willing to accept that it’s just about how we use this word differently if the weren’t multiple people in the replies, doubling down on “hurr Canada doesn’t get it or understand our politics”

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Evan Boyce @evanboyce.ca · 18/09/2026

“He didn’t win over 50% of the popular vote” umm okay? Did he win 100% of the executive power? As chosen by the American people through their democratic process? Does Kamala Harris have any involvement in the White House? Who’s on first?

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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 · 16/09/2026

incredible stuff here. I've noticed that the line 1 trains frequently miss their vinyl floor door markings, so this is the same basic problem. I thought upgraded ATC was supposed to allow trains to stop in the same place every time?

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Evan Boyce @evanboyce.ca · 15/09/2026

No idea what to make of this race so far. Erhahart is Fletcher's anointed successor with no clear policy differences, not super inspiring. Saxe, this is a silly move to pull and I doubt it works. Fragedakis, really? Who is the best housing candidate? Most posted platforms don't even mention zoning.

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Evan Boyce @evanboyce.ca · 15/09/2026

"your ineffective resistance to Doug Ford will pale in comparison to my strategy: smiling and happily agreeing to help him do whatever he wants"

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Evan Boyce @evanboyce.ca · 14/09/2026

I blame the way the NYT covered the trucker convoy. That shit was infuriating.

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Evan Boyce @evanboyce.ca · 11/09/2026

it's awesome that Chretien is 92 and still has this much juice. Trump is more than a decade younger and can barely string a coherent sentence together

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Evan Boyce @evanboyce.ca · 11/09/2026

this makes sense, because Brad has thoughtfully rebranded himself as a Bonservative politician, making him the clear choice for Bonservative voters who are looking to bring some common-sense Bonservative policies back to City Hall

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Evan Boyce @evanboyce.ca · 11/09/2026

We can learn from Ukraine on this one: huge nets

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ryan cooper @ryanlcooper.com · 09/09/2026

wind turbines gotta be one of the most beautiful industrial products ever made www.youtube.com/watch?v=Vd40...

youtube.com

91m Up: The View from a Giant Wind Turbine

YouTube video by Electrify This

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Evan Boyce @evanboyce.ca · 09/09/2026

Best they can do is another restriction on utility scale solar projects

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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 · 31/08/2026

“I hope this email finds you…” nope, sorry, not today! I am invisible to your email!

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Evan Boyce @evanboyce.ca · 31/08/2026

Outlook been down half the day for anyone else? An eerie false silence has descended over the inbox…

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Evan Boyce @evanboyce.ca · 29/08/2026

the massive blue circle including everyone except Vatican City is the funniest part of this diagram (UN members)

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Evan Boyce @evanboyce.ca · 28/08/2026

It’s impossible to fully describe how nice this feels, you just have to experience it

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Evan Boyce @evanboyce.ca · 26/08/2026

I recall people thinking during 2024 that because we had CUSMA, which was “his deal”, we would be spared from any significant new tariffs. Seems quaint in retrospect.

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Evan Boyce @evanboyce.ca · 25/08/2026

slamming my fist on the table like j jonah jameson demanding pictures of construction sites

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Evan Boyce @evanboyce.ca · 24/08/2026

I saw some pretty big ones along the west railpath last time I was there, but this one is definitely larger. I’ll also see them randomly growing quite large in unkempt front yards

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Evan Boyce @evanboyce.ca · 24/08/2026

Ever since I learned about what tree of heaven is (from fighting one in my own backyard) I now notice them everywhere in the city, and I hate it

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Evan Boyce @evanboyce.ca · 24/08/2026

It's starting to hone in on just east of Ossington between Bloor and Dundas as the "best" neighbourhood, which makes a lot of sense to me

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Aaron Huertas @aaronhuertas.bsky.social · 22/08/2026

Every subsequent U.S. president who tries to do a modicum of good via foreign policy or trade is going to be sitting across from someone thinking yeah sure, okay, but what about the next guy. Absent political reforms, tribunals and truth and reconciliation, that credibility is gone forever.

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Evan Boyce @evanboyce.ca · 23/08/2026

Yeah, the idea things go back to normal if trump is gone or there’s a dem president or congress is basically cope. Maybe it gets better for a few years, but eventually these dudes will get some amount of power again and it’ll come roaring back. GOP is poisoned all the way through

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Evan Boyce @evanboyce.ca · 23/08/2026

Please add extra counter tariffs on whatever Ohio exports to Canada as a special gift for this chud

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Evan Boyce @evanboyce.ca · 23/08/2026

Most Albertans know, but the separatists want to be taken over by the US. They make hand-wavey efforts to pretend it's about independence but they're as MAGA as it gets and want in on it. They downplay it to try for votes from less hardline types who just want to "send a message to Ottawa".

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Evan Boyce @evanboyce.ca · 23/08/2026

I know many of us would like to see this but I expect oil is the very last lever the Feds will pull with Alberta separatism on a ballot in the next 2 months

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