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Barney Panofsky's Best Intentions @mynamesnotgordy.bsky.social · 19h
Local man says after eight years of the current government's fumbling and inaction people can believe he's fighting hard to make things better.
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🦋 Frankie 🦋 @frankiemillie10.bsky.social · 09/10/2026
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Barney Panofsky's Best Intentions @mynamesnotgordy.bsky.social · 08/10/2026
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Barney Panofsky's Best Intentions @mynamesnotgordy.bsky.social · 08/10/2026
Local government spends millions on advertising telling taxpayers why they shouldn’t be bothered by 17-hour wait times in their local ER - if their local ER hasn’t already been shut down by local government’s cost cutting on healthcare.
thetrillium.ca
Ontario Health Ministry spent $13.3M on advertising last year
Newly released records bring advertising spending identified by The Trillium to more than $90M across five ministries
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Mike Schreiner @mikeschreiner.bsky.social · 08/10/2026
Tuesday will be a sad day for Ontario. Ford's government is taking us backwards, spending millions taking away bike lanes in Toronto when people across Ontario desperately need money for hospitals, housing, schools and infrastructure.
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Tom Flood @tomflood.bsky.social · 08/10/2026
This is who we share the roads with. So please stop the “cyclists are so dramatic” bullshit.
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The Biking Lawyer LLP @thebikinglawyer.bsky.social · 08/10/2026
TW Last week our client was cycling in Hamilton. He passed James Newlands in his grey pickup truck. Words were exchanged, Newlands sped unsafely past our client then brake checked. Shocking video confirmed Mr. Newlands intentions & shed light on this terrible incident of road rage 1/3
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randy39.bsky.social @randy39.bsky.social · 08/10/2026
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Barney Panofsky's Best Intentions @mynamesnotgordy.bsky.social · 08/10/2026
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Bueller? Ferris Bueller's Day Off Scene
ALT: Bueller? Ferris Bueller's Day Off Scene
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Brent Toderian @brenttoderian.bsky.social · 05/10/2026
READ: “If bike lanes were actually removed today, the premier would lose his scapegoat. How would he then explain worsening motor traffic congestion – an outcome that’s virtually assured given a growing population and his measures to induce driving by making it cheaper…” Via @spacing.bsky.social
spacing.ca
OP-ED: It’s not just about bike lanes - Spacing Toronto
Whether it’s buck-a-beer, easier access to alcohol, or tunnelling under Highway 401, Doug Ford has proven himself to be a master of distraction, diverting attention from his government’s failures and ...
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Barney Panofsky's Best Intentions @mynamesnotgordy.bsky.social · 06/10/2026
Maybe Doug Ford can tear up some bike lanes to get this pesky bit of traffic congestion all cleared up?
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Brent Toderian @brenttoderian.bsky.social · 06/10/2026
Seriously, watch and share this.
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Bruce Springsteen @brucespringsteen.net · 05/10/2026
Power To The People Festival. October 3, 2026. 📸: Liz Baummer
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Matt Dawson @mattdawson.bsky.social · 05/10/2026
Tuberville night be the dumbest of them all. He was shit coaching football and he's an even worse human being.
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randy39.bsky.social @randy39.bsky.social · 04/10/2026
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Paul Marvin @paulmarvin.bsky.social · 03/10/2026
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4fuxake @blueheartedly1.bsky.social · 03/10/2026
Love this 👇
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Brent Toderian @brenttoderian.bsky.social · 03/10/2026
To carry 50,000 people per hour in each direction, a city needs a 175m wide road for cars. Even if those cars are electric. And then there’s all the parking. OR a city can move A LOT MORE people in a lot less space, with A LOT LESS public money, emissions, pollution, noise etc. Choices. Simple.
Graphic showing a single lane 9 m wide track for metros, a 35 m wide road for buses with four lanes, and a 175 m wide road for cars with seven lanes, making the point that one single track of Metro replaces seven lanes of car traffic. Mobility in cities is about space.
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Dr. Merri 🐸 @merri24.bsky.social · 02/10/2026
I am going to hunt down this brewery and buy every can 😎
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ebisback.bsky.social @ebisback.bsky.social · 02/10/2026
Exactly 😤😡
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Cycle Toronto @cycletoronto.bsky.social · 30/09/2026
Bike lanes save lives. Thanks to the nearly 1,000 folks who came out to Friday's Critical Mass ride to Etobicoke where the province intends to start removing the bike lanes "immediately". 📸: Joshua Best
Nearly 1,000 cyclists along Bloor at Critical Mass
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Sukie 💙🇺🇸🇺🇦🌊 @froggybottompond.bsky.social · 30/09/2026
''I'd like to go ahead and solve it. The Atlanta Hawks.''
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Rebecca Solnit @rebeccasolnit.bsky.social · 30/09/2026
Time for this classic again.
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Pat G🇨🇦 🍁🏳️‍🌈🍉 @pguist.bsky.social · 01/10/2026
🇨🇦 🙋‍♀️
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Mark Hamill @markhamillofficial.bsky.social · 30/09/2026
That expression you have while witnessing spectacular incompetence.
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Matt Dawson @mattdawson.bsky.social · 01/10/2026
Is there not one Republican senator this is not an asshole or are they all dicks? And half-wits? What an embarrassing group of people.
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Matriarchy Now @matriarchy.now · 29/09/2026
Do not teach your daughter what to wear, where to go, how to dress up and blah blah blah…
Teach your son to respect her!
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Tom Flood @tomflood.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
parents talk to your sons about what is going on. It is your job to guide them and for them to hear from you and understand the importance of their presence to stand up for what is right especially in the face of everyone doing wrong.
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Mike Schreiner @mikeschreiner.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
Removing bike lanes is not going to help congestion. This government is spending millions of dollars making roads less safe and removing infrastructure, rather than building for the future.
spacing.ca
EXCLUSIVE: Inside the contract to rip out Toronto's bike lanes - Spacing Toronto
After the Ontario Court of Appeal (ONCA) shot down CycleTO’s legally innovative charter challenge that sought to stop Doug Ford’s attack on the city’s bike lanes, Queen’s Park wasted little time befor...
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M Meerkat @kackbro.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
THIS 👇 HERE IS SICKENING......
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Peter Flax @pflax1.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
Tens of millions of American motorists believe there's nothing wrong with texting at a stoplight. Or driving 73 in a 60mph zone. Or changing lanes without signaling. Or rolling right on red without coming to a full stop. But somebody has to do something about cyclists who don't follow the rules.
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Barney Panofsky's Best Intentions @mynamesnotgordy.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
Local health minister says wait times for wealthy people way down since her government started focussing on bringing down wait times for wealthy people.
cbc.ca
Wait times for most priority surgeries in Ontario have increased since 2017, study says | CBC News
Wait times for most of the province’s publicly funded priority surgeries and procedures have increased between 2017 and 2025, according to a study released Monday.
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Tom Flood @tomflood.bsky.social · 27/09/2026
You take our bike lanes, we take the road. Toronto showed up Friday night. 📸 @geoffreybercarich via Instagram
Cyclists taking the lane stretching kms of a city street
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Tom Flood @tomflood.bsky.social · 26/09/2026
Looking forward to this one in Minneapolis next month. Getting these two kids to school is what got me into this mess in the first place.
Me and my two kids when they were young with our bikes 

KEYNOTE
2026 Safe Routes to School
National Conference Minneapolis • OCT 20th*
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ebikes-international @ebikesinternatl.bsky.social · 26/09/2026
Another Huge Turnout of Cyclists for Critical Mass Ride in Toronto in Support of Bike Lanes #safecycling #saferroads tinyurl.com/4akerdcd
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Tom Flood @tomflood.bsky.social · 24/09/2026
You take the lanes, we take the road.
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Jamie MacKinnon🇨🇦 @jamiemackinnon.bsky.social · 24/09/2026
Removing Toronto's key bike lanes will result in more cyclist deaths. That much is certain. It will also cost $48 Million for removal & $27 Million in "sunk" costs (losing the initial taxpayer investment) plus further "unaccounted costs." #ONpoli #cycling #cars globalnews.ca/news/1085115...
globalnews.ca
Toronto’s bike lanes cost millions to install. How much will it be to remove them? | Globalnews.ca
The province has confirmed plans to remove bike lanes from Bloor Street, University Avenue and Yonge Street as part of new legislation.
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David Coletto @davidcoletto.bsky.social · 24/09/2026
New Ontario polling we did finds a pretty clear preference for local decision-making. 64% say municipalities should decide where bike lanes are located on local roads. That’s the majority view in every region of Ontario. sharetheroad.ca/news/64-of-...
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Tom Flood @tomflood.bsky.social · 23/09/2026
This event last night was unbelievable. Truly can’t believe how many people came out and just how passionate and energized people are here. Dublin and the people here are officially the greatest.
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Push The Needle @pushtheneedle.bsky.social · 22/09/2026
The meme I started is being replicated and now is using Seattle area coffee shops. So proud
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Jon Cooper @joncooper-us.bsky.social · 19/09/2026
The funniest joke ever. 😂
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1gypsy (🎵I/me/me/mine🎵) 🦋 @theonegypsy.bsky.social · 19/09/2026
That's pretty funny.
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Matt Dawson @mattdawson.bsky.social · 19/09/2026
I thought @harvard.edu would be more progressive than this. Perhaps they hired a conservative undergrad to hang the sign.
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Brent Toderian @brenttoderian.bsky.social · 19/09/2026
READ THIS: How Amsterdam became the bicycle capital of the world. In the 1960s, Dutch cities saw cars as the transport of the future. It took the intolerable toll of child traffic deaths —and fierce activism— to turn #Amsterdam into the urban biking nirvana of today. It took vision and leadership.
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How Amsterdam became the bicycle capital of the world
In the 1960s, Dutch cities were increasingly in thrall to motorists, with the car seen as the transport of the future. It took the intolerable toll of child traffic deaths – and fierce activism – to t...
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Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 18/09/2026
Trumpers, famous opponents of border walls
Every communist country eventually builds a wall. It's never to keep people OUT.
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Jenny Lee Shee @jennyleeshee.bsky.social · 16/09/2026
If you see someone at your child’s school wearing red (#ETFO) or purple (#CUPE) today it’s because they care about public education and how this govt’s intentional underfunding is affecting students. P.S. We’ve been working without a contract since August 31. #OntEd #RedForEd #UnionStrong
Join the Province-Wide
DAY OF ACTION
to defend publicly funded education

On September 16, ETT Members are encouraged to wear their Red for Ed in solidarity with their colleagues across Ontario in a Day of Action to demand properly funded and fully staffed schools, better learning and working conditions, and real respect for teachers.
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Barney Panofsky's Best Intentions @mynamesnotgordy.bsky.social · 16/09/2026
Doug Ford announces today the Ontario government’s plan to purchase Pearson and turn the airport’s five runways into collector lanes for the 401. Ford went on to say Pearson flights will now land and take off from Toronto’s Bloor Street bicycle lanes.
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Brynley Heaven @brynleyheaven.bsky.social · 15/09/2026
Cops opposing cycleways on the grounds that bad people might use them [unlike roads, of course]
road.cc
Police oppose new cycle lane amid fears of “a highway for illegal e-bikes on drug runs” – but council insists area will be safer and avoid “mania” of local roads | electric bike reviews, buying advice...
Plans for a “fantastic” new cycleway have been approved by councillors, despite opposition from the local police amid concerns about anti-social behaviour caused by illegal bike and motorbike users, w...
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Tom Flood @tomflood.bsky.social · 13/09/2026
Cannot wait for Fall. By far the greatest season to ride in.
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Barney Panofsky's Best Intentions @mynamesnotgordy.bsky.social · 12/09/2026
Area man says trade deal to be made two weeks after Iran war ends which is scheduled to end two weeks after $5000 cheques arrive for everyone who’s paying very little for gas right now.
ctvnews.ca
Trump says trade deal with Canada could come ‘fairly soon,’ U.S. has been ‘ripped off’ for 50 years
U.S. President Donald Trump predicted his administration could reach a trade deal with Canada 'fairly soon,' after repeating claims his country had been “ripped off” by its northern neighbour.
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