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Ontario Nurses’ Association @ontarionurses.bsky.social · 06/10/2026
Ford's plans to shift towards health care privatization is costing Ontarians more money and time! www.thestar.com/opinion/contributor… #onpoli #onhealth
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mica-micare.bsky.social @mica-micare.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
So in other words, it really does sound like we'll be paying MORE than $48M to let a (potentially American) firm disrupt major routes in downtown Toronto to tear out BRAND NEW infrastructure to make car congestion worse and further endanger vulnerable road users. spacing.ca/toronto/2026...
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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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...
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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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mica-micare.bsky.social @mica-micare.bsky.social · 18/09/2026
Carney is honestly a master propagandist.
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mica-micare.bsky.social @mica-micare.bsky.social · 18/09/2026
Despite the general love-in for Carney right now, I am convinced that he is essentially Stephen Harper with charisma and refuse to get on board. (I still support walking away from that US trade deal).
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David Ho @davidho.bsky.social · 05/09/2026
There are no valid reasons to oppose bike lanes. 🚴🏻‍♀️
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mica-micare.bsky.social @mica-micare.bsky.social · 04/09/2026
As someone who has been biking for a while, the only thing N American drivers hate more than a cyclist who breaks rules is a cyclist who follows them.
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Brent Toderian @brenttoderian.bsky.social · 12/07/2026
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...
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mica-micare.bsky.social @mica-micare.bsky.social · 12/07/2026
This is one of the many reasons why simply replacing gas cars with EVs is not a solution. (Yes, EVs should replace NECESSARY vehicles) but on the whole, basing cities around car driving just bad for us on multiple levels. futurism.com/health-medic...
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Learning What Substance Is Suspected of Causing Alzheimer's May Throw You Into an Existential Crisis
A surprisingly common substance was found to have a causal relationship with the kind of brain damage associated with Alzheimer's disease.
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The Beaverton @thebeaverton.com · 04/07/2026
Mark Carney promises to take climate change seriously once every other problem on Earth is solved
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Mark Carney promises to take climate change seriously once every other problem on Earth is solved
"Things are tough right now. And as the saying goes, ‘when the going gets tough, quit doing the hard stuff and just cling to what kind of worked in the past.'"
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Brent Toderian @brenttoderian.bsky.social · 11/11/2024
THREAD: I’m going to share this thread here to clearly state my perspective on electric vehicles, car dependency and better cities, for all those who frequently ask me about it, including media, elected leaders and many others. Here goes. Please share it frequently if you think it will help. 🧵#EVS
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mica-micare.bsky.social @mica-micare.bsky.social · 03/07/2026
It will never cease to amaze me how western nations can complain incessantly about how there are so many migrants and refugees and then go ahead and keep basing our economies on making parts of the globe totally unliveable through conflict, climate change, and pollution.
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Rachel Gilmore @rachelgilmore.bsky.social · 03/07/2026
CBC’s The National last night: Top story is the government announcing a new oil pipeline from Alberta and how it placated BC Then a story on the massive heatwave, storms and flooding in Ontario and Quebec Then a story on huge Manitoba flooding after they also dealt with tornadoes and rain 🫠
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Daniel Knowles @dlknowles.bsky.social · 09/06/2026
Everyone is *rightly* focusing on the crappy painted bike lane being the infrastructure failing that caused Riley O'Neil's death, but I do think another problem is the prevalence of enormous trucks doing the sorts of deliveries that in Europe would definitely be done by small vans
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mica-micare.bsky.social @mica-micare.bsky.social · 09/06/2026
I know that this article is a few years old but one of my first thoughts about any potential expansion of the island airport in Toronto is how close this park is to the islands. thenarwhal.ca/toronto-tomm...
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Tommy Thompson Park: Toronto’s accidental wilderness | The Narwhal
The land Tommy Thompson Park sits on, Leslie Spit, was never meant to be a park. But now it’s a huge opportunity to restore lost bird habitat
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James McLeod @jamespmcleod.ca · 09/06/2026
Everyone should submit their thoughts and concerns about the expansion of Billy Bishop to handle jets. No matter what questions the government is asking, it's not a done deal, and a flood of public backlash is much harder to ignore than a discouraged public that never raises its voice.
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mica-micare.bsky.social @mica-micare.bsky.social · 09/06/2026
As we go into the World Cup, I am trying to lean into the fact that one of the beautiful things about Toronto (and most major Canadian cities) is that whatever country wins whatever game, there's always a substantial community celebrating.
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TheTrillium.ca @thetrillium.bsky.social · 08/06/2026
Feds launch Billy Bishop consultation
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Feds launch Billy Bishop consultation
It comes after the Prime Minister announced he has not formed an opinion on plans to expand the airport
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Moira Donegan @moiradonegan.bsky.social · 07/06/2026
Poor and working men are meant to have women of their class to abuse and dominate as compensation for the exploitations and humiliations of capital. When you point out that allowing this is a violation of class solidarity working class women, you’re accused of siding with management’s interests.
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mica-micare.bsky.social @mica-micare.bsky.social · 07/06/2026
I would absolutely LOVE for my city/province to copy Montreal on this. It practically defeats the advanced walk/bike lights when some driver keeps rolling forward on their right turn without looking. I do live in Ontario tho and Ford would absolutely throw a fit if city council even discussed it.
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The War on Cars @thewaroncars.bsky.social · 03/06/2026
You laugh, but this is Elon Musk's idea of an innovative new transit system.
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mica-micare.bsky.social @mica-micare.bsky.social · 02/06/2026
This is a big part of why self-driving cars are so stupid imo.
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Brent Toderian @brenttoderian.bsky.social · 02/06/2026
This video camera study showed that less than 5% of people on bikes broke traffic laws while riding bikes, yet 66% of people did so while driving. And perhaps even more importantly, if you REALLY want even MORE bike-riders to obey laws, build more protected bike infrastructure. Via @carltonreid.com
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Cyclists Break Far Fewer Road Rules Than Motorists, Finds New Video Study
Busting the myth of the "scofflaw cyclist" Danish Road Directorate studies reveal that while 66% of motorists routinely break road traffic laws only 5% of cyclists do so. Law breaking by cyclists is h...
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mica-micare.bsky.social @mica-micare.bsky.social · 02/06/2026
The thing about the TPS always going after cyclists running stop signs is that FIRST it is actually safer to allow cyclists to do the Idaho (rolling) stop, and SECOND cyclists are simply not the cause of death and injury on our roads. We're just easy scapegoats.
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aj @strawberry.bsky.to · 27/05/2026
how did we go from “reduce your carbon footprint” to building data centers everywhere
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Paris Marx @parismarx.com · 26/05/2026
wild to turn on ctv and see the globe & mail’s queens park bureau chief calling steven guilbeault an environmental extremist. this country is so fucked on the climate front. mark carney is legitimizing a form of climate denial on all levels.
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mica-micare.bsky.social @mica-micare.bsky.social · 26/05/2026
One of my longest held hot-takes: I maintain that the cheapest, fastest, most effective solution to traffic and gridlock in cities is safe and accessible bike infrastructure. Casual exercise, improved environment, and reducing fossil fuel reliance all come as a bonus.
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Paris Marx @parismarx.com · 24/05/2026
looks like another consequence of carney’s cuts
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Weather experts concerned about public safety as Environment Canada disbands radar research team | CBC News
From hail sizes to wind speeds, weather radars help Environment and Climate Change Canada track storms and issue public warnings. But the organization has recently disbanded its radar research team. M...
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mica-micare.bsky.social @mica-micare.bsky.social · 23/05/2026
Finally started reading Life After Cars last night, only to put the book down and see that a pedestrian had been killed by a driver in my city yesterday.
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mica-micare.bsky.social @mica-micare.bsky.social · 22/05/2026
Honestly, I feel like Canada and the States are not prepared for how humiliatingly bad most of our transit infrastructure is compared to many other wealthy nations, and how on display that's going to be when we have visitors from the rest of the world for the World Cup.
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mica-micare.bsky.social @mica-micare.bsky.social · 21/05/2026
IMO Canada Post is one of those services that should never be privatized. While I understand that the world has changed and we don't send physical letters as much any more, I think it is still a vital connection for communities, which is easily cut by a private profit-driven entity.
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Lanrick Bennett @lanrickbennett.bsky.social · 18/05/2026
🛑 thinking that “bike lanes“ are just for “cyclist” Riding or rolling, people use this infrastructure to prioritize their safety as vulnerable road users from drivers. If your current or future elected municipal rep isn’t discussing NOW about expanding THIS, find someone else to VOTE for. #TOPoli
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Amanda Hu @amandalhu.bsky.social · 15/05/2026
As we prepare to huff wildfire smoke for another summer, I am not finding this new pipeline to be any consolation.
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mica-micare.bsky.social @mica-micare.bsky.social · 15/05/2026
The thing about the TTC is that despite its flaws, it's the most comprehensive and effective public transit system in Ontario (yes, I said what I said) and that is no thanks to Metrolinx. I also suspect that the provincial takeover is about hiking fares, cutting cost (service) and selling land.
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mica-micare.bsky.social @mica-micare.bsky.social · 14/05/2026
It's truly fascinating how drivers who live and drive in car-centric communities are always the worst at driving.
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Katelyn Burns @katelynburns.com · 12/05/2026
For my newsletter, I wrote about the 22 foot tall golden statue of Trump that was dedicated by a host of conservative religious leaders and went long on how some sects of prosperity gospel worshipping in American religion are corrupting this country. www.burnsnotice.com/the-evangeli...
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The Evangelical Trump Worship Just Took an Apocryphal Turn
Everything under Trump is Trump Worship, especially conservative sects of American religion In the Old Testament, Moses spent 40 days on Mt. Sinai, only descending once he had the ten commandments in...
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mica-micare.bsky.social @mica-micare.bsky.social · 11/05/2026
This article really speaks to me and how truly annoyed I am at the idea of people or organizations wasting my time with any kind of generated slop.
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Astra Taylor @astra.bsky.social · 08/05/2026
The anti-data center movement isn’t just about limiting local development—it represents a new front in the fight against tech-enabled authoritarianism. Where else can people push back on job-eating algorithms, distorting deep fakes, and autonomous drone strikes? www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...
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The fight against AI data centers isn’t just about tech – it’s about democracy | Astra Taylor and Saul Levin
Claims of nimbyism are a misunderstanding: the movement is about whether regular people have a say in fundamental decisions
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Michelle Cyca @michellecyca.com · 08/05/2026
personally I think it's a very big deal that the Canada bureau chief for the @nytimes.com — certainly one of the highest-paid journalists in the country — asked an unspecified "AI tool" what Poilievre said & published its AI-hallucinated quotes in her reporting.
Editors’ Note: May 1, 2026
This article was updated after The Times learned that a remark attributed to Pierre Poilievre, the Conservative leader, was in fact an A.I.-generated summary of his views about Canadian politics that A.I. rendered as a quotation. The reporter should have checked the accuracy of what the A.I. tool returned.  The article now accurately quotes from a speech delivered by Mr. Poilievre in April. He said, “My personal opinion is that when a member of Parliament goes back on the word they made to their constituents and switches parties, constituents should be able to petition to throw them out and have a byelection. That would put the people back in charge of our democracy rather than having dirty backroom Liberal deals by Mark Carney determine our destiny.” He did not refer to politicians who changed allegiances as turncoats in that speech.
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mica-micare.bsky.social @mica-micare.bsky.social · 28/04/2026
European tech sovereignty: cut the cord with US tech companies like Microsoft Canadian tech sovereignty: let's allow US tech companies to build data centres in our communities Carney talks big, but in action he's just been pro-corporation and selling it to us as """elbows up"""
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maimonides nutz @maimonidesnutz.bsky.social · 25/04/2026
This picture is more American than anything Norman Rockwell could have ever dreamed up
A picture of a large lifting truck that has run up the front of a sports car in a TJ Maxx parking lot
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mica-micare.bsky.social @mica-micare.bsky.social · 24/04/2026
The excitement I feel at European countries cutting the cord on US tech platforms is real, and I wish there was more talk about it here.
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mica-micare.bsky.social @mica-micare.bsky.social · 23/04/2026
I really truly hope that Waymo never gets to come to my city. I don't care how nifty they seem.
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Tom Flood @tomflood.bsky.social · 13/04/2026
City Hopeful Prioritizing The Car Will Alleviate Traffic Woes Despite 100 Years Of Evidence It Doesn't.
traffic on a highway.

City Hopeful Prioritizing The Car Will Alleviate Traffic Woes Despite 100 Years Of Evidence.
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mica-micare.bsky.social @mica-micare.bsky.social · 13/04/2026
Orban's loss was a breath of fresh air, but knowing that Vance, Wilders, and Le Pen were all there to help him campaign and he still lost just makes it all the sweeter.
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mica-micare.bsky.social @mica-micare.bsky.social · 12/04/2026
Does anyone else remember how the opposition to windmills (at least in Ontario) was built on the claim that it caused (silent/unmeasurable) vibrations for neighbours?
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Oh The Urbanity! @ohtheurbanity.bsky.social · 08/04/2026
“You’re not supposed to use your phone while driving.” “Got it. Let’s install large tablet touchscreens in almost every single new car.”
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The Beaverton @thebeaverton.com · 27/03/2026
Nation almost excited to see how bad Via Rail can get after Carney’s spending cuts (podcast)
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Nation almost excited to see how bad Via Rail can get after Carney's spending cuts
“It’s already running on old chewing gum and hope, so are we losing the chewing gum or the hope?” Luke and the Panel (Ian MacIntyre, Clare Blackwood and special guest Andrew Ivimey) recap Poilievre’s ...
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inthefade @ihavethatonvinyl.com · 25/03/2026
i'm seeing a lot of separate the art from the artist in regards to jk. i listen to a lot of music from people who are assholes. but none of the are bankrolling a war against an entire class of people in order to eradicate them from society, for fucks sake
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