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Michael Wheeler

@michaelcwheeler.bsky.social
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Assistant Professor, Director, Curator for work. Other stuff like progressive politics and sports for fun.

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Michael Wheeler @michaelcwheeler.bsky.social · 06/10/2026
I don't have expertise in this area, while i do understand the difference between annual operating and building something new. Without this expertise, it seems rather obvious that taxpayers could get better value for $70B than slightly faster trains in 25 years.
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Michael Wheeler @michaelcwheeler.bsky.social · 06/10/2026
The annual budget of VIA is $1.6B The current projected cost of ALTO is $60B-$90B. I am not a rail expert but 50x your annual budget seems like enough to fix some things that worked much better 30 years ago.
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Michael Wheeler @michaelcwheeler.bsky.social · 06/10/2026
It's enough to fix VIA twice, a rail service that reliably got me TO -MTL in 4 hours in the 90s. we called in the 5 to 9er.
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Michael Wheeler @michaelcwheeler.bsky.social · 06/10/2026
Given where the price tag is already at, and if we use other government-led large rail projects in Toronto and Ottawa to project what those costs will really be, it's just an insane amount to make it 3 hours instead of 5:30 TO to MTL.
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Michael Wheeler @michaelcwheeler.bsky.social · 06/10/2026
TBH i don't remember other than on this platform or maybe FB... I just copied the image and pasted it in.
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Michael Wheeler @michaelcwheeler.bsky.social · 06/10/2026
It would def read more like Brad Ford. Brad's an OK guy once you get to know him.
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Michael Wheeler @michaelcwheeler.bsky.social · 05/10/2026
Nice Work. Did you also look at if the last Ford is Blue?
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Michael Wheeler @michaelcwheeler.bsky.social · 05/10/2026
Maybe there's one more brother? He cut his teeth at Deco before a year-long gap on the resume and a transition to working as a consultant to developers working on brand and business development. Brad Ford. He still like to hang at Kelsey's even tho his friends are banned.
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Michael Wheeler @michaelcwheeler.bsky.social · 05/10/2026
Sweet. A great choice. Bring Back World Stage Gideon!
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Michael Wheeler @michaelcwheeler.bsky.social · 05/10/2026
The enthusiasm gap between federal liberals and regular ppl for this v expensive project is large.
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Michael Wheeler @michaelcwheeler.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
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Michael Wheeler @michaelcwheeler.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
The people on charge of AI are so obviously myopic, smart in one specific way that allowed them to maximize shareholder value, while also having extremely limited broad intelligence, that they are clearly not acting in the public interest. Maybe AI is cool? Hard to know with this crew in charge.
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Michael Wheeler @michaelcwheeler.bsky.social · 25/09/2026
While we're at it - stop talking about trading RJ. Chip #2 he's part of this. "I got you Scott" as Scotte dribbled it up at end of Game 6. Always downhill, always aggressive. One of us. One of us.
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Michael Wheeler @michaelcwheeler.bsky.social · 25/09/2026
The reason I'm excited about Kawhi has nothing to do with nostalgia and everything to do with watching the first half of West Coast games last year after kids go to bed. He's stll very, very good. Different now, less athletic, but a better shooter (and Steph level FTs). Mama here comes that cyborg.
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Michael Wheeler @michaelcwheeler.bsky.social · 23/09/2026
That's an elite 'indie' producing team - which is going to be the mindset required to reboot vs PACT institutional vibes.
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Michael Wheeler @michaelcwheeler.bsky.social · 23/09/2026
Sascha Cole as Artistic Producer with Kevin Matthew Wong maybe Factory's not done yet ppl.
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Michael Wheeler @michaelcwheeler.bsky.social · 21/09/2026
Being right about Apple scrapping its launch of airpods with cameras in them has me ready to make a new prediction: 3 times this week i have heard the assertion "agentic AI will be a trillion dollar consumer industry by 2030". Absolute nonsense. The tech is incredibly unpopular with consumers.
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Michael Wheeler @michaelcwheeler.bsky.social · 18/09/2026
I'm so old I remember when Chris Alexander was a thoughtful and well-respected diplomat. Now he's the guy who promoted a racist government snitch line as Minister and ran for mayor on *checks notes* raising TTC fares.
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Michael Wheeler @michaelcwheeler.bsky.social · 16/09/2026
Cool news but also keep it on the DL until after the Alberta referendum. Thx so much.
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Michael Wheeler @michaelcwheeler.bsky.social · 12/09/2026
related. bsky.app/profile/fact...
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Michael Wheeler @michaelcwheeler.bsky.social · 12/09/2026
Hard to imagine a bigger win for Carney than a border state team singing O Canada @ opening game of NFL season in an election year. Nothing, absolutely nothing, impacts the American zeitgeist more than football. www.cbc.ca/news/canada/...
cbc.ca
Buffalo Bills home opener to 'celebrate' Canada, U.S. with both anthems as trade war escalates | CBC News
Amid a trade war that includes President Donald Trump's threats to Canadian sovereignty and his vow to ban imports of several Canadian products to the U.S., the NFL's Buffalo Bills have made an unexpe...
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Michael Wheeler @michaelcwheeler.bsky.social · 11/09/2026
This is a very theatre professor thing to tweet, but looking back at what David Mamet had to offer theatre, Practical Aesthetics completely overshadows every text but one, and even that one is not aging well.
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Michael Wheeler @michaelcwheeler.bsky.social · 09/09/2026
The best thing about having a social media account is having a place to show you were right about something. www.theapplepost.com/2026/09/09/7...
theapplepost.com
Apple’s camera-equipped AirPods were reportedly meant to launch today, but have been delayed
Apple reportedly came close to introducing a much more ambitious version of AirPods at its “Surprise and shine” event today, with plans for earbuds equipped with cameras said to have been pushed back ...
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Rodney 🚧🚇 @chanface.bsky.social · 08/09/2026
Ford wants to make it unsafe for this family to bike.
Parents and children biking at bloor and Brunswick
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Michael Wheeler @michaelcwheeler.bsky.social · 07/09/2026
I don't love how this is shaking out for Canada. Dems want the midterms to be about Canada because it is a clear cost-of-living argument in Red states they need to flip. Trumpists want the same because they like the macho we can kick the cat around vibes after Iran the fiasco. Stakes is high.
thehill.com
Trump posts map with American flag emblazoned over Canada, Greenland, Mexico
President Trump posted a map with an American flag covering most of North America, as well as Iceland and islands in the Caribbean, on Monday morning, a post that follows his previous pushes to tak…
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Michael Wheeler @michaelcwheeler.bsky.social · 07/09/2026
Grabbing a couple of hours in the evening where I don't have kids to get some work done and Outlook is putting AI generated prompts into where I find emails prompting me to "wrap up my day" and when you click it is a bunch of nonsense about summarizing things i don't need summarized. Thx guys.
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Michael Wheeler @michaelcwheeler.bsky.social · 05/09/2026
From the Hamilton sub I wonder what the spending limit for a by-election is? Libs dropped 10K on FB to claim only they could win before coming a distant 3rd. www.reddit.com/r/Hamilton/c...
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Michael Wheeler @michaelcwheeler.bsky.social · 02/09/2026
While it is not becoming to celebrate the misfortune of others... Before Raps won it all in 2019 the Clippers were really pushing the envelope sending execs to EVERY GAME he played trying to illegally recruit him as a Raptor. Unsurprising they went along with Uncle Dennis. Anyhow, 10 1st Rd Picks!
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Michael Wheeler @michaelcwheeler.bsky.social · 02/09/2026
As I return to Toronto.
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Michael Wheeler @michaelcwheeler.bsky.social · 01/09/2026
kinda chic to move back to a place where the government is obsessively working to make life less safe for me and my family.
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John Michael McGrath @jm-mcgrath.bsky.social · 30/08/2026
"we should rename Mar-a-Lago something funny, make Google display that" My brother in Christ, the Ontario legislature can declare Google's workers in Ontario to be unionized and assign their collective labour rights to whichever union will be most militant, think bigger
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Michael Wheeler @michaelcwheeler.bsky.social · 27/08/2026
If nothing else, all of this has justified my longtime interest in US politics. Our politics is your politics, we just don't get to vote.
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Michael Wheeler @michaelcwheeler.bsky.social · 25/08/2026
You can't afford to take VIA unless it's for work - but you can't use it to get to work because you have no idea when you will get there. There is no use case for rail travel in this country.
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Michael Wheeler @michaelcwheeler.bsky.social · 25/08/2026
This is succinct, and sums up why as a Canadian i'm consuming news hourly all of a sudden. Did i even watch the TV news once when we negotiated CUSMA? No. Did I watch it the last 4 days? Yes. Tariffs are a cypher for will we become a client state of a country run be the actual worst people.
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Michael Wheeler @michaelcwheeler.bsky.social · 24/08/2026
I'm sure Ford thinks this is an appropriate move for his 'tell it like it is' brand, but he has a responsibility to the people of Ontario to act at a higher standard in a crisis. This is not a hash dealer running for student council.
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Michael Wheeler @michaelcwheeler.bsky.social · 22/08/2026
Canada is making a big deal about how united we are - but we have a Provincial Premier and a sitting opposition MP working for the other side.
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Michael Wheeler @michaelcwheeler.bsky.social · 22/08/2026
Jamil Jivani is opening up an interesting discussion about what constitutes treason in Canada. We have the VP of an adversary country promoting his interference in negotiations our PM has characterized as an "attack" and he is a sitting Opposition MP saying this: nationalpost.com/news/canada/...
nationalpost.com
Jivani calls Carney's dollar-for-dollar tariff response an 'overreaction' that will 'accelerate conflict'
Conservative MP Jamil Jivani says that Prime Mark Carney is erring in trying to "accelerate conflict" with the U.S., following the collapse
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Michael Wheeler @michaelcwheeler.bsky.social · 22/08/2026
It's gonna be really nice in 10 years, and I appreciate the care given to indigenous plant species, but it does illustrate a tension in design when a core element takes a decade to manifest. Didn't leave mad, more contemplative -
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Michael Wheeler @michaelcwheeler.bsky.social · 22/08/2026
We were excited to go... but there is no shade and the kids lasted 10 minutes.
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Michael Wheeler @michaelcwheeler.bsky.social · 22/08/2026
Carney told reporters 3 major changes the US position late were: 1 Still big tariffs on trucks. 2 Limit other trade deals. 3 Reduced protections for culture and identity. I can't imagine any scenario Mark Carney agrees to number 2, and so that leads me to wonder if it was a deliberate poison pill.
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James Andrew Smith @drsmith.bsky.social · 22/08/2026
Canadian universities, colleges and public school boards need to find non-American software suppliers. We need alternatives to Meta, Google and Amazon.
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Michael Wheeler @michaelcwheeler.bsky.social · 22/08/2026
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Michael Wheeler @michaelcwheeler.bsky.social · 22/08/2026
Because we're only a few hours from understanding the US Canada trade deal, my personal opinion on what is important is that the auto industry is doomedeither way and fossil fuels will ruin the planet, while digital sovereignty will continue to grow in importance over time.
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Michael Wheeler @michaelcwheeler.bsky.social · 22/08/2026
Today I took my kids to the pool in Ottawa and the municipal government charged me $28.50. Last week I took my kids to the pool in Toronto and the municipal government charged me $0.
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Michael Wheeler @michaelcwheeler.bsky.social · 21/08/2026
Honestly, this guy is such a jerk, so willing to leverage and boost our worst impulses to gain power, that I would like the hazing ritual to last 2 years minimum. The political culture would benefit if he leaves a broken politician. A cautionary tale. www.theglobeandmail.com/opinion/arti...
theglobeandmail.com
Opinion: The humiliation of Pierre Poilievre continues
After losing yet another MP from his caucus, the Conservative Leader is looking awfully weak
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Michael Wheeler @michaelcwheeler.bsky.social · 21/08/2026
I showed these mascots to my 6 and 9 year old, both of whom attended the Tempo's first ever win, and their emphatic response was these were the worst mascots they had ever seen. www.cbc.ca/news/enterta...
cbc.ca
'NOT it': Some fans cry foul over new Toronto Tempo mascots | CBC News
The Toronto Tempo of the WNBA revealed their much-anticipated mascots this week, but many fans aren’t rushing to give them a hug. Some commentators online see Dez the snapping turtle and Dot the arcti...
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Michael Wheeler @michaelcwheeler.bsky.social · 20/08/2026
U had 1 job
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Michael Wheeler @michaelcwheeler.bsky.social · 20/08/2026
Just here to make this prediction: The new AirPods with cameras in them will be cancelled before they become comerically available. Meta didn't do enough to avoid the 'glasshole' problem with their glasses and secret cameras are not kewl. Apple doesn't need how toxic this is for brands right now.
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Michael Wheeler @michaelcwheeler.bsky.social · 18/08/2026
IMO Kevin Matthew Wong 4 Factory is a pretty good choice. Tough gig, but whereas before I was sceptical, now I am intrigued bordering on hopeful.
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Ben Collins @bencollins.bsky.social · 12/08/2026
Poll results vs. how poll results are presented in the Wall Street Journal.
Zohran with a 69% approval to 24% approval, highest favorably for a New York Mayor since LaGuardia announced the free candy and handjobs for all program.WSJ: Mamdani’s Honeymoon With New York is Over
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