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Matt Clark

@packetlost.bsky.social
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Can’t resist a good chat about inducing urban density and making our cities more inclusive and efficient. 🇨🇦🍪💻🐈‍⬛🐕

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Matt Clark @packetlost.bsky.social · 06/10/2026
Great post by @fairvote.ca on the electoral reform stance of each Liberal leadership candidate. Click through to find out who is open to it and who firmly _opposes_ electoral reform (I expected better from these candidates!) www.fairvote.ca/ontariolible...
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Ontario Liberal Leadership 2026 - Where Do They Stand on Proportional Representation
Ontario Liberal leadership candidates - where do they stand on proportional representation?
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Matt Clark @packetlost.bsky.social · 29/06/2026
Canadian friends! I’m trying out gander (like bluesky but Canadian) and so far I’ve been very impressed! Their rigorous identity verification is great, I think disinformation bots will have a very hard time getting in. Here’s my profile, come on over! gander.social/profile/mcla...
gander.social
Gander: The Social Media You Want, Built in Canada
Fun, private, and ethical. We're changing the way social media is done around here, all without your personal data taking an unexpected trip down south.
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Matt Clark @packetlost.bsky.social · 09/04/2026
Trump ➡️ Epstein ➡️ Russia ➡️ Trump It’s not complicated.
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Matt Clark @packetlost.bsky.social · 08/04/2026
De Adder just never misses, it seems
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Matt Clark @packetlost.bsky.social · 23/03/2026
I can’t believe I’m quote tweeting Rachel Maddow, but she really has discovered a treasure trove here for those of us who still use old fashioned pre-A.I. searches.
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Lloyd Alter @lloydalter.bsky.social · 09/03/2026
I took Via Rail from Toronto to Ottawa and back. Not a big deal, you would think, except it took up two days of my life and cost me hundreds of dollars on top of the ticket. lloydalter.substack.com/p/train-brai...
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Train brain is an expensive affliction in Canada
Two days of my life are spent travelling 450 kilometres and back. That's just crazy in this day and age.
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Melissa Bowman @dtkmelissa.bsky.social · 02/03/2026
"People want to live in complete communities with easy access to transit, shops, and parks. These types of communities are good for health and happiness." #HappyCities
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Does density hurt happiness? — Happy Cities
Our new study says no.
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Matt Clark @packetlost.bsky.social · 14/02/2026
Some kind folks anonymously paid for my breakfast this morning. I was so surprised, nothing like that has happened to me before! I’m going to pay it forward the next two chances I get. The world needs a little more kindness, so why not. Also a great way to celebrate Valentine’s Day ❤️
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Matt Clark @packetlost.bsky.social · 30/12/2025
“Advocates for affordable housing usually find themselves in an uphill battle, but without a second thought cities have imposed requirements to ensure affordable parking
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Clare Blackwood @clareblackwood.bsky.social · 14/12/2025
lordy loo the internet is exhausting sometimes
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Matt Clark @packetlost.bsky.social · 08/12/2025
I love seeing my favourite worlds collide
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Matt Clark @packetlost.bsky.social · 07/12/2025
I think the government should make endless feeds illegal. Clip it at 20 or 50 items, refreshed twice a day or something. Doomscrolling needs to be regulated like other activities that are harmful to our society.
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Matt Clark @packetlost.bsky.social · 10/11/2025
Really happy to see B Ioannidis’ motion to reduce salt usage and eliminate “slip and fall” liability in order to protect our water supply. I hope this includes salt usage on roads which is far worse!
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Matt Clark @packetlost.bsky.social · 07/11/2025
Does anyone know why Kitchener installed a pedestrian island on Stirling Ave near CHCI and then removed it again a few months later? What is going on?
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Matt Clark @packetlost.bsky.social · 02/11/2025
Best article I’ve read in the G&M. Goes in depth on the challenges of building medium density residential in Canada. From second stairwell to FSR, to burdensome development fees and zoning, there is so much red tape that should be cut. (Free gift article) www.theglobeandmail.com/gift/ebf02b7...
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The era of the shoebox condo is over. Here’s how Canada can build livable apartments
Canada needs livable apartments to help fix the housing crisis. To do that, it must change the rulebook for both condos and rentals
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Tom Flood @tomflood.bsky.social · 24/10/2025
parking over everything.
a church and a parking lot

One of these places is considered a holy ground & untouchable that must be protected at all costs and only discussed with the utmost reverence - the other is a church.
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Matt Clark @packetlost.bsky.social · 18/08/2025
While scheduling an appointment to donate blood on blood.ca, my grammar eye suddenly started to twitch. Is the word "WHOM" officially dead in the English language? Can we bring it back? For that matter, is grammar still a thing in general or am I just behind the times as usual?
blood.ca with large banner saying "who's saving who" but with a petty orange "M" written in manually over the picture making the second "who" into a "whom".
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Matt Clark @packetlost.bsky.social · 14/05/2025
It seems wrong that it is illegal to pick or transplant trilliums but perfectly fine to bulldoze over them in Ontario. Developers should be required to save the plants when building, it's not too much to ask for our provincial flower I don't think.
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The Beaverton @thebeaverton.com · 10/05/2025
Rogers celebrates 20 years of higher than expected call volumes
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Rogers celebrates 20 years of higher than expected call volumes
TORONTO, ON – This week telecom giant Rogers Communications announced a record-breaking milestone - twenty straight years of customer service calls vastly exceeding what their meagre call centres can ...
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Matt Clark @packetlost.bsky.social · 10/05/2025
Just finished @astrokatie.com’s excellent book “The End of Everything”. As just a regular 💻 nerd it was a fascinating and approachable intro to some complex topics. Also the humour she brings to what could otherwise be a bit of a downer topic is a welcome counterbalance 🤗 thanks for writing, Katie!
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Matt Clark @packetlost.bsky.social · 09/05/2025
@22-minutes.bsky.social knocks it out of the park yet again with this Just Justin sketch. How does the same guy do both Poilievre and Trudeau so very well? Still such an amazing show after all these years. youtu.be/2Zdhb778Rig?...
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Justin Trudeau is adapting to everyday life... | This Hour Has 22 Minutes
YouTube video by 22 Minutes
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Matt Clark @packetlost.bsky.social · 09/05/2025
Hopefully one day we can add electric cars to the list of things made in Canada they we can “buy local”
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Ricky Gervais @mrrickygervais.bsky.social · 19/04/2025
If facts hurt your feelings, you need new feelings, not new facts.
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Matt Clark @packetlost.bsky.social · 19/04/2025
Well today this YIMBY is going to reluctantly put on his NIMBY hat. There is so much land in Kitchener that could be used more efficiently without destroying nature, there is no need to put Huron Natural Area at risk. To leave comments: calendar.kitchener.ca/default/Deta...
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Chris Glover @chrisgloverndp.bsky.social · 16/04/2025
🚨 Another Ontario Place scandal This morning The New York Times reported that Therme made false claims to get the deal. Therme claimed they ran spas across Europe. They don’t. They just stole another company’s name and logo. Ford is handing over our public parkland in a shady deal. #ONpoli
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Melissa & Chris Bruntlett @modacitylife.com · 13/04/2025
The COVID-19 pandemic offered new insights around the impact of the built environment on mental health, with the prevalence of the car in our cities and lives severely limiting our ability to create restorative spaces. Here are three takeaways for planners wanting to promote better mental health...🧵
A woman in a yellow shirt and blue skirt rides a bicycle along a cycle path in the Dutch countryside lined with tall trees, narrow creeks, and farmer's fields.
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Brian Doucet @briandoucet.bsky.social · 13/04/2025
www.thestar.com/opinion/star...
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Edward Keenan: There’s a lot to love about the newest solution to Toronto’s housing shortage. There’s only one thing to hate about it
This “missing middle” small apartment complex is exactly what every Toronto neighbourhood needs — and there may be no more of them built.
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Meredith Blunt 🇨🇦 @meredithblunt.art · 07/04/2025
@bfck.bsky.social and I have been hard at work! This will be Kitchener’s first celebration of #worldmigratorybirdday with World Migratory Bird MAY! We’re launching a month of bird friendly events and local shopping. Check out what we’ve got in the works🪶 bfck.waterlooregionnature.ca/events/list/
Advertisement for the month long programming my bird friendly Kitchener team and I have coming in May
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Matt Clark @packetlost.bsky.social · 07/04/2025
This is why we need CBC fully funded. We can’t trust corporate media because they don’t care about journalism, just the dollars.
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Matt Clark @packetlost.bsky.social · 05/04/2025
This is an important part of how we prevent what is happening in the USA from happening in Canada. An oligarch free media is essential to a democracy.
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Legion4it @legion4it.bsky.social · 05/04/2025
Republicans.
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Matt Clark @packetlost.bsky.social · 02/04/2025
This is why media that is not directly controlled by the oligarchs, like CBC, is so essential. A shame the USA has no equivalent.
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Rodney 🚧🚇 @chanface.bsky.social · 30/03/2025
Found this cool map of Intercity Electric Railways in Ontario inside a book at the BMV #RETVRN
Intercity electric railways of ontario
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Matt Clark @packetlost.bsky.social · 29/03/2025
Quiet posters is my new favourite feed. It prioritizes people whom I follow that don’t post very frequently. bsky.app/profile/did:...
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Matt Clark @packetlost.bsky.social · 29/03/2025
I have never been to a spa and I certainly don’t understand why my TAX DOLLARS are being spent on one. Articles like this don’t make me any happier with the whole situation. Surely there are better things for a government to invest in? Hospitals? Bike lanes? Or return our tax dollars??
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The Beaverton @thebeaverton.com · 25/03/2025
Poilievre insists not being aware of India helping his campaign just practice for not being aware of America helping his campaign
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Poilievre insists not being aware of India helping his campaign just practice for not being aware of America helping his campaign
OTTAWA - Amid revelations that India aided the leadership campaign of Conservative leader Pierre Poilievre, the opposition leader insists that having absolutely no idea about this will be great traini...
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Matt Clark @packetlost.bsky.social · 25/03/2025
How come striking CUPE employees can block transit depots preventing buses from functioning and nothing is done about it, but if they were to block an arterial road all hell would break loose? If the strikers want impact, block a road! GRT please address this or refund my pass.
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Matt Clark @packetlost.bsky.social · 22/03/2025
It would so funny if the navigation voice just audibly sighed in exasperation when you ignore the guidance forcing it to recalculate the best route.
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Matt Clark @packetlost.bsky.social · 22/03/2025
The only way to “fix” housing is to make that one big tough decision that every politician from every party dances around: is housing an investment or is it a shelter? IT CAN’T BE BOTH. This policy is just more of the same.
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Matt Clark @packetlost.bsky.social · 22/03/2025
“People’s opposition” is just be a cowardly way to get a voice because they are too afraid to add true electoral reform to their platform.
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Tom Flood @tomflood.bsky.social · 16/03/2025
I dream that one day our sidewalks will be as wide as our trucks.
A white truck parked on the road and sidewalk.
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Charlie Angus @charlieangus104.bsky.social · 09/03/2025
I am rarely at a loss for words and then someone sent me this song. I have written lots of songs about people. I never imagined that someone would write one about me. But it's not me that is worthy of celebration - it is the spirit of Canada that is rising. #elbowsup www.youtube.com/watch?v=2Uk6...
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Northern Knight
YouTube video by Pete Seagram
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Tom Flood @tomflood.bsky.social · 03/03/2025
The Bridge. Creative done with @thebikinglawyer.bsky.social
An unfinished bridge with a gap 

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"WE'RE NOT SEEING DRIVERS
USING THE NEW BRIDGE WE BUILT

CONNECTED NETWORKS ARE JUST AS IMPORTANT FOR PEOPLE ON BIKES AS THEY ARE FOR THOSE DRIVING
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Tom Flood @tomflood.bsky.social · 01/03/2025
Walkable.
a large parking lot of cars.
Any distance is walkable as long as it's from a parked car.
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Jakub Janovsky @rebel44cz.bsky.social · 28/02/2025
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Davedette @davedette.bsky.social · 01/03/2025
America figured out a way to enjoy the fruits of empire without suffering the toil of conquest, and we threw it away in a fit of piqué, because we no longer got to play at being conquerors
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James Davis Nicoll @jdnicoll.bsky.social · 28/02/2025
So, the first detail that caught my eye was that together the NPD and Liberals have more votes than the PCs, and the second that the Liberals got 50% more votes than the NDP and half the seats.
2025 Ontario election results, showing a massive PC win with a plurality of votes.
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Michael Druker 🇨🇦 @mdruker.app · 28/02/2025
Looking for silver linings
Kitchener Centre riding with 39% of polls reporting. Aislinn Clancy of Green Party of Ontario with 50% of the vote and Rob Elliott of PCPO at 26%
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