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Will Richardson-Little

@wwrl.bsky.social
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Father, husband, mountain climber, e-bike evangelist, former space robot driver, flight director. He/him Tk'emlups / Kamloops

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Tiny Beaches @tinybeaches.bsky.social · 20/08/2026
“Justice Huscroft huffs that cyclists don’t have to use the roads that put them at risk. That’s not the point. The point is that in going about a lawful activity, people should not have their lives needlessly imperilled by the government. I emphasize: needlessly.” - Andrew Coyne, G&M Columnist
theglobeandmail.com
Opinion: No one ever said there was a constitutional right to bike lanes – just a right to fundamental justice
Ford government’s decision to remove Toronto bike lanes should be subject to Charter scrutiny
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Tabatha Southey🇨🇦 @tabathasouthey.bsky.social · 16/08/2026
Here’s a good thread by @michaelhobbes.bsky.social addressing much of this. Maybe ask yourself what actions we implicitly endorse when we label people “zombies.” bsky.app/profile/mich...
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Alex Bozikovic @alexbozikovic.bsky.social · 15/08/2026
The bike lane decision is extraordinary. The Ontario Court of Appeal flat out saying: more lanes make cars go fast and “induced demand” is just a theory. Aggressively hostile to 80 years of theory and empirical evidence. coadecisions.ontariocourts.ca/coa/coa/en/i...
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Max Fawcett @maxfawcett.bsky.social · 10/08/2026
Very good column by my colleague @jameswsthomson.com. If we aren't willing to call out the obvious, what chance do we have of actually addressing it?#cdnpoli www.nationalobserver.com/2026/08/07/o...
nationalobserver.com
The smoke that came from nowhere for no reason
The Globe and Mail published a jarring editorial that lamented our smoky summers without once pointing toward their cause. For Canada's paper of record, it's a serious omission of a reality the govern...
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My IRL friends call me Chris @christyceeck.bsky.social · 09/08/2026
"The Union of British Columbia Indian Chiefs is calling on Ottawa and Alberta's government to halt efforts to advance the West Coast pipeline, saying expanding the oil industry will accelerate climate change and disasters." #CdnPoli #AbPoli
The group said on Sunday, the International Day of the World's Indigenous Peoples, it also wants to reaffirm that it is against the pipeline because government has not consulted and co-operated in good faith with the First Nations.

It says government has already developed the project's corridor, named prospective development partners and is publicly promoting its economic case.
It says consultation is not meaningful when First Nations are invited only to discuss how a predetermined project will proceed.
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Anthony Floyd @anthonyfloyd.ca · 08/08/2026
These wildfires are huge. #BCWildfires www.arcgis.com/apps/instant...
A map showing the perimeters of the recent wildfires in BC
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Mike Flannigan @mikeflannigan.bsky.social · 08/08/2026
This is our climate change reality. BC is at the sharp end of the climate change spear in terms of fire in Canada. Graph below shows annual area burned in BC 1950-2026. Top 6 years have been since 2017 and BC has experienced more area burned during 2017-2026(red) as compared to 1950-2026 (green).
Annual area burned in BC 1950-2026. Recent years are ciffc data
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Tarnjit Parmar @tarnjitparmar.bsky.social · 08/08/2026
We are launching a live special right now across bc on cbc radio. Hearing from reporters im the area and residents that have been evacuated. We have the survival information you need to know.
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Tarnjit Parmar @tarnjitparmar.bsky.social · 08/08/2026
MORE on the Bald Range Wildfire. Please check on your friends, family, neighbours, community ..
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Full evacuation order of Summerland, B.C., issued due to out-of-control wildfire | CBC News
The Bald Range fire grew to 50 square kilometres in three hours after it was first detected at 5:30 p.m. PT on Friday evening, said Erick Thompson with the Regional District of Okanagan-Similkameen's ...
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Mike Flannigan @mikeflannigan.bsky.social · 08/08/2026
Fire K51490 just west of Lake Okanagan is exploding this evening. GOES-West geocolor loop below.
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Arno Kopecky @arnokopecky.bsky.social · 07/08/2026
Avi Lewis remains the only politician of any stature in Canada who's stated this obvious, essential fact.
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Joel Wood 🇨🇦 @joelwwood.bsky.social · 06/08/2026
Pretty crazy how much of the Thompson-Nicola Regional District has burned in the past 10 years. Kamloops is in the middle of the TNRD (Source: Michael Grenier on Facebook)
Map showing area burned (in red and orange) in past 10 years. These areas are about 1/4 to 1/3 of the area
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Max Fawcett @maxfawcett.bsky.social · 05/08/2026
This is genuinely astonishing: a piece by the Globe and Mail’s editorial board lamenting the “new normal” of wildfires and summer smoke and no mention whatsoever of a) climate change, or b) the burning of fossil fuels that causes it. #cdnpoli www.theglobeandmail.com/opinion/edit...
theglobeandmail.com
Globe editorial: A summer season of fire, smoke, ashes and fear
The carefree feeling of summers past has been incinerated as wildfires rage across the country
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Vision Zero Vancouver @visionzerovancouver.ca · 05/08/2026
"The impact of being hit by an e-scooter could certainly result in life-altering injuries or death, especially for seniors. But the solution is not to ban e-scooters, or to criminalize youth for being youth." Great letter with a lot of fantastic insights! www.nsnews.com/opinion/opin...
nsnews.com
Opinion: Cars are the biggest threat on the road, not kids on e-scooters
All the outrage we feel about teens weaving on e-bikes and scooters would be better spent figuring out how to keep massive motorized vehicles away from all other road users
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David Ho @davidho.bsky.social · 05/08/2026
Time Traveler Causes of Death xkcd.com/2976/
A modified XKCD comic titled "TOP CAUSES OF DEATH FOR TIME TRAVELERS BY GEOLOGIC ERA:" features a tall, vertical rectangle representing Earth's timeline from its formation down to the present day. Along the left axis, tick marks indicate time intervals from "EARTH FORMS" at the top down through "4 BILLION YEARS AGO," "3 BILLION YEARS AGO," "2 BILLION YEARS AGO," "1 BILLION YEARS AGO," "500 MILLION YEARS AGO," and ending at "NOW" at the bottom. The vertical column is divided into stacked sections labeling the leading cause of death for each period: beginning at the top with "LAVA," followed by a section for "ASPHYXIATION," a thin band for "METEORS," a large section for "ASPHYXIATION," an even larger block spanning roughly 2.2 billion to 700 million years ago labeled "SLIGHTLY SLOWER ASPHYXIATION," and then smaller bands near the bottom labeled "FREEZING," "STARVING," "EATEN BY FISH," "TRAMPLED," and "EATEN BY MAMMALS." Next to the very bottom sliver representing the present day, an arrow points to the text "HIT BY SUV."
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The Serfs (youtube.com/theserfstv) @theserfstv.bsky.social · 03/08/2026
Mark Carney has: -scrapped consumer carbon tax -scrapped oil/gas emissions cap -cut $1.3B from environment Canada -weakened industrial carbon pricing -axed 2 billion trees program -approved 1M barrels/day pipeline -weakened greenwashing laws While this is happening:
Five straight years warmer than anything observed before 2023 (Current record +1.53 degrees warming) en route to 2 degrees by 2030
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The Beaverton @thebeaverton.com · 30/07/2026
Shopify announces customers can use promo code PLUTOCRACY for 10% off all orders
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Shopify announces customers can use promo code PLUTOCRACY for 10% off all orders
TORONTO – In the wake of CEO Tobi Lutke endorsing an electoral system in which votes are allocated based on how much income tax you pay, e-commerce platform Shopify has announced that customers can pu...
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David Roberts @volts.wtf · 28/07/2026
Israel is giving Trump's former campaign manager millions of dollars to fill the internet with pro-Israel articles written by AI, not so that anyone will actually read them, but so that *LLMs will train on them* & regurgitate their perspective. This is the future of the information environment.
dropsitenews.com
Israel Is Paying Millions to Train AI Chatbots How to Talk About Gaza. It's Working.
Former Trump campaign manager Brad Parscale is overseeing an operation posting hundreds of blog posts on behalf of Israel, with the goal of infiltrating artificial intelligence.
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Andrew Kurjata @akurjata.ca · 28/07/2026
"Condolences poured in on Monday, remembering Coyle for his kindness, leadership, and dedication to helping others. "He gave countless hours to supporting families, raising awareness, advocating for change, and improving the response for vulnerable missing adults" www.cbc.ca/news/canada/...
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B.C. man who devoted nearly three decades to rescuing strangers dies in Squamish | CBC News
Michael Coyle had worked with Coquitlam SAR for years and helped many other teams in B.C.
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Andrew (🎃) @athomashemlock.bsky.social · 27/07/2026
The anti-data center movement is like "I don't want to pay more money for a thing that will not benefit me at all and will actively make my life measurably worse in a bunch of ways" and the pro-data center movement is like "We want it to be illegal for you to not like us."
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Prof. Stefan Rahmstorf @rahmstorf.bsky.social · 24/07/2026
Holiday in the climate emergency. No that’s not AI or edited, just a snapshot I just took with my phone on Lacanau beach in France. What future will this boy grow up in? It is in our hands, but time is running out.
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Joanne Hammond @joannehammond.bsky.social · 25/07/2026
Canada on fire. Top notch data visualization by CBC graphics.
A map of Canada where land is very light grey on white, and wildfire numbers and intensity are shown in red circles that get bigger as things get worse. There is a band of red circles (blood red to dried blood red) stretching NW to SE from northern Yukon to the top of the Great Lakes.

The text Wildfires in Canada
Out of control
Being held
Under control
Hectares
300K
100K
30K
Data last checked on July 24, 2026, at 6:30 p.m.
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Aaron Wherry @aaronwherry.bsky.social · 24/07/2026
Whoops
theglobeandmail.com
End of carbon tax rebates a financial hit for Canada’s poorest, research shows
Rebates were tax-free payments that compensated consumers for the cost of carbon taxes
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Paris Marx @parismarx.com · 24/07/2026
he’s gutting the public sector, he’s holding back on pharmacare deals, he tried to pull money out of daycare, he’s letting two-tier healthcare gain a foothold in alberta, and now he’s coming for public healthcare funding too
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Ryan Voutilainen @yvrwxwatcher.bsky.social · 22/07/2026
Some epic shots of Pyrocumulus clouds indicative of extreme fire behaviour associated with the wildfires near Boston Bar including a new start that’s threatening the main townsite. Seen from 125km away in Coquitlam BC! H/T 📸: @brad604.bsky.social #BCWildfire #BCStorm #BCStormWatch #BCWX
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Andrew Kurjata @akurjata.ca · 18/07/2026
Smoky skies have just one fix: stop burning fossil fuels www.cbc.ca/news/science...
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'Just stop burning fossil fuels.' Scientists stress that our smoky skies only have one true fix | CBC News
Smoky skies in Toronto have led to new scrutiny of government efforts to fight fires and manage forests. But scientists say the realistic way to tackle the smoke is fighting climate change itself.
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Luke LeBrun @lukelebrun.ca · 15/07/2026
Posted while First Nations communities in Northern Ontario are literally being incinerated and the skies above Canada’s biggest cities are glowing orange
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Katharine Hayhoe @katharinehayhoe.com · 15/07/2026
830 wildfires burning across Canada right now. And you know what’s going to make it worse in the future? More oil pipelines. This is why our voice and our vote matters.
A NASA map of the wildfires burning across Canada right now.
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Luke LeBrun @lukelebrun.ca · 15/07/2026
These photos of FNs community members fleeing their homes by boat are genuinely apocalyptic (Photo via Wayne Wastaken of Collins, Ontario, who says his “hometown is gone”) www.facebook.com/share/r/1ArN...
Photo via Wayne Wastaken

Fire clouds over Collins, Ontario as community members flee their homes by boat
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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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Cloe Logan @cloelogan.bsky.social · 25/06/2026
More than 100 Toronto locations that no longer have speed cameras are seeing a notable uptick in speeding since the devices were forcibly removed by the province. For @nationalobserver.com.
nationalobserver.com
Toronto sees speeding surge after camera removals
The data in a new report by city staff is “horrifying,” Mayor Olivia Chow said before a council meeting on Wednesday.
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Abbey @abbeyarletto.bsky.social · 23/06/2026
When reality surpasses fiction! Top: fictional forecast for August 2050, broadcast by French TV in 2014 to warn about the consequences of global warming. Bottom: Real French forecast for yesterday, June 22, 2026.
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Earthling @ziyatong.bsky.social · 21/06/2026
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@nluewmist / I’m finally reading Dune. This quote which in the first few pages hit hard; “once men turned their thinking over to machines in the hope that this would set them free. But that only let other men with machines to enslave them.”
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Yonah Freemark @yonahfreemark.com · 14/06/2026
The top 0.0001% worldwide control wealth equivalent to 17% of the world’s GDP, up from 4% in the mid-1990s www.nytimes.com/2026/06/09/b... Top 0.1% of Americans—135k households—have double the wealth of the bottom 90%—115 million households We’re sleep walking through an explosion in inequality
Wealth of the wealthiest as compared to the world
Economy
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Minor Leaguer @minorleaguer.ca · 13/06/2026
For those unaware, 500-level home runs at the Rogers Centre are so rare there's a section of it that lists all of them in the Toronto Blue Jays Media Guide.
ROGERS CENTRE 500 LEVEL HOME RUNS
Player Date Visiting Team Pitcher
Jose Canseco* Oct. 7, 1989 Oakland Mike Flanagan 480 (LF)
Mark McGwire July 25, 1996 Oakland Huck Flener 488 (LF)
Joe Carter** July 27, 1996 Oakland John Wasdin 483 (LF)
Carlos Delgado** July 19, 1998 New York (AL) Andy Pettitte 467 (RF)
Jose Canseco** Sept. 5, 1998 Boston Bret Saberhagen 451 (LF)
Jose Canseco April 12, 1999 Tampa Bay Graeme Lloyd 459 (LF)
Shawn Green** April 22, 1999 Anaheim Tim Belcher 449 (RF)
Manny Ramirez June 3, 2001 Boston Chris Carpenter 491 (LF)
Raul Mondesi** April 17, 2002 Boston Darren Oliver 456 (LF)
Josh Phelps** Aug. 29, 2002 New York (AL) Roger Clemens 455 (LF)
Josh Phelps** July 7, 2004 Seattle Julio Mateo 435 (LF)
Gary Sheffield July 28, 2004 New York (AL) Miguel Batista 440 (LF)
Vernon Wells** Sept. 16, 2004 Baltimore Rodrigo Lopez 445 (LF)
Jayson Werth June 27, 2009 Philadelphia Brad Mills 448 (LF)
Shelly Duncan May 31, 2011 Cleveland Jo-Jo Reyes 446 (LF)
Edwin Encarnacion** April 30, 2013 Boston Jon Lester 480 (LF)
Mike Napoli Aug. 26, 2014 Boston Sergio Santos 452 (LF)
Edwin Encarnacion** April 21, 2015 Baltimore Jason Garcia 460 (LF)
Alex Dickerson July 25, 2016 San Diego Bo Schultz 452 (RF)
Josh Donaldson** May 30, 2017 Cincinnati Asher Wojciechowski 435 (LF)
Austin Meadows April 12, 2019 Tampa Bay Trent Thornton 436 (RF)
Brandon Lowe April 12, 2019 Tampa Bay Trent Thornton 436 (RF)
Brandon Lowe July 25, 2024 Tampa Bay Chris Bassitt 414 (RF)
* Game 4 of the ALCS **hit as a Blue Jay
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Aaron Wherry @aaronwherry.bsky.social · 09/06/2026
Was struck by this from @sphillipsab.bsky.social in her commentary on the federal government's moves on AI and online harms. www.mbpintelligence.com/blog/carney-...
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Brett Bergie 🏳️‍⚧️ @brettbergie.bsky.social · 10/06/2026
"You can't be saying these deals are still compatible with net-zero by 2050. They're not. The deal is not compatible with it. "Just be honest with Canadians about this. If you are going to pass deals like this, be honest about the implications." www.cbc.ca/news/politic...
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'Be honest with Canadians': Ex-member of top climate body criticizes Alberta pipeline deal | CBC News
A former member of Canada's top climate body said the pipeline deal Canada signed with Alberta is incompatible with Carney government's net-zero target.
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Claire Beauchamp MD 🇨🇦 @clairebeauchampmd.bsky.social · 10/06/2026
@theglobeandmail.com Let’s not get sucked into the bullshit about “regulatory”. They want the taxpayer to pay because global oil demand is falling and there is no business case for another pipeline. @calgaryherald.com #abpoli
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David TS Fraser @privacylawyer.ca · 09/06/2026
As we anticipate a social media ban to be proposed by the Canadian government tomorrow, it's worth noting in the Charter of Rights: "everyone" includes young people and "media of communication" includes social media.
Fundamental freedoms

2 Everyone has the following fundamental freedoms: …

(b) freedom of thought, belief, opinion and expression, including freedom of the press and other media of communication;
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Jared Wade @jaredwade.bsky.social · 07/06/2026
Like the "surprise reversal" of the hole in ozone layer and the "false alarm" of Y2K. The lesson, as always, is that we can fix, or at least greatly diminish, almost any problem. If we actually want to.
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David Zipper @davidzipper.bsky.social · 16/04/2026
Three months after Ottawa removed its automatic safety cameras, the share of drivers following the speed limit plunged from 87% to 41%(!). "High-end speeding" is up 10x. Automatic enforcement saves lives. If you remove it, people will die.
globalnews.ca
‘A clear setback’: More drivers speeding in Ottawa with photo radar gone, city says - Ottawa | Globalnews.ca
The City of Ottawa says more drivers are speeding in school zones five months after the Ontario government shut off automated speed enforcement (ASE) cameras.
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Paris Marx @parismarx.com · 21/05/2026
Prediction markets as a social cancer. I was happy to have @jathansadowski.com back on the show to discuss everything that’s wrong with them and why we need to get serious about outlawing them again.
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Museum of Twitter @museum-of-twitter.bsky.social · 21/05/2026
@shutupmikeginn

its amazing how chatgpt knows everything about subjects I know nothing about, but is wrong like 40% of the time about things im an expert on. not going to think about this any further
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John Rogers @johnrogers.bsky.social · 21/05/2026
The bigger challenge is we have a handful of sociopaths who can circumvent and undermine democracy. We have no bigger challenge.
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Hypervisible @hypervisible.blacksky.app · 17/05/2026
“I don't understand what it's supposed to do. Every time I see a video on Instagram that's like, 'Hollywood is cooked,' what follows is, like, the most stupid dog shit I've ever seen in my life…”
hollywoodreporter.com
Seth Rogen Says If “Your Instinct Is to Use AI” to Write Scripts, “You Shouldn’t Be a Writer”
'The Studio' creator said people who are thinking about using the technology to aid their writing skills should try another occupation: "Go do something else."
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John Woodside @woodsideful.bsky.social · 15/05/2026
In just one year, Carney has wrecked a decade's worth of progress. The old climate strategy wasn't enough, but rather than strengthen it he dismantled every meaningful policy, stomped on the gas to deliver more fossil fuels, and concentrated power to run roughshod over opposition to his agenda.
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Eric Doherty @ericdoherty.bsky.social · 16/05/2026
My letter in @timescolonist.bsky.social today. "People who live in places where walking and cycling are safe and pleasant, and casual socializing is easier, tend to be more resistant to misinformation and extremist politics." #yyj #bcpoli #urbantruth
Bike lanes make life better for everyone

Re: “Bike lanes and the rise of outrage in our society,” commentary, May 13.

I was in Paris last year and saw what a network of quality bike lanes can do. Traffic volumes have been cut in half. Life is better for everyone, including drivers.

The smiling faces of parents carrying kids on cargo bikes and grandparents ­riding three- and four-wheel mobility scooters in Paris (and Victoria), are a great reminder that you don’t have to ride a bicycle to use bike and roll lanes.

And in the 2024 French national ­elections, Paris was a bright spot, soundly rejecting the far right. Paris elected a mayor and council committed to more trees, bike lanes and bus lanes.

Nobody should be surprised by this.

The evidence is overwhelming that creating bike or bus lane networks reduces car traffic (the technical term is “traffic evaporation” if you want to look it up).

In our region, with a growing population and car ownership, traffic would be worse without bike lanes.

There is also good evidence that people who live in places where walking and cycling are safe and pleasant, and casual socializing is easier, tend to be more resistant to misinformation and extremist politics.

What we should be outraged about is having toxic misinformation printed in our daily newspaper.

Eric Doherty
Registered Professional Planner
Victoria
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Katharine Hayhoe @katharinehayhoe.com · 15/05/2026
TLDR: this agreement does not maintain a path to net zero by 2050
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