Henrik Bechmann (Toronto) 🇨🇦

This is the video of my presentation at Civic Tech Toronto Feb 10, 2026: "What's a normalized municipal operating budget, and why is it better" About 15 minutes plus a couple of questions. I'm told it's pretty clear. Please pass it on! 🧵 has more resources. 👇 www.youtube.com/watch?v=jDB4...

10. We need greater performance and accountability from the city bureaucracy. Too many problems come down to operational failures, unnecessary processes, and costs that deliver little public value. This should anger people across the political spectrum. (11/12)

Congratulations to everyone elected last night, including @mayoroliviachow.ca. I was especially happy to see strong housing leaders @dianachanmcnally.bsky.social and @beynate.bsky.social win. With the campaign over, here are 10 ideas I’d love to see Toronto pursue: (1/12)

Turnover at a glance: Nunziata –> Padovani Perks –> Chan McNally Saxe –> Layton Moise –> Stikuts Fletcher –> Ehrhardt Bradford –> Erskine-Smith Myers –> Chen Other than the loss of Myers, this is going to be a pretty strong Council for Chow.

Nearly half of the people confirmed to have the virus have died in DRC's fastest-growing Ebola outbreak on record.

We are in utterly unknown territory now. The sea surface temperature in the El Niño zone is currently tracking at 3.48°C ABOVE the 30 year baseline. Way beyond anything seen before. Brace for catastrophic impact on lives and global food supply chains.

Tedjo is the new mayor of mississauga. Who?!? He has the support of the police there

Wab Kinew: "Let's get rid of the Indian Act. You have nothing to lose but your chains."

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Manitoba Premier Wab Kinew calls on prime minister to abolish the Indian Act at meeting with chiefs

seven conservative governments elected in latam over the past 18 months. lula’s brazil bucking the trend

That's a clearcut QA fault

I am cautious about sharing polls on election day but LOL, Liaison's Bradford lead was extremely short-lived, according to their final TO poll:

Anthropic S-1: an $80.7B net loss on revenue of $16.3B in H1 2026, up from a $13B net loss on revenue of $1.2B in H1 2025, and a net revenue retention of 900% (Bailey Lipschultz/Bloomberg) Main Link | Techmeme Permalink

Imo this represents a failure of capitalism as currently constituted

🤔 Given how bullish Burnham is being on the #EU, why can't he do the same on immigration and sack the appalling Mahmood to signal a change of course? Ignore the right-wing chuds and make the positive case for immigration to refresh and replenish the UK's rapidly ageing and declining workforce...

Trump Unleashes Racist Tirade That should be the headline in every newspaper.

Tomorrow is election day. It's what all our coverage the past two months has been leading up to. We'll be reporting live on the night of, but first: to make sure you don't miss any of our coverage, here's a thread to catch you up on what may be our biggest issue yet: thelocal.to/vote-2026/

A Brazilian union member complains that Meta blocked her union's account for supporting Lula (Subtitles)

🧵Yesterday, British Columbia elected a Conservative majority government that ran on a platform of tax cuts and accelerating the pillaging of nature, or what the party calls “natural resources exploitation.” They also ran on attacking Indigenous sovereignty and trans rights.

What happens when the trains start to bunch on an automated light metro system?

power, danger, structure. Interesing

Toronto's a city where you might just come across a dog Halloween parade and apparently I should be afraid.

Ya gotta love the oratory

Here’s something you should know about minks: They have lungs and airways remarkably similar on a cellular level to those of people. They’ve spread flus and infected humans before with COVID-19. Right now, bird flu is spreading on a Utah farm filled with thousands of them… 🧵

OBAMA: The big trade war he's starting now is with that well-known evil empire: Canada. These are the people who gave us maple syrup and Martin Short.

Science remains amazing, and vaccines particularly so. www.nature.com/articles/d41...

Governments around the world are rushing to implement safety measures after AI technology found 'severe' vulnerabilities in a key programming language called PHP. n.pr/3TTRS9v

Oh FFS

The Amazon is shifting from carbon sink to carbon source. 15 yrs of CO2 data show that fires are the dominant carbon source and now outpace forest uptake. Deforestation is driving the damage, amplified by drought and El Niño. Protecting forests is climate action. www.nature.com/articles/s41...

“Severe heat killed more than 50,000 people in European cities and towns this summer, according to peer-reviewed estimates released by scientists in London on Friday.” www.nytimes.com/2026/10/22/c...

"Politics is ultimately about storytelling because everything we do is about storytelling." chadbourn.substack.com/p/the-power-...

AOC: "What the Trump administration is doing in targeting trans people is to get everyone on board with supporting defunding their own civil rights ... understand that when they attack trans girls in sports, they're also attacking all women's ability to stand up against their abusers"

From what I can see Ms. Joly is the embodiment of responsible governance.