Joe Moed

Lula Goes HARD

Crime is down. Toronto is objectively a safe place. Why does Bradford want us scared? www.theglobeandmail.com/canada/artic...

The election of our discontent, final column. Hardest one to wrote. Had to rewrite it from scratch to get the argument clear. City elections are a catch-all for angst that isn’t directed to the place where change can actually happen. It’s a kind of dysfunction. I hope you’ll read & share it.

In which I tried to understand what it means to succeed in a context in which you're permanently — Constitutionally! — set up to fail: thelocal.to/olivia-chow-...

What's your ranked ballot for Tree of the Year? Take our ranked poll to tell us! https://www.rabit.ca/2027_toronto_tree_of_the_year The City has run their contest, but will our results be different? #RankedChoiceVoting #TOPoli

Ok. You're a dissatisfied Chow supporter. I get it. Me too. But read this from @goldsbie.bsky.social In a near impossible situation to govern properly, Mayor Chow is clearly the candidate of choice right now.

ye olde bike protest thread someone is handing out samosas and naan #bikeTO #BikeTooter #Toronto

Obligatory everyone-read-Goldsbie's-Olivia-Chow-profile post https://thelocal.to/olivia-chow-election-profile/ > As Torontonians weigh whether to give her a second term, the question on the minds of many is surely: Has Olivia Chow been an effective mayor? > > But after spending the summer […]

What Ford’s own staff said about bike lanes: Internal records show provincial bureaucrats refuted Doug Ford’s arguments before he ordered Toronto bike lanes removed via @thestar.com

Here is Aly Van Wyck-Smart being arrested today. 🎥 dani3lp3rry

Spotted at Main and Danforth, some 2km east of Coxwell… 🤔 🤔 #TOPoli

Toronto bike lane removal. When your infrastructure project has huge police protection and the contractors hide the logos on their trucks and gear, you are in the wrong.

So different than 2012 when Jarvis was removed. Handful of people on street during removals (including @fuzzywuzzyto.bsky.social who layer in front of the remover). Far bigger & diverse cycling community now. Fucking w a different beast now.

Former staff say he drove them to tears. Some colleagues call him a bully. But Brad Bradford is betting that this election day, enough Torontonians will be as angry as he seems to be. New from @royinori.bsky.social, a portrait of the man who really wants to be mayor. thelocal.to/brad-bradfor...

One thing about people citing slower car travel times on Bloor West following the bike lane install is, well, that was kind of the point. Drivers were **averaging** nearly 20 km/h over the current speed limit at spots. Road revamp has brought speeds closer to limit. www.toronto.ca/wp-content/u...

Don’t see your favourite candidate on our list? You can do the same thing - prod them! All candidates can find us in their email inbox. #TOPoli #RankedBallots #RankedChoiceVoting #VotingReform

Hey @beynate.bsky.social, will you be taking the @torontorabit.bsky.social candidate pledge? I would assume you are on board, based on your history with Electoral Reform, but would be good to see your name on this list!

“His persona as a tough-on-crime, penny-pinching populist feels entirely disconnected from the eager urban planner who entered office at 32 full of ideas about expanding bike lanes, raising property taxes on the rich and cutting funding to the police.”

I had breakfast with Brad Bradford and asked him what I think is the defining question of his campaign: Why do so many people from all ends of the political spectrum seem to dislike him so much as a person? www.thestar.com/opinion/cont...

cuth pube

To do the math here you first have to fix a basic error: Bradford’s 2026 figure includes the rate budget (garbage, water, parking) but his 2011 figure does not. Real numbers: $9.4 billion in 2011; $16.6 billion in 2026. Now account for ~800K population growth and ~40% inflation.

How about a little fun? The City of Toronto is running a kids vote weekend where kids can vote on their choice for 2027 tree of the year — but what if the vote was a ranked ballot? We thought we’d find out! Take our ranked poll: https://www.rabit.ca/2027_toronto_tree_of_the_year #TOPoli

so my village has been having a lot of issues. rather than deal with any of them, i grabbed a goat and had all the villagers pile their blame and hate onto the goat. while we were getting ready to drive it into the woods (and absolve ourselves) the goat BIT ME????? RUDE?!?

the beer was $17.78

Yesterday’s walk: all of Yonge Street in Toronto

I've seen everyone sharing that US Dialect Quiz so I decided to make my own, much crappier, CANADIAN DIALECT QUIZ to guess where in Canada you're from

What a final act

This is an extremely delightful interview and I do not think you will regret reading it. www.cbc.ca/radio/asitha...

It’s been very odd biting the bullet & revealing details only my closest friends knew about was going on around monkey cage over last few years - and now I wait for the next lot of attacks but I also know there will be solidarity www.patreon.com/RobinInce/po... www.patreon.com/RobinInce/po...

Bradford also does the bike-lanes-belong-on-side-streets thing. Would be great if proponents of this kind of thinking could show us a map. Which streets? How do they lead to a cycling network that’s actually useful? Aren’t a lot of the places that cyclists want to get to on main streets?

If you want to be friends, you have to stop expelling and terrorizing and harming and killing my friends. That's just a rule I have about friends. www.the-reframe.com/if-you-want-...

As *tech*, AI isn't exceptional. It's not exceptionally wicked. It's not exceptionally good. Take away the accompanying, galactic-scale stock-swindle, and we'd call AI's apps "plug-ins" and we'd use them and abuse them in the same way that we've used every other technology: www.normaltech.ai 1/

On this day in 1798, City Thameslink Cathedral was renamed St Paul’s Cathedral.

Thanks @johnlorinc.bsky.social for calling out Brad Bradford's misguided proposal to rename Sankofa Square which originated from Daniel Tate's so-called IntegrityTO. Says "this fight will become the stupidest election issue’ of the 2026 campaign." #TOpoli #StopBradford spacing.ca/toronto/2026...

They’re going to call you a socialist regardless. So be a socialist.

“I will be one of the Jewish members of Congress most willing to stand up for Palestinian human rights. And I will stand firmly against bigotry aimed at Jews. Those are not two different jobs. They are the same job,” Brad Lander said.

I’ll say this for Keir Starmer: if you only saw photos of him where he wasn’t standing next to another person or object you could use for scale, you’d assume he was taller than he is

This is my final week in Parliament, and I wanted to share a clip of my final speech with you. Thank you for the opportunity to serve Beaches-East York over the last decade, and to everyone - especially my family - who has been part of this journey. youtu.be/mL7vTC2PjbA?...

The maple leaf and all flag-based Canadiana is Hamas now. We are a serious country and our media prints responsible stories about antisemitism and not inflammatory garbage.

Also: crime is not at an all-time high. What are we even doing here.

I guess you could argue that the mayor should try to play a more active role in Metrolinx scheduling (good luck!) but five of the six transit closures the Bradford campaign highlights here are provincially-run services.

Video of what appears to be multiple @tps.ca officers tackling & arresting a cyclist during a stop sign trap on the MGT. Cyclist - "What did I do wrong?" Cop - "You didn't stop." If true, this is excessive use of force for a traffic stop. Mayor Chow & @ausmalik.bsky.social plz look into this.

A force w many ongoing corruption scandals still behaves like goons. Systemic & goes right to the top of the culture. The chief needs to be fired.

"Why don't you go and HAVE A LOOK?"

I have taken my life in my hands and written a column about off leash dog owners (and maybe on what “danger” is & how its perception can be manipulated by politics).

Rasheed is literally risking his life for this game. Israelis could decide to capture, torture, or murder him at any point for daring to share the truth of the Nakba or Palestinian culture. He truly believes in games and their power to tell these stories. Please help his courage not be in vain.

From Safe Parkside: look what happened on Parkside Drive after Premier Doug Ford banned speed cameras.