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New car prices average $50,000, gas is at an all time high, and many Americans are forced into car dependency. In-office requirements are a tax on the working class.

Once more, we're on. Out January, THE POWER FANTASY #18. "Where we consider the big issues, like if you could travel back in time to kill baby Hitler, would you? How about if Hitler was actually a lovely-if-self-obsessed artist who killed the world by accident? Also, Jacky Magus panics."

Kandavel deserves to lose.I’m hoping he does.

Friends, I don’t want to fight, but this sentiment is the quintessential example of the Dril tweet, and I’m seeing it way too often. Rob was a villain. A racist, bigot and spousal abuser who smoked crack in the Mayor’s Office and explicitly punched down on every marginalised group in Toronto.

99% of Boston’s homes violate Boston’s zoning code. They are not illegal to live in, buy, or sell. But if Boston burned down tomorrow, it would be illegal to rebuild 99% of its homes the way they are today. When 99% of homes break the law, the problem is the law, not the homes. (1/8)

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That should certainly be the trigger for all governments in Europe to eliminate their dependence on MS, and, indeed, ALL US tech companies, because Apple and Google have bent the knee in other ways.

I’m sorry to have to be the bad guy here but we need to recognize that we live in a compressed air thrusters world now. If you’re not finding ways to teach the critical use of compressed air thrusters in your classroom, you’re setting your students up to fail when you could be setting them up to fly

Single file, one at a time. Fill the whole block.

First bike lane removal truck blocked.

The aboveground part looks like it could double as the Kent farm.

We need more men like Dan Levy and fewer men like Shane Gillis. Stop being complacent. Stand up and call this shit out when it happens. www.instagram.com/p/DeYSYNXMcbH/

Just announced at NYCC: there's going to be a MURDOCH MYSTERIES comic!! I'm writing it, @jasonloo.bsky.social is drawing and colouring, and lettering is by Andrew Thomas. It's a Canadian all-star team and I am really excited to share this with you all! Soon! SOOOON.

One thing @emmettmacfarlane.com doesn't get is we #BikeTO advocates have used every argument under the sun to promote bike lanes including safety, public health, climate & economic vitality. The problem is carbrains like Doug Ford don't give a fuck about these arguments. #TOpoli #ONpoli #VisionZero

🚨 Grant Morrison is taking on JAMES BOND! @idwpublishing.com and Ian Fleming Publications have announced SUNBREAKER, a six-part 007 adventure featuring new gadgets, dangerous enemies, and a terrifying villain ripped from the headlines! 🍸🔫 Morrison promises Bond's greatest challenge yet. Details:

You’d think this point about the downside of concentrating density in just a few high-rise areas would lead to Kandavel supporting things like sixplexes but, well, he contains multitudes, I suppose. thelocal.to/scarborough-...

Once again, for the politicians, business leaders, and journalists still actively posting on X/Twitter: why? You're using a platform that's owned by someone who's trying to break up your country. The juice isn't worth the squeeze.

It took until 1962 for the City of Ottawa to allow all renters to vote in municipal elections. Before that, those living with roommates or in boarding houses couldn't vote. This changed after a referendum (passed 49,776 to 20,262—though renters barred from voting at the time couldn't participate).

Cool when a police press release about a fatal hit and run pre-emptively offers up a handy defence to the driver www.tps.ca/media-centre...

Put another way, Ford wants to spend more on removing bike lanes in Toronto ($48M) than he's spent protecting all of Ontario's businesses from an international trade war. Ontario deserves serious leadership, that follows through on promises, and actually puts people before profits.

Really useful chart from @graphicmatt.com newsletter about where Mayor Chow's administration has spent more money beyond inflation and population growth, and for what. Good basis on which to choose whether one supports her priorities. Note here were also spending reductions elsewhere.

EXCLUSIVE: Inside the contract to rip out Toronto’s bike lanes Spacing has obtained the RFP for the Ford government's bike lane removal, and it looks even worse than thought. spacing.ca/toronto/2026... #toronto #bikes #torontobike @cycletoronto.bsky.social

Over the weekend, the Bradford campaign challenged the media to do this "scavenger hunt" to uncover supposed places where Olivia Chow frittered away the provincial New Deal money. Challenge accepted. From my newsletter this week, here’s what I found.

REACHER: I need help with my iPhone SUPPORT: regular iPhone or duo? REACHER: how can I tell SUPPORT: if it folds it’s the duo *extremely loud crunching noise* REACHER: it’s the duo

If the Lynx don't have "Disgruntled Lesbians" T-shirts available at their next game they should fire their entire marketing department.

Cutting off TP to a country experiencing turbo-diarrhea is the kind of diabolical Canadian idea I am here for

The judge who wrote this decision, Grant Huscroft, was described in the Globe & Mail in 2014 when he was appointed by the Harper government as one of the country's most conservative law professors and a "leading constitutional scholars of the far right". Colour me shocked

It sucks cuz I would commit actual crimes to get an animated Ms Marvel show based on her original run

Promising news. City Council has approved Councillor Matlow's motion to start planning a pedestrian scramble intersection at Yonge and Eglinton, and other nearby improvements. I wrote a letter supporting the motion. secure.toronto.ca/council/agen...

It's deeply satisfying that the graffiti in the bathroom of this Toronto bookstore is filled with book recommendations

You have to conclude that Metrolinx hates its customers. Arrive at the UPX station and there‘s no indication where you tap in that trains aren’t stopping there today How about a big sign at the entrance? How about a bag over the Presto machine? How about just disabling the machine for the day? SMDH

Pay the toll

Meanwhile all and any slanders against Canada, an actual treaty ally who at least meets the literal geographical definition of "closest" are hunky dory in Trumpland

I haven't seen them all in a final version yet, but I think this one may be the one I had most fun with. First time I'd written three of the four, and fun dabbling with Loki again.

Just saw an elbows up-er crowing that Canadian lettuce is fine and our food system is amazing and USians deserve it. And just fucking stop that. carney just cut 600 positions at the CFIA, 70% of lettuce consumed in Canada comes from the US or Mexico and food supply chains are brittle everywhere

I think a lot of Canadians would be quite happy with a tit-for-tat expulsion of ambassadors if that meant seeing the back of Hoekstra

Due to road construction on Danforth local cannabis store has struck a deal for customers to access free parking across the street, at the halal coffee and fried chicken shop run by visibly observant Muslims. I love this city.

I don't think I've mentioned a Once & Future omnibus is coming out in October. All 30 issues of Dan Mora and Tamra Bonvillain tearing it up for $60. I suspect the Mora fan in your life (i.e. everyone) would like to know it exists.