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"The effect was a bit like hiring a great Shakespearean actor to order for you at the drive-through" www.theglobeandmail.com/politics/opi...

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“What makes dysfunction so dangerous is that we might simply learn to live with it. But understanding hypernormalization gives us language – and permission – to recognize when systems are failing, and clarifies the risk of not taking action when we can.”

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Junius: “This is why some people loathe the cameras. They change the risk calculus and make speeding an offence that carries a real chance of penalty. For drivers who believe traffic law isn’t real law, a speed camera will remind them otherwise” www.theglobeandmail.com/opinion/edit...

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Another lucky choice of starting word! Wordle 1,438 3/6* 🟩🟩⬜⬜⬜ 🟩🟩🟩⬜⬜ 🟩🟩🟩🟩🟩

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The woonerf or “living street” concept is spreading from the Netherlands across Poland, including the town of Sopot, just outside Gdańsk. Privileging pedestrians and calming traffic to 20 km/hr, the name and elements are retained—removing the curb and adding texture, greenery, seating, and lighting.

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Library work was much more exciting back then, I guess

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NDP Party

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Smuggling was one of the key economic activities of the early American colonies, so Trump is bringing the US back to its roots.

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#sitTO

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Fix our most important public spaces - now. My column (gift link): www.theglobeandmail.com/gift/90421fe...

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Come to a book launch! Spacing's @dylanreid.bsky.social and @johnlorinc.bsky.social are among the editors of a new collection of essays exploring messy urbanism. June 3, 7-9 at Henderson Brewing. spacing.ca/toronto/2025...

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The Canadian Home Builders Association on the throne speech, upset that the throne speech did not do a thing that it cannot do.

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The experts on walking are the walkers.

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Hire human copyeditors

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Virtuoso headline writing.

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Trump is admitting two things here. The first is that he has been serving Russian interests by protecting Putin on numerous occasions. The second is that Trump is feeling pressure to be harder on Russia, which he really doesn’t want to do. Response: keep up the pressure!

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Important point that the centralization of power in the Prime Minister's Office that the media often complains about is in part a response to how the media criticizes a government for any independent thinking by ministers. www.thestar.com/opinion/star...

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Elle Cordova goes big on the alliteration

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The REITs included Canadian Tire REIT, which owns land across from the future McCowan/Sheppard subway extension, Choice (Loblaws) REIT, and Calloway REIT. www.thestar.com/real-estate/...

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Lucky choice of starter word today! Wordle 1,437 2/6* 🟩🟩⬜⬜🟩 🟩🟩🟩🟩🟩

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"civility" understood properly is not about good manners/decorum but really the management of conflict in a space you have to share with other people

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Donald Trump‘s deranged Memorial Day screed against federal judges raises two serious questions: When exactly was former president Biden diagnosed with cancer? And why has he not held a solo press conference to address it?

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When it was a courthouse you could actually just walk in at will. If court wasn't in session you could go into the old council chamber.

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There's literally MIT rocket scientists and Pulitzer prize winners who get drawn into this shit, so don't think education level is some prophylactic against the hell the platforms have created.

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People keep forgetting that the "Anglo" Canadian establishment is actually more Scottish. </Stereotype>

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Proofreading is for suckers.

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Was in my home office today when I saw through the window a medium-sized child pulling a wagon filled with smaller children down the street. The wagon stopped in front of my house, and MY CHILD got out and came inside. The wagon continued its journey The neighbourhood kids were playing "bus stop."

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I'm watching a Magnum PI where Higgins is hosting a 1920s themed party, and I just realised that's the equivalent of holding a 1960s themed party today.

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It's official. ABC Toronto (a.k.a. anti Progress Toronto) is now affiliated with efforts to oppose #RapidTO bus priority lanes on Bathurst with their board member Jeffrey Kroeker having registered as a lobbyist on behalf of Summerhill Market for that file. #TTC #TOpoli www.toronto.ca/city-governm...

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Very true!

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A Moscrop-led NDP government will throw drivers who turn in front of a pedestrian on a walk signal in the gulag.

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I'm pretty disappointed that in the end none of the non standard Premier League teams made it into the top 4. I was really hoping for Newcastle or Nottingham Forest. But at least the Cup winners were different this year. www.theguardian.com/football/pre...

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Paraphrased: our business model won‘t work unless we can steal the work of others Well cry me a GD river www.thetimes.com/uk/technolog...

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Toronto got CafeTO up and running mid May this year - addressing some of the previous complaints. Unfortunately the weather isn't cooperating, but this Danforth cafe grabbed the opportunity while it could - the tables had just been put out after rain stopped.

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Oh for the good old days when every editorial board in America LOUDLY demanded the Clintons shut down their charitable organization for fear it would be used to curry favor w/Hillary if she became President 🙃

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Messy urbanism measing up messy urbanism toronto.citynews.ca/2025/05/23/k...

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Have you ever been in a car, seen someone you know in the street and tried to get their attention? It just doesn’t work and is a super frustrating interaction. More walking and cycling creates friendlier neighbourhoods as people can easily recognise each other, stop and interact.

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There was a 1980s Dudley Moore movie about advertising that literally made fun of this idea. It's like everything we said ironically for most of my life is suddenly being said seriously.

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There is nothing I love more than wandering aimlessly through a city I don’t know.

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I'd think "not being desperately afraid of other people's judgements about meaningless social etiquette" would be a baseline quality of manliness.

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The argument “young white men turn to hate because they don’t get enough empathy for the barriers they face” needs to square itself with the reality that men and women of color — and many white women — faced generations of barriers without turning to hatred in the same numbers. 1/

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