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The bank of the Seine in Paris used to be space for cars. Now for several years it’s been a special place for people in a city making more & more of them. All it took was leadership. Oh, and fighting and winning a court battle when that leadership was challenged. HT @emmanuelspv.bsky.social for pic.

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Incredible!......great start to a beautiful Sunday morning... #jazz

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Trump is following three courses of action: elimination, transformation, and subjugation. In her latest policy brief, Celia Belin unpacks how this playbook threatens Europe’s institutions, alliances, and democratic resilience. bit.ly/4iTWXoB

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'Civilized People Do Not Starve Children to Death': Sanders Rips US-Backed Israel's 68-Day Gaza Aid Blockade www.commondreams.org/news/bernie-...

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Poisoning the air of a Black community for a fucking chatbot.

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A great weekend for #Architecture and design news in today’s @theglobeandmail.com ; first up is @alexbozikovic.bsky.social review of St Lawrence Market w/call for action on better public realm 1/ www.theglobeandmail.com/canada/artic...

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The share of Americans who believe that global warming will pose a serious threat to their way of life over their lifetime is at an all-time high. From: Gallup (link in Alt Text)

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By @deadder.bsky.social.

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Another vehicle-ramming attack. Eleven dead, two dozen injured. Ranging in age from a 5-year-old girl to a 65-year-old man This one in #Vancouver, the city where I grew up. There have already been a dozen mass vehicular homicides around the world so far in 2025... 🧵

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Here we go, Reformacon election rigging claims. youtu.be/RJTeoUtRP-U?...

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People feel more lonely, in part because so many of our relationships are mediated by social media. Instead of atoning for the harms of his platforms, Mark Zuckerberg has a new tech solution: he’s going to give us all a bunch of Meta-powered AI friends. It’s an even more dystopian future.

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Huge opportunity for the Don’t Know Party.

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Great interview! rachelgilmore.substack.com/p/behind-the...

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Abi Bond is the best. storeys.com/abigail-bond...

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I don't know about the veracity of this, but it's interesting...

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Re-watching this charming period piece, based on a true story of Italy's first female lawyer. Also Lidia's clothing design is spectacular. www.netflix.com/title/81414644

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I'm a big fan of outgoing head of Toronto's Housing Secretariat Abi Bond, and this is a good exit interview. What strikes me - & she's far too good a political operator to state this - is how crazy-making working with the ON govt must be storeys.com/abigail-bond...

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Germany's EV sales skyrocket 53% in April! Tesla's EV sales plunge 45% in April! Tesla falls from the German EV market leader to 16th! VW is the leader, with ~47% EV market share! Tesla goes down 45% in a market up 53%! #energysky www.evuniverse.io/p/germany-ev... www.reuters.com/business/aut...

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Toronto’s neighbourhoods are losing local storefronts fast. ‘Buy local’ is having an effect, but experts say more can be done to keep the shops that make neighbourhoods vibrant.

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DOGE will have serious consequences—but as an effort to reduce federal spending, Elon Musk’s project is laughable, @jessicabriedl.bsky.social writes.

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GATES: I’d “love for him [Musk] to go in and meet the children that have now been infected with HIV because he cut” American aid. @mediaitenews.bsky.social www.mediaite.com/news/bill-ga...

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BILL GATES: “The picture of the world’s richest man killing the world’s poorest children is not a pretty one.” @financialtimes.com www.ft.com/content/bdd9...

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Paris Metro's Line 1 is 125 years old. It was retrofitted to be fully automated since 2012. From 5am to 1am, it runs every 2 min peak/4 min off-peak. It carries nearly 500,000 pax/day, about 2.8X BART weekday system ridership. en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Paris_M...

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bill gates accuses elon musk of “killing the world’s poorest children” with usaid cuts saying “i’d love for him to go in and meet the children that have now been infected with hiv because he cut that money.”

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I think this is an interesting look at policy governance. en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Xi_Jinp...

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Doug Ford has failed miserably to protect Ontario from a surge of #measles. The premier campaigned on a promise to “Protect Ontario,” but his government has not kept that pledge on a pressing matter of public health, by @reggcohn.bsky.social www.thestar.com/politics/pol... via @thestar.com

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What we have here is a ‘complete failure of leadership’ in the response to the #measles outbreaks in Ontario and Alberta. www.linkedin.com/pulse/may-6-... via @ppforumca.bsky.social

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also you all need to see this, because this is something I don't think anybody could predict for where this ad goes

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This is obvious but it needs to be repeated every single day. Republicans in the House and Senate own 100% of what Trump is doing.

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Masterclass in how to deal with a bully.

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A look at Citypress: The UK’s largest employee owned communications agency

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Updated fossil CO2 emission estimates from @robbieandrew.bsky.social Based on the latest data, we estimate fossil CO2 emissions went up 0.9% in 2024. Listen to his presentation here (starting about 8:55): cicero.oslo.no/no/arrangeme... 1/

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scrimshawunscripted.substack.com/p/danielle-s... Evan is right. The CPC can’t want an independent Alberta because they lose 34 seats and with them, any chance of forming government.

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Quite the payoff

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Adam Vaughan joins Team Therme. He’s now a collaborator in the destruction of a public park at Ontario Place and the Ontario Science Centre. He’s betraying everything his father’s progressive-urbanist movement stood for and the journalistic ethic he once espoused. www.cbc.ca/news/canada/...

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Er, genocide...

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Reports say Israel now eyeing occupation of entire enclave, control of aid and possible expulsion of Palestinians.

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I watched the first two seasons of Sullivan's Crossing on Netflix. www.whats-on-netflix.com/news/sulliva... Soapy, love, trouble, love, trouble, and like that... Pretty good - engaging, and binge-worthy if you're a sap like me 😊😊 Neurosurgeon meets hunk, lots of sub-plots.

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Okay okay I'll say it. May the fourth be with you! 😆

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Insurance is the canary in the #climate coal mine. Read why in my article with Andrew Hoffman for Resilience - 'The Un-insurability Crisis Is Upon Us – 3 Possible Scenarios for What’s Next.' rupertread.net/writings/202...

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Calling bikes “just for kids” is how we ended up with clogged roads and broken cities. This is real transportation, not a toy for recreation.

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A frequent argument in favour of allowing hate speech on social website nowadays is the rhetorical question "who gets to decide what's free speech?" That's the same as saying "who gets to decide what's criminal?" It's a weak and lazy argument. The answer is: social consensus expressed in law.

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