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I write and make podcasts about cities and the people in them.
Producer: Lately & City Space at the Globe and Mail
Write for The Green Line, The Local, Toronto Star, The Breach.
Former BBC News. He/him.
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highway413.ca/en/ pretty much everything on this website, but I suggest digging into Bill 212 in particular.
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Gonna go full boomer and suggest it's because we all drive manual. If you learn/pass your test on an automatic you get a special baby licence that only lets you drive automatics.
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I wish I knew why. Our driving tests aren't harder or anything, I can only think it's the inevitability of car culture.
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Love from Toronto.
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(The other big culture shock was how weird Canadians are about booze but thats a whole other thing)
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A big culture shocks for me here when I moved from the UK was the entitlement of drivers. UK drivers aren't great, the speed limit is occasionally broken, but here it seems like the floor. I get cut up and honked at if I'm not on the gas at all times. Then there's the casual drink/driving. Scary.
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... anyway I'm off to enjoy my afternoon because I finished the day's work by 1pm.
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Please report back, also maybe don't touch it. The city has a dearth of real public toilets, if you catch my drift.
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There was one of these outside my old apartment. Last time I looked (6 months ago) the phone was still displaying an error message from 2011.
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In October I moved to an apartment with AC and a patio with a hammock. Never been more pleased with that move than today.
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Compare this to HuffPost's piece, for example.
I'm not saying HuffPo's angle is fairer, I'm sure the location and timing of the event did play a part... but ignoring Trump entirely seems strange. Especially as tourism to the US is plummeting across the board.
www.huffpost.com/entry/fifa-c...
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Great to see the Bentway pursuing this agenda. The artists are always ahead.
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These anti-fact campaigns are as valid as anti-vaxxers were in the pandemic. I don't know why we're not treating them with the same contempt.
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They're not big Americano drinkers either to be fair!
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I know it's a tired comparison, but the rhymes and echoes are too obvious. I do wonder if its deliberate.
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It's anecdotal obviously, but basically every NDP voter I know voted tactically Liberal this election to keep the CPC out, and they felt able to do so because there was no meaningful difference between the two.
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I am working on a book proposal that requires me to spend hours playing Cyberpunk 2077. I have written zero pieces this week. I assume this will make me money.
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I feel like lots of people are missing the distinction between writing and creating. LLMs write, but they're not finding out new information, interviewing people, going places... having *ideas*, and they never can. It's just empty text.
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... the whole reason for the return was because it was broken! I wasn't on top of my credit card payments at the time for obvious cancer related reasons, so I have missed the deadline for a chargeback.
Anyway, this is how Telcan knowingly treats cancer patients. Do with that info what you will.