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Let’s leave things better than we found them - Optimistic P. Eng
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Patients who wait more than 12 hours in A&E 'twice as likely to die within a month', says ONS www.telegraph.co.uk/news/2025/01...

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“The phenomenon is known as #InducedDemand. The result is an endless cycle in which congestion leads to highway expansion, which invites more trips, which brings back traffic…The pattern is so inevitable that economists have dubbed it the iron law of congestion.” slate.com/business/202...

submitted 70 days ago • 20 comments

As a Canadian, we need to preserve the fundamentals of our healthcare system and avoid a US system system at all costs…

submitted 72 days ago • 0 comments

"Canadians, we’re polite, we’re reasonable, but we also will not be pushed around." - Prime Minister Justin Trudeau

submitted 81 days ago • 16 comments

"We cannot continue to participate in the social network feed of a man who proclaims the death of the media and therefore of journalists... X is a platform that no longer serves the public interest at all, but the special ideological and financial interests of its owner and his political allies"

submitted 82 days ago • 15 comments

Do the folks who want to tear up bike lanes not understand that if the cyclists are not in the bike lanes they are in the lanes with the cars? In most cases in their own cars? Which means they are now (noisy, polluting) traffic? More car lanes just means more cars.

submitted 82 days ago • 121 comments

Over 100k people bike to work in Toronto. Still think removing bike lanes is going to ease traffic?

submitted 85 days ago • 0 comments

This is a great way to get rid of trolls…

submitted 85 days ago • 0 comments

READ: “Policies to help people walk & cycle such as low-traffic neighbourhoods can create public health benefits as much as 100 times greater than the cost of the schemes, a long-term study has concluded.” AND the benefits continue to grow even higher over time. www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2024...

submitted 86 days ago • 6 comments

Pick one carefully. .

submitted 86 days ago • 138 comments

Calling Bluesky an echo chamber misses the point, because what Bluesky offers is a chance to redefine how humans treat one another online, where so many of us live. www.thestar.com/opinion/star...

submitted 86 days ago • 101 comments

tech giants and privately funded media outlets are instrumental in the mass misinformation campaigns and manufacturing consent.

submitted 86 days ago • 0 comments

James Bond movies never show the part where the supervillain collects government subsidies to build his death tech.

submitted 87 days ago • 713 comments

Decarbonization is essential to achieving climate goals, but myopic decarb policies that ignore co-pollutants may leave Black and high-poverty communities up to 26–34% higher PM2.5 exposure than national averages over the energy transition. #EnergySky #EnergyJustice www.nature.com/articles/s41...

submitted 88 days ago • 5 comments

A new paper from a pair of Alberta academics makes it clear that the cost of the carbon tax is far less than its critics would like to pretend. Will our feelings start to care about the facts? #cdnpoli www.nationalobserver.com/2024/11/27/o...

submitted 87 days ago • 59 comments

After Trump was elected, I started to wonder what could the grassroots, cities, and states do to move the needle on climate change without federal support. It turns out, a lot (gift link)

submitted 87 days ago • 43 comments