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Winnipegger, Calgarian, Maritimer, Quebecois. Canadian. Territory of Treaty 1 Nations & Homeland of the Red River Métis. Cis. he/him/lui/il 319.48ppm https://brianpincott.substack.com

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Brian Pincott @bpincott.bsky.social · Dec 5

Winnipeg Budget: Look Ma, No Hands! #winnipeg's long road to being the cheapest city in Canada. #cdnmuni #wpgpoli open.substack.com/pub/brianpin...

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Jarrett Walker @humantransit.bsky.social · 37m

When you feel the need for a big word, but all big words sound the same to you.

Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 50m

Rep. Pat Harrigan: "This No Kings rally -- that's the blue hair, anthropomorphic experiment that's gonna happen up here in Washington DC."

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Stephen Frost @sfrost.bsky.social · 19h

New study from Melbourne finds reducing residential speed limits from 50km/h to 30 km/h on local roads would protect cyclists from danger, make riding less stressful and get more people cycling while not causing traffic delays for cars.

Switching 50km/h speed limits to 30km/h would protect cyclists while barely affecting commutes, research finds

One expert says a cyclist hit by a car travelling 50km/h has about a one-in-ten chance of surviving, while at 30km/h it was a nine-in-ten chance

www.theguardian.com

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La Presse @lapresse.ca · 5h

Vu, lu, vérifié | Les arbres poussent plus vite, mais est-ce une bonne nouvelle ?

Une étude récente parue dans la revue Nature Plants1 signale que les arbres en Amazonie poussent plus vite et sont plus gros, en raison d’une hausse de la concentration de CO2 dans l’atmosphère. Est-ce réellement une bonne nouvelle ?

www.lapresse.ca

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Brent Toderian @brenttoderian.bsky.social · 13h

So to cut municipal development charges, the federal govt will HAVE to fund municipalities much more, who are struggling to keep up with the costs of growth while getting only cents of every tax dollar collected.

Then they’ll have to figure out how to keep land prices from correspondingly going up.

Details on housing development charges expected in budget: Robertson

OTTAWA — The office of federal Housing Minister Gregor Robertson says the Liberal government remains committed to cutting municipal development charges in half, after the minister was vague about fulf...

www.biv.com

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Brian Pincott @bpincott.bsky.social · 21h

I have… it is indeed bad.

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Brian Pincott @bpincott.bsky.social · 23h

I remember when she came to Winnipeg city council to try and get public library funding cancelled…

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Brian Pincott @bpincott.bsky.social · 1d

The Wreck of the Edmund Fitzgerald - Rheostatics.

Tom Flood @tomflood.bsky.social · 1d

Sweet Jane - Cowboy Junkies
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youtu.be/Fa9nN3G2CSg?...

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Brian Pincott @bpincott.bsky.social · 1d

Ron Lancaster, the Benjamin Button of the CFL.

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Pedaling Professor @pedalingprof.bsky.social · 1d

Absolutely beautiful weather for the bike commute this evening. I guess I could sit on my butt in a car on the freeway instead, but this seems quite a bit better to me.

A cyclist rides along a trail below a canopy of maple trees in the fall

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Ximena González @ximenaka.bsky.social · 1d

I began writing this story with a naive question in mind: What do we lose when public education is privatized? A lot, actually.

By following the MAGA playbook, the UCP’s push against public education not only undermines democracy, it jeopardizes the possibility of a better future for all Albertans.

Inside the Right-Wing Attack on Alberta's Public Education | The Tyee

MAGA’s Project 2025 has become a blueprint for undermining Canada’s schools in the name of profit and privilege.

thetyee.ca

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Charles Rusnell @charlesrusnell.bsky.social · 1d

Must read here for all Albertans via @ximenaka.bsky.social.
Inside the Right-Wing Attack on Alberta's Public Education via @thetyee.ca thetyee.ca/Analysis/202...

Inside the Right-Wing Attack on Alberta's Public Education | The Tyee

MAGA’s Project 2025 has become a blueprint for undermining Canada’s schools in the name of profit and privilege.

thetyee.ca

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Heather Campbell @thatheatherc.bsky.social · 1d

Incredible, heartbreaking interviews by @reportrix.bsky.social.

Quote: "“You show your love really weird," the girl says of [Premier] Smith." 💔

www.thecanadianpressnews.ca/sports/well-...

The kids, they know what's going down. They're fighting for their actual lives. No bluster. No exaggeration.

'We'll be moving': Alberta transgender children, families brace for legal changes

EDMONTON - Football decals plaster the walls of his bedroom. A San Francisco 49ers bedspread and a binder full of trading cards make it clear the seven-year-old loves sports.

www.thecanadianpressnews.ca

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Brian Pincott @bpincott.bsky.social · 2d

Missing the point, completely. 🛫 www.cnn.com/2025/10/13/b...

Canada’s boycott America movement is hurting innocent bystanders | CNN Business

Virginia Distillery CEO Gareth Moore was bullish on his company’s American single malt whisky sales north of the border when 2025 kicked off.

www.cnn.com

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Calgary Climate Hub @calgaryclimatehub.ca · 5d

Shout out to our good friends (and SPONSOR) #SkyFireEnergy who have been providing REAL leadership on #solar energy in western Canada for over 20 years now! Check out their website here: skyfireenergy.com
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My Zero Carbon #ClimateAction @myzerocarbon.org · 2d

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#ClimateAction that protects, conserves and restores #nature

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original graph by IPCC

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BikeBike In Calgary @bikebikeyyc.bsky.social · 2d

Taking a few shots at #BigBikepack and their focus on trying to seduce you into believing the only way to have fun bikepacking is by owning a splashy/fancy/bespoke/expensive bike.

Oh ya...and we go for a fun end-of-season overnighter - with snow! 🚲❄️🏔️🏕️

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Jason Thorne @jasonthorne.bsky.social · 2d

“How Bike Share went from death’s door to one of Toronto’s fastest-growing ways to travel” in the Toronto Star www.thestar.com/news/gta/how...

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Dave Vetter @davidrvetter.bsky.social · 2d

The US federal attack on Portland has resulted in the best advertisement for a city that I have ever seen. Round-the-clock joy, community solidarity and silliness that much of the West has lost and longs for.

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Duane Bratt @duanebratt.bsky.social · 2d

Can I tell you how indispensable @sprawlcalgary.bsky.social has been in its coverage of the Calgary election. Whether you are following it closely or not. Videos of numerous ward and mayoral forums. And there most valuable service, a campaign primer. www.sprawlcalgary.com/calgary-elec...

Meet the Calgarians running for mayor and council in 2025 | The Sprawl

Follow along with our candidate tracker.

www.sprawlcalgary.com

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Alex von Tunzelmann @alexvont.bsky.social · 3d

This is it. I didn’t find it at all difficult to leave Twitter in the end: it stopped being fun and became boring and depressing. Whenever I opened it I’d see things that were obnoxious or upsetting. It was a relief not to do that.

Dmitry Grozoubinski @explaintrade.com · 3d

This is an exact encapsulation of why I moved to Bluesky.

No amount of handwringing in the Atlantic about how I owe some eternal Promethean suffering to the discourse is going to make me stay on a site I hate, that stopped doing anything for me professionally years ago.

Well – no. Bluesky may or may not be, as one centre-right friend who felt unwelcome put it, “self-righteous island”. But the idea that’s why we went is nonsense. That I’ve largely stopped posting on a site that’s done more to shape my career and social circle than the rest of the internet combined is less about avoiding rival opinions (I love arguing with people who are wrong!) than with the fact the site simply became unusable. It stopped generating the things (good jokes, interesting debate, clicks) I wanted; it became extremely good at generating the things (racists, pornbots, racist pornbots) I did not.

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David Ho @davidho.bsky.social · 3d

Psst: Stop burning stuff on Earth for energy. Let the burning fireball in the sky be your energy source.

T&E @transportenvironment.org · 6d

NEW: Biofuels globally emit more than the fossil fuels they replace, our latest study shows.

The first-of-a-kind study looks at global biofuels production today and the potential impacts of government biofuel targets.
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Cassie Smith (she/her) @cassiesmith.bsky.social · 3d

In Montreal with my family for the weekend. Will I take more photos of my kids or infrastructure 😂?

An intersection with a traffic garden and reclaimed nature play space

Another view of the traffic garden for kids

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Brian Pincott @bpincott.bsky.social · 3d

New bike day!!! #newbike

A new Marin bike, it is maroon coloured. Sitting on a wood deck leaning against a wood table.

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hiebzky @hiebzky.bsky.social · 4d

WFP Letter to the Ediitor
Saturday Oct. 11/2025

Too many lost to drugs

I live in Point Douglas and like many of my neighbours, I accept the evidence that harm reduction is evidence-based health care and want people in my neighbourhood to be able to access this lifesaving health care.

I think supervised consumption sites are needed, and that Winnipeg needs a number of them, and I would very much support one or a few being established in Point Douglas where I live. Similarly, detox options are needed, and I welcome their presence as well; again this is health-care treatment that is sorely needed in the midst of an ongoing drug toxicity crisis. Like any neighbourhood, views from here are diverse.

Yet, in recent years the views that have been highlighted from my neighbourhood in the media concerning possible local developments are not only anti-scientific, they frame people that I love as dangerous, delinquent, and harmful to others, seemingly as a strategy to prevent the establishment of lifesaving health care.

These views are in no way representative of people who live in Point Douglas — many in fact disagree. We have lost too many people to drug toxicity and the lack of services that is in part linked to this stigma. We can do so much better.

KATE SJOBERG

Winnipeg

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Geoffrey P Johnston😎🇨🇦🇺🇦 @geoffypjohnston.bsky.social · 4d

“Women are half the population, and we need broader diversity in politics—women, but also diversity across the line, whether it’s Indigenous Peoples or members of LGBTQ+ community or racialized Canadians,” @cathmckenna.bsky.social told @whigstandard.bsky.social

www.thewhig.com/opinion/run-...

‘Run like a girl’ to defeat misogyny

Catherine McKenna is busy these days fighting the good fight on behalf of women and the environment.

www.thewhig.com

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