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Friends and Families for Safe Streets @ffsafestreets.bsky.social · 3h

📢📢📢CALLING ALL PARENTS ALL ACROSS ONTARIO!!! SHARE WIDELY!

Join Parents Against Speeding and plan a local event on Oct 20 to protest the shutting down of Ontario's life-saving school zone speed safety camera program. Tell Doug Ford it's wrong to care more about lawbreakers than kids' safety!

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Dylan Reid @dylanreid.bsky.social · 2h

So outrageous, and yet typical

The Biking Lawyer LLP @thebikinglawyer.bsky.social · 6h

Story in @theglobeandmail.com about our client who was seriously injured near Ottawa. But for his daughter & our team he would have been deemed at fault. We used GPS data from his bike computer to prove the driver was at fault & police got it wrong:
www.theglobeandmail.com/drive/cultur...

Police initially put Ottawa cyclist at fault for devastating crash. His bike computer data changed that

GPS data from bike computers and smartphone apps and cameras is crucial to determining who is at fault and who can sue for damages

www.theglobeandmail.com

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Dylan Reid @dylanreid.bsky.social · 2h

Rather mixed confessions in those godparents!

John McCafferty @jdmccafferty.bsky.social · 3h

15 Oct 1537: baptism of Edward (VI) #otd by Archbishop Cranmer at Hampton Court chapel. Cranmer & the Duke of #Norfolk were godfathers, Princess Mary (I) was godmother (NPG)

Dylan Reid @dylanreid.bsky.social · 2h

Thanks!

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Dylan Reid @dylanreid.bsky.social · 5h

A joy of co-editing the "Messy Cities" book with @zahraeb.bsky.social, @shebuildscities.bsky.social and @johnlorinc.bsky.social was the free-flowing conversations. @glynbowerman.bsky.social sparked us to revisit those conversations on the @spacing.bsky.social podcast. spacing.ca/toronto/2025...

PODCAST: Spacing Radio 90, Bless this urban mess - Spacing Toronto

Change in cities is often slow, when using official channels. There is a desire to achieve the perfect plan, one that balances everyone’s needs an preferences. But sometimes you need to get down and d...

spacing.ca

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Dylan Reid @dylanreid.bsky.social · 7h

I like this new TTC ad campaign - takes advantage of the distinct tile patterns of the stations, encourages internal tourism (something I've written about in the past). In the spirit of those old London Underground ads.

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Dylan Reid @dylanreid.bsky.social · 7h

TIL about puddingstone and it is awesome.

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Dylan Reid @dylanreid.bsky.social · 10h

"CO2 in air hit new high last year, with scientists concerned natural land and ocean carbon sinks are weakening"

www.theguardian.com/environment/...

Record leap in CO2 fuels fears of accelerating global heating

CO2 in air hit new high last year, with scientists concerned natural land and ocean carbon sinks are weakening

www.theguardian.com

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Dylan Reid @dylanreid.bsky.social · 20h

Lucky second guess got me on the right track (Tuesday October 14)

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Dylan Reid @dylanreid.bsky.social · 1d

OMG

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Dylan Reid @dylanreid.bsky.social · 1d

I am gratified to know that top chefs also order extra sauce at Swiss Chalet www.thestar.com/life/food-an...

Why these 7 top chefs can’t quit Swiss Chalet — and how it shaped their love of food

This Thanksgiving weekend, some of the city’s leading chefs reflect on the unexpected influence of a beloved local chain.

www.thestar.com

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Dylan Reid @dylanreid.bsky.social · 1d

The Faroe Islands have an actual chance to qualify for the World Cup!

www.espn.com/soccer/story...

Faroe Islands beat Czechia, World Cup dream alive

Faroe Islands shocked Czechia with a 2-1 win to give them a faint hope of qualifying for next summer's World Cup.

www.espn.com

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Dylan Reid @dylanreid.bsky.social · 1d

Same (including the logic) Worked it out (Monday October 13)

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Dylan Reid @dylanreid.bsky.social · 1d

They really had to dig to find this angle

Oliver Moore @oliver-moore.bsky.social · 1d

Welp, the National Post has found the most cringe take possible on this, let us remember, complete non-story
unpublished.ca/news-feed-it...

Justin Trudeau ‘just too vanilla’ for Katy Perry, says Canadian ‘super fan’ who voted Conservative

unpublished.ca

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Dylan Reid @dylanreid.bsky.social · 2d

The Transportation Tomorrow Survey 2022 finally began counting non-commute trips as well. The mode share for walking in Toronto with this new basis jumped from 14% to 24% - a quarter of all trips for any purpose (from dmg.utoronto.ca/wp-content/u...) #walkTO

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Dylan Reid @dylanreid.bsky.social · 2d

So there's like 3% of Canadians who think every other country is a potential threat ...

Doug Saunders @dougsaunders.bsky.social · 2d

Who do Canadians regard as an “enemy”? This comes from a new Angus Reid report on India, but get a look at the redder end of that list

(Red = enemy/threat; pink = maybe so)

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Dylan Reid @dylanreid.bsky.social · 2d

There are a lot of moustaches in baseball.

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Brian F. Kelcey @stateofthecity.bsky.social · 3d

Praise for Montreal's bike-share system, from TIME. Worth a holiday thread on a couple of operational + political aspects of Bixi's history that are intriguingly left unsaid.

Cult MTL @cultmtl.com · 3d

“Montreal revolutionized the bicycle-sharing trend. The tech behind BIXI became the backbone for bike-sharing programs in London, New York, Chicago and dozens of other places, turning two wheels into a genuine option for navigating cities.”

BIXI named among top 25 inventions of the past 25 years by TIME magazine

TIME magazine has released a list of the top 25 inventions of the past 25 years, and Montreal's bicycle-sharing system BIXI is on it.

cultmtl.com

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Dylan Reid @dylanreid.bsky.social · 2d

"It’s the distillation of the idea of City – of the vast, brooding, mysterious metropolis spreading in all directions forever, concealing millions of lives and secrets."

Evan Bernick, a finite mode with a smol hooman and a lorg floof @evanbernick.bsky.social · 2d

You gotta read Ebert’s four star review if you haven’t. He loved visionary movies.

www.rogerebert.com/reviews/dick...

Dick Tracy movie review & film summary (1990) | Roger Ebert

There always was something inbred about the Dick Tracy comic strip, some suggestion that all of its characters had been mutated by the same cosmic rays, and

www.rogerebert.com

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Carl Quintanilla @carlquintanilla.bsky.social · 3d

The economy is increasingly reliant on the wealthiest 10%.

(via MS) @mikezaccardi.bsky.social

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Dylan Reid @dylanreid.bsky.social · 2d

And to think I thought I might get a 2 after the first round! Not a chance. (Sunday October 12)

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Dylan Reid @dylanreid.bsky.social · 3d

Lucky guess! I'm having a decent run of 3s after hardly any for a stretch during the summer (Saturday October 11)

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Shawn Micallef @shawnmicallef.bsky.social · 3d

Long walk on Eglinton for the next print issue of Spacing. Some highlights 1/~ (Do you subscribe? It’s not expensive. spacingstore.ca/products/new... )

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Thor Benson @thorbenson.bsky.social · 4d

More posts like this from politicians please

Senator Ron Wyden @wyden.senate.gov · 5d

Thoughts and prayers to Cosplay Cop Kristi who had to brave the dogs, farmer’s markets, capybaras, and marathon runners of Portland this week.

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Dylan Reid @dylanreid.bsky.social · 4d

It's like The Nightmare Before Christmas has become real

Luke LeBrun @lukelebrun.ca · 5d

Walked into a Canadian Tire and no longer know what holiday season we’re celebrating anymore

Grim Reaper plays heavy metal guitar next to a display of Christmas trees

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