Michael D🇨🇦
@michaeld249.bsky.social
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Canadian dad of two boys, husband, official cook in my household. Urbanism, outdoors, fly fishing, and leaving the earth in better condition that it was given to me. Born @ 323 ppm.
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"Speeding dropped by 72 percent compared to the prior year at San Francisco locations where the city installed traffic cameras." www.sfexaminer.com/news/transit...
SFMTA data: Drivers a lot slower around cameras
Pedestrian-safety advocates say “encouraging” findings should prompt more action.
www.sfexaminer.com
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Far too many Canadians think the federal government controls everything. All while ignoring the decades-long sabotage of 🇨🇦 by powerful provincial gov’ts that control healthcare, education, minimum wage, rent controls, infrastructure & so many other aspects of gov’t that impact daily life. #cdnpoli
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This is how we need to think about public services like the post, transit, and so on.
Dutch Railways: social profit of €1.33 billion, financial loss of €141 million. It delivers 11x (!!!!) more value to society than it costs.
Via:
social inclusion
increase in property values near stations;
welfare of employees and consumers;
productive use of travel time.
www.eur.nl/en/news/rese...
Via:
social inclusion
increase in property values near stations;
welfare of employees and consumers;
productive use of travel time.
www.eur.nl/en/news/rese...
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Trapped in traffic and stuck travelling long distances to work because of car-centric planning?
Be grateful, says Mercedes-Benz’s latest advert which aims to persuade us that spending two years of our lives stuck inside a car is somehow actually a good thing.
Be grateful, says Mercedes-Benz’s latest advert which aims to persuade us that spending two years of our lives stuck inside a car is somehow actually a good thing.
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Toronto Star
@thestar.com
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Ontario’s labour minister defends training cash given to preferred applicants
Under fire and unrepentant, Labour Minister David Piccini says he will keep handing out cash from Premier Doug Ford's controversial Skills Development Fund to preferred groups regardless of how low
www.thestar.com
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There's an empty lot close to Loblaws MCArthur that has a shit ton of rats. I've seen them many times. They scurry in the brush and squeak when you pass by
People feed them bread and other produce as they pass by on the sidewalk. It's not a great situation
I heard that's why the BK closed
#ottawa
People feed them bread and other produce as they pass by on the sidewalk. It's not a great situation
I heard that's why the BK closed
#ottawa
Councillor calls for tighter wildlife feeding rules to control rodents | CBC News
An Ottawa city councillor wants to clamp down on messy bird feeders as a way of controlling the population of nuisance animals including rodents.
www.cbc.ca