@martinasling.bsky.social
Kitchener resident. Co-founder of Waterloo Region Yes in My Backyard.
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If you read one thing today:
Hi Bluesky 👋
Small life update: I’m at the centre of a multimillion dollar lawsuit in Alberta launched by a failed candidate for Jason Kenney’s UCP
It may be the longest and most expensive media trial in Canadian history
I’m ready to go public about it and I want to share more details with you 🧵
Small life update: I’m at the centre of a multimillion dollar lawsuit in Alberta launched by a failed candidate for Jason Kenney’s UCP
It may be the longest and most expensive media trial in Canadian history
I’m ready to go public about it and I want to share more details with you 🧵
November 7, 2025 at 4:23 PM
If you read one thing today:
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Seeing some dooming about Ford and speed cameras. I think he's made a mistake here. Speed cameras have 73% support with Ontarians. Conservative councillors are against removal. Ideas about implementation might vary but a ban is a mis-step from Ford. This fight is winnable. 1/4
Toronto committee votes to strengthen speed camera program, pushing back against Ford's proposed ban | CBC News
In opposition to Premier Doug Ford's plan to ban speed cameras in Ontario, a Toronto city committee voted Friday to strengthen automated speed enforcement in the city, with councillors saying the prov...
www.cbc.ca
September 27, 2025 at 3:08 PM
Seeing some dooming about Ford and speed cameras. I think he's made a mistake here. Speed cameras have 73% support with Ontarians. Conservative councillors are against removal. Ideas about implementation might vary but a ban is a mis-step from Ford. This fight is winnable. 1/4
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this work saved millions of lives in 2021, won the Nobel Prize in 2023, and is cancelled in 2025
"The U.S. Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) today announced the beginning of a coordinated wind-down of its mRNA vaccine development activities...."
cc: Sen. Bill Cassidy
cc: Sen. Bill Cassidy
August 5, 2025 at 9:58 PM
this work saved millions of lives in 2021, won the Nobel Prize in 2023, and is cancelled in 2025
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According to 100+ housing professionals, non-profit housing providers, and community groups in our research, existing neighbours have disproportionate power over housing and services development, effectively blocking 000s of necessary beds and homes.
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Shelters vs. self-interest: How two ugly fights exposed Toronto’s housing hypocrisy
The opposition to sixplexes and shelters in the suburban areas of Toronto show how nasty and selfish some areas of the city can be.
www.thestar.com
July 7, 2025 at 4:19 PM
According to 100+ housing professionals, non-profit housing providers, and community groups in our research, existing neighbours have disproportionate power over housing and services development, effectively blocking 000s of necessary beds and homes.
buff.ly/ZfM1ioM
buff.ly/ZfM1ioM
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The “empty luxury condos only for investors” myth is omnipresent in the housing discourse. No matter that 1) they’re not empty, 2) they’re not luxury, and 3) they’re not only bought by investors.
This myth causes so much harm, largely by providing policymakers (especially progressives) a scapegoat
This myth causes so much harm, largely by providing policymakers (especially progressives) a scapegoat
June 20, 2025 at 7:59 PM
The “empty luxury condos only for investors” myth is omnipresent in the housing discourse. No matter that 1) they’re not empty, 2) they’re not luxury, and 3) they’re not only bought by investors.
This myth causes so much harm, largely by providing policymakers (especially progressives) a scapegoat
This myth causes so much harm, largely by providing policymakers (especially progressives) a scapegoat
Great discussion here. @brankomilan.bsky.social: "I ask everybody, “Who is against equality of opportunity?” Which means who is in favor of maybe rich kids succeeding their parents and staying rich and all the poor kids being poor and nobody says they’re in favor of that. ... " but--- 1/3
One guy down the hall talking with another guy down the hall. Paul Krugman and Branko Milanovic discuss global inequality, elephants, life chances, Rawls, and more.
@pkrugman.bsky.social @brankomilan.bsky.social
@stone-lis.bsky.social @lisdata.bsky.social
paulkrugman.substack.com/p/global-ine...
@pkrugman.bsky.social @brankomilan.bsky.social
@stone-lis.bsky.social @lisdata.bsky.social
paulkrugman.substack.com/p/global-ine...
Global Inequality: Branko Milanovic
Talking with the guy down the hall
paulkrugman.substack.com
June 15, 2025 at 6:36 PM
Great discussion here. @brankomilan.bsky.social: "I ask everybody, “Who is against equality of opportunity?” Which means who is in favor of maybe rich kids succeeding their parents and staying rich and all the poor kids being poor and nobody says they’re in favor of that. ... " but--- 1/3
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The overwhelming lesson of history is that elites, thanks to their deep investment in & attachment to the status quo, *wait too long*. By the time something happens that's stark enough, bad enough, it's too late.
You stand up at one of these early line crossings ... or you watch your country go.
You stand up at one of these early line crossings ... or you watch your country go.
June 12, 2025 at 7:08 PM
The overwhelming lesson of history is that elites, thanks to their deep investment in & attachment to the status quo, *wait too long*. By the time something happens that's stark enough, bad enough, it's too late.
You stand up at one of these early line crossings ... or you watch your country go.
You stand up at one of these early line crossings ... or you watch your country go.
My thoughts on Eric Lombardi's recent piece for the Hub. I think its important for YIMBYs to extend their support for more neighbours to include those that didn't win the birth lottery of being born a Canadian.
Lombardi shares his own ‘luxury belief’ that immigration policy can be separated from morality. He says that immigration is “not a virtue” but “a policy”. But all policy is rooted in some normative value, as Lombardi himself shares when he says imm policy “should serve the national interest”.
June 6, 2025 at 3:41 AM
My thoughts on Eric Lombardi's recent piece for the Hub. I think its important for YIMBYs to extend their support for more neighbours to include those that didn't win the birth lottery of being born a Canadian.
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Harvard's Steve Levitsky, coauthor of How Democracies Die: "We are no longer living in a democratic regime." Must-listen interview - remarkably clear about the severity of the situation we now face www.npr.org/2025/04/22/n...
Harvard professor offers a grim assessment of American democracy under Trump
Steven Levitsky studies how healthy democracies can slip into authoritarianism. He says the Trump administration has already done grave damage: "We are no longer living in a democratic regime."
www.npr.org
April 23, 2025 at 12:58 AM
Harvard's Steve Levitsky, coauthor of How Democracies Die: "We are no longer living in a democratic regime." Must-listen interview - remarkably clear about the severity of the situation we now face www.npr.org/2025/04/22/n...