mmarginet
@mmarginet.bsky.social
Publisher at Great Plains Press, sustainable transpo with Green Action Centre, creating theatre with TBTR. Strong Towns!
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Cities are you listening?
Many city halls are deep in budget-time. Some are pushing austerity ideologies, and are ignoring the difference between costs and cost-savers/value creators. Citizens, PAY ATTENTION, and never forget that the TRUTH about a city’s REAL aspirations isn’t found in its visions. It’s found in its budget.
November 10, 2025 at 12:28 AM
Cities are you listening?
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“We worked hard for this!” - measles
Canada expected to lose long-standing measles-elimination status tomorrow https://www.theglobeandmail.com/politics/article-canada-measles-elimination-status-public-health-vaccines/
𝗠𝗼𝗿𝗲 𝗻𝗲𝘄𝘀 ⇢ CanadaHealthwatch.ca 🍁
𝗠𝗼𝗿𝗲 𝗻𝗲𝘄𝘀 ⇢ CanadaHealthwatch.ca 🍁
November 10, 2025 at 4:44 AM
“We worked hard for this!” - measles
A great, standing room only crowd for Patty Wiens' launch of They'll Never Work Here at McNally Robinson tonight in #winnipeg!
Have you checked out The City Project series from
@greatplainspress.bsky.social yet?
#urbanism #whatToReadNext
Have you checked out The City Project series from
@greatplainspress.bsky.social yet?
#urbanism #whatToReadNext
November 9, 2025 at 3:24 AM
A great, standing room only crowd for Patty Wiens' launch of They'll Never Work Here at McNally Robinson tonight in #winnipeg!
Have you checked out The City Project series from
@greatplainspress.bsky.social yet?
#urbanism #whatToReadNext
Have you checked out The City Project series from
@greatplainspress.bsky.social yet?
#urbanism #whatToReadNext
Used the new transit On Request for the first time today! Super handy!
#winnipeg #wpgpoli #transit
info.winnipegtransit.com/en/service/o...
#winnipeg #wpgpoli #transit
info.winnipegtransit.com/en/service/o...
Winnipeg Transit On-Request
info.winnipegtransit.com
November 8, 2025 at 10:34 PM
Used the new transit On Request for the first time today! Super handy!
#winnipeg #wpgpoli #transit
info.winnipegtransit.com/en/service/o...
#winnipeg #wpgpoli #transit
info.winnipegtransit.com/en/service/o...
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A deep commitment to anti-wokeness
November 8, 2025 at 7:33 PM
A deep commitment to anti-wokeness
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It’s awesome to see this — but seriously, it’s so damn frustrating that we have to fight this fight in every city when the science couldn’t be clearer. Get the cars out, make more money for local shops, and build cities that are exciting, healthy, and happy for everyone.
It’s really important that #Vancouver’s Downtown Business Association, who were originally against bike-lanes, are now among their most vigourous supporters, because of ACTUAL EVIDENCE that they’re better for downtown business than any street parking they replaced.
Safe bike-lanes mean business.
Safe bike-lanes mean business.
November 8, 2025 at 6:56 AM
It’s awesome to see this — but seriously, it’s so damn frustrating that we have to fight this fight in every city when the science couldn’t be clearer. Get the cars out, make more money for local shops, and build cities that are exciting, healthy, and happy for everyone.
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Soho Fair
1958
📷Roger Mayne
1958
📷Roger Mayne
November 8, 2025 at 8:26 PM
Soho Fair
1958
📷Roger Mayne
1958
📷Roger Mayne
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Most people don’t know that with SNAP you are banned from buying “foods that are hot at the point of sale”. So even if you have SNAP (which people don’t now) you can’t get cooked food. Which means you need to also actually have the resources to PREPARE a “healthy” meal.
Thinking about the social stigma against eating fast food in a country where poor people are being starved by the govt, the cost of groceries and fresh vegetables are astronomical, and a cheeseburger at McDonald’s costs $3.50.
“Clean” and “healthy” eating rhetoric is racist, ableist, and classist.
“Clean” and “healthy” eating rhetoric is racist, ableist, and classist.
November 8, 2025 at 10:11 PM
Most people don’t know that with SNAP you are banned from buying “foods that are hot at the point of sale”. So even if you have SNAP (which people don’t now) you can’t get cooked food. Which means you need to also actually have the resources to PREPARE a “healthy” meal.
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"Zohran Mamdani will be the first mayor of New York City in decades not to own a car"
Will be exciting to see if he can implement his vision to pedestrianize areas in the congestion pricing zone and dedicate entire streets as combo busways + active transportation
Will be exciting to see if he can implement his vision to pedestrianize areas in the congestion pricing zone and dedicate entire streets as combo busways + active transportation
How Mamdani could push a bold redesign of New York's streets
The mayor-elect has articulated a vision for reshaping the city streets. Janette Sadik-Khan, the former commissioner of the New York City Department of Transportation under the Bloomberg Administratio...
www.fastcompany.com
November 8, 2025 at 4:36 PM
"Zohran Mamdani will be the first mayor of New York City in decades not to own a car"
Will be exciting to see if he can implement his vision to pedestrianize areas in the congestion pricing zone and dedicate entire streets as combo busways + active transportation
Will be exciting to see if he can implement his vision to pedestrianize areas in the congestion pricing zone and dedicate entire streets as combo busways + active transportation
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#PierrePoilievre and his goon squad have been issuing threats to MPs and even contacting the families of the members they threaten. Can you even imagine what Poilievre and his band of creeps would do if they got their hands on real power? I shudder at the thought. #cdnpoli #cdnmedia #NeverPoilievre
November 8, 2025 at 3:30 AM
#PierrePoilievre and his goon squad have been issuing threats to MPs and even contacting the families of the members they threaten. Can you even imagine what Poilievre and his band of creeps would do if they got their hands on real power? I shudder at the thought. #cdnpoli #cdnmedia #NeverPoilievre
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November 7, 2025 at 7:43 PM
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This is just the tip of the iceberg: get ready for the entire oil & gas industry to drill & dash and leave the taxpayer to pay for nearly $300 BILLION in clean up costs for their foul mess. #EndFossilFuels
Alberta let an oil and gas company ‘in survival mode’ take over 170 wells. Now it’s not paying its bills: thenarwhal.ca/maga-energy-...
Alberta allowed cash-strapped MAGA Energy to acquire 170 wells | The Narwhal
The Alberta Energy Regulator approved MAGA Energy, already in financial distress, to acquire 170 oil and gas wells. Unpaid bills will likely fall on taxpayers
thenarwhal.ca
November 7, 2025 at 11:26 PM
This is just the tip of the iceberg: get ready for the entire oil & gas industry to drill & dash and leave the taxpayer to pay for nearly $300 BILLION in clean up costs for their foul mess. #EndFossilFuels
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Remember DNC, it doesn't matter who you run, Fox news will call them a socialist. You could endorse the corpse of Ronald Reagan and their first segment would be "Extreme socialist Reagan picked by Soros to destroy America"
Stop caring what fox news says, and listen to your base. It clearly works.
Stop caring what fox news says, and listen to your base. It clearly works.
November 6, 2025 at 11:32 AM
Remember DNC, it doesn't matter who you run, Fox news will call them a socialist. You could endorse the corpse of Ronald Reagan and their first segment would be "Extreme socialist Reagan picked by Soros to destroy America"
Stop caring what fox news says, and listen to your base. It clearly works.
Stop caring what fox news says, and listen to your base. It clearly works.
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Remember how it took like a decade to open Portage and Main? And lots of people were mad and scared about all the potential terrible consequences? And then....it has been totally fine. And no one is mad or even cares anymore. So yeah...build the damn bike lanes and let's get on with our lives.
The City of Winnipeg is seeking feedback on a proposed temporary bike lane design for Wellington Crescent.
Feedback sought on Wellington Crescent bike lanes
The City of Winnipeg is seeking feedback on a proposed temporary bike lane design for Wellington Crescent.
www.winnipegfreepress.com
November 7, 2025 at 2:39 AM
Remember how it took like a decade to open Portage and Main? And lots of people were mad and scared about all the potential terrible consequences? And then....it has been totally fine. And no one is mad or even cares anymore. So yeah...build the damn bike lanes and let's get on with our lives.
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Musk Wins $1 Trillion Pay Package, Creating Split Screen on Wealth in America
www.nytimes.com
November 7, 2025 at 4:03 AM
Does anyone else with ADD do pips? I've been practicing and practicing this game for weeks and was only able to do the hard puzzles quickly on heavy painkillers. Just trying to sort if it's a brain chemistry thing, or...
November 6, 2025 at 6:44 PM
Does anyone else with ADD do pips? I've been practicing and practicing this game for weeks and was only able to do the hard puzzles quickly on heavy painkillers. Just trying to sort if it's a brain chemistry thing, or...
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this looks like a trick daffy duck would put up to get bugs bunny into "the oval office"
November 5, 2025 at 11:04 PM
this looks like a trick daffy duck would put up to get bugs bunny into "the oval office"
A clear direction from the Liberals that transit projects will be favourable to highway expansion will certainly get my city to wake up.
#wpgpoli #cdnpoli #canada
#wpgpoli #cdnpoli #canada
Regarding Prime Minister Carney’s federal budget: I don’t pretend to fully know it, and there are elements that concern me, but if I were the NDP I’d pledge to support it if a significant investment in urban public transit (nation-building, climate etc) was added, and if I were PM Carney I’d agree.
November 6, 2025 at 2:20 PM
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This is the kind of investigation James Comer was made for…
November 6, 2025 at 1:23 AM
This is the kind of investigation James Comer was made for…
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Anyway, the NYT is by any measure an "elite" institution in the power centers of New York City... and it'd be good if the Times covered it that way, along with noting its very successful business model. bsky.app/profile/bgru...
This NYT story about how Mamdani dealt with the opposition by the city's elites fails to mention one particular elite institution: The NYT editorial page, which last June railed against him as "uniquely unsuited to the city’s challenges... lacks political savvy"
www.nytimes.com/2025/11/04/n...
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www.nytimes.com/2025/11/04/n...
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How Zohran Mamdani Beat Back New York’s Elite and Was Elected Mayor
www.nytimes.com
November 5, 2025 at 1:51 PM
Anyway, the NYT is by any measure an "elite" institution in the power centers of New York City... and it'd be good if the Times covered it that way, along with noting its very successful business model. bsky.app/profile/bgru...
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Congratulations to all the Democratic candidates who won tonight. It’s a reminder that when we come together around strong, forward-looking leaders who care about the issues that matter, we can win. We’ve still got plenty of work to do, but the future looks a little bit brighter.
November 5, 2025 at 2:47 AM
Congratulations to all the Democratic candidates who won tonight. It’s a reminder that when we come together around strong, forward-looking leaders who care about the issues that matter, we can win. We’ve still got plenty of work to do, but the future looks a little bit brighter.
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Vancouver’s urban tree canopy, and the “kissing canopies” over the streets the mature trees create, are one of our city’s most important assets. Cooling, cleaning, beautifying and strengthening the city while integrating urban life with nature for livability. Great pics via @traffictrish.bsky.social
November 5, 2025 at 6:40 AM
Vancouver’s urban tree canopy, and the “kissing canopies” over the streets the mature trees create, are one of our city’s most important assets. Cooling, cleaning, beautifying and strengthening the city while integrating urban life with nature for livability. Great pics via @traffictrish.bsky.social
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A typical European car is parked 92% of the time. It spends 1/5th of its driving time looking for parking. Its 5 seats only move 1.5 people. 86% of its fuel never reaches the wheels, and most of the energy that does, moves the car, not the people.
Sound efficient?
HT @ellenmacarthurfdn.bsky.social
Sound efficient?
HT @ellenmacarthurfdn.bsky.social
November 4, 2025 at 10:33 PM
A typical European car is parked 92% of the time. It spends 1/5th of its driving time looking for parking. Its 5 seats only move 1.5 people. 86% of its fuel never reaches the wheels, and most of the energy that does, moves the car, not the people.
Sound efficient?
HT @ellenmacarthurfdn.bsky.social
Sound efficient?
HT @ellenmacarthurfdn.bsky.social
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This is how a real President is supposed to act
November 5, 2025 at 12:00 AM
This is how a real President is supposed to act
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I've said it before and I'll say it again now:
Live your life in such a way that millions of people do not rightfully have reason to cheer your death.
Live your life in such a way that millions of people do not rightfully have reason to cheer your death.
November 4, 2025 at 3:02 PM
I've said it before and I'll say it again now:
Live your life in such a way that millions of people do not rightfully have reason to cheer your death.
Live your life in such a way that millions of people do not rightfully have reason to cheer your death.