I hope one thing leftists all take away from Mamdani’s campaign though is that it doesn’t matter how chill and wholesome you are, the dinguses are going to smear and trash you in increasingly unhinged ways anyway, so you might as well shoot for the moon and campaign on what makes your heart sing
Outstanding. Watch & share.
“Air pollution fell substantially as Paris restricted car traffic and made way for parks, people-streets and bike-lanes.”
Better for the climate, better for health, better for livability & quality of life.
Common sense.
Such a no-brainer, it’s remarkable that more cities HAVEN’T done the same.
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My Canada Day plea to the PM...
If the Libs want to earn back the trust of young people, they must make a compelling & inspiring offer, & the Youth Climate Corps represents just that, write Bushra Asghar, Erin Blondeau, Lea Mary Movelle & Juan Vargas Alba 🧵👇 www.nationalobserver.com/2025/06/11/o...
‘Nation-building’ projects should by more than 'stuff' like pipelines and infrastructure. They should include bolstering programs like medicare that reflect Canadian values like fairness and equity, by @picardonhealth.bsky.social www.theglobeandmail.com/opinion/arti... via @theglobeandmail.com
An awesome story about how solar microgrids kept the power on during Puerto Rico's latest blackouts.
This is bottom-up, power-to-the-people shit. Get excited!
If Prime Minister Mark Carney wishes to turn the page on past governments and stand up to US President Donald Trump, a green industrial strategy is serious forward-looking leadership, writes Nick Pearce www.nationalobserver.com/2025/06/03/o...
I do hope at some point we start discussing a future for Canada that is about more than pulling things out of the ground and selling them.
The Bay didn't die. It was murdered by private equity.
jacobin.com/2025/06/huds...
Elevated highway in central Seoul
Daylighted river and great public park that replaced the elevated highway in central Seoul
Never forget that when Seoul, Korea removed the Cheonggyecheon expressway in 2003 and replaced it with a restored stream, 1000 acre park and improved public transit, not only did it TRANSFORM the city’s public life and economic success, but the car traffic got better.
The car traffic got BETTER.
Venture capital firms are now reaching out to scientists who have faced funding cuts due to Trump/Musk/Doge and offering them funding.
A very shrewd move on their part but of course this means their discoveries from this funding will be owned privately instead of by the American people.
Last year federal legislation was passed to create Employee Ownership Trusts as a promising new vehicle for workers to achieve more control in their workplaces.
Michael MacKenzie, Simon Pek and @1alexhemingway.bsky.social explain how this can be achieved.
bcpolicy.ca/2025/05/06/r...
If they want it, Indigenous people should get the whole damn Hudson's Bay Company. That would be very fitting.
www.aptnnews.ca/national-new...
Building on the thread above, it’s great to see one of the biggest 🇨🇦 federal sector unions, the Canadian Association of Professional Employees @cape-acep.bsky.social now calling for Canada’s Public Sector Pension Plan to divest from Tesla! What are other unions across Canada waiting for? 9/x
BREAKING: Nation’s biological clocks breathe sigh of relief
Mr Lover, a handsome orange and white tabby cat, standing outside and wearing a blue harness. He looks outwards and upwards, his amber eyes wide and pupils small. His ears and whiskers point in the same direction, and his mouth is very slightly open.
"Even a wounded world is feeding us. Even a wounded world holds us, giving us moments of wonder and joy. I choose joy over despair. Not because I have my head in the sand, but because joy is what the earth gives me daily and I must return the gift." (Robin Wall Kimmerer, Braiding Sweetgrass)
“Our public transit isn’t failing; it’s being intentionally starved.”
Pitch-perfect messaging and framing from @elisejoshi.bsky.social. Transit advocates everywhere: watch this video, learn from it, apply to your local contexts, repeat.
A woman in a yellow shirt and blue skirt rides a bicycle along a cycle path in the Dutch countryside lined with tall trees, narrow creeks, and farmer's fields.
The COVID-19 pandemic offered new insights around the impact of the built environment on mental health, with the prevalence of the car in our cities and lives severely limiting our ability to create restorative spaces. Here are three takeaways for planners wanting to promote better mental health...🧵
“In Finland, the number of homeless people has fallen sharply. Those affected receive a small apartment & counselling with no preconditions. 4 out of 5 people affected make their way back into a stable life. And all this is CHEAPER than accepting homelessness.”
It costs less to house people.
Mark Carney's office opened 90% of emails our supporters sent about basic income, from liberals and non-liberals alike.
Many brought up an important idea: UBI should be a dividend from things we own in common, like natural resources and the rent of land.🧵
We need to talk about @rachelgilmore.bsky.social
Our democracy is not going to make it without strong journalists. Let me begin by stating the obvious: these thoughts are mine alone. They do not speak for my employers. They are personal and, at this moment, angry. #cdnmedia
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People in casual spring attire walk, cycle, and ride trams along car-free streets lined with colourful low-rise residential buildings in the neighbourhood of Vauban in Freiburg, Germany.
People in casual spring attire walk, cycle, and ride trams along car-free streets lined with colourful low-rise residential buildings in the neighbourhood of Vauban in Freiburg, Germany.
People in casual spring attire walk, cycle, and ride trams along car-free streets lined with colourful low-rise residential buildings in the neighbourhood of Vauban in Freiburg, Germany.
People in casual spring attire walk, cycle, and ride trams along car-free streets lined with colourful low-rise residential buildings in the neighbourhood of Vauban in Freiburg, Germany.
A former French military base, Vauban is a thriving neighbourhood of 5,500 residents connected to Freiburg town centre by bus and light rail. Built in the late 1990s as a radical experiment in low-car living, it forgoes virtually all on-street parking in favour of active, green, and social spaces. 🧵
What I’d like to see the NDP talk more about and focus on:
1. Industrial policy, especially now
2. Building an economy where enterprises are increasingly owned and controlled by workers (related to 1)
3. Building things (which workers like to do, related to 1 and 2)
RIP McBarge
1986-2025
You were too pure for this world
A professor of environmental sciences gives a quick punchy take on the "eye-popping" numbers re. how clean air promotes economic growth.
An EPA analysis of 20 years of the Clean Air Act (1970-90) found the economic benefits of the regulations were about 42X greater than the costs.
No pay wall.
Green Party co-leader Jonathan Pedneault has a plan to protect Canadian sovereignty -- and it's worth thinking seriously about.
www.davidmoscrop.com/p/interview-...
“In Finland, the number of homeless people has fallen sharply. Those affected receive a small apartment & counselling with no preconditions. 4 out of 5 people affected make their way back into a stable life. And all this is CHEAPER than accepting homelessness.”
