This fundraiser event with us is tomorrow (Saturday), Calgary! If you attend, you will also have a chance to win Project Hail Mary double passes OR tickets to The Outdoor Adventure Show! Lucky winners will be announced at the event! ✨
Tickets 🎟️: calgary.rasc.ca/wp/?page_id=...
60 years later, #Canada wants to build its first high-speed rail route, between #Quebec City and #Toronto.
Landowners are protesting. (In ways they don't when highways are built.)
I look at history of opposition to railways in this High Speed newsletter:
www.highspeed.blog/not-in-my-ba...
My piece in today's @winnipegfreepress.com - the shills for fossil fuels are using the war to argue for more pipelines. Nonsense. We should be headed in the opposite direction as fast as possible: more #renewables, more decarbonization, more energy security.
www.winnipegfreepress.com/opinion/anal...
A hand holds a paperback book, “Spatial Justice: The Basics” by Roberto Rocco, in front of Amsterdam Centraal Station. A woman cycles past in the background with a baby strapped to her chest.
“Spatial justice demands that all residents have substantive access to essential goods and services: Clean air, affordable housing, public transport, green spaces, and safe infrastructures.
It insists these rights be pursued in ways that preserve ecological integrity and intergenerational equity.”
Ever wondered why you can see underwater bubbles: invisible air in invisible water?
It's because light bends slightly at the boundary between air & water, so light coming from behind the bubble is diverted away from your eye. The resulting dark line shows you the bubble must be there. Beautiful!
A bird with a spiky, golden crest, blue facial skin, a red eye, gray beak, tan throat, and brown striped with tan on the back of the neck and shoulders. It is perched in a tree among dense vegetation.
A Hoatzin taking a break from munching leaves. Hoatzins branched off from the rest of the avian tree about 65 million years ago the are the only living bird in the family Opisthocomidae. #BirdOfTheDay #HeadShots
Waita Lodge, Cuyabeno Reserve, Ecuador, 2024
“At the @urbantruth.bsky.social we want to change the narrative - call out the lies and the liars not just clarify and fact check! Better cities have been held back by lies, and we’ve had enough of that - NO MORE!”
@brenttoderian.bsky.social
is not messing around. TRUTH is everything! 👀🇨🇦👏
FACT CHECK: This is a doctored photo. Mark Carney is NOT Poseidon, god of seas and storms, and my analysis reveals his head is not larger than a beach-breaking wave.
The house next to mine is being redeveloped into 9 apartments. The one two doors down will go from one unit to four. Neither is adding parking, but they’ll have bike storage. That’s 11 new homes with no new road required! Millions saved! But *not* building highways is called irresponsible.
Title reads: How your City can Help Mitigate the Price of Gas, Cities offer a variety of tools to help manage the cost of driving. Image is of a cycling on a bike lane with a bike counter. There is a car and a bus in the roadway alongside the separated bike lane.
Cities offer great ways to control the cost of gas. Most of them residents have already paid for.
brianpincott.substack.com/p/how-your-c...
Canada lynx kitten
One of the absolute joys of being a city councillor in #yyc was there were no parties. Peter Demong was one of my favourite people to work with. Under a party system I doubt that would have been true. Obviously, the public felt that was true as well. #yyccc
"The basic income was life-changing. Only months into the scheme, I found out I was pregnant. The basic income helped me decide to have my baby, knowing I could continue creative work and keep my small studio space... The basic income gave me more freedom to experiment in my work."
DO UBI FOR ALL.
happy birthday to one of the greatest moments in television history
Not to worry: Straphanger is alive and well! I'll continue to post about transit, bicycles, and alternatives to car-based urbanism under the "Straphanger" tag.
Sign up by using the "Subscribe" button for dispatches in your mailbox. #railsky #trains
www.highspeed.blog
My letter to the editor in today's Winnipeg Free Press. Thanks @akohan.bsky.social for finding it. I'm sure it'll get a laugh at City Hall
Four dogs, closeup on the front two, waiting to run the Iditarod. They're standing on snow as light snow falls, and they're wearing small blankets on their backs. Description from Vogue's website: "Natrah and Coki prepare to lead the team on the 11-mile kickoff course, wearing blankets made by Denise Newman and April Monroe. Photo: Emily Sullivan"
Two women sit on a leather couch making the blankets for the dogs. Above them are two photos of an Alaskan view and Iditarod dogs. Description from Vogue website: "Kate Chavez, one of the beadwork artists, working with her sister Brittany to make last-minute adjustments to the blankets before the Iditarod starts. Photo: Emily Sullivan"
![Closeup of one of the blankets, featuring beaded flowers and northern lights. Description from Vogue website: "A detail shot of a beaded blanket by Erika Scheffen and Keisha Green from Dawson City, Yukon. “There is so much meaning, from the northern lights to the stars. I put in the Big Dipper and Little Dipper, which Tr’ondëk Hwëch’in and many other [nations] have traditional stories about that have been passed down through generations orally,” says Scheffen. “I also added forget-me-nots to represent the Alaska state flower.” Photo: Emily Sullivan"](https://cdn.bsky.app/img/feed_thumbnail/plain/did:plc:lwvqxwyzpwlpd46ifg4xik3u/bafkreiekwpeklnpuegf4x6gnsb6fr2rbxoe7ce2bsoh5waa7w35ycgukny)
Closeup of one of the blankets, featuring beaded flowers and northern lights. Description from Vogue website: "A detail shot of a beaded blanket by Erika Scheffen and Keisha Green from Dawson City, Yukon. “There is so much meaning, from the northern lights to the stars. I put in the Big Dipper and Little Dipper, which Tr’ondëk Hwëch’in and many other [nations] have traditional stories about that have been passed down through generations orally,” says Scheffen. “I also added forget-me-nots to represent the Alaska state flower.” Photo: Emily Sullivan"
Closeup of another blanket, featuring a beaded dogs face surrounded by a circle and snowflakes. Description from Vogue's website: "A detail shot of a beaded blanket by April Monroe of Fairbanks, Alaska. “On this blanket is Jody’s sled dog Flash,” says Monroe. “He was a foundation dog for her team, and many of the dogs running the race with her today are his children and grandchildren.” Photo: Emily Sullivan"
Hän Gwich’in musher Jody Potts-Joseph has outfitted all 16 of her Iditarod dogs with handmade beaded blankets made by Alaska or Canadian First Nations artists! The time and love that went into these, wow...
📸: www.vogue.com/article/idit... #Iditarod54
Grey wolf
Wow, great @nytimes.com piece on the toxic tar sands tailings, their harms to downstream Nations, and Indigenous pushback against this dirty industry to protect their peoples and territories:
www.nytimes.com/2026/03/10/h...
Good thread but to our massive shame, Canada is not on it 🫤
Post 3 good things, none of which are the cessation of a negative.
1. The smell of the air after a Quebec winter
2. The first bike ride in the Spring
3. The sound of neighborhood kids laughing while playing in puddles
There’s nothing a trebuchet can't solve.
Great people in this starter pack!
ANNOUNCING OUR FIRST STARTER PACK! These are accounts with unusually effective communications or marketing/branding of issues and ideas for better city-building. Sharing the truth more persausively, and calling out disinformation & lies! Please follow & SHARE WIDELY! #UrbanTruth go.bsky.app/47w5jKk
A painting of a bird beside the text "I'll meet you somewhere that has tons of fuckin booze"
Just one of MANY outrageous outbursts from the US ambassador.
I see a pattern. You should hear what the bozo ambassador to Canada has been saying!
www.winnipegfreepress.com/opinion/edit...
a beer on a bar facing outwards in a window love walkable neighbourhoods so l can easily grab a beverage or a bite to eat. No big conspiracy I just don't wanna go far for stuff.
not complicated
The #RCMP vs. the media: Bracken trial approaches its endgame
This court case could decide the future of #pressfreedom — and police oversight — in Canada
Read the new feature story from @justinbrake.bsky.social
theindependent.ca/news/lji/the...
Yes!!! That is a great sound and feeling.
