Andrew Kohan

Somehow, history has returned.

It’s not good but we will get through it together. We can build something better.

Shocker that the people we hold accountable through access to information are impeding access to information

My fav claim about the federal spending power is that it lets feds intrude on provincial areas of jurisdiction by "abusing their power of taxation"... as if provinces don't have taxation powers.

Reality: provinces keep their taxes low on the backs of their demands for federal money!

Very much not fresh ones! Certainly not in the quantities demanded.

My kids actually being wolves would explain a few other things

It would be cruel to demonstrate a capacity for thought when he seems incapable of it.

lol

I think any parent can relate, I bet berries makeup about 80% of my budget some months.

It’s important to feel like death when calling or they won’t believe you need anything

One of the important functions of protest is surfacing minority concerns where the existing policy so violates the needs of a portion of the community that they are compelled to speak up about it. Denying those concerns on the basis of an imagined majority opposition isn’t democracy, it’s tyranny.

If you force me to come up with a preference on something I know nothing about I might generate one for you on the spot, but I’m not sure that should have the same weight as the preference I am driven to shout from the rooftops and call and write letters about.

It’s worth thinking about why so many people aren’t participating in democracy, from public engagement to voting. But it’s usually a mistake to believe that underparticipators share some unified policy preference that they aren’t voicing. More parsimonious option is they don’t care deeply about it!

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The TLDR is, communitarian rights to self-determination are not straight-forward precisely because communities are always complex, plural, & networked to other communities. We live in a society, not a collection of closed enclaves. Rights of groups and individuals need to be negotiated and balanced.

Every guy who talks to Jeff Browaty about loving their commute if only it could be a bit faster is a regular Joe worth listening to. Every mom telling him their kid can’t take the bus to school anymore because it’s too full, or that they want a safe bike lane on their street, is a nut to ignore.

Meanwhile council’s intransigence even in the face of evidence for widespread public support for safer roads has real costs, measured in human lives, in life-altering injuries, in fear that keeps people isolated and inactive and trapped in cars they don’t love but which seem like the only option.

Councillors raise the spectre of a “silent majority” of drivers who hate safe infrastructure and strangely always underparticipate in public engagement opportunities, which always show high support for safer roads. But they won’t consider that it is they who marinate in skewed carbrain online spaces

We’re all tarred as “radical cyclists” when we come to city hall looking for redress, for some small reflection of our existence in the design of the roads we share. I think city hall is not used to being bound to respect any minority rights whatsoever, and they certainly imagine us a minority.

I’ve talked to moms whose kids have been hit by drivers and let me tell you, they don’t think Winnipeg is working for them. I’ve talked to retired folks who are afraid to cross the street they live on, and homeowners who are sick of the sound of screeching tires and crunching metal.

You go knock on doors, whether it’s in Elmwood or Crescentwood, and you find a lot of people who’d disagree that this is just the way it has to be, or that they’re served by their drive-thru neighbourhoods. But these voices are marginalized at city hall, called extremists or special interests.

This thread captures a lot of what it feels like to come to Winnipeg and be told that car-centric infrastructure and suburban supremacy are just majoritarian preferences baked into Winnipeg’s culture and we shouldn’t mess with it. Aren’t we also people whose needs and lives matter, outside cars?

I mean I’ll still be winter riding until late April, c’mon.

Excuse me it is still March. Come back with this in May.

Happy birthday! Glad the weather could cooperate!

If we spent $50m on temporary pilot bike lanes instead, perhaps an additional 125km of safer infrastructure could have been on the ground already, saving lives instead of lining pockets.

Official corruption has costs beyond the financial. If even $5m of that had been around to spend on other projects, it could have paid for the road refresh and permanent bike infrastructure that would have saved Rob Jenner.

Manitoba Search and Rescue team (SAR) has acquired a "Fat Truck" YouTube video by RCMP Manitoba

I think that’s this one, RCMP purchase in 2024? Zeal Motors Fat Truck, difficult to find a price, but between $100-200k depending on if they got it new?

Can’t make it out, is that WPS or RCMP?

I need to know how much this costs in units of Wellington Cres safe street pilot projects, stat