Now City of Toronto 🇨🇦 plsss

Approved unanimously at the TTC board today! We’re moving forward with automated ticketing enforcement to protect the public threatened by drivers who speed by open streetcar doors. This will begin rolling out in early 2025.

A 2.6km stretch of Bloor St - a major arterial in Toronto - was transformed in 2016 from 4 lanes primarily serving cars and trucks to 2 lanes for cars and 2 protected lanes for bicycles. TCAT and the City studied its impacts. It bears repeating a few key results: #biketo

A clear majority of #Canadians refuse to accept that their appetite for cheap goods, cheaper labour, instant gratification, and 24/7 convenience cannot be satisfied without immigrants working and living under slave-like conditions.

BREAKING: Susan Holt will become New Brunswick's first female premier as her Liberal party is projected to form a majority government. READ MORE: trib.al/zBqdJ3X trib.al/zBqdJ3X

#Breaking: New Brunswick Liberals will form majority government, ending six years of Tory rule trib.al/hB16M2I

Today, New Brunswickers have loudly rejected a politics of hate and division. Other governments would be wise to take note. Hate and discrimination are not a winning strategy. Focus on the issues that unite not divide. #cdnpoli #nbpoli

Congratulations to New Brunswick’s next premier, Susan Holt. We’ve got work ahead to build more homes, protect our official languages, and improve healthcare for New Brunswickers. I’m looking forward to working with you and your Liberal team to make it happen.

MERCI NOUVEAU-BRUNSWICK ! ❤️

Institutional mergers are a stupid person's idea of what a smart higher education cost-efficiency policy looks like.

Alyson Townsend will be sworn in as Minister of Post-Secondary Education, Training and Labour. --- Alyson Townsend sera assermenté en tant que ministre de l’Éducation postsecondaire, de la Formation et du Travail.

The central problem for higher ed worldwide: everyone wants mass HE & everyone has expectations of what a quality uni experience should look like but no one wants to pay what it costs to deliver quality mass HE, either through fees, public funding or both. The rest is details

My latest for The Hub “Dare to be great: Ten radical ideas to restore Canada’s promise in 2025” Inspired by a question from daniel debow last week, a fun article to end 2024 with ideas I think should be on the table. Ideas in thread 👇(1/11) thehub.ca/2024/12/19/eri…

John Diefenbaker canceled the Avro Arrow program to appease the Americans. Our aviation industry never recovered. Brian Mulroney brought in corporate mobility (free trade), and corporations said thank you and offshored their industries. He privatized more than 20 crown... 1/

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There isn’t a snowball’s chance in hell that Canada would become part of the United States. Workers and communities in both our countries benefit from being each other’s biggest trading and security partner.

#Breaking: Half of Humber Polytechnic’s board, including chair, resign en masse over dispute with college president trib.al/NYYDaj1

/4 The CBC’s Barton and Cochrane, in their high profile roles, have done nothing but attempt to undermine our Liberal PM, Trudeau, and leaders within the Liberal party. The constant mockery, snide comments, half truths…. spin…

Toronto is stuck. Congestion is worse than almost anywhere else in North America. It costs us $45 billion every year in lost productivity, wasted fuel, delivery delays, and wasted time. More lanes haven't worked (the 401 is one of the world’s widest highways and yet is a parking