Last week, Zaila Avant-garde became the first Black American to win the Scripps National Spelling Bee. A scholar of spelling bees, breaks down the importance of this historical moment. The Conversation U.S. theconversation.com/zaila-avant-ga…

the whole "cyclists don't follow stop signs and traffic lights" trope is so silly. There were literally decades in which people on foot, on bicycles, on streetcars, and on carriages coexisted in cities with no traffic control. 🛑 and 🚦exist entirely because of cars.

Terrific video for a terrific candidate. Winnipeg North has long been one of Canada's hotbeds of progressive ideas. It's time to return to progressive representation.

Our cities do not need driverless cars. They desperately need more carless drivers! #StruinBSO in #Nijmegen offers sustainable, safe, and fun transport for children. (via @JosSluijsmans) x.com/i/status/14152…

Momentum is growing here in Holland for 15kph residential/30kph arterial. #SmartCities #LTNs #Traffic #Kindermoord

For the same reasons, Winnipeg Jets should ask Wheels to waive his NTC and leave both him and JoMo unprotected. It's a win-win, because Wpg can protect 2 others, and no way the Kraken take 26 or 44. #GJG

We are not even a little bit committed to reconciliation. We are racist colonisers & always have been. Robber barons one & all, we are dedicated to stealing every dime out of this economy & don't care who gets hurt along the way. We are unfit to lead. We are Go follow @mbpccaucus #mbpoli

If you're ever tempted to endanger/abuse the one on the left, can you remember it's the same person on the right? 🚗🚲🚘

In 1871, a woman from Quebec hired a hearse with the sole intention of riding around town smoking in the coffin-bed while enjoying the view.

I was reminded recently that austerity is not simple defunding of government services in the name of ‘efficiency’ or ‘responsibility’. It’s shifting public monies from sustaining services to surveillant ones. It’s making us pay to police our neighbours instead of feeding them.

THREE people who have better things to do with their time, like saving lives, run this account. Please show them some love.

This is an important political development for Canada.

#ChallengeCarCulture #EndCars And do it strategically.

Braverman’s claim about ethnicity of grooming gangs was false, regulator rules theguardian.com/politics/2023/…

My writer alter-ego published another folk tale (this time from Roman Europe) adapted for kids. Because what's funnier than birds flying out of bums? #theBumStories

A new study finds cycling as the only variable that significantly positively influenced 4 facets of orientation towards the common good: political participation, social participation in organisations, neighbourhood solidarity & neighbourly helpfulness. sciencedirect.com/science/articl…

“The former Tokaido Road should be closed to vehicles on weekends and opened to pedestrians and bicycles to encourage active travel between Heiwajima and Shinagawa. If you combine it with Tamagawa CR, it will be quite spectacular.” Totally agree.

23 October 1943 | A transport of 1,800 Polish Jews arrived from Bergen-Belsen to Auschwitz. The SS sent them to the gas chambers immediately after selection. Men were directed to crematorium III and women to crematorium II. After a speech about the need for disinfection, and