WHICH BIKE LANE DO WE BLAME FOR THIS TRAFFIC? Banner this AM over the Gardiner pointing out the obvious, crippling traffic isn't caused by bike lanes. What bike lane has the Gardener jammed this & every morning?! fordfraud.com Vid: @BikeLaneDiary 📷Joshua Best

This is par for the course for Toronto winter - clear, dry streets. Yes, the coming week will be cold, but what little snow we had has long since been washed away by several days of warm and rain, and nothing is looming in the forecast. A hat and gloves takes care of the rest.

COLUMN: The twilight of Saudi oil in America. In 2024, US imports of Saudi crude plunged to a ~40 years low — and the drop will deepen further in 2025 as one of the last remaining refiners buying the barrel closes. #OOTT Read my @Opinion column here: bloomberg.com/opinion/articl…

A 59 year old cyclist was killed by a motorist near Thornbury on Jan. 9. Local cyclists, members of @collingwoodcyclingclub and ARC will meet at 8:30 AM Jan 18 near the crash site to place a ghost bike memorial. All are welcome to join.

Democrats still believe the type of attention you get is the most important thing. Republicans now understand that the volume of attention you get is the most important thing. Absolutely loved this conversation with Chris Hayes.

One of my favourite decks of the year! Can't wait to dig in next week!

Chat GPT was coming for your job. Ended up losing its to Chinese AI.

BREAKING NEWS❗ The UK heat pump had a bumper year with 63% market growth. Still a long way to go but if maintained in future years the UK would meet its 600,000 heat pumps installed per year in 2028 target. Source is Heat Pump Association (HPA)

Energy nerd christmas!

I wish people understood intelligence with the same nuance that they understand athletics. Every baseball fan knows that pitchers don't make great batters because that's not what they train for, but they have a hard time understanding that a computer wiz can't run the government.

That's an output, not an outcome.

I'm beginning to think that, perhaps, it's the fundamentals of climate policy (doing something costly today with most of the benefits falling to future generations) is the part that's hard. 😜 Political feasibility of prices vs subsidies vs regs is a momentary distraction.

*weeps in Ontarian*

Battery costs are falling and battery storage capacity is skyrocketing 69 GW of capacity was installed in 2024 - almost enough to DOUBLE total battery storage capacity 🔋 ember-energy.org/latest-insight… #GER2025

"Almost as amazing as the knowledge we have gained in the past four decades is the fact that some people continue to deny the damage we are doing to our world." theguardian.com/science/2025/a…

The City of Toronto Parks Department sure gets great results from its maintenance practice of dragging massive trucks all over the parks.

Google and Meta search both report that Cape Breton Island has its own time zone 12 minutes ahead of mainland Nova Scotia time because they are both drawing that information from a Beaverton article I wrote in 2024

This is pretty cool;) Eng. Peter Njenga x.com/CleanPowerDave…

Javier Blas Bloomberg Opinion no nuance in the headline/subber for this being one of many scenarios!? no upfront explanation of why CPS is considered by many as so implausible (and hence why it was stopped for the last 6 years)?