Congratulations to the class of 2025 York University 🎓🎉

Happy to share a few thoughts with Spacing on what Toronto can learn from global smart cities. spacing.ca/toronto/2025/0…

Here is see the ideal process for a municipal amalgamation, see: victoriasaanich.ca/?_sc=NTc4ODA1N… Even I might end up voting for this amalgamation. Note that the Citizens' Assembly final report is dedicated to the late Warren Magnusson. Times Colonist

They’re not ok with it and we shouldn’t act like they ought to be

Éire 🇮🇪

The best reason Ontario should move towards an education policy that looks more like BC’s is that there are no good reasons not to. ⁦Ginny Roth⁩ and I make the case for ed pluralism in Ontario in ⁦The Hub⁩ (link below)

Kildare 🇮🇪

Today in The Hub, I argue that the Anglosphere has allowed its bureaucracies to usurp fundamental property rights and break land-economics. It’s time to change that by… 1) Restoring the right to use and improve property. 2) Taxing land to cut taxes on income. - - -

A broken social contract, in one chart.

This one is hitting particularly hard today and I think its because I keep thinking about this kids. Even if you hated him, his kids loved him and they deserve their dad. The clip below shows that fully - just the genuine love and affection a daughter has for her father.

🚨How does working with generative AI affect people's risk perceptions and social policy preferences? Very excited to share my new paper (with Jane Gingrich & Jasmine Bhatia), #OpenAccess in the Journal of European Public Policy (link in last post) ⬇️

Although the genetic fingerprint has shifted a bit, there is absolutely nothing new from a clinical, diagnostic, therapeutic, or preventive perspective. Are we really going to do this every time the virus mutates, which it will continue to do frequently and indefinitely?

If this is all true, then MP Gasparro should resign This is a serious breach of privacy and administrative law If I was their lawyer, I would also bring up the issue of bias. How can a fair decision be made on their travel authorization when an MP has accused them of terrorism?

To spoil it a bit, its NOT: *Inclusionary zoning *Government built homes *Freezing development till we figure this out *sending all developers to the guillotine *Removing property rights *Ending capitalism in housing

Michelin-level word salad served up here by Robertson: “Federal Housing Minister Gregor Robertson says the average price of housing — not necessarily individual home values — must fall to restore affordability in Canada.” Still trying to have it both ways.

Hoo boy, here we go. In a triumph of judicial sophistry over common sense and democratic law-making, the Supreme Courthas struck down a law providing a mandatory minimum prison sentence of just 1 year for "possession of child pornography" or "accessing child pornography."

A productive week in Warsaw with the PARCITY team, further scoping out work on urban participatory innovations.

A cat ran in front of a car and was run over. This happens 26 MILLION times per year in the US. Now Rachel Swan and Jackie Fielder want to ban vehicles. This is how moronic HEARST San Francisco Chronicle reporters & Board of Supervisors are. It’s like they speak in tongues in a tents in Mississippi.

The messaging from Municipal, Provincial, and Federal governments in Toronto is quite clear. They simply do not care that Canada’s middle class is dying off with the boomers. Canada will have an upper class (20%) and Elite Class (2%) and a servant class that will wait decades

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