If this makes it through, now looking likely, there’s going to be a scramble in Ontario, Québec and by the 🇨🇦 feds to match up with what’s in the “Inflation Reduction” bill… Dan Woynillowicz

The Other Electric Vehicle: E-Bikes Gain Ground for Americans Avoiding Gas Cars

A brief thread about the world-changing potential of “light electric vehicles”

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letting this be my last tweet before I go on vacation semi-radio-silence

*cracks open a beer*

The electricity transformation in the UK 🇬🇧⚡️

ourworldindata.org/grapher/electr…

Exactly 54 years ago, 3 Aug 1968, Portugal's authoritarian prime minister, António de Oliveira Salazar, 79, slipped over in the bath & hit his head.

He seemed to be ok, but then complained of feeling ill.

In hospital he lapsed into a coma. It looked like he was about to die 1/4

'It's my decision to make ... It's my body' -- Quebec woman upset after pharmacist denies her morning-after pill due to his religious beliefs. cbc.ca/news/canada/mo… via @cbcnews #bioethics #cdnhealth #PlanB #ReproRights

#BREAKING : Statistics Canada says the unemployment rate was 4.9 per
cent in July, remaining unchanged from the historic low reached in June.

The latest labour force survey shows the economy lost jobs for a second straight month. toronto.citynews.ca/2022/08/05/job…

It looks like the US isnt the only country long struggling to pass a climate bill that's suddenly making progress: Australia's House just passed a bill that will require emissions to fall to at least 43% below 2005 levels by 2030 and net zero by 2050:
nyti.ms/3cSZBhV

because Jerusalem is a smart and thoughtful person, she zooms out from the obvious gotcha to make a serious point about how asking local governments to do the right thing on housing is doomed theatlantic.com/ideas/archive/…

BREAKING:

JOBS REPORT OBLITERATES EXPECTATIONS

528K new jobs. Unemployment rate drops to 3.5%, wages accelerate to 5.2% YOY

Economists had expected 25K new jobs and the unemployment rate to hold steady at 3.6%

bloomberg.com/news/live-blog…

New >> Is Marc Andreessen a NIMBY?
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I can only surmise that The Flash is the greatest film ever made for this equation to work out

I am as ever not a lawyer but since neither his defamation cases nor the Jan 6 committee are criminal trials the 6th amendment wouldn't seem to apply?

oh god I'm challenging the legal team that makes Lionel Hutz look like Clarence Darrow, what have I done with my life

dare to imagine a world where police are subject to even the most minimal democratic oversight

My latest for TVO, on Ford’s NOT EXACTLY HONEST statement to the public yesterday, but also more broadly on the state of our health-care system, how it got this bad, and why I think we can’t fix it (so I keep googling how much procedures cost in Buffalo). tvo.org/article/doug-f…

My hot take has been, forever, that we are richer and more numerous today than we were in the 1990s or 1970s and Ontario should be able to build the number of homes necessary to house its people affluently, and instead of trying to do that we're... not trying.