I've had a first look at Bill 185 and the new proposed Provincial Planning Statement and WOW ... there's a reason why the Ontario government spent hours feeding reporters its spin on these laws before releasing their text to the public. Massive dangers hidden in this text. 🧵👇

#MEDIA: Bill 185 and the proposed Provincial Planning Statement would unleash a wave of “Greenfield Scandals” by removing tribunal oversight of sprawl approvals. Full statement from Phil Pothen on #Ontario's Cutting Red Tape to Build More Homes Act 👇 environmentaldefence.ca/2024/04/10/bil…

🇨🇦, which just became the first sovereign to directly buy its own mortgage bonds outside of crisis, will now allow 30-year mortgages on new homes. Even if used minimally, this drives the cost of housing higher via marginal influence. 🇨🇦 is ALL IN on its housing bubble.

An important piece from Alex Bozikovic on Villiers Island — and Toronto’s broader urban planning culture. Our concept of placemaking is rooted foremost in mitigating the supposed harms of density and tall buildings, not in creating a thriving city. theglobeandmail.com/canada/toronto…

An extremely long thread on visiting Paris by me: someone interested in cycle infrastructure and making public spaces better. The last decade’s change is so positive and has been huge: what have they done and how have they done it?

It has come to that: Haaretz went to print with chunks of text redacted by the censor. This is the price Israelis pay for the continued genocide: loss of their own political rights within Israel.

Trying to recall which terror attacks in Canada racialized immigrants were involved in…the Quebec mosque shooting…Toronto van attack..the mowing down of 3 generations of the brown immigrant Afzaal family with a truck…no wait, that can’t be right…

It's no surprise that Hezbollah rocket fire is igniting huge forest fires in "Israel" bc Zionists converted Palestine into a tinderbox. They claim to have planted over 250 million trees since 1948, but the vast majority of them are invasive pines. Let's discuss Birya Forest. 1/

The Ford government responded to the state of emergency in Aamjiwnaang First Nation by passing a site-specific regulation allowing benzene concentrations that are ten times the limit allowed elsewhere in Ontario nationalobserver.com/2024/06/06/new… #onpoli

Every single person marching for Isreal right now is marching in support of Israel conducting a genocide. Let us be clear.

Does Therme’s secret business plan for Ontario Place hold water? Europeans concerned about financial & carbon costs oppose a different mega spa. Note the poor economic performance of established spas. “Therme Bad Vilbel: Greens want to stop projects” wetterauer-zeitung.de/wetterau/bad-v…

Toronto’s Villiers Island plan is a generational failure: vibes-based planning by an insular bureaucracy. City council needs to ask hard questions today, before it’s too late. theglobeandmail.com/canada/article… #toronto #topoli

Western media uses so many words to avoid saying obvious ones, like occupation, annex, apartheid, genocide. Also, the West Bank has been under military occupation with expanding settlements for decades. Stealing Palestinian land is Israeli state policy, not a fringe movement.

Today we mark the loss of “The Villages” on West Island, being demolished today by an Ontario Government that doesn’t care. The Villages allowed drinking outside before TO allowed it on patios, and they offered multicultural cuisine at a time when this was rare in the TO. #onpoli

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Ontario Science Centre doesn’t require full closure: A close reading of the engineers’ report Ontario Place for All © Alex Bozikovic CBC News CBC Globalnews.ca canadianarchitect.com/ontario-scienc… canadianarchitect.com/ontario-scienc…

Brief explainer for overseas friends about what the Supreme Court of the United States did today in overturning what is called the Chevron deference, and why it really matters for issues of climate and global health. We’ve really mucked it up again for everyone. 🧵

For the 4th of July, I’m gonna tweet out the 20 lessons from the 20th Century from Timothy Snyders “On Tyranny”. Each of these is the beginning of a short readable chapter I recommend you read. Number one, Do not obey in advance.

Trump says flat out he will be an authoritarian like Orban, after praising Xi for ruling with an iron fist. It is all out there-- and our media ignore it and act as if this is normal. Sprinting to dictatorship.

When people lament how disorganized the left is in this country, do they understand the role that rightwing forces have played to make it nearly impossible to do broad-based organizing in this country? Let's start with the concrete wall within mainstream media