Nerd since the 90's. Lead teams by day, read transit reports by night, curl/bike on weekends. ๐ณ๏ธ๐จโ๐จโ๐ฆ๐๐ฒ๐ณ๏ธโ๐ advocate. Anti-fascist, anti-racist, feminist. Trans women = women, trans men = men. I try to amplify better voices. Opinions my own. #ClimateCrisis #PublicHealth #PublicTransit #Acadian #FrancoOntarien #GayDad
"My friends, love is better than anger. Hope is better than fear. Optimism is better than despair. So let us be loving, hopeful and optimistic. And weโll change the world."
@seanddotmedotuk @CStamp @ajsadauskas @fuck_cars Easy: โthe people who use bus stops are not welcome in my neighbourhood.โ
@CStamp @ajsadauskas @fuck_cars Also very important to remember that โriffraffโ is almost exclusively a racist definition for these situations. It adds more depth to all these situations and the solutions. Every story of bad planning is about keeping Black folk, Indigenous folk, or basically anyone not sufficiently white, out of [insert neighbourhood name here]. Class and income come into play too, but always subservient to race.
@CStamp @ajsadauskas @fuck_cars Most charitably, they donโt think food security without a car should be legislated. Less charitably, they want to ensure the car-less never live near them.
@ajsadauskas @fuck_cars Iโm in Torontoโs Danforth area, so basically everything except a professional sports arena is within 5-20 mins walk.
The framing of that poll has such a sinister American conspiracy theorist edge: โif your local government decidedโฆโ โ like having these things nearby can only be forced upon you and you must fight back.
@deborahh @Ulrich_the_Old @moormaan Ford is terrible and corrupt, but for clarity he does not control Elections Ontario polling site decisions. EO is an non-partisan independent agency (Elections Canada too), and it was COVID-related voter space decisions that were a big part of that consolidation of locations in one riding, Toronto Centre.
Just wanted to clarify that piece for anyone reading who's unfamiliar with how elections work in Canada, as I work with EO & EC during elections.