Vik Pandit

I’m gonna give 10 random people that repost this and follow me $25,000 for fun (the $250,000 my X video made) I’ll pick the winners in 72 hours

Bad news. One of the best 19c buildings in Toronto - 149 College, by Old City Hall architect E.J. Lennox, 1894 - is now a potential development site.  This means this structure could be reduced to a facade.

@chamath When is JCal back?

pod!

@robinmonotti @BallouxFrancois could you provide your thoughts please?

"Early in 2023, genomics scientist Kevin McKernan made an accidental discovery. While running an experiment in his Boston lab, McKernan used some vials of mRNA Pfizer and Moderna Covid vaccines as controls. He was ‘shocked’ to find that they were allegedly contaminated with tiny fragments of plasmid DNA. McKernan, who has 25 years’ experience in his field, ran the experiment again, confirming that the vials contained up to, in his opinion, 18-70 times more DNA contamination than the legal limits allowed by the European Medicines Agency (EMA) and the Food and Drug Administration (FDA). In particular, McKernan was alarmed to find the presence of an SV40 promoter in the Pfizer vaccine vials. This is a sequence that is, ‘…used to drive DNA into the nucleus, especially in gene therapies,’ McKernan explains. This is something that regulatory agencies around the world have specifically said is not possible with the mRNA vaccines.. ..Now, McKernan, Dr Buckhaults and other scientists are calling for urgent research to test whether the DNA contamination is lingering in the cells of mRNA vaccinated people, and whether the human genome has in fact been altered by mRNA Covid vaccines."

An informed public is the foundation of a functioning democracy. My tweets have gotten longer as the #Greenbelt scandal has come to light, mostly because there is so much to talk about. But also because I have always seen this platform, even in its changing form, as a mechanism to provide a window into good urbanism, municipal policy and governance, and the foundations of a liveable future (yes all of that usually leads to a lot of tweeting about bikes and affordable housing). I’ve spent over 25 years advocating for the greenbelt, involved in research and policy development, and touting it on the world stage as foundational to our sustainable future. As Chief Planner I played a role in expanding it significantly through the inclusion of Urban River Valleys. The Greenbelt has made us the envy of the world. It’s something we’ve gotten right. We’ve linked it to policies focused on building housing in existing built up areas, intensification, transit expansion, access to nature, a safe and sustainable food and water supply, and creating complete communities. The idea that a reckless, self-interested government can destroy it in a term or two is beyond comprehension to me. That they have done this using “deception” - the Integrity Commissioners words, is beyond the pale. That they have hid behind our truly devastating housing crisis, despite the Auditor General making it clear that “a shortage of land is not driving the housing crisis” is also beyond the pale. But this is happening. And we need to get real about the fact that it is happening. Because the damage to our farmland, our regional centres, the impact on our commutes as a result of another layer of regional sprawl, and the distraction from building housing that we desperately need - it might just take us to our breaking point.

@chamath @DavidSacks I wish I had a billionaire friend 😞

@DavidSacks This tweet is elite. But it will cause you to be banned by the elites. To console you, I will chopper from my castle to your boat with a perfectly chilled Lafite.

Zelensky spoke at the Allen & Company conference yesterday. The hardnosed corporate knife-fighters clapped like seals and swooned like besotted schoolgirls just like they once did for Anthony Fauci.

@anasalhajji @GasBuddyGuy Why?

Gasoline inventories are at their lowest level since 2014 for this time of the year. @GasBuddyGuy for more: anasalhajjieoa.substack.com/p/weekly-oil-d… #Oil #Gasoline

Silicon Valley Bank is imploding before our eyes here is how SVB threw 50 years of goodwill and $80 billion down the drain in just 30 hours

@JustinTrudeau @NORADCommand Why wasn’t this picked up by Canadian Defence sooner?

Today, the United States brought down China’s high-altitude surveillance balloon that violated American and Canadian airspace and international law. Canada strongly supports this action – we’ll keep working together, including through @NORADCommand, on our security and defence.

@AirCanada I still haven’t heard back from anyone in my DM.

@AVPandit86 Hello, Could you please send us a DM with your booking reference and full name as indicated on your booking so we can see if we can help? /Molly

@AirCanada First AC8093 on 3rd delayed 4 times before being cancelled. Rebooked next day on AC8481 on 4th. Then AC8481 cancelled and rebooked on the Feb 5th. Lots of space another flight on Feb 4th. Why can’t you put me on an earlier flight? What’s the point of being 50K?!!

@AirCanada Responded.

We are now in a position to evaluate the impact of Covid vaccines. Overall, I believe they were a success, actually well beyond what most informed people probably anticipated in 2020. 1/ twitter.com/BallouxFrancoi…

Why would someone borrow $100 million at 21% interest to buy land that you could not build on ? Because weeks later they could. It’s not Doug Ford’s greenbelt to give away to his friends. It’s the people’s greenbelt. Hands off @fordnation

Thanks for the highlight @Beauty_Consult beautyconsultantmagazine.com/home/purolic-a…

Thanks for the highlight BioPreferred! @NaturalPro_CA @GCI_Magazine @innovacorp @CosmeticsDesign @incosmetics

@anasalhajji Can you please provide your analysis?

Has the market misunderstood the OPEC+ decision today? #Oil #OPEC #OOTT #COM #EFT

@TheTyee @acoyne @BallouxFrancois What is your opinion of this article? Thanks.

“Our public health officials gambled with the future and chose a fantasy world instead. “Now COVID has become a runaway train with unknown biological consequences.” thetyee.ca/Analysis/2022/…

There is a SARS-CoV-2 wave underway in many countries. Current cases are made up of a mix of Omicron BA.2.x, BA.4 and BA.5 strains. All those lineages are fairly closely related and all derive from BA.2 (pink below), which caused the previous wave. academic.oup.com/ooim/article/3… 1/