Brian MacLean

Bike share ridership has soared annually over the past five years. In 2020, 2.9 million rides were logged. By 2024, that figure sat at 6.9 million. 7.8 million rides occurred last year – 231,000 of them involving first-time riders, a 39% increase from 2024. Cycling is growing - and our city is better for it. #OneLessCar globalnews.ca/news/11725454/…

"Allowing jets at the airport will necessarily impose tighter height limits on developments in the Port Lands—reducing housing potential in one of the few parts of the city where there’s at least the possibility of major new homebuilding at scale" tvo.org/article/analys… #onpoli

The defining characteristic of @fordnation, besides his unending obsession with Toronto and its waterfront, is his systematic overriding of transparency and meaningful consultation. He continually imposes his will on communities and people without evidence or input.

Ford is destroying TORONTO's waterfront. What has mayor Chow done? NOTHING. Mute. Council? Mute. Civic leaders? Most mute. These are NOT legal issues. Mayor Chow should make them a POLITICAL ISSUE, regardless of legality. • Gardiner • ON Place • Exhibition Pl. • Is. Airport

We’re launching a new Material Exchange Directory to help businesses and residents find places to sell, buy, donate, share or exchange second-hand materials. Material exchange operators can apply now to be featured on our new Material Exchange Directory later this year. Learn more at toronto.ca/MaterialExchan… @businessTO

📢 Latest Line 5 and Line 6 news: @cityoftoronto has introduced transit signal priority along street-level intersections, giving LRT trains the green light before left turning vehicles to help improve travel times. Learn more: bit.ly/4bo4quo

There has never been a worse time to do this, @MarkJCarney #cdnpoli #climate

The economics of an electric farm A New Zealand cherry farmer explains why generating electricity on his farm is far cheaper than diesel or grid power. Solar power on his farm costs about $0.07 per kilowatt hour, compared with roughly $1 per kWh using diesel.

Premier Ford says his plan to give teachers $750 cards for classroom supplies is the “greatest thing” he’s done for public education. Critics say the $66M investment doesn’t come close to closing a $6.3B funding gap & basics like crayons & tissues should be a given, not a gift.

The Science Centre. Ontario Place. The Toronto Islands. Exhibition Place. Greenbelt. The Ford government keeps stealing from the people - and his friends are getting rich. We must take a stand. I want a province where tax dollars are actually spent on priorities, local governments are respected as partners and the focus is on you.

The common thread tying together the convention centre, Therme spa, Science Centre, and airport is a world view that associates ‘world class’ with baubles for tourists rather than with great places and institutions for residents.

Ezra Klein: "Having AI summarize a book or paper for me is a disaster. It has no idea what I really wanted to know and wouldn't have made the connections I would've made. I'm interested in the thing I will see that other people wouldn't have seen, and I think AI typically sees what everybody else would see. I'm not saying that AI can't be useful, but I'm pretty against shortcuts. And obviously, you have to limit the amount of work you're doing. You can't read literally everything. But in some ways, I think it's more dangerous to think you've read something that you haven't than to not read it at all. I think the time you spend with things is pretty important." @ezraklein

@bowker_john Was it prompted by not knowing what to do with all the soil & rock excavated for the Ontario Line? Past subway construction "fed" the Leslie St. spit.

“It’s actually insane. I don’t know, I can’t find other adjectives. It’s nuts. It really makes no sense at all,” said Fadi Masoud, director of the Centre for Landscape Research at the University of Toronto #onpoli

We cannot determine their success without knowing their objectives. If their goal was to save Russia's economy, distract America & Europe from Russia’s war on Ukraine, expend military resources elsewhere, and make profitable deals for themselves, that’s mission accomplished.

🔊 SOUND UP 🔊 It’s true, an Elephant never forgets 🐘. This is Darrick Thompson. He left his career as a Toronto firefighter to devote his life to caring for Elephants at the Elephant Nature Park in Thailand. He had to leave them for 14 months due to a family emergency. He couldn't have expected this upon returning. 🎦 Credit: @ElephantNatureP.

Mayor Chow, Councillor Bravo, and Chief Planner Thorne came by to give Finch their business license. Surreal, delightful, lovely.

The Premier who thinks hospitals and school boards can't manage their finances and that post-secondary students should be indebted for life ... is also the Premier who wants to spend public money on an artificial island.

Here is the moment when Polish Foreign Ministry Radoslaw Sikorski reminded America, UK, France and damn Russia that they guaranteed Ukrainian security and borders in 1994🔥👏 Sikorski: “As you know, Russia, the USA, and Great Britain guaranteed the security of Ukraine and its borders. In exchange for Ukraine giving up what was then the third largest arsenal of nuclear weapons in the world. In 1994. So you have an obligation to Ukraine to help them defend their freedom.”

"UK confirms Russia poisoned Navalny in prison with rare toxin" gov.uk/government/new…

#Navalny was poisoned with a rare biological toxin, five European countries confirm. Statement by these countries expected today at the Munich Sec Conference, two years after he was killed on the opening day of the same conference. theins.ru/en/news/289387