Phil Pothen 🇨🇦 he/him

Spent an hour on the subway this morning and it was so boring. No delays, no scary people, nothing like Gotham City whatsoever.

A thousand or more people completely unafraid of riding the TTC. Men, women, young, old, rich and poor.

Example of a Toronto ambulance using a bike lane to bypass congestion (on a different street with similar widths) was posted as an earlier rebuttal by @amalparames 🫡

The Ford government's insistence on planning most new family homes as low-rise sprawl continues to be a DISASTER. It's INHERENTLY too labour intensive to keep up with the need, even in good times. In these economic conditions, midrise & multiplex infill are the ONLY option.

It's the Canadian government's job to ensure that foreign countries- be they the USA or China or Israel or UAE or India- are unable to carry out threats against anyone on Canadian soil. Failure to do this, & to engender CONFIDENCE that we are, is a threat to our national model.

@genuinelyjolley Gerrard and Ossington are vital transit routes, and so is Danforth at night. Appreciate the broader sentiment though.

Absolutely no reason we can’t be accomplishing this in Toronto as well. If I was in charge we’d start with trying: Ossington, Dundas to Queen Augusta, College to Dundas Baldwin, Beverley to McCaul Yonge, College to Queen Danforth, Chester to Pape Gerrard, Greenwood to Coxwell

@CharlAikaterine You seem to be conflating ethnicity with consanguinity.

Due to the small founding populations of French Canadiens and their isolation from France after the Treaty of Paris (1763) and the French Revolution, they have become distinct French ethnic groups. Conversely, the British settlers in what is now Canada have historically maintained strong, more continuous ties with the UK, so those from regions like Newfoundland are still, on average, 14th cousins with the English in particular.

@AlexRMcColl @DenbySister (3/3) It's the provincial government that insists on passing the buck to munis re: eliminating minimum parking requirements

@AlexRMcColl @DenbySister (2/3) It's Ontario's provincial government that insistes on passing the buck to municipalities to legalize six-storey (midrise) & 4 flat bldgs wo step-backs or fsi limits as of right in residential neighbourhoods. We've been asking for years for them to just amend Planning Act.

🤔Ever wonder why some construction union leaders endorsed a government that was knowingly and systematically driving homebuilding over a cliff? 👇

@Not_Solidus @souljagoyteller Yes, you rancid butter sculpture, I'm Canadian. An heir to the country that fought Hitler even though Canada's own territory wasn't under threat, and for years while the U.S. was clinging to cowardly neutrality. (the U.S. only joined after the axis declared war on IT)

@pothen @souljagoyteller You’re Canadian and have pronouns. I don’t care what you have to say.

The obvious answer is Robert E. Lee

@Not_Solidus @souljagoyteller (3/3) Absent some moral justification that makes surrender utterly immoral and unfathomable (as Churchill's & Mackenzie King's generals had in WWII), advising the Confederacy to keep fighting was utterly incumbent (over and above being morally vile and unforgiveable).

@Not_Solidus @souljagoyteller (2/3) Instead of using his position to try and bring about a Confederate surrender, he advised, first, that command be given to someone else other than him and then, second, that the Confederacy implement conscription to try and hold out.

@2ndProtectsUs @Provokethoughtz

@Provokethoughtz As any actual Christian will tell you - those were not good Christians.

ABC Toronto knows they have 0 evidence to support their University Avenue bike lane opposition, so now they’re just moving onto the tired argument of throwing homeless people in jail. #topoli

Let me break it down for everyone 👇🏼 Everyone is upset that an Ontario judge said you can’t just keep displacing homeless people. Here’s an idea: stop complaining about homeless people and start demanding governments actually house people. Then maybe the courts wouldn’t have to step in to protect basic human rights. You can’t oppose encampments, oppose supportive housing, oppose shelters, oppose affordable housing, oppose mental health supports and then complain that homelessness still exists. You don’t solve homelessness by pushing people from one sidewalk to another. You solve it by giving people somewhere to go.

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