Be ruthless with the systems and kind to the people - Michael Brooks
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Urban Cayman retweeted
This is Sherbourne and Dundas. Pick any of North America’s ten largest cities and I’ll show you a corner like this. You haven’t exposed Toronto. You’ve filmed people struggling and dressed it up as commentary.
Urban Cayman retweeted
I've generally avoided commenting on the municipal race in Toronto, but this claim touches a nerve. Bradford's approach is pretty much the opposite of financially reasonable, taking a tight budgetary situation and dramatically worsening it on both the expenditure & revenue sides.
NEW: Brad Bradford is defending his plan to fund a range of ambitious projects through more debt, saying Wednesday that if he is elected, Toronto will “still be the most financially responsible and conservative government on the continent.” #ToPoli
cbc.ca/news/canada/toronto/b…
Urban Cayman retweeted
Honestly if I didn't know that this video was posted by a Maple MAGA person, I would have assumed that this video was praising Toronto's subway system for being clean, quiet, spacious, orderly, used well, etc.
Urban Cayman retweeted
Thanks for the bulletin, Jacob. Cool entry into a Toronto issue since Tent City (look it up)
You may not be aware of this, but many of us fought during ten years of austerity budgets in Toronto for protection of unhoused ppl and increases to social services funding
which did not happen until this Mayor, and while still not adequate,
homelessness rates increased nearly everywhere else in Ontario in 2025,
but they dropped significantly in Toronto.
To potential supporters of @oliviachow:
Today is the first chilly day of the year in Toronto.
It is 7:45 AM and I’m on the TTC and there are three poor unhoused souls languishing on two separate cars on the trains.
They need help.
No one is helping them.
People, (mostly marathon runners) plug their noses and move away.
Whose job is it to help them? There are many, but chief among them is the CEO of the city.
That’s the mayor.
Olivia Chow hasn’t taken transit in three years. So it’s no wonder this goes on without end.
We need change.
Please vote for Brad Bradford @BradMBradford for mayor.
Urban Cayman retweeted
Internal docs show MTO staff warned against Ford govt’s bike lane removal: “No empirical evidence that ties bike lanes as the sole source of congestion, nor is there data that shows removing bike lanes help with better traffic flow” thestar.com/news/gta/doug-fo… #onpoli #bikeTO #TOpoli
Urban Cayman retweeted
If you live outside of Toronto, the Ontario government is blowing $50 million of you tax dollars on ripping bike lanes out of Toronto. This is money that could be spent on keeping your local hospital's ER open or fixing your local school's roof.
Urban Cayman retweeted
Your tax dollars hard at work making sure your tax dollars aren't blocked from being wasted
Urban Cayman retweeted
Provincial Minister from Brampton, who ignored 19,000 comments received during consultation as well as internal advice against bike lane removals, ‘has a clear mandate’ to remove local bike lanes on city streets in a municipality where his government lost 15 of 25 ridings.
Urban Cayman retweeted
Looks like the cyclists have won round one...
#biketo
Video from Tom Flood on bsky
Urban Cayman retweeted
Construction trucks leaving Bloor and Islington area after being successfully deterred from starting work on removing bike lanes in Toronto by a large protest.
Urban Cayman retweeted
Again, Chow should black list any contractor working on it from city projects. She should buy advertising along the route blaming the ford government for the traffic motorists are stuck in. And when the work is done she should pedestrianize the entire right lane.
#BREAKING - The Ford government says bike lane removal will begin on Tuesday starting with Bloor Street West.
Urban Cayman retweeted
Those hikes were the necessary catch-up after more than a decade of unsustainable freezes and ‘at or below inflation’ increases under Ford and Tory.
Now, after taking the hard medicine to improve fiscal position, you would go straight back to repeating the cycle.
Urban Cayman retweeted
To do the math here you first have to fix a basic error: Bradford’s 2026 figure includes the rate budget (garbage, water, parking) but his 2011 figure does not.
Real numbers: $9.4 billion in 2011; $16.6 billion in 2026.
Now account for ~800K population growth and ~40% inflation
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Urban Cayman retweeted
I taught myself Blender and spent the last 6 months modelling what Mississauga is going to look like.
Towers, transit, the whole downtown.
It’s live and you can click around it: futuremississauga.ca 🧵
Urban Cayman retweeted
Over the weekend, the Bradford campaign challenged the media to do this "scavenger hunt" to uncover supposed places where Olivia Chow frittered away the provincial New Deal money.
Challenge accepted.
From my newsletter this week, here’s what I found.
