💜 T Dubs moving to 💙🦋 @led-jwd.bsky.social

L & J's parent, Dave's partner, former/recovering engineer, anti-racist & always learning settler. Wears an agressive amount of rainbows.
She/her. @led-jwd.bsky

[💜 T Dubs moving to 💙🦋 @led-jwd.bsky.social @LED_JWD]

@bluewmist Oh man... I've been avoiding this giant book for years. It may be time...

[💜 T Dubs moving to 💙🦋 @led-jwd.bsky.social @LED_JWD]

@OrevaZSN

[Graham Churchill @GraChurch]

Both Porter and Air Canada already fly out of both airports. Pearson just broke ground on a $3B+ expansion. We don’t need a $5B lake-fill project at Billy Bishop that will undermine Ontario Place, the Islands, the Port Lands, and the waterfront.

This push exists because Nieuport Aviation (backed by J.P. Morgan Asset Management) bought the terminal from Porter in 2015 — and it’s not delivering. Traffic remains well below pre-COVID peaks (~1.75M vs 2.8M). Ford’s former Deputy Chief of Staff, Mark Lawson, has been lobbying hard for Nieuport and he has Ford’s ear.

A better idea: Swing bridges on the Eastern + Western Gaps for ped/bike/trolley access. This would open up the entire waterfront from the Beaches to the Humber. Turn the Islands (tied to the Port Lands) into a world-class car-free park like NYC’s Central Park or Chicago’s Millennium Park — year-round tourism, recreation, no more ferry bottlenecks.

Waterfronts are for people, not runways. Toronto has aspired for decades to be a great city but consistently screws it up. Let’s finally do something to make Toronto a city we can be proud of.

[Kimiko Shibata 🦋 @ESL_fairy]

Sign the petition: Act Now: Cool Our Schools https://t.co/pwhTNeBCdc

[💜 T Dubs moving to 💙🦋 @led-jwd.bsky.social @LED_JWD]

@JamesThrot This makes sense since the changes markedly increased after 2020 and there were neither screens nor social media before then.
/S

[Laura Stone @l_stone]

NEW: From NDP Leader Avi Lewis about Billy Bishop airport:
“The choice facing the Prime Minister is clear. Premier Ford is in the middle of a land grab and the federal government has both the power and the responsibility to stop this irresponsible and anti-democratic move.”

[💜 T Dubs moving to 💙🦋 @led-jwd.bsky.social @LED_JWD]

@justinmclachlan Very smart people can have glaring gaps of knowledge or skill or awareness in areas that aren't their specialty. Unfortunately, if there's a big a lack of self awareness this can be a whole dumpster fire if you stir it in with confidence, prejudice, confirmation bias and ego. 🤦‍♀️

[💜 T Dubs moving to 💙🦋 @led-jwd.bsky.social @LED_JWD]

@drseanmullen The binary thing is the most troublesome hurdle in my circles.

[💜 T Dubs moving to 💙🦋 @led-jwd.bsky.social @LED_JWD]

@Nicole_Lee_Sch @MeganTStevenson 🤬

[💜 T Dubs moving to 💙🦋 @led-jwd.bsky.social @LED_JWD]

@ultrap0p Did you just remember you have a cat?

[Barry Hunt @BarryHunt008]

EIP:

Does it work? Yes

Is it safe? Yes

Is it easy? Yes

Is it effective? Yes

Is it cost-effective? Yes

Is it expensive? No

Is there any reason not to engineer our hospitals to be safer for patients & staff? No

So let's work together on this 😊

[Dr. Sean Mullen @drseanmullen]

I always wondered what it was like for scientists trying to pull the curtain down to expose AIDS or that tobacco causes cancer.

This is it. We’re living in truly wild times.

[Scott Squires @scottsquires.bsky.social @scott_squires]

@fawfulfan The VAX does NOT prevent COVID or LONG COVID. it reduces risk of hospitalization and death which is good but respirator masks are required to actually prevent COVID. COVID expected to kill over 150,000 this year. Long COVID is number 1 chronic illness. 5.8 million children.

[🇨🇦Wayne🇨🇦 @Reil76]

Doug Ford ran on protecting Ontario from American threats.

Then he handed Toronto’s waterfront to JP Morgan.

Nieuport Aviation, controlled by America’s largest bank, owns the Billy Bishop terminal. They bought it for $750 million and have been losing money ever since. So Ford introduced legislation to seize Toronto’s own land, override the city, and deliver the airport expansion JP Morgan needs to make its investment whole.

One of the lobbyists pushing this deal? A former senior Ford aide. The revolving door didn’t even slow down.

The Building Billy Bishop Act lets Ford expropriate almost all of the Toronto Islands. City officials warn it means gridlock, pollution, and harbour degradation. Nobody asked for this. The only winner is a New York bank.

Captain Canada. Protecting Ontario from the Americans, by handing them our waterfront.

Mark Carney has the power to stop this. And he’d better!!

[Emshay* @DrHawken]

Have we considered not repeatedly infecting them tho

[Kathryn @kadamssl]

Loud and clear for journalists in the back: If you talk about post pandemic-onset increases of the very same “development vulnerabilities” that have been linked to COVID infections, yet point only to lockdowns and fail to consider viral impacts, you are fundamentally unserious.

[Jill Promoli @jillpromoli]

Just so we're clear, this is all garbage. Special education is deeply underfunded in Ontario, and this govt has just cut an additional $4.7 million from PDSB's spec ed budget.

They're cutting access because they don't want the public to see how bad it is. Parents know. #onted

[Kimiko Shibata 🦋 @ESL_fairy]

This nonsense right here is why women don’t report.

This is why we need a new Premier.

[Óscar A. Contreras @oscarcontrarius]

Fellow journalists, here's something you may not know: 6 years later, the pandemic has still not been declared over by the WHO.

Probably worth remembering when you read/type the inaccurate phrase "during COVID" or "post-pandemic" throughout the day today and in future stories.

[💜 T Dubs moving to 💙🦋 @led-jwd.bsky.social @LED_JWD]

@goingtogetugly @BarryHunt008 Yes... Powerful me... Standing with my massive group of like-thinking folks. I guess they must all be invisible. 🙄
I have succeeded in cleaning the air and persuading people to mask up in high risk indoor settings without fear of reprisal or mockery... Just look at all of us.