Robert (Bob) Summers

Academic Director of the Ualberta Sustainability Council and Director of the School of Urban and Regional Planning.

[Robert (Bob) Summers @RJSCity]

@andrew_leach I had something similar happen to me last Tenerary

[Robert (Bob) Summers @RJSCity]

@moebius_strip The nice thing is that folks from the boat have been carefully spread around the world (often with flights, taxi rides, etc) interacting with people everywhere as opposed to just keeping them all in one place for a while.

[Robert (Bob) Summers @RJSCity]

@andrew_leach I bet those same people sign their name with just the first letter.

[Robert (Bob) Summers @RJSCity]

@moebius_strip I hate all lectures (pretty much, except for awesome ones), as a student lectures were torture. They move way to slow. Online, I can at least watch them at 1.75x.

[Greg Clark 🇨🇦 @GregClarkAB]

Each time Alberta has established an Electoral Boundaries Commission to redraw election maps the government has accepted the commission’s majority report, so I was surprised and disappointed to learn that a committee of MLAs has instead been tasked with creating a new map. /1

[Daniel Trubman @dmtrubman]

Such a bummer knowing left wing transit advocacy groups are going to spend the next few decades campaigning against autonomously driven buses (which could drastically increase service hours) because they prioritize the demands of transit unions, not the riding public.

[Robert (Bob) Summers @RJSCity]

@moebius_strip @willems_steph It depends on what is motivating the people. Cuba’s government is a dictatorship and the people lack many freedoms. However, they are not threatening Canada’s sovereignty.

[Coffey4Canada 🇨🇦 @CanadianCoffey]

“If you were Mr Poilievre would you quit today?”

Carney unsuccessfully tries not to laugh.

“Pierre Poilievre called you badly educated in economics,..”

“Did he?”

Dumbfounded.

“Wow”.

“Can I take back my previous answer?”

My guy.

☠️

LMAO.

[Bogáta Timár @BogataTimar]

okay I guess I have to talk about Péter Magyar here.
Let me just start with saying, in a very unladylike way, that you guys seem to have zero clue what happened in Hungary in the last two years, you completely miss the point, and you're a disappointing bunch.
Let's go.

[Andrew Leach 🇨🇦 @andrew_leach]

@MichaelWKenned5 Did the head of lettuce express a view?

[Republicans against Trump @RpsAgainstTrump]

Trump urges people in Hungary to “get out and vote” for Kremlin-backed kleptocrat Viktor Orbán.

It’s Trump, Putin, and Orbán vs. the free world.

[Robert (Bob) Summers @RJSCity]

@McFaul Yes it’s Trump, but Trump was elected by millions and has been supported in Congress by the GOP as a whole. So it’s not just “all Trump”.

[Robert (Bob) Summers @RJSCity]

Ok, you can push a magic button that automatically makes whomever is in the Bunny suit immediately become the President replacing Donald Trump. How quickly do you push it?

[Aaron Rupar @atrupar]

Trump: "How did I do with the voters that do eggs? Did anybody in the egg industry vote for Kamala? A low IQ person. She's a low IQ person."

[Robert (Bob) Summers @RJSCity]

@Noahpinion I’m in Tokyo for the first time ever. I’m seeing all of the obvious things. What’s one non-obvious thing I should see?

[Robert (Bob) Summers @RJSCity]

@moebius_strip Magic! 🪄

The solution to all problems.

[Robert (Bob) Summers @RJSCity]

@andrew_leach @kaclk I think there is a middle ground here, we just need to insert the word ‘Good’

“Avi Lewis is not a good politician”

Fixed.

[Robert (Bob) Summers @RJSCity]

If freedom prevails, future academics will need to look back and study why universities provided basically zero resistance to the rise of authoritarianism.

In any other administration there would have been massive protests over this single interview.

[Acyn @Acyn]

FCC Chair: Trump is winning. Look at the results—PBS and NPR defunded. Joy Reid, Sleepy-Eyed Chuck Todd, Jim Acosta, John Dickerson are gone. Colbert is leaving. CBS is under new ownership, and soon enough CNN will have new ownership as well.

[Robert (Bob) Summers @RJSCity]

@maxdubler You can’t buy modern wood windows? They are common in my area of Canada - expensive but easy to get and built to a very high standard.

[Robert (Bob) Summers @RJSCity]

@CompletedStreet Edmonton does not have growth boundaries but has led North America in zoning reform, does have minimum densities and, until recently, had strong regional provisions against ‘leapfrog’ growth.

[Robert (Bob) Summers @RJSCity]

@CompletedStreet Loads of Canadian urbanists jumping on to label Edmonton as “massively sprawling” but the original poster is comparing it to American cities which are much much more sprawling with more discontiguous growth.