Nadia S

Politics with a side of crafts, karaoke, and combat sports. Accompanied by wine or beer. She/her. @madhatess.bsky.social.

[Nadia S @madhatressTO]

Finally on bluesky. @madhatress.bsky.social

[Ron Butler @ronmortgageguy]

This Is Totally Nuts! A $3B Bribe To Vote For Doug & He Uses Our MONEY To Pay For It

But wait there's MORE!

We get to pay INTEREST on the Bribe forever

Yep, the Bribe is tacked on to the deficit

Galen Weston gets $200
Thompson Family gets many $200s
Doug gets $200

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[John Pavlovitz Official @johnpavlovitz]

Stephen Miller’s pronouns are He/Himmler.

[Ron Butler @ronmortgageguy]

79.6% Of Household Debt Is Canada Real Estate Related: Debt To GDP Is 101.4%

German Household Debt to GDP is 50.8%

WTF is going on here? Batshit Crazy House Prices is what's going on

We need huge mortgage debt just to manage Batshit Prices

Important stuff from @WOWA_Canada

[Shazi @ShaziGoalie]

"Tax Court slams Airbnb hosts with massive HST bills on home sales, raising concerns about 🇨🇦 aggressive tax grab."

🧵 Thread: How Airbnb Hosts Are Getting Hit with Massive HST Bills on Home Sales

[Steve Saretsky @SteveSaretsky]

In Toronto, development charges for single-detached homes have increased from $12,910 in 2010 to $141,139 in 2024 — a whopping 993% hike. The entire system is pooched.

[. @jdpoc]

Jesus, this advert hits hard.

[Alex Mather @AlexDRMather]

The University bike lanes that Ford says he’s ripping out were specifically requested by the CEOs of the hospitals they front so that their nurses, doctors, and staff could get to and from work safely.

[Mayor Olivia Chow 🇨🇦 @MayorOliviaChow]

Ripping up our roads will make people less safe, make traffic worse, and put lives at risk. Full stop. I challenge the Premier to talk to people who have lost loved ones on our roads and hear their stories.

It might be hard for the province to do two things at once but, as leaders we have to —tackle congestion AND keep people safe at the same time!

As I’ve said before – the congestion in this city is partially the result of the province’s failure to deliver transit projects on time and has led to long construction delays and years of road closures. Stay in your lane, open the Eglinton Crosstown and Finch West LRTs and fix the chaos at Metrolinx.

[John Lorinc @JohnLorinc]

#topoli #onpoli Re-upping this @spacing column from last week. I keep waiting for @oliviachow to offer a much more assertive response to a gross incursion into municipal jurisdiction and green transportation. So far, crickets... https://t.co/LWG5ZAhDfo

[Steve Saretsky @SteveSaretsky]

It only took a few years for policy makers to destroy our Immigration system. The majority of Canadians now believe immigration is Harming the Nation.
https://t.co/OCMXbHQVEE

[Shazi @ShaziGoalie]

"Toronto's condo market craters, with new sales plummeting 81%—the worst collapse since 1995."

- Only 567 new condo sales in Q3 2024—lowest since 1995.

- 87% decline from the 10-year average, market in crisis mode.

- 63% drop in sales year-to-date, slowest since 1996.

[Jennifer Keesmaat @jen_keesmaat]

That’s what I don’t get. Ban parking on major streets.

Cycle tracks are travel lanes, while street-side parking is just cheap, highly subsidized storage.

[Chris Glover @chrisglover]

Ford's attack on bike lanes is a distraction from Conservative failures to build transit that would actually relieve congestion.

➡️1 line of transit carries 40,000 people per hour
➡️A road carries 2,800 people per hour

#ONpoli

[ℳatt (matttomic.bsky.social) @matttomic]

@ColinDMello He's supposed to be governing 16 million people from Thunder Bay to Windsor to Timmins and all he can possibly think about is the cyclists he has to see while he commutes from his house in Etobicoke to Queen's Park

[Community Bikeways - TCBC @BikewaysTO]

SAT, Oct 19, 11am (depart 11:30)

START: Tom Reilly Park (on Bloor St West near Royal York)

Community Bikeways + @CycleTO are co-hosting a 5km, family-friendly ride to ...

Deputy Mayor @cllrambermorley Fall Fest 2024 #biketo

[Jennifer Keesmaat @jen_keesmaat]

To put the bike lane debate in Toronto in perspective, more people commute by bike each day in Toronto than the entire population that lives in Barrie, Ontario. Or Kingston. Or Guelph. Or Sudbury.

It's pretty rich that the Province wants to tell us how to get around our own city. If they don't like sitting in traffic when they get here, they should go fix regional transit. That is their mess - and the true culprit for congestion in the city.

Anyone who understands physics knows that cyclists are part of the solution.

[Reece Martin @RM_Transit]

As a young person in Ontario it’s such a slap in the face that the government refuses to interfere with cities when it comes to places for people to live, but wants to be completely involved blocking a safe and healthy way for people to get around. A government for the NIMBYs.

[Millennial Moron @Mill_Moron]

"It was just as hard to buy a home back in our day"

[Millennial Moron @Mill_Moron]

We really need to start treating these as fraud cases. The idea that they couldn't find a domestic applicant to manage a Burger King in a region with an 8% unemployment rate is laughable.

[Generation Squeeze @GenSqueeze]

@MTW2478 @yfblanchet We present new spending in the federal budget: CCB is the fox, childcare is the Canada goose, lunch programs aren't even visible they're so small.