Mike Doherty

I just want my city to build housing and public transit and safe streets. Yours too.
#YIMBY #onpoli #VisionZero

[Mike Doherty @mikedoherty_ca]

This website sucks more and more every day. Consider signing up elsewhere. I've found much more engagement, and dramatically fewer trolls and fascists.

[Michael Druker 💙💛 @m_druker]

Guys, you really don’t have to stay on this malicious website with a built-in racist AI bot

[Mike Doherty @mikedoherty_ca]

This website sucks more and more every day. Consider signing up elsewhere. I've found much more engagement, and dramatically fewer trolls and fascists.

[Mike Doherty @mikedoherty_ca]

Staying on Twitter is increasingly hazardous to your mind, and to society as a whole. Believe it or not, other websites exist, and they mostly don't have evangelizing Nazism as their defining purpose

[Toronto Poles and Dangling Wires @PolesWires]

So, why does Bell and Rogers get to treat our shared public space like an unfinished basement or a utility room?

When do we start to disincentivize this? This century or next? We didn’t do it last century.

[Joseph Steinberg @jbsteinberg]

1. The world has become richer as a result of globalisation.

2. The biggest benefits have been for the poor.

3. Blue-collar workers have not been left behind.

4. Free trade does not destroy jobs.

5. There is nothing special about manufacturing.

6. Imports are good.

[John Michael McGrath @jm_mcgrath]

look this isn't the mayor's fault but others on council and in the employ of the city argued for YEARS that development charges couldn't possibly increase the price of new homes and nobody has ever acknowledged their error or the consequences of it and I'm feeling salty about it

[Eric Lombardi (EricForOLP.ca) 🇨🇦🚀 @EricDLombardi]

This is actually a really good article in @TheHubCanada today.

I would have far more confidence in @MarkJCarney and a changed Liberal party if the message was:

“We know the economy hasn’t performed how we wanted to, and it’s been hardest on younger Canadians. We haven’t always given growth the priority it deserves. Not every factor was in our control, but many have been. Mark Carney’s focus is going to be on fixing these failures.”

Instead, the response from so many, frankly, “older” Liberal “experts” has been to dismiss key statistics, like productivity and GDP per capita, as not being important.

I do think, if executed well, a lot of Liberal promises will reorient towards growth. But it gives me tremendous pause that the inclination is to dismiss or excuse the performance of the last 10 years.

Just take a read of this article by a young Canadian. It lays bare some important truths about the last decade that we can’t escape from, only fix.

https://t.co/dBnBk7wZV1

[Mike Doherty @mikedoherty_ca]

Some of the lowest quality housing stock you've ever seen in your life too. There's a reason I never lived in the valley.

[sam @sam_d_1995]

i remember when i first visited Silicon Valley expecting it to be some futuristic tech metropolis and instead it was just… generic suburbia

[Eric Lombardi (EricForOLP.ca) 🇨🇦🚀 @EricDLombardi]

Ontario has uniquely fumbled every major economic opportunity outside services. Housing and energy should both be abundant in this province but they’ve succumbed to NIMBY failure.

[Alex Glista 🇨🇦 @AlexanderGlista]

Toronto has a massive hotel deficit to the tune of thousands of rooms. It makes it hard to host large events, or seem “world class”. Need to build more!

[𝖓𝖎𝖓𝖊 🕯 @atlanticesque]

It's crazy how almost every zoning law is not only bad, but backwards.

We shouldn't have setbacks, we should have alignments. We shouldn't have minimum lot sizes, we should have maximum lot sizes. We shouldn't have bedroom maximums, we should have bedroom minimums. Etc., etc.

[chris keefer @Dr_Keefer]

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[Bruce Arthur @bruce_arthur]

Ha, holy hell, the Shopify guys are going all the way

[your local self-inflicted housing crisis ouroboros @itsahousingtrap]

Buying Canadian lettuce is cool but if you want to stick it to the Americans we should try building just one economic powerhouse city.

[Anthony Lazarus @Sr_Lazarus]

the fact that we regard allowing a party to construct something as a giveaway is a serious part of why things are so screwed up

[The Don of Vaughan @SteveDelDucaFan]

THE CANADIAN CENTURY BEGINS

[Brian Mason 🇨🇦 @bmasonNDP2]

Smith is clearly intent on provoking a unity crisis coinciding with Trump’s campaign to annex Canada, deliberately weakening the country at the time of its greatest peril. I am hopeful that Albertans will give a resounding NO! to her treasonous plans.

[Oh The Urbanity! @OhUrbanity]

Trust me, I’d rather be making videos about bikes than attacks on the economy and sovereignty of my country.

“Donald Trump is 100% Serious About Annexing Canada.” — Now on YouTube (and in the next comment because Twitter suppresses links)

[Max Dubler 🏳️‍🌈 @maxdubler]

You cannot redistribute your way out of a shortage.

[Max Dubler 🏳️‍🌈 @maxdubler]

Policy details matter. Tradeoffs are real and often unavoidable. State capacity is important.