Richard Wiltshire

You can find me smack in the middle of business and community.

[Alex Bouaziz @Bouazizalex]

https://t.co/ZlyngVP95I

[Sarah Doucette @SarahEDoucette]

I herd about this. It is so exciting. 🦌🦌🦌

[Flavio Volpe, C.M. @FlavioVolpe1]

I don’t say this lightly.

I’d love to help bring the @Montreal_Expos back to Montreal.

I loved having two teams in 🇨🇦. I loved the endless debates about supremacy with the @BlueJays.

I watched the 2003 interleague series with sadness.

Let’s bring the @mlb back to Montreal.

[Richard Wiltshire @rowiltshire]

@kbardeesy Congrats Karim, thrilled to hear this news!

[Richard Wiltshire @rowiltshire]

@kinsellawarren Amen to that

[Catherine McKenna @cathmckenna]

We should have the biggest ever Visit Canada tourism campaign this summer. We are an awesome, beautiful country that we are happy to share with people that appreciate Canada & Canadians. And if you don’t like us (as my Irish, very proud Canadian father would say) “Eff Off!”

[Jim Cramer @jimcramer]

Years ago i sat next to Mark Carney at a White House Correspondents dinner and I had no idea who he was. After talking to him for awhile not only did i think he was brilliant but he knew more about the markets than anyone I had ever met. Yet all he wanted to talk about was being a dad!

[Dean Blundell🇨🇦 @ItsDeanBlundell]

Jeff is back after a 25-year hiatus.

And he's right, on, time. 🇨🇦

[TSN @TSN_Sports]

'Lay off the ridiculous rhetoric about Canada being the 51st state'

CANMNT head coach Jesse Marsch to Donald Trump, U.S.

[NHL @NHL]

CANADA WINS!!! CANADA WINS!!! #4Nations 🇨🇦🍁

[The Daily Show @TheDailyShow]

Full interview with @MarkJCarney:

https://t.co/D9pKLmwa6s

[High Park Zoo @HighParkZoo]

Be the first to collect the laser-cut wood customizable FHPZ ornament!

Featuring the popular capybara, $5 of every purchase goes to support the zoo!
Watch for a new animal featured for 2025.

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@themakerbean #highparkzoo #capybara #toronto #ornament

[High Park Zoo @HighParkZoo]

Giving Tuesday is coming up on December 3rd! Donate and find your name on an ornament during our Holiday Tree event: https://t.co/lwIJXrtdCQ

[Neil Pasricha @NeilPasricha]

Dear Ontario Premier Doug Ford (@fordnation),

My 10-year-old son was identified with a need last year and had to change public schools.

I now bike him 2.2km to school in the mornings and he bikes home alone.

We use the 8-year-old Bloor Street bike lanes which make the roads safe for him to do this.

With the roads full of Amazon delivery vans, speeding Ubers, massive buses, and whizzing food delivery e-bikes my son was nervous to bike alone.

We got him a rear view mirror and bike lights and practiced together a few times.

He uses the Bloor Street bike lanes which are full of many other kids riding to and from school.

You are now proposing to spend $48M in provincial taxpayer money (1) to overrule the wishes of the City of Toronto (2, 3, 4) to rip out these bike lanes, which you know pose a direct safety threat. (5)

If this happens we’ll need to ask his grandfather to pick him up in his car.

I’ll likely start driving him in the morning more since his grandfather's car can’t fit his bike on the way home.

Instead of what we need and want—*more* bike lanes that are proven to ease congestion, traffic, and pollution (6)—you’re proposing I spend more money, use more gas, spew more fumes, get less exercise, and create more car traffic.

In 2017 you spoke about bike lanes on @TVO and said: "You're nervous when there's no bike lanes. At least I was. We have to make sure there's never a death in the city. One death is way too many when it comes to bicycle riders. I felt so much safer when it's separated." (7)

Please reverse course here.

Keep the bike lanes.

It’s not too late.

Thank you,

Neil Pasricha

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(1) https://t.co/WjzQIoEyBo
(2) https://t.co/iUtYBV0Oon
(3) https://t.co/GWPYwNR4BW
(4) https://t.co/2KFaHnQIoO
(5) https://t.co/JVP4TuOAUv
(6) https://t.co/bV3WO9gboI
(7) https://t.co/TO9TdnGZn4

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CC: Ontario Minister of Transportation Prabmeet Sarkaria (@PrabSarkaria), Ontario MPP Marit Stiles (@MaritStiles), Ontario MPP Jessica Bell (@JessicaBellTO), Ontario MPP Chris Glover (@chrisglover), Toronto Mayor Olivia Chow (@oliviachow), Toronto Councillor Alejandro Bravo (@bravodavenport), Toronto Councillor Dianne Saxe (@DianneSaxxe), Doctors for Safe Cycling (@Docs4Cycling), Cycle Toronto (@CycleToronto) Chrystia Freeland (@cafreeland), Justin Trudeau (@JustinTrudeau), Jon Haidt (@JonHaidt), Lenore Skenazy (@FreeRangeKids), and Jeff Speck (@JeffSpeckFAICP)

[Brent Toderian @BrentToderian]

BREAKING: The Ontario Professional Planners Institute @OntarioPlanners has submitted an 8-page letter to the Government of #Ontario opposing the removal of bike-lanes in #Toronto or any other municipal jurisdiction.

A very thorough case, with evidence.

https://t.co/kbxrqlmq9T

[Dianne Saxe - Toronto City Council Ward 11, UR @DianneSaxe]

Thank you to @UofT for making your voice heard- Ford's plan to remove bike lanes costs money that is sorely needed elsewhere in our city and makes our communities less healthy and less safe.

#TOpoli @CycleToronto #toronto

[Matt Elliott @GraphicMatt]

In summary, Ford's bike lane removals will, according to a new City Hall report:

- Cost $75 million in direct costs and sunk costs.
- Make traffic much, much worse for at least nine months during construction to remove lanes
- Have minimal long-term impact on car travel times.

[Andrew Coyne 🇺🇦🇮🇱🇬🇪🇲🇩 @acoyne]

Among other objections: how the hell is this any business of the province? If people in Toronto don’t want bike lanes all they have to do is vote for city councillors who are against them.

[West End Phoenix @westendphoenix]

Hard to imagine a Kensington with no Ronnie’s, if you can, chuck a couple of loonies at them to help them dodge this bullet.

https://t.co/Dsahsplm5D

[Andrew Coyne 🇺🇦🇮🇱🇬🇪🇲🇩 @acoyne]

An Open Letter from Economists on Canadian Carbon Pricing https://t.co/egvliGdCOe