I wrote this op ed about how the *public* infrastructure of the Ontario Food Terminal supports the retail diversity that the Competition Bureau calls for in its grocery industry report released last week. theglobeandmail.com/opinion/articl…

Behold my favorite traffic calming device.

Paris now has 180 gorgeous ‘school streets.’ They are pedestrianized and landscaped streets around schools - to mitigate crashes, prioritize walking to school, reduce noise and air pollution. No brainer, really.

Toronto Drivers, Stop Killing Our Children! Spread the word Ward 4, Parkdale-High Park Sean Shapiro NEWSTALK1010 CTV Toronto Global News Toronto CityNews Toronto Now Toronto blogTO Toronto Life CBC Toronto Toronto Star The Globe and Mail West End Phoenix Toronto Mike TVO Today | The Agenda h/t The War on Cars #VisionZero

I was just about to dig this up, since this is an issue adjacent to the issue of undertaxing larger homes in the city through municipal assessments, which makes the Star investigation sting just that much more. Cost per household of a suburban built form vs an urban built form.

Someone made a map of Toronto’s streetcar routes from 1945. This is what we used to have. Then we tore up most of the tracks so corporations could get rich selling cars, oil, and rubber tires instead. blogto.com/city/2020/01/m…

Toronto gardening expert & author Lorraine Johnson discusses how Toronto bylaw enforcement recently ordered an Ontario native plant garden to be cut down. lorrainejohnson.ca/blog?fbclid=Iw…

Food system resilience tested The impact of COVID-19 on a major node in North America’s produce supply chains Sarah Elton Sarah Elton PhD Research – Toronto Metropolitan University Evan Fraser Evan D. G. Fraser Arrell Food Institute Ruth Siew #SupplyChains #FoodSystem #Markets #Covid19 canadianfoodstudies.uwaterloo.ca/index.php/cfs/…

👇🏼This is the best news 🗞️ that we @CycToronto Yonge4All FFSS Walk Toronto and others could ask for. The city must direct ALL developers to keep their construction staging areas off of our public right of way! 👊🏼 THANK YOU Josh Matlow !! You rock 🪨

Join our team! Cycling and Pedestrian Projects is seeking two Transportation Engineers (permanent and temporary) to design and build complex multi-modal quick-build and civil reconstruction bikeway and pedestrian projects across Toronto. Apply by Jan 26. jobs.toronto.ca/jobsatcity/job…

Hey #BikeTO! There are a few consultations to get involved with. The Ferrand Drive project survey closes today, Jones Avenue will be resurfaced, and the Parkside Drive Study open house will be on February 1. My blog post rounds them up. #TOpoli #VisionZero twowheeledpolitics.ca/2024/01/januar…

Jones Avenue will be resurfaced between Queen and Dundas in 2024. Share your thoughts on what kind of safety improvements you'd like to see included in the resurfacing project in this survey: s.cotsurvey.chkmkt.com/?e=369653&d=l&…

So many of us are coping with burnout, overwhelm, vicarious trauma. I wrote this book to help folks address personal + structural barriers to self and community care. Big 🙏 to Kai Cheng, MSW, MSc, QMed, Extremist for Love for this endorsement. Preorder: farzanadoctor.com/52weeks Avail March (Sept/Oct in US/UK)

If you are an able bodied person, that has their Range Rover and Jaguars being stolen from your driveway, it's time for an upgrade. 1. Get a PRESTO card 2. Sign up for Bike Share Toronto 3. If there is space in your house, get a bike. Doesn't need to be fancy. Saved you multiple $$

👇🏼While our premier cut vehicle registration fees and cuts ⛽️ tax, and the focus on car 🚙 theft is taking too much air, instead of holding 🚗 manufacturers to account. Only safer & smaller vehicles with speed control should be allowed on our streets. readthepeak.com/stories/02-24-…

We neglect public health threats and then demand immediate action when they become crises. And crises may warrant more coercive intervention. But does such prior neglect undermine the justification of using coercion? My latest paper: "Cause for coercion" link.springer.com/article/10.100…

Question to Toronto Region Board of Trade about the Congestion Task Force. Why doesn’t it include people that utilize bikes as primary mode of transportation? #BikeTO and/or Bike Share Toronto + GO Transit and/or TTC Customer Service doesn’t solve congestion but it should be the easiest to invest in & implement

Our Spring 2023 issue is out from behind the paywall--and it's full of goodies! Jessi Streib on a labor market luckocracy, Dan Cassino on crypto and masculinity, Sarah Elton PhD on "eating for 2 trillion"--and so much more! Read, download, and share! contexts.org/articles/sprin…

Please join us in welcoming Assistant Prof. Sarah Elton Sarah Elton PhD to Public Health Sciences at DLSPH! She will hold the Eakin Chair in Critical Qualitative Health Research Methodology. Learn more about Prof. Elton here: ow.ly/ArKT50Sw4GP