Unfortunately traffic is become a hot button issue in the GTA. That’s why Ford is ripping out bike lanes and talking about tunnelling under the 401: Even if these policies aren’t good long term solutions (or even short term solutions), they definitely win votes in the 905 right now.

Don’t forget about the tariffs too! The US economy is actually a joke that can’t compete on the world stage anymore except by welding their enormous capital from a handful of tech billionaires.

Yup. Now I also get that exposure and engagement are important to small businesses, but to that end they shouldn’t lock themselves to one place either. Point out the benefits of more open solutions like Bluesky and Mastodon, and the benefits of setting up their own hosted site/blog that they can then broadcast on social media but slowly cut them out as a middle man by pushing customers to their site directly.

And most certainly businesses should never use the “algorithm” on social media to collect data or get “free” advertising such as those “like/repost to win” style posts. Those are not free advertising, those are doing free data collection work for Meta.

Tell those local businesses that you really want to support and follow them, but that you boycott Meta and the reasons that you do.

Honestly there’s so many reasons businesses should also avoid Meta, like the fact Meta is literally collecting and selling their most valuable business data about their customers to other competing businesses. Tell them for their own good that Meta is not their friend, it might help them at first to get exposure, but only long enough to get that data and sell it off to a bigger fish.

Ford really needs to get Ontario drunk for how hard he’s about to fuck it.

I don’t quite understand why identity documents need a gender marker at all anymore. Maybe it was useful in the days before photo ID, but what purpose does it serve now?

I read independent Canadian news and have not heard anything even close to this. Care to share your sources?

That’s why they’re trying to take power. Billionaires would rather destroy the world and drive all life to extinction than to give up their private jets and yachts.