🚉 I’m a transit planner based in Toronto
🫡 Registered Planner (RPP, MCIP) & PRINCE2 certified (UK+Europe’s PMP)
🌎 I do this because it’s the space between places that determines the health of self and community. and peace blooms in cities 🏳️🌈
Nick Shaw
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Heat pumps are the most efficient heating technology ever invented.
They harvest and compress pre existing heat in the air, ground or water and transport it where it is needed.
That energy is all around us.
And it does not have to pass through the Strait of Hormuz.
We need to allow our urban 'single family' neighbourhoods to evolve.
Our vision: Accessible, zero emission, bright, social, bike oriented, #singlestair homes - allowed on individual residential lots - everywhere.
“Cloudbreaker” and “Lady of the Quays” got my vote. I love the high fantasy imagery. haveyoursay.toronto.ca/FerryNaming
Work Friend Accidentally Becomes Real Friend https://theonion.com/work-friend-accidentally-becomes-real-friend-1819571545/
This is truly mind-blowing: Norway has gone from near-zero sales of non‑emitting battery electric vehicles to now close to 100% of all new passenger car sales - achieved in about 13 years.
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I like this but I think it needs a single word to describe the experience of it. Kind of like the danish word ‘hygge’—you can feel it before you can describe it.
Story: "Murder rate cut by more than half." Header: "Police fail to prevent 40% of murders against peak"
I just realized that the core message of Mark Carney’s Davos speech—“Taking the world as it is, not as we wish it to be”—is blatant plagiarism from the Buddha, probably Jesus too and any prophet before or after. I think they’d be down.
This is really about…milk.
Specifically, Canada’s tight supply management system that protects Canadian dairy farmers. The US wants it gone. This demand pre-dates Trump. At least he’s transparent aboot it if you can read between the lines. This will be a fun CUSMA/USMCA negotiation.
