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At the #Willowdale Climate Action roundtable organized by my local Toronto city councillor Lily Cheng
I’m torned on those events. I wonder how much of it is just to give good conscience to the councillor.
While she keeps voting against more dense neighborhoods and in favor of pro-parking policies

Louis Riel et le passé rêvé du Canada
#metis

Got my covid and flu shot yesterday in Ontario at a local rexall pharmacy, lots of appointments available.
Not much side effects, just a bit sore on both arms.
#covidvax

Contractor who drove plow through Palestinian protesters in #Toronto posted Islamophobic, anti-protest content on social media

Pretty sure I had read somewhere few years ago that Thomas King was not Indigenous... i guess the news is that he finally admitted it.
Sigh..
https://www.ctvnews.ca/canada/article/celebrated-inconvenient-indian-author-tho…

La CAQ aura finalement été un parti d'une seule idée. La laïcité (ou du moins, leur interprétation du concept) et son association avec la xénophobie.
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C'est la seule chose qui les unit.
Problème dans les sondages? On retourne Š la laicité. Toujours plus extrème Š chaque fois, parce qu'ils ont rien d'autre.
Toujours la même cassette qui se répète.

Good reminder, for all your coffee needs, including accessories, Edmonton-based Rogue Wave
#BuyCanadian

@…

Proponents of a cut in interest rates by the Federal Reserve in December gained a powerful backer on Friday,
when a top official said the central bank had scope to lower borrowing costs “in the near term.”
John C. Williams is president of the Federal Reserve Bank of New York and a close ally of Jerome H. Powell, the Fed chair.
He emphasized in a speech that he was more concerned about the labor market weakening
than that rising inflation because of Trump’s tariffs wou…

Top Fed Official Boosts Odds of a December Rate Cut
John C. Williams, president of the Federal Reserve Bank of New York, said the central bank had scope to lower borrowing costs “in the near term.”

Basically me. I almost entirely stopped using streetcars. I take the green line to go east west and then bus north south or just walk. I can’t really trust streetcar anymore.
I don’t want to get rid of it. I want it fixed.
#topoli #streetcarsummit

Lily Cheng would like to tell you that it's important to wear reflective vest as a pedestrian, but has nothing to say to drivers about slowing down when conditions are bad.
#visionzero #topoli

Fed Chair Jerome Powell Says U.S. May Be Drastically Overstating Jobs Numbers (Wall Street Journal)
https://www.wsj.com/economy/jobs/fed-chair-jerome-powell-says-u-s-may-be-drastically-overstating-jobs-numbers-741c635d
http://www.memeorandum.com/251211/p15#a251211p15

Un Québécois au Championnat mondial d’Excel
Fascinant
https://www.lapresse.ca/affaires/techno/2025-10-23/un-quebecois-au-championnat-mondial-d-excel.php

Canada’s FinTech industry enters new era as Bank of Canada taps first payment service providers
https://betakit.com/canadas-fintech-industry-enters-new-era-as-bank-of-canada-taps-first-payment-service-providers/…

As much as Quebec goes too far with laïcité, especially around dictating what you can wear and prayers in public space.
The other side with Ontario can also be absolutely bonkers.
My city councillor spreading her Christian faith in her newsletter and organizing a praying group within city hall, it’s absolutely not the place
#topoli

Beyond Meat seems to be the new meme stock
#beyondmeat #wsb #wallstreetbets

Drop Site uncovered new information about individuals, donor networks, and businesses helping Canary Mission, a pro-Israel organization serving the U.S.'s deportation and repression efforts.
https://www.dropsitenews.com/p/canary-miss

Metrolinx board meeting slideshow mentioned December 7th as opening date for the Finch LRT
#metrolinx

There's a tool that analyses your 2025 hackernews comments through a LLM and give you a summary
Who am I:
The Fediverse Urbanist
A supply-and-demand fundamentalist who divides their time equally between defending housing density and explaining why your social media platform is a centralized prison for bots. You have successfully mapped the entire journey from a car-dependent suburb to a Mastodon instance using only RSS feeds and a burning hatred for high-tariff border …

If anyone is interested in decentralized web in #Toronto there's a group starting to have monthly meetups/presentations, starting in January #dweb

Take it from a suburban GTA driver: Doug Ford’s toll-free Highway 407 is just not working
What a surprise, removing the tolls on the 407 East increased traffic and now it's no longer the shortcut it was.
https://www.

WIX - The Israeli Engine Behind Some of Your Favorite Websites
https://updates.techforpalestine.org/wix-the-israeli-engine-behind-some-of-your-favorite-websites/

The Colorful Cultures of Pre-Colonial Mindanao
Bridging the gap between what seems like ‘exotic’ Mindanao starts with understanding the culture of its people
https://www.esquiremag.ph/long-reads/features/mindano-culture-a2212-20200313-lfrm

I’m sure it’s a difficult situation for many but…
I just want to see those confused Waymo in the San Francisco blackout
#sanfrancisco

I've been lucky to run an ecommerce store for 10 years and only got 2 chargebacks.
One of them was a fraudulent one, where customer received the item but claimed it was defective without contacting us, sending us a photo or giving us a chance to make it right. For all we know, it was not defective.
Just won the chargeback dispute, which is actually not too frequent.
#ecommerce

Seems like downtown #Toronto was/is busy with Blue Jays celebration?
Saw this screenshot on Facebook

Cette campagne municipale de Sam Hamad est un vrai délice
#villedequebec

Today, there are 4971 public nodes listed on the Meshcore global map
#meshcore

RE: https://techhub.social/@Techmeme/115742444654558105
After hours—and more than 140 back-and-forth messages—Long got Claudius to embrace its communist roots. Claudius ironically declared an Ultra-Capitalist Free-for-All.

Y'a rien qui me met plus en joualvert que de lire des threads sur Reddit /r/quebec quand c'est question des Autochtones.
Le discours nationaliste que la Nouvelle France était don bin bon (on était des amis et des alliés!) et on a rien Š voir avec tout ce qui s'est passé après m'enrage.
C'est une réécriture de l'histoire par des gens qui n'ont rien lu, rien écouté, rien appris. Franchement horrible

Dubé quitte la CAQ, ça niaise pas la politique au Québec
#polqc #quebec

Today, there are 4803 public nodes listed on the Meshcore global map
#meshcore

Today, there are 4804 public nodes listed on the Meshcore global map
#meshcore

Fediverse / ActivityPub / Mastodon meetup in #Toronto
Organized by @…
https://

Pablo Rodriguez démisionne, eh bin le calvaire est terminé.
#polqc #quebec

Totally normal behaviour for Israel to pay for Canadian politicians to visit them and influence our local policies.
Same country involved in many war crimes and mass atrocities
https://www.torontotoday.ca/local/city-hall/toronto-councillo…

Donation to your mastodon server will be cheaper https://techhub.social/@Techmeme/115737372852805627

RE: https://mastodon.social/@GraphicMatt/115735763851194201
Shelley Carroll also said that in her newsletter last week. People with 3 millions dollar home are not all "wealthy", they just happened to have inherited this kind of house.
…

Starging this Sunday, every single Toronto Public Library will be open on Sunday.
Thank you Olivia Chow for that
https://www.thestar.com/news/gta/city-hall/all-toronto-…

October: AI and Trust / Dumb Ransomware, Big Chaos
Toronto Area Security Klatch
https://www.task.to/schedule/v3f7p4b6zhdyhz4…

US TV rights for #F1 will go to Apple TV
It seems like they are keeping #F1TV but details are sparse on pricing

Apparemment qu’un réseau de bots Russe a utilisé plusieurs serveurs mastodon incluant qlub.social pour diffuser de la propagande. C’est sorti y’a 1 mois, j’ai totalement manqué ça.
https://bsky.app/profile/antibot4navalny.bsky.social/post/3m2225xo3zs25

#Salesforce Tries to Help ICE Boost Its Immigration Force
https://www.nytimes.com/2025/10/16/us/salesforce-benioff-ice.html

Detroit announces the return of trains at their central station (or at least very near it) bus station a potential extension of the Wolverine Amtrak train from Chicago all the way to Windsor/Toronto
Canadian extension would require some Canadian funds, in the current political climate I have my doubts. But glad to see Detroit re-investing into better transport infrastructure.

Shopify’s shuttered Indigenous entrepreneurship program will relaunch independently through an Indigenous-owned organization (Centre for Native Nation Builders)
https://betakit.com/shopifys-shuttered-indigenous-entrepreneurship…

Willowdale Climate Action Roundtable on November 24th at the North York Central Library Auditorium
#willowdale #northyork

Has anyone seen in an article the full complete list of artifacts being returned and which Nation they belong to?
https://flipboard.com/@ctvnews/kitchener-q0c2oi5az/-/a-L8ja728ETmOvwWyO7_wAOQ:a:2823982346-/0

Mutale Nkonde: Building the AI Future We Want to Live In
Event on December 5th at the Toronto Reference Library
https://www.eventbrite.ca/e/mutale-nkonde-building-the-ai-future-we-want-to-live-in-tickets-178232…

Why people hate old banks.
I moved to a new address 3 years ago. All change of addresses have been done.
Now on RBC Express (a business service), they have a separate mailing address, the old one.
When I call the help line for RBC Express: we can't change it, call your branch.
When I call the branch: we can't do it, call RBC Express.
So nobody actually can change my address. The website doesn't let you change it.
I need the address changed for …

Neighborhood Retail
Another diluted policy that will only apply certain wards, because somehow if you're not in Old toronto or East York, this is considered suburbs and nothing good can be done in the suburb.
Have they been to Yonge and Sheppard? Don Mills & Sheppard?
Is that the suburb? So stupid
https://

C'est bon d'en parler mais je crois que le journaliste sous-estime l'effort de changer le système de signalement pour le rendre automatique. Oui Paris l'a fait et c'est moins cher pour eux parce qu'ils ont l'expertise interne.
Toronto l'a fait aussi sur la ligne 1, ça la couté une fortune, pris plusieurs années, des fermetures Š n'en plus finir, etc, etc. Idem pour New York.
Oui on doit donner la pression pour le gouvernement de financer ça.. m…

I had missed that last month, the condo development in the south parking lot of Fairview Mall was scaled back (at least for the first phase)
It's now just 1 tower instead of 3, and it's a rental instead of condos.
It's a really bad market to sell condos right now, so it's not too surprising.

Gaza genocide
Lots of democrats and well meaning liberals were telling us that Biden could do nothing. Like being the biggest army in the world and paying for Israel weapons was not a pressure point.
At no point in time did Biden actually pressured the Israeli government. He even prevented the state department from issuing concerns about war crimes. More revelations came after his presidency, it was truly damning.
That's why he was called Genocide Joe

Laval sera du parcours Montreal-Ottawa
#tgv #alto
https://www.

Dire que ce centre de ski était autrefois reconnu. https://ici.radio-canada.ca/nouvelle/2213529/fermeture-mont-sainte-anne-enquete

I still have my pet theory that Shelley Carroll is prepping a run for mayor.
Her last newsletter is a good example of it. Keeps trying to distance herself from the mayor. Taking stands for "fiscal responsability". Defending 3 millions-home owners. etc etc
#topoli

J'ai remarqué que dans le dossier de Alto et du TGV, les fuites sortent toujours dans les médias Québécois en français avant de sortir dans le ROC
Ça doit aider que Alto est Š Montréal

Details are finally out about what happened to the Scarborough subway extension boring machine that got stuck under the 401
https://globalnews.ca/news/11521835/scarborough-subway-extension-highway-401-closure/

U.S. tourism faces $5.7B US loss as Canadians continue to stay home
#buycanadian

Today, there are 5385 public nodes listed on the Meshcore global map
#meshcore

It looks like #Bitchat might be gathering some traction in Gaza?
As a reminder, bitchat is a mesh network using your phone's bluetooth. So even without internet, you could have private messages sent from phone to phones.
Gaza having such a high population density and because Israel is known to have penetrated WhatsApp, this might be a good off-the-grid solution

We are asking for the public's help in identifying attendees of the white nationalist networking event 'Exiles of the Golden Age that happened in Vancouver last summer
https://www.antihate.ca/white_nationalist_organizing_exiles_golden_age_identify

Kaya Founders raises P1.47-billion fund to back more Filipino founders
https://www.philstar.com/business/2025/11/11/2486427/kaya-founders-raises-p147-billion-fund-back-more-filipino-founders

Today, there are 5309 public nodes listed on the Meshcore global map
#meshcore

Impact of tariffs and ending De Minimis has a lot of direct but also indirect impact. Like people no longer able to safely buy anything from abroad.
UPS is 'disposing of' U.S.-bound packages over customs paperwork problems

Don't they have TSP in Waterloo?!?

A Story About Bypassing Air Canada's In-flight Wifi Network Restrictions
https://ramsayleung.github.io/en/post/2025/a_story_about_bypassing_air_canadas_in-flight_network_restrictions/

Today, there are 5264 public nodes listed on the Meshcore global map
#meshcore

2 cops car on King street. In front of them, and behind them, 2 cars that just keep driving straight on King without following the rules of the transit corridor. Of course they do nothing.
Never change Toronto cops.

Je viens de terminer la saison 4 du podcast Dérives qui parle de la maladie de Lyme. Écoute essentielle
Je pensais être relativement bien informé sur ça, et finalement j'étais entièrement Š côté de la track
https://ici.radio-canada.ca/ohdio/bala

Not even a city councillor standed up for our Sheppard Bike lanes
RIP
#biketo

The Mall That Could Have Been: What Happened to Our Vision for SF Centre / Westfield Mall
https://www.kultivatelabs.org/blog/the-mall-that-could-have-been-what-happened-to-our-vision-for-sf-centre

Turns out there's a way to keep bike lanes.. what a surprise
https://www.torontotoday.ca/local/city-hall/ontario-adding-vehicle-lane-keeping-bike-lanes-500m-bloor-11326886

Today, there are 5213 public nodes listed on the Meshcore global map
#meshcore

The old racist man Helmut Marko is finally leaving #RedBull and #F1
Not a moment too soon
#redbullracing

Excited to speak tomorrow at @… , giving updates about the project i've been volunteering for the last year with @…
Join us in person in Toronto or online at 7PM…

AI generated videos are fun
Me and my wife got featured in a youtube video of "top richest person in the world", apparently we are billionnaire, the video has our public photos and names.
30,000 views of this garbage.
And a family member spotted it and got forwarded to us, so clearly it's getting distributed somehow.

Today, there are 5146 public nodes listed on the Meshcore global map
#meshcore

I guess it does help to bring my blood pressure down https://jasette.facil.services/@jerome/115478085722127471

Premier Tech a réalisé que leur nom était maintenant associé avec un état genocidaire et que ce n’était pas bon pour leur marque. Eh bin. https://www.lapresse.ca/sports/cyclisme/2025-11-07/equipe-israel-premier-tech/premier-tech-se-retire.ph…

I don’t know how I missed that Olivia Chow finally called the genocide in Gaza.. a genocide.
Well good for her.
#topoli

Today, there are 5024 public nodes listed on the Meshcore global map
#meshcore

People on my local nimby Facebook group get really mad when I call them out for promoting US chain restaurants. It’s very funny.
#buycanadian

Today, there are 4966 public nodes listed on the Meshcore global map
#meshcore

Today, there are 4899 public nodes listed on the Meshcore global map
#meshcore

Technologists for Democracy, a new org based in Toronto that advocate for a more ethical tech, just joined the fediverse through the Bluesky bridge
@…

@… Est-ce que ton serveur est toujours actif?
https://xn--u80a.com/fediqc
Ça semble pas loadé ici

Très dangereux le Dr Khadir, et encore une fois la complexité du sujet par un simple article dans le journal enlève beaucoup de nuances.
Y'a pas une seule maladie dans le monde qui demande un traitement de ces mêmes antibiotiques sur plusieurs mois ou années. Ca va contre tous les principes de médecine. C'est d'un ridicule absolu que ça soit encore débattu, c'est extrèmement dangereux (pas juste un "problème gastrique")

Et si le français québécois tombait #kilig en amour avec le monde?
https://urbania.ca/article/et-si-le-francais-quebecois-tombait-kilig-en-amour-…

I thought I had found the one person on mastodon that wants to vote for #cuomo but now I wonder if they are a bot or just part of a misinformation campaign by a foreign power.
Telling people to vote 10:30PM many hours after the polls are closed. Definitely not someone in the US.
Surprise in their profile: supporter of 🇮🇱

Netflix cancels Queers ultimatum.
On one hand this show was absolutely insane, real shit show. So I get it.
But, it comes with lots of cancellations and pressure against Queer culture in the US, so the timing is suspect.
https://www.autostraddle.com/ultimatum-que

So #Partiful, which can build a full graph of people’s social life with email phone number… is a startup from former employees of #Palantir

Today, there are 4831 public nodes listed on the Meshcore global map
#meshcore

Retour vers le présent de la réconciliation https://www.laconverse.com/articles/retour-vers-le-present-de-la-reconciliation

With iOS 26.1 now released, is it worth updating if we are still holding on iOS 18?
How's battery life? Bugs?
My iOS 18.5 is working quite well so i'm not really in a rush
#ios #liquidglass

One one side i'd rather have those large corporations spend their money in the economy instead of holding cash in the bank account of their billionnaire owners.
On the other hand, it's hard to think there is anything sustainable to the amount of money spent on AI right now.
Screenshot from Bloomberg this morning
#FAANG

Isac Hadjar is demoted to the second seat at RedBull.
Yuki is leaving F1 to be a reserve driver.
Lindblad is joining F1 at Racing Bull
#formula1 #f1

Why do we have a Toronto Police board with city councillors on it if disbanding the mobile crisis intervention team is kept secret?
Typical Toronto Police trying to hide things
https://www.the…

Le résultat des élections de maire/mairesses d'arondissement Š #montreal ça se trouve où?

Félicitations Š Bruno Marchand
Mention spéciale de l’ancien favori Sam Hamad qui se retrouve en 3e place. Une vraie campagne de marde. J’espère qu’il ne fera pas un Denis Coderre de lui même
#villedequebec