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Mayor Olivia Chow's Toronto

W. K. Lis said:
Or a "tariff"! :eek:
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This is the Mayor's amendment:

1c - Motion to Amend Item (Additional) moved by Mayor Olivia Chow (Final)
That:

1. City Council direct the Executive Director, Municipal Licensing and Standards to temporarily restrict any new Tesla vehicles from participating in Zero Emission Grant Program for vehicles for hire (i.e., taxis and limousines) effective March 1, 2025, and allow all other electric vehicles to continue to qualify for the program, until such time as the negative U.S. trade action has ended.
 
Time for the TTC to have an official Bluesky account!

The Ride Guide keeps putting the logos of antisocial media, especially those of Meta and those of Musk.

Why Meta (especially Facebook and Instagram) should not belong on the Ride Guide:


Both Meta’s platforms and X are loosening their content moderation.
 
Johnny Au said:
Time for the TTC to have an official Bluesky account!

The Ride Guide keeps putting the logos of antisocial media, especially those of Meta and those of Musk.

Why Meta (especially Facebook and Instagram) should not belong on the Ride Guide:


Both Meta’s platforms and X are loosening their content moderation.
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Putting the logos of social media on the Ride Guide doesn't mean the TTC is promoting loosened content moderation, they have them on there because, for better or more accurately for worse, lots of people use social media, and the TTC is advising that they are on those platforms to share information about service changes and disruptions.

I don't see what the TTC removing their logos from the Ride Guide (or leaving these highly popular platforms) is meant to achieve. It is not the TTC's job to force a societal rethinking of where we stand vis-a-vis social media, and it would mean a decline in the quality of service update reporting (which is already pretty spotty at the best of times). And there is no doubt in my mind that, were Bluesky to reach the same popularity of other social medias, it would start to resemble Twitter and Facebook, too.

N.B. I quit Twitter several years before Elon Musk bought it out. Anyone who thinks it was anything but a cesspool back then, too, is viewing the site with very rose coloured glasses, to say the least.
 
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hmmmm. SEE: https://globalnews.ca/news/11019120/toronto-police-chats/

Toronto police chats undermined testimony. But it was whistleblower who got fired​


Former Toronto Police Service officer Firouzeh Zarabi-Majd said she found out about the unofficial 51 Division group chat “accidentally” after being told about it by a colleague.
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What she saw included a message “talking about my vagina,” she said, among other disturbing conversations.

Zarabi-Majd would go on to be fired for insubordination after posting the material on social media along with profanity-laced criticisms of the force.

But fellow officers involved in the conversations have not been publicly disciplined, even after two of them had their remarks dissected to undermine courtroom testimony in unrelated cases, one of which collapsed.
 
DSCToronto said:
hmmmm. SEE: https://globalnews.ca/news/11019120/toronto-police-chats/

Toronto police chats undermined testimony. But it was whistleblower who got fired​


Former Toronto Police Service officer Firouzeh Zarabi-Majd said she found out about the unofficial 51 Division group chat “accidentally” after being told about it by a colleague.
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What she saw included a message “talking about my vagina,” she said, among other disturbing conversations.

Zarabi-Majd would go on to be fired for insubordination after posting the material on social media along with profanity-laced criticisms of the force.

But fellow officers involved in the conversations have not been publicly disciplined, even after two of them had their remarks dissected to undermine courtroom testimony in unrelated cases, one of which collapsed.
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I'm amazed by what people are willing to put into written form. Police really ought to know better.
 
W. K. Lis said:
If only Toronto could clear the snow from the streets, like they do in Montreal...
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Let’s think about that. Toronto has far fewer snow events then Montreal. Running an operation like Montreal’s requires a lot of specialized equipment, contractors, snow dumps etc etc.Those are large ticket items in a city that constantly wrestles with funding and taxes. And think of the residents complaining about having to move their cars, park somewhere else for a night , I can hear the moaning now. Not to mention the noise kf these large pieces and teams of equipment working along a street.

And with all the equipment that Montreal has, this weekends snow event in Montreal is going to be a week and more to move the majority of the snow.

It might be advantageous in Toronto to have more draconian laws regulating parking in snow routes, targettimg parking when snow removal operations are underway, and empower integrated crews with tow trucks to move vehicles, even if it is just around the corner.
 
There is a network of five snow storage and three snow melter sites throughout the city. Snow removal operations involves the use of snow melters, snow blowers, front end-loaders and dump trucks.

Toronto no longer uses mobile snow melters, that discharges the snow into the sewers. Pollution and fuel costs are the problem.
 
Over at Bid Award we see a contract for reimagining Public Spaces at the Civic Centres, set to be awarded to Gensler.

Agenda Item History 2025.BA120.4

Agenda Item History 2025.BA120.4
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I don't remember discussion of this previously.

Maybe @DSCToronto has heard something.
 
WTF, does Trump think he's Doug Ford now??? SEE: https://www.cnn.com/2025/02/19/business/trump-kills-congestion-pricing-nyc/index.html

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The Trump administration is moving ahead with its plan to kill New York City’s congestion pricing – a controversial program designed to help raise millions in critical infrastructure funding.

In a letter to New York Gov. Kathy Hochul on Wednesday, US Transportation Secretary Sean Duffy said the Department of Transportation would rescind the agreement effectively ending the tolling structure which went into effect early this year.

“New York State’s congestion pricing plan is a slap in the face to working class Americans and small business owners,” Duffy wrote in his letter. “Every American should be able to access New York City regardless of their economic means. It shouldn’t be reserved for an elite few.”
 
DSCToronto said:
WTF, does Trump think he's Doug Ford now??? SEE: https://www.cnn.com/2025/02/19/business/trump-kills-congestion-pricing-nyc/index.html

CNN —
The Trump administration is moving ahead with its plan to kill New York City’s congestion pricing – a controversial program designed to help raise millions in critical infrastructure funding.

In a letter to New York Gov. Kathy Hochul on Wednesday, US Transportation Secretary Sean Duffy said the Department of Transportation would rescind the agreement effectively ending the tolling structure which went into effect early this year.

“New York State’s congestion pricing plan is a slap in the face to working class Americans and small business owners,” Duffy wrote in his letter. “Every American should be able to access New York City regardless of their economic means. It shouldn’t be reserved for an elite few.”
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I am waiting for him to tell London, UK that they have to axe their congestion charge because Americans visiting may be forced to pay it.
 
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