this is so unrealistic. nobody could be this evil.
How unnecessarily dystopian.
How utterly pathetic.
elect criminal conservacucks and this is the result
The liberal PM is more conservative than many conservatives, unfortunately… And I voted for him :/
further proving that voting is mostly useless. Use actual resistance and see what happens…
Conservatism is cancer and needs to be dealt with as such. Don’t let conservatives know about walking or they will take the sidewalks next.
Conservatism (regressivism) is antithetical to human progress.
Red states already have refused sidewalks in a substantial amount of their states. They don’t wanna risk a minority walking in front of their house.
OG antebellum red states objected against roads, believing they did too much to serve the poors.
Roads were socialism as were schools, libraries and hospitals.
It was always class war.
Police are not and never have been about protecting the community. They’ve been granted a monopoly on violence to enact the will of the state and the elite who control it.
So they are saying they want to have bikes in all the lanes, everyday? Seems like traffic is going to get a lot worse in Toronto.
Cars <—> Fascism
Non-violent protests showing how useless they are once again 😂🤣
oh ya ! keep shouting at the pigs! I bet itll work THIS time 🤭😏
Im in toronto and the only thing that ahouting at a police officer has gotten me was alook of disgust. But he probably looked at me with disgust cause Im Black and as we all know Canadians are allergic to people who they deem to be TooDark©®™ 🤭😏
Bicycles, it turns out, have always been leftist. Cheaper than cars or horses, they gave the commoners mobility they never had before.
They also supercharged feminism, allowing women to travel without male escorts, and justifying wearing pants, giving them a great push along the autonomy pipeline.
Rebecca Watson and Climate Town both recently released videos. I’m on mobile right now but will try to add links later.
ETA: On my PC now. On YouTube:
Why Trump Hates Bike Lanes by Rebecca Watson
America Hates Bikes by Climate Town and Not Just Bikesyou don’t know how to copy/paste links on mobile?
It’s complex getting YouTube links from the mobile page (I don’t use the app). And digging out the brackets from the phone keyboard is tedious.
What?
Ah, men of the people
It would be a shame if everyone swapped their bikes for cars and accidentally broke down in the middle of traffic where the construction trucks are trying to get to.
This pig is Doug Ford, one of the most powerful man in Canada.
He wants these bike lanes gone. He publically said he doesn’t give a shit about the consequences.
He is a also a former drug dealer.
Somehow, it didn’t prevent him from being elected.
I haven’t seen a smile that insincere since Mr Beast.
Despicable
I thought Rob Ford would have sunk him, but. No.
Well it prevented Doug from being elected mayor of Toronto so now he does whatever he can to hurt the city. It sometimes feels like this is his main objective as premier of Ontario.
If it’s anything like Atlanta’s relationship with the rest of Georgia, that was probably his main selling point for rural and suburban voters.
So basically “I’ll fuck over those snobs in the city to please the rural folk”?
That’s the USA Way…let the dumb fuck ignorant church racists dictate the future.
Literally.
It’s insanely ironic because amalgamation being forced on the city by the province is why his father’s political career got cut short. Amalgamation of Toronto. Which is where he lives, and where he has been elected to represent an MPP of Etobicoke North.
Sure it was Etobicoke pre amalgamation, so maybe he’s still treating it as not Toronto? But those bike lanes in the OP are in Etobicoke.
Here is an article from when he was in the running for party leadership:
Ford made this anti-elite announcement, ironically, in the basement of his mother’s sprawling house in Etobicoke, source of the Ford political dynasty which includes his late father (Doug Ford Senior, an MPP from 1995-1999), late brother (Rob Ford, city councilor and then Toronto mayor from 2010-2014), and nephew (Michael Ford, former trustee and currently a councilor in Rob Ford’s former ward of Etobicoke North). Doug himself served and ran unsuccessfully for Mayor in 2014 against John Tory.
In terms of political dynasties, read, elites, the Fords really don’t have much competition in the GTA, or even in Ontario. But that’s not how Ford will depict it. Despite their wealth and influence, the Fords have a family tradition of communing with the common man, and connecting with voters far less fortunate than they.
I suppose this is just a case of them “hurting the right people”. And so everything else is fine.
See also: that famous Christian love.
Are you trying to make him look cool?
I am beyond pissed about this. It screams corruption and provincial government overreach.
Decisions like these belong to the city and the local residents, to our local mayor.
screams corruption and provincial government overreach.
Doug Ford since day one. He hasn’t been shy about it either.
Doug Ford 100% thinks he’s the mayor of Toronto. It’s all he ever does anything about, the rest of the province means basically nothing to him.
Un-fun fact: the laws that allow cities to exist are at the provincal level, which is what allows them to do this. It’s also why they are able to reduce the number of councillors in Toronto a few years ago, and how they can force amalgamation.
I wonder if as many people would have voted for Doug if they knew this.
So question. What stops the local government from, after they are removed, investing in building new ones?
The law they passed.
I talk about it at the end of this comment. The original law was to prevent new installs where they remove traffic lanes.
It was amended to add the removal of these.
What if they narrowed existing lanes, a daily took land from surrounding businesses blaming Ford? Or tolled the shit out of the road for non local commuters until a multi use path was built with the funds?
There is no rule or law a municipality has that isn’t because the province okay’d it, and that the province can say ‘nah’ to. That means zoning, road construction, taxes, etc.
That’s why people are taking direct action like this…
Their weapons always point at the working class. ACAB.
They rally 'round the family
With a pocket full of shells
Bulls on parade
👏🏼👏🏼👏🏼 Weapons not food, not homes, not shoes
Not need, just feed the warBulls on Parade
So, Canada… Are you looking to position yourself in opposition to the conservative ghouls in the US? Or are you not. Because riot police arresting people committed to protecting their city through direct action feels very United States to me.
I’m not sure I’m getting what you are saying? Are you implying it’s unusual for canadian police to abuse protesters?
I made a post a while back about the 2010 G-20 protest in Toronto with my own boring photos, but Reuters has a lot of bangers here.
Montreal cops are also notably shit, even among the entire class of bastards:
Further information has come to light concerning the Montreal Police Department’s use of agent-provocateurs disguised as “Black Bloc” protestors at a December 18 demonstration against police violence and the anti-austerity policies of the Quebec Liberal government.
More recently: Police brutality against anti-AI protesters in Montreal shows their true colours
And let’s not forget the Kanesatake Resistance (Oka Crisis):
The Kanesatake Resistance, also known as the Oka Crisis or the Mohawk Resistance at Kanesatake, was a 78-day standoff (11 July–26 September 1990) between Kanyen’kehà:ka (Mohawk) protesters, Quebec police, the RCMP and the Canadian Army.
I’m busting their balls for calling the kettle black, I know how awful Canadian cops are but do appreciate the informative PSA.
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Yeah Canada has no intent to do that and I’m not sure where you got that idea. Cops have been killing indigenous people on their territories around here since literally the beginning and causing grievous violence towards those that try to defend them or their lands. The RCMP was literally created to control people who were just trying to live on, not even protesting, on their own land.
I think they got the idea from the relentless bitch crying from Canadians about America while their own country is just as shit in every way.
Woah there, bud. You can cool it on the misogyny. America’s garbage fire impacts us too, so I think it’s pretty reasonable to voice our displeasure. If you want to be included in the discussions about decolonizing kkklanada, you can follow the canada specific coms.
We all know what side the cops are on.
Hamburg, Germany, the same. Officially it’s a bicycle city - unofficially police, especially older staff, see cyclists as inferior beings and a nuisance to the real and only owners of the streets.
