From Barcelona to Paris, cities thrive with women in charge. It’s all about sharing public space | Melissa and Chris Bruntlett Female mayors have had notable successes in making transport in urban areas benefit everyone, write Melissa and Chris Bruntlett, co-authors of Women Changing Cities

From Barcelona to Paris, cities thrive with women in charge. It’s all about sharing public space | Melissa and Chris Bruntlett

👏 Canada 👏 Post 👏 is 👏 a 👏 public 👏 service 👏

Nothing proves how capitalism has brain rotted everyone than thinking the post office, hospitals, public transit, libraries, etc. need to turn a profit to be worthwhile.

100 ebike riders site in auditorium for presentation

Honoured to have engaged w over 200 ebiking gig workers over the past 3 days. Our safe cycling sessions are a model for what the City of Toronto, Uber etc. could do to ensure everyone on our roads is a little more safe.
Education>enforcement. @cycletoronto.bsky.social @tomflood.bsky.social

This is so cool! More of this please 🙏

Online delivery apps and the growing gap in labour protections As online delivery expands, weak labour protections, unsafe streets and discrimination leave gig workers exposed and underprotected.

Shameless self-promotion, but I did write something on this
- policyoptions.irpp.org/2026/01/food...
Looking forward to continuing this conversation in person!

Is this open to attend?

Great to see this happening!

David Roberts Director of the Multidisciplinary Urban Capstone Project | Human Big news! I am thrilled to announce the official launch of the City Community Research and Learning Collaborative (CCRLC) alongside my colleague, Aditi Mehta. 🌐 Explore our new digital home here: https://lnkd.in/e2G6kNyF The City Collaborative is designed to serve as a hub for community-engaged scholarship and work, bringing together students, faculty, and community partners to tackle "wicked" urban challenges. Our mission is to move beyond traditional academic boundaries by learning with and from communities to advance social justice and more equitable urban futures. What we do: • Community-Engaged Research: Utilizing methodologies that centre community perspectives and needs to address critical issues like housing equity, climate resiliency, and neighbourhood stigma. • Innovative Pedagogy: Designing educational experiences that bring the classroom into the city, including "inside-out" courses and placements led by community practitioners. • Collaborative Action: Hosting workshops and events to share best practices and collectively imagine better urban possibilities. Our current projects range from assessing the human rights implications of mega-events like FIFA 2026, to rethinking community safety and policing, to supporting urban change initiatives in Moss Park and Regent Park. A huge thank you to everyone who has been part of this journey so far—especially our website designers, Tony Chang and Felicity Heyworth, and our institutional partners, the Department of Geography and Planning and the School of Cities, University of Toronto. We are excited to continue this work of centering hope and actionable interventions in our cities. I invite you to explore the site, learn more about our projects, and reach out if you see opportunities for collaboration.

Learning with communities to advance equitable urban futures. The City Community Research and Learning Collaborative exists to learn with, by, and from communities to produce scholarship, design innovative educational experiences, and advance social justice in urban settings. The Collaborative supports and elevates city-building through community partnerships, community-engaged scholarship, activist research, community organizing, and grassroots innovations. The Collaborative is a hub for urban studies and teaching within the Department of Geography & Planning and is an affiliated initiative of the School of Cities, both at the University of Toronto.

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The Collaborative is a hub for urban studies and teaching within the Department of Geography & Planning and is an affiliated initiative of the School of Cities, both at the University of Toronto. via @kingofva.bsky.social
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‘Fossil-fuel imperialism’: Trump’s hankering for Iranian oil runs deep Experts say the US believes it is entitled to resources it desires – a perspective president has supported for decades

"While ordinary people are suffering amid the war and resulting fuel price shocks, fossil fuel companies – such as those who furnished Trump with record donations on the campaign trail – are seeing handsome windfall profits, said Bigger." Me in @dharna.bsky.social 's latest in @theguardian.com

"Just because it is available does not mean it is accessible" - a student opined about Toronto's transit system. And, accessibility is multi-faceted.

Hit and killed a crossing guard (who wear high visibility gear and carry a stop sign) and took off.

Months after the provincial government forced municipalities to remove their speed enforcement cameras in school zones.

Funding for populist-right ‘media-political complex’ exceeded £170m in five years, research finds Handful of billionaires gave huge sums in particular to media organisations that boosted rightwing politicians, says Liam Byrne MP

Governments sit and watch while oligarchs purchase our politics, as if it were just another asset to be monopolised. For the sake of democracy and our own survival, we need to get the money out. Our political systems must belong to us and us alone.
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Heated stops with benches please. For when wind chills make it feel like -30s. 😒

A pro-play policy supports so many key local authority agendas - social justice, anti-poverty, supporting families, climate mitigation, active travel, physical activity and health, connecting communities, Pride in Place - and, of course, children and young people’s wellbeing - and fun!

Making Amazon accountable would be ace!

"City Hall is proposing to require third party app delivery companies, like GrubHub, UberEats, DoorDash and Instacart, to provide trip level data to the city, instead of just the aggregate data required by the 2021 minimum pay standard law."
Apps have, for far too long, avoided accountability!

The notion of minimum parking standards still prevalent in cities grappling with housing crises is wild.

Also, the numbers don't lie! Toronto's bikeshare is hugely popular and the revenue generated backs this. MILLIONS of trips are made annually, and growing.

Canada’s clean energy future depends on people.

Right now, we don’t have enough skilled workers to build and operate a low-carbon economy.

Our Sustainable Workforce program is focused on closing that gap — and turning it into a long-term advantage. 👇

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Post a picture of a full parking lot and ask why is nobody driving? 🤷

hilarious short video, well worth the watch. And the consumer council receives government funding! Swoon.

Ottawa's Road Safety Action Plan - 2025 Implementation Plan. The first point is improving road safety for vulnerable users. The first vulnerable user listed is Pedestrians. Unless the entire street is being pedestranised, what in the name of common sense is happening?

Cities well-designed for children, generally, tend to be well-designed for everybody. And not to forget the positive effects on children's interpersonal and cognitive skills.

Protected Bike Lanes Increase Safety, Save Money And Protect The Planet, New Report Finds Investing in protected bicycle lanes has significant potential to reduce greenhouse gas emissions, lower transport costs, prevent road fatalities, and improve the quality of life for people in cities ...

STUDY: “Bicycle lanes reduce GHG emissions as effectively as highways create them.”

“Investing in networks of protected bicycle lanes has significant potential to reduce GHG emissions, lower transport costs, prevent road fatalities, & improve quality of life for people in cities around the globe.”

The world would be a better place if journalists and lawmakers can distinguish an ebike from an electric motorcycle.

Millions of workers — including at Walmart, Amazon, & McDonald’s — rely on food stamps, WIC, and Medicaid, because pay doesn’t cover basics. Corporate profits soar while taxpayers pick up the bill. Low wages aren’t just a worker issue — they’re a taxpayer subsidy to big business.

We tried to invite Ontario Premier Doug Ford to our live show in Toronto on Thursday, February 5th, hosted by @cycletoronto.bsky.social, so we brought two comically large tickets to Queen's Park. Here's how it went.

Get normal sized tickets here:

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Local independent store finds.
@thewaroncars.bsky.social

Oil brings us climate change and illegal invasions of sovereign nations.

Would be a good time to remember that the city also has a vision zero strategy. Prioritizing public transit and active mobility, NOT CARS, has been found as an effective way of achieving said vision.