What It’s Actually Like to Downshift Your Life After Divorce Marriage is an economy of scale. And divorce means confronting harsh realities about the cost of being solo.

From those incurable romantics at the Wall Street Journal..

"One of the biggest advantages of marriage is the lifestyle upgrade that combining two incomes can bring"
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'A clear step change': European EV sales jump by over 50 per cent in March Over 224,000 battery EVs registered last month, as businesses and consumers respond to soaring oil prices

One has to assume that PM Carney has taken the wind out of the sails of such a transition in Canada by cutting the gas tax
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Even the insurance hit is going to be minimal. Depending on how one reads the police release, he'll face a high-risk premium increase of only $700-800 per year for three years

Lifted pickup trucks are cool off-road, but they are not designed for speed A 43-year-old Mission man has lost the use of his “lifted” Dodge pickup truck after being stopped for speeding well in excess of the highest speed limit in BC. On April 10, 2026, just before 7:00 p.m....

So some idiot in British Columbia is caught doing 208 km/hr in a jacked pickup and the fine is less than $500?
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Pervert glasses

We asked 12 notable Torontonians what they would do if they were mayor of this city. Here’s what they said In the runup to October’s municipal election, the Star is asking notable Torontonians and readers what they would do if they had the power of the city’s mayor.

Blue Jays pitcher has solid ideas about better parks and lots and lots of ice cream trucks. But his urbanist cred undermined by arguing also for cheaper gas and free parking everywhere
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That’s such a howler it’s not a lie so much as a litmus test. No one can actually believe it but they will have to pretend to in order to establish how in the tank they are for him

We are being asked to believe that Trump has the same body fat as Vingegaard in peak Tour de France form

Doug Ford to sell private government jet days after purchase was revealed Decision to buy jet for Premier’s travel set off wave of criticism, with opposition members nicknaming it the gravy plane

That they thought this was a good idea is real third-term hubris
www.theglobeandmail.com/business/art...

This is such a wild thing Toronto does. It‘s not that residents of a new condo go to the back of the line for permits to park on the street — they are explicitly banned from getting them. The curb belongs to house-owners

Trad-wives likely unclear on what trad-life involved in time of oil lamps, wood stoves, open hearths, etc

Obviously he should be palling around with Orban like a respectable ex-PM

When the book of American resistance is written it will dedicate a chapter to pocket squares

Canadian media are so weirdly obsessed with Justin Trudeau. Who cares what he does with his private life?

Attacks on #Canada's Alto high-speed rail project all seem to start with the declaration:

"Now, I've ridden bullet trains in Asia or Europe"—the editorialist doesn't want you to think he's an unworldly hick—"and sure, those ones are great, but...

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Relocating Venice ‘may be necessary’ if sea levels continue to rise Scientists warn that no adaptation measure can sustain Venice as rising sea levels threaten to swallow the city.

You can't move Venice. Better it is swallowed by the rising seas than it be rebuilt as a theme park somewhere else
www.euronews.com/2026/04/17/v...

My first sighting, Wednesday ayem, was a small group of them in use. A trio of what sounded like tourists heading into the financial district

Ravaged by wildfires, this NWT hamlet is still recovering more than two years later Enterprise was among the hardest hit during the 2023 wildfire season. Today, a fractured community faces the steep cost of rebuilding

It is *wild* to me that a hamlet with 35 residents (100, pre fire) held an election to choose a mayor and two councillors
www.theglobeandmail.com/canada/artic...

New pedal-assist Bixi seems to have dropped in Toronto. Second sighting in two days

How much does Trump hate Canada? Five charts show the depths of his animosity The U.S. President seemed to like his northern neighbour during his first term. The second time around, things have gone seriously south

According to my colleagues who have waded heroically through Trump's social media, he has insulted Canada 720 times since resuming office

We really do live rent-free in his head
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Lytton, B.C., residents fear financial ruin from wildfire rebuilding costs Residents worry the costs of maintaining more than $50-million in planned infrastructure will bankrupt the town

Lytton BC, which had 210 people in the last census, paid its top bureaucrat -- who lives at the other end of the country -- "nearly $574,000 over two years in 2023 and 2024, compensation in line with top city staff in communities such as Victoria" 🤨
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Both, really

Thought: would it become harder to get approval to develop surface parking lots if they're covered in solar panels? If so, this would sort of lock in an inefficient use of land

We’re all doing it wrong if he is not referred to in every subsequent article, and his obit, as “Avid animal genitalia researcher Robert F Kennedy Jr“

What a time to be alive. Lede..

“Robert F. Kennedy Jr., an avid animal genitalia researcher in his spare time, once pulled the family sedan to the side of the road after spying a dead raccoon and swiftly cut off its sex organs so he could ’study them later’.”

Horseshoe Tavern station

Going to throw out there that Queen and Spadina is well south of what most people think of being Chinatown

Some reactionary crank, probably: This is the future urbanists want

Mamdani's Tax the Rich Agenda Isn't Spooking Wall Street Record jobs and fat real estate leases make finance the No. 1 industry again.

Well that's weird. It's almost as if the *we're going to leave* crowd is bad at bluffing
www.thecity.nyc/2026/04/14/w...

Oh, for sure. In the Toronto context, anyway, people who talk about urban decay are usually opportunistic pols or scared columnists. But the OP is probably correct that more entertainment at home makes people less likely to go out