elect criminal conservacucks and this is the result

you don't know how to copy/paste links on mobile?

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.

They rally 'round the family

With a pocket full of shells

Bulls on parade

Resentment politics for conservatives who don't live in Toronto. They need to punish someone vulnerable.

Ford has a vendetta against Toronto, that's all.

It all started in 2010 when Don Cherry showed up to Rob Ford's mayoral induction in a pink suit:

“Well, actually, I’m wearing pinko for all the pinkos out there that ride bicycles and everything, I thought I’d get it in.

(This is a joke).

Seriously tho, the war in bike lanes is quite old, and has happened incrementally. Rob Ford (then mayor) spent $300,000 to remove the Jarvis bike lanes in 2012.

[Rob] Ford defended the expenditure, saying he didn’t approve of the bike lanes in the first place, and the time saved to drivers — which he claimed to be at least seven minutes, even though John Mende, the city’s acting general manager of transportation services, has said it is only two minutes — will benefit the economy by reducing congestion.

But specific to this round by his older brother: lol no.

They were jammed on to this bill that requires municipalities to get provincial approval to add bike lanes when traffic lanes were impacted.

They are going to study it later.

The province has issued an RFP to study and provide design options for restoring vehicle lanes on sections of Bloor Street, Yonge Street, University Avenue, Queen’s Park, Queen’s Park Crescent and Avenue Road. The RFP will also identify options to retain or reconfigure bike lanes, where they make sense and do not make gridlock worse. To get drivers moving quickly, the vehicle lane restoration process will immediately begin on the west section of Bloor Street West starting at Clissold Road, where minimal design work is required.

If I recall, these specific bike lanes are on the same route he commutes to work on. Make of that what you will.

screams corruption and provincial government overreach.

Doug Ford since day one. He hasn't been shy about it either.

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.

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.

I haven't seen a smile that insincere since Mr Beast.

Despicable

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'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.

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.

My guess is the fear of being mowed down by an SUV.

We do. But for day to day commuting, it's not practical. So we take the lane when we need to and deal angry and dangerous drivers on the daily.

It's technically not legal to ride two abreast if you impede traffic in Ontario, but for the most part group rides are begrudgingly tolerated.