Evan Boyce

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Evan Boyce@evanboyce· 4d

incredible, the court basically did the dril drunk driving tweet

[75] There is much that is wrong with this reasoning. It minimizes the purpose of the legislation, in effect trivializing it by characterizing it as saving some drivers a few minutes rather than reducing traffic congestion, which may in turn result in a wide range of positive effects. At the same time, it inflates the negative effects of removing the bicycle lanes, talking of injuries and deaths that will occur only if the bicyclists choose to ride on the roads that have no bicycle lanes – a situation that obtains on roads throughout the province. Having so characterized the purpose and effects of the legislation, the application judge rendered the outcome inevitable on a simple proportionality standard.

drunk driving may kill a lot of people, but it also helps a lot of people get to work on time, so, it;s impossible to say if its bad or not,

Evan Boyce@evanboyce· 11d

Ward 14 is shaping up to be a real nothing-burger of a race, assuming we get a last minute Fletcher registration. The only seemingly credible challenger is running as a soft-NIMBY at best.

Thoughtful Growth
Toronto-Danforth is growing rapidly. New housing and transit investments are essential, but growth must be planned alongside the services and infrastructure communities need to thrive. We cannot continue adding density without protecting parks, public spaces, schools, healthcare access, and the small businesses that give our neighbourhoods life and character.

Evan Boyce@evanboyce· 21d

no amount of self-selection bias can explain away a result of 87% opposed on an n=87,000 sample size as a "fringe group" cope, seethe, etc

In a post on the social media platform X, Transport Minister Steven MacKinnon says the government will focus exclusively on "approved safety enhancements" for the airport and Toronto residents will have a say in future plans for the facility.

MacKinnon said the government received more than 87,000 responses to its consultation on the airport, which ended Friday.

About 87 per cent of respondents to the public survey were opposed to changes to the waterfront airport, said spokesperson Marie-Justine Torres on Saturday. She said about 80 per cent of the survey responses came from Toronto and another 15 per cent from the GTHA.

Toronto Mayor Olivia Chow said at an unrelated event Saturday that while the province may have taken the land away from the city, the decision on what happens there falls with the federal government.

Evan Boyce@evanboyce· 26d

July 22, 2026: A Week of Smoky Skies Across North America (NASA Earth Observatory)

Evan Boyce@evanboyce· 26d

August 5, 2025: Widespread Smoke from Canadian Fires (NASA Earth Observatory)

Evan Boyce@evanboyce· 26d

June 9, 2023: Hazardous Air Chokes Northeastern States (NASA Earth Observatory)

Evan Boyce@evanboyce· Jul 12

It’s the shameless heel turning that makes the whole thing so pathetic. Literally doesn’t even delete his old pro-bike lane posts. Keep pretending you weren’t that guy, Brad!

Brad Bradford Facebook post from June 2019: “Today we took a meaningful step towards designing and implementing a bike lane pilot on the Danforth. Progress like this will help us improve road safety for everyone! Thanks Jennifer McKelvie - Councillor of Ward 25, Scarborough-Rouge Park for introducing my motion at committee.”

Evan Boyce@evanboyce· Jun 26

the policymakers:

children of men movie scene: "you know what it is, Theo? I just don't think about it"

Evan Boyce@evanboyce· May 1

Toronto urbanism/city planning doomers to Jason Thorne after the new Ookwemin Minising plan drops

"I owe you an apology. I wasn't really familiar with your game" -Shaq

Evan Boyce@evanboyce· Apr 22

someone in the parks dept absolutely dodge rammed their way through withrow park last weekend

Evan Boyce@evanboyce· Apr 14

live election count for terrebonne riding showing the BQ leading by 1 vote over the liberals, 5/221 polls reporting

Evan Boyce@evanboyce· Apr 7

don't talk to me or my son ever again

a large excavator parked on the street, with a smaller excavator nested in the space between its arm and treads

Evan Boyce@evanboyce· Mar 17

he wants to be prime minister of this canada

a parody map of north america showing the GTA as extraordinarily large, and the rest of Canada, the US and others as small. A joke about how Torontonians see the world.

Evan Boyce@evanboyce· Feb 20

hilarious (derogatory) for Danielle Smith to now push a set of gross anti-immigration referendum questions when just a few years back we had to see this shit on the TTC for an entire summer

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Evan Boyce@evanboyce· Jan 26

Dude where’s my car

Evan Boyce@evanboyce· Jan 18

Sunday morning Toronto transit discourse nuke

ITS SO SLOW thumbnail for Not Just Bikes video titled “How can a NEW transit line be this BAD? (Finch West LRT)

Evan Boyce@evanboyce· Nov 13

I take it all back, maybe it’s actually good that millennials can’t afford homes

Evan Boyce@evanboyce· Oct 26

happy halloween

Evan Boyce@evanboyce· Oct 26

Somewhere in here would be my recc, closer to Bloor if you need quick transit, but most of the main streets here have streetcars as well.

map of toronto with christie pits, little italy, trinity-bellwoods and queen west neighbourhoods circled

Evan Boyce@evanboyce· Sep 4

I do find it amusing that the proposed idea is basically "let's do DEI, but for conservative/anti-woke academics only"

My worry is that the talk of post-woke acts like a smokescreen — obscuring the many places where the generalization is untrue. It’s based much more on observations of what’s happening south of the border. The vibe shift definitely happened there. But in Canada — in universities — many are now doubling down on woke ideas precisely in reaction to what’s happening in the U.S.

The stakes could hardly be higher: a democracy without trusted sources of knowledge cannot govern itself wisely. And peer review, like democracy, only works when everyone has a voice.

All of this, though, depends on genuine viewpoint diversity amongst our expert peer reviewers. If only that were so.

Evan Boyce@evanboyce· Aug 18

Glad to see that a person being needlessly maimed and/or killed by a motor vehicle doesn't shock the conscience of the Editorial Board. No conscience needed if you just ignore the death part and keep pretending this is nothing more than a debate about "who the streets are for".

Justice Schabas also called the law “grossly disproportionate,” meaning that what he deemed the government’s end doesn’t justify its means, which will cause serious injury and death to cyclists. Yet the Supreme Court has said only extreme cases that would “shock the conscience” of Canadians are to be deemed grossly disproportionate. Does it shock the conscience to give some big downtown streets over to cars?

Governments may be right or wrong in their policy choices. (And as we’ve previously argued, we believe Mr. Ford was wrong to have meddled in city business.) But that’s what elections are for. Government is not run by “experts” or by courts, but by leaders accountable to the public. The problem here is a judge who refused to stay in his lane.

Evan Boyce@evanboyce· Aug 18

Breathtaking how weak this argument about purpose is. Claiming bike lane removals weren't arbitrary because the bill wasn't about fixing congestion, it was about "giving drivers priority"? Strange how they constantly tied bike lanes to gridlock and their removal to "getting drivers moving" then!

Prabmeet Sarkaria
@PrabSarkaria
Oct 15, 2024
Too many drivers across Ontario are stuck in gridlock for hours every day and bike lanes are making things worse.

Next week, we’re introducing legislation that would require cities to get provincial approval for any new bike lanes that require removing a lane of traffic.

Doug Ford
@fordnation
Bike lanes belong on secondary streets, not clogging traffic on main roads. It’s time to get you moving again.

Doug Ford
@fordnation
We are bringing sanity back to bike lane decisions.

By removing and replacing existing bike lanes on primary roads, we will get drivers moving again.

Evan Boyce@evanboyce· Aug 18

The Editorial Board believes Mr. Ford's purpose for Bill 212 was "to give car drivers the priority" and had nothing to do with congestion. It's just about who roads are for! That's of course why it was called the Reducing Gridlock, Saving You Time Act.

Another difference is that Section 7 – to quote the Supreme Court – is about the basic values that undergird the Charter. Justice Schabas called the removal of the bike lanes “arbitrary,” because traffic experts said it would not reduce congestion. When the government argued in court that “four lanes are better than two,” the experts countered that four lanes would merely increase demand.

But is that really arbitrary? Clearly, Mr. Ford’s purpose was to give car drivers the priority on certain main arteries. That traffic congestion is improved by deterring cars and encouraging cycling doesn’t contradict the Ontario government’s point that these roads should be for car drivers.

Evan Boyce@evanboyce· Aug 18

here's an exciting idea: a new, lower tier of humanity reserved just for cyclists women, drug users, sex workers, cyclists, one of these things is not like the other!

Consider the Supreme Court ruling striking down the criminal law on abortion. That law required women seeking a legal abortion to obtain permission from a hospital committee, an unwieldy procedure at odds with the law’s stated purpose, of protecting women’s health.

Other cases since then have followed a similar principle. In 2011, the Supreme Court said the federal government could not shut down a nurse-supervised clinic for illegal drug users in Vancouver, because doing so would kill sick people. In 2013, the Supreme Court struck down the criminal law on prostitution, saying it relegated sex workers to the back streets where they were being murdered.

Ask yourself which one of these subjects is not like the others: women seeking an abortion; drug users obtaining life-saving help; sex workers trying to stay alive – or bike riders looking for a protected lane?

Evan Boyce@evanboyce· Aug 8

Stop theorizing the fictional American political leanings of Canadian provinces, it's meaningless and absurd. MAGA's fantasies of "obtaining" provinces would result in nothing but strife and destruction for both countries and likely civil war within the United States itself.

Canada Projections🇨🇦
@CDNprojections
Saskatchewan and Manitoba will give you 3 lean D seats (New Mexico style) btw

Evan Boyce@evanboyce· Aug 7

"waow" (thinking bubble: "based based based based")

Evan Boyce@evanboyce· Jul 17

There is a guy in St. Catherines, ON selling a signed photo of the Premier of Saskatchewan on FB Marketplace for $40

Evan Boyce@evanboyce· Jun 13

The scale of this 2050 plan is truly immense. Ontario gov’t is fully nuclear pilled. To pull it off will require: - Brand new station in Port Hope with 8 units - Expanding Bruce with 4 new units (12 total at the site) - Refurbishing most of the existing fleet (some of that is already underway)

Planning for New Nuclear Energy
OPG, Bruce Power and the IESO have confirmed that the deployment of up to 17,800 MW of new nuclear in the province by 2050 is feasible, to power economic growth and electrification of Ontario's economy.

Achieving the capacity target in this scenario would require building at minimum the equivalent of eight large nuclear units or 8,000 MW (in addition to the four units already planned at Bruce C) and potential life extension of Bruce Units 1 and 2. In order to deliver on that level of build out Ontario's nuclear operators and the IESO concluded that the Province would be required to utilize OPG-owned generation sites such as Wesleyville and emphasized that early engagement and assessment work, such as the public and Indigenous engagement that launched in Port Hope earlier this year, is essential to being able to deliver additional new large scale nuclear builds.

Figure 14: Illustrative Large-Scale Nuclear Deployment Schedule
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To meet a high demand scenario construction of new large-scale nuclear units would need to begin in the early 2030s.

Evan Boyce@evanboyce· May 30

me: excluding areas with greater than 15 degree slopes from the project's buildable area meanwhile in china:

photo of a drone assisting with the construction of a solar farm on a very steep slope

Evan Boyce@evanboyce· May 30

dude is 100% gonna buy the Porsche lmao