My two-year-old son has fallen in love with biking.
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son → fall → biking
We enjoy cycling in bike lanes to the Biidaasige Park, most recently to see Kent Monkman’s new public art installation, “The Colony.”
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We → cycle → installation
In our travels, we often talk about how to move around safely, for ourselves but also others.
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we → talk → ourselves
To witness the provincial government work so hard to remove bike lanes, against evidence, to refuse to compromise with the city, and the people who live here, to knowingly do something that will put people’s lives at risk, is astounding to me.
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that → witness → me
But her piece only fans the flames of our anger, pointing that anger toward each other and away from what I think is the real problem: an ignorant, nasty, entitled, overstepping government.
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I → fan → think
Kathleen Mackey, Toronto, ON
Let’s add some perspective to the biking issue
It is wild to me that cyclists are constantly painted with a singular brush in both articles and letters, in a way that drivers never are.
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drivers → add → way
Let’s start now.
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’s → let → ?
Drivers take up 98 per cent of road space, and are the main cause of gridlock.
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Drivers → take → gridlock
In 2025, drivers emitted 1.25 megatonnes of CO2 in Toronto, a direct cause of respiratory disease.
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drivers → emit → disease
Drivers have consistently killed 25+ people a year in Toronto, and will likely hit a 5-year high this year.
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Drivers → kill → high
Doesn’t that put complaints about cyclists, which sometimes sound like “I don’t like it when they don’t ding their bell” in perspective?
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they → put → perspective
Sean Hayto, East York, ON
Why everyone should try biking in Toronto
Unless you have ridden a bike in Toronto, you will not be in favour of bike lanes.
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you → try → lanes
My suggestion is for every able-bodied person to get on a bike.
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person → get → bike
If this lazy grey haired senior can do it, so can you.
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you → do → it
Julie Ranti, Toronto
Ford government is incompetent when it comes to managing our power supply
Nuclear power has been presented to us as the most reliable source of electricity.
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power → come → electricity
Having closed down hundreds of green energy projects in 2019 at a cost of $240 million because supposedly we had too much electricity, our short-sighted premier placed all his bets on nuclear and fossil fuel sources.
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premier → close → sources
As a result, natural gas has risen from roughly four per cent of Ontario’s electricity mix in 2017 to 16 per cent in 2024 — and is still rising.
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gas → rise → 2024
And nuclear plants are stalled in costly and time consuming maintenance and refurbishment.
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plants → stall → maintenance
Meanwhile, government support for green energy remains almost non-existent, and the ban on offshore wind farms in the Great Lakes is still in force.
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ban → remain → force
And now we have to buy electricity from the country that is waging economic war against us.
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that → have → us
This level of incompetence by the Ford government in managing our power supply, along with an ideological aversion to renewable energy sources is incomprehensible and intolerable.
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level → manage → sources
Gabriela Byron, Toronto
Aging in place requires active municipal leadership
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Aging → age → leadership
Cara Stern and Mike Moffatt note that “aging in place” is considered a status quo priority compared to bolder housing action.
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aging → note → action
But the inclusion of “aging in place” within that status‑quo category is misleading.
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inclusion → age → category
In Toronto, provisions that allow seniors to remain safely and affordably in their homes are nowhere near developed enough to be considered a lower priority issue.
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seniors → allow → homes
Aging in place is not a passive preference — it requires municipal leadership.
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it → age → leadership
It depends on accessible housing design, reliable home‑care supports, safe mobility infrastructure, and rental protections that prevent seniors from being priced out of their neighbourhoods.
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that → depend → neighbourhoods
It also means creating small-scale, neighbourhood-based homes with health and social supports that are required by more dependent older adults wishing to stay in their home communities.
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that → mean → communities
Toronto’s senior population is growing rapidly, and without deliberate investment, many will face displacement, isolation, or institutionalization simply because the city has not built the conditions that make aging in place and community possible.
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aging → grow → place
Provisions for aging in place must be integrated into any bold housing policy.
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Provisions → age → policy
It should be recognized as one of the most urgent and transformative priorities we face — one that strengthens communities, reduces long‑term care pressures, and supports dignity for older residents.
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that → recognize → residents
Ensuring people can age in place safely and affordably is part of that ambition, not disconnected from it.
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people → ensure → it
Peter Clutterbuck, Oakwood Vaughan Oasis for Healthy Aging, Toronto
Small business in Canada is starving for investment
Prime Minister Mark Carney says all the right things, but in the end, he governs like U.S. President Donald Trump.
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he → starve → Trump
Both Carney and Trump are serving the interests of big business and the wealthy few, more than they are helping ordinary taxpayers.
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they → serve → taxpayers
For example, why is the Carney government subsidizing American oil companies to ship Canadian oil to China?
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government → subsidize → China
What’s in it for Canada?
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What → ’ → Canada
Not much, other than a few jobs that will disappear when the pipeline is completed.
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pipeline → disappear → jobs
Much more employment could be created by subsidizing Canadian-owned renewable energy and home retrofitting companies.
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employment → create → companies
When renewable energy is subsidized as much as American oil companies, this country could thrive, but with Carney at the helm, Canada is giving it all away, and going in the other direction.
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Canada → subsidize → direction
Carney’s idea of attracting investment to Canada is to subsidize foreign-owned companies to locate subsidiary plants in Canada, with no Canadian ownership, and no Canadian profit sharing.
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companies → attract → ownership
…and 5 more, not listed.
The Aporia
