This is a great article from Dalhousie University. It especially applies to Canada.

Justin Trudeau, the leader of the centrist Liberal Party, tried to pass a ban on single use plastics.

He faced brutal political backlash. Pierre Poilievre, populist leader of the Conservative Party, campaigned on defending plastics.

https://www.cbc.ca/news/politics/poilievre-scrap-plastics-ban-1.7514037

Poilievre made television ads claiming the federal Plastics ban was inflicting pain on Canadian families :

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2Bri5-IqHqw

I didn’t film it. The source is Nantucket Current.

If you want to see how ignorant some voters can be, there is really no better evidence than Ted Cruz.

I followed his recent Senate race in Texas. In a campaign speech, Cruz said he was fighting the elite.

• His father owns an oil company in Canada.
• He attended a private prep school in Houston. His classmates were Bush family kids.
• He attended Harvard University and Princeton
• His wife Heidi Cruz is a top executive at Goldman Sachs

This guy is fighting the establishment? Are you kidding me? 🤦🤦🤦.

I should have read the rules carefully. I will delete it!!

Portland is facing a major housing crisis that was decades in the making.

Thanks to this recent reform, more people can now afford a roof over their head.

The woman in the video said she was very happy. She didn’t complain about parking. Parking is a luxury when people want a roof over their head. Some of these comments are just insane.

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Adding parking was previously mandatory.

If you tried to build a Childcare Center or an Affordable Housing building without parking, the city of Lynnwood refused to deliver the building permit.

As part of her climate change plan, Paris Mayor Anne Hidalgo is pedestrianizing streets, building bike lanes, and planting trees. The goal is to reduce carbon emissions, reduce traffic noise and make the city more able to resist heat.

She has been very aggressive and upset some car drivers. But the results are starting to pay off.

https://english.elpais.com/lifestyle/2024-04-24/the-cycling-revolution-in-paris-continues-bicycle-use-now-exceeds-car-use.html

It’s a tram/light rail project meant to connect a large island in Eastern Helsinki with downtown. The most significant part are 3 new bridges that only carry trams, cyclists and pedestrians.

The tram will start operation in 2027, but the bridges are opened for pedestrian traffic as they are completed. The next one should be finished later this summer.

Here’s a short video of the project: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KTW2VIf5k0I