Dylan Reid
@dylan_reid
City man: Toronto (Spacing magazine), walking (both action and policy), Renaissance urban history (CRRS).
A joint statement on Gaza from AFP, AP, BBC News and Reuters
The Ukrainian Anti-Corruption Action Centre gives its tentative approval to Zelensky's submitted bill which restores the independence of Ukrainian anti-corruption authorities.
1/ So President Zelensky submitted DL #13533 that restores NABU & SAPO independence - everything that 263 MPs destroyed on July 22nd. This is the result of incredible Ukrainians who showed the government they won't let their European future be destroyed. 🇺🇦
🇺🇦🥇 Ukrainian Vlada Kharkova won the gold medal in the women's individual fencing at the World Fencing Championships, which began in Tbilisi. ❗️This is the first world champion title for Ukrainian women's epee fencing in 22 years.
"Messy Cities" is back on the CBC Canadian non-fiction bestsellers list! Now at #6! cbc.ca/books/what-can…
The mayor is wearing a "Toronto Built" t-shirt during this debate on housing. Fashionable.
Good for council. This is actually impressive.
Rezoning for the new shelter at 1220 Wilson Avenue CARRIES 19-6.
Mayor Olivia Chow pushes back against the opposition to shelters, noting these are smaller, purpose-built facilities. "What is the problem with 50 seniors in Etobicoke, in Councillor Morley's area? Why is it so scary? They could be our grandparents!" the mayor points out.
"What's the cost to the city of saying no today?" Bravo wonders. Staff say these purpose-built shelters can run at about half the cost of a shelter hotel. "Every month that we do not build and open one of these shelters, we lose $280,000 in operating efficiencies."
Last week, we warned of a coming anti-democratic backslide. Now, we see it happening. A parliamentary vote, led by Zelensky’s lawmakers, today took away the independence of Ukraine’s key anti-corruption bodies. Zelensky signed it into law the same day. kyivindependent.com/editorial-dark…
As close as one of Ukraine's top spymasters will get to saying this was a colossal mistake.
Head of Ukrainian military intelligence, Kyrylo Budanov, comments on today's events and protests: "Ukrainian history has taught us that a nation loses if it is torn apart by internal contradictions. We have one common problem, one enemy. Therefore, internal contradictions…
🧵 The data you have all been waiting for! The NYC mayoral primary WITHOUT batch elimination (and some early analysis) 1) Zohran's first round (469,642) would have been enough to win against Cuomo's final round (443,229)
Trump’s Epstein connections are so bad, they released stuff on Trump’s health for the first time.
"But we cut our primary policy for fighting the root cause of these fires and haven't come up with any replacement so far ..."
Wildfires have been worsening, especially across Manitoba, Saskatchewan, and Ontario. On behalf of Canadians, my ongoing gratitude to all the first responders on the front lines of this crisis. The federal government is working with First Nations and across orders of…
The full-scale invasion of Ukraine has been an unusually dangerous time for Russian officials and senior executives responsible for state and private oil and gas companies. Meduza reviews the reports about these untimely deaths. meduza.io/en/feature/202…
Like many before him (including David Sacks), Colby has hinted that NAFO might be backed by “some forms of USG and/or allied support.” In Cheese’s world, ordinary people can’t support a cause without being paid, which makes sense coming from someone deep in MAGA politics. 16/21
Russia will no longer publish any demographic data. From now on, it’s a state secret. Key reason, of course, number of killed in Ukraine.
Россия засекретила почти всю демографическую статистику storage.googleapis.com/kldscp/theins.…
SHADOW WAR: In a series of audacious attacks spanning the Black Sea, Mediterranean, and the Baltic, Ukraine has conducted a series of maritime sabotage attacks against Russian ships. My latest for the @KyivPost. kyivpost.com/analysis/55643
It sure looks like it was Texas officials who failed to warn residents in a timely matter. KXAN-TV in Austin found a 4+ hour gap between the NWS flood warning & the first local govt warnings. kxan.com/investigations…
Despite warnings that Trump’s cuts to the National Weather Service would degrade its forecasting ability, Texas officials now blame the NWS for a faulty forecast in the deadly flood disaster.
As with much of Ukraine’s unmanned aerial vehicle development, a fleet of nascent interceptor drones — which shoot other drones out of the sky — is filling a gap in more traditional anti-air defenses, as Russia expands its drone fleet. kyivindependent.com/ukraines-new-i…
Major Oleh Shyriaiev, a front-line commander recently awarded the title of Hero of Ukraine, has developed a new kind of combat gear: a lightweight, Kevlar-based suit designed to protect infantry soldiers from drone-dropped explosives and shrapnel. Unlike traditional body armor,…