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Photo of Toronto Officer Holding Assault Weapon Highlights Increasing Militarization of City's Police

“Suddenly these cops with assault rifles appear, and they were clearly very prepared to shoot them at any moment."

As a supposed surge in violence takes place on Toronto’s public transit system, the police force is set to cash out.

Logistics tracks, in reverse chronological order, the journey of a pedometer from a shop in Sweden to a factory in China.

A fare evasion ticket is significantly more expensive than a parking ticket in major cities throughout the country.

For decades, cities have been designed by and for the car, to the detriment of everyone else and the environment.

Riding a Greyhound was never luxurious, but the loss of affordable transportation, and the Toronto Coach Terminal, is still a tragedy.

Reducing climate destruction and harm from needlessly fatal road accidents is more important than corporate or consumer freedom.

Neoliberal transport policies have failed Canadians, but the pandemic provides us with the perfect opportunity to rethink our priorities.

Microtransit is a failure by every metric — except for the one that expands capital accumulation.