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It's time to connect Toronto to nearby vacation areas with low-carbon transit systems
Gordon Laxer | With the help of the Ontario and federal governments, Muskoka could live up to a new brand as a green vacation area, by cutting carbon emissions and taking better care of its scenic lakes and forests.
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The growing movement for free public transit
Scott Neigh | Labour and community organizer Cole Rockarts talks about the work of Free Transit Edmonton.
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Public transit advocacy in Ottawa
Scott Neigh | Kari Glynes Elliott talks about the work of the Ottawa Transit Riders to push for more reliable, affordable and accessible public transit in Ottawa.
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Want to tackle the climate crisis? Free public transit is a good start
Marc Belanger, C. Marie Ainsborough, Derek Blackadder | RadioLabour's Canada Report: The Amalgamated Transit Union says fare-free transportation can help solve the climate crisis. And more.
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Streetcars lined up on Queens Quay in Toronto. Photo: Evan Goldenberg/Wikimedia Commons
Free public transit could challenge reliance on cars
Yves Engler | Free public transit could combat both economic inequality and climate disturbances. It could also be part of a serious challenge to private, car-centred transit and urban planning.
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A train to inclusion?
Victoria Fenner | Stephen Dale and Lil Blume explore how gentrification affects transit and vice versa in this documentary about Hamilton and Light Rail Transit.
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Brad Wall's salvo on Saskatchewan carbon tax and transfers off target
Erin Weir | Why is Wall making noise about an equalization formula that does not affect transfers to Saskatchewan while keeping quiet about a transit funding formula that massively short-changes our province?
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Public transit advocacy in a smaller city
Scott Neigh | Mairi Anderson and Cam McMillan talk about the work of transit advocacy group Bus Riders of Saskatoon.
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Sprawl is an enemy of the Left
Yves Engler | Instead of fearing a populist backlash for supporting tolls, progressive need to recognize their strategic interest in promoting pedestrian, bike and mass transit scale urban spaces
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Car-centric landscape, not tolls, harm the poor
Yves Engler | Structuring transport and urban landscapes around the private auto entrenches class and wealth divisions and negatively impacts poor people.
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Private car, socialized costs
Yves Engler | As auto interests have pocketed stupendous profits over the past century they've also pushed to socialize huge amounts of urban land.
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Our transport system is structured around the private car. That needs to change.
Yves Engler | Despite issues with Toronto's proposed road tolls, they're still the best way to upend our dependence on individually owned automobiles.