"In summary, Premier #DougFord's bike lane removals from #Toronto streets will:

- Cost $75 million in direct costs and sunk costs

- Make traffic much, much worse for at least nine months during construction to remove lanes

- Have minimal long-term impact on car travel times"

Enjoy your $200 bucks...

Stats via @GraphicMatt

#ontario #onpoli #topoli #biketooter #cdnpoli #conservatives

"Britain’s oldest Black newspaper, The Voice – a beloved institution where I and many other Black journalists started our careers – described Kemi (Badenoch) as 'the antithesis of the great Black women that we have always considered to be ‘on our side’'.

'Never mind,' the newspaper continued. 'White people will no doubt celebrate on our behalf.'” - Afua Hirsch

#UKpol #Britain #ToryParty #Conservatives

https://www.vogue.co.uk/article/kemi-badenoch-conservative-party-leader

Chris Riddell on the #Tory nightmare after #Halloween – cartoon in The Observer on Sunday, 3rd November 2024.

As #Conservatives whine about the budget, the #CovidCorruptionCommissioner waits in the wings...

"Rupert #Murdoch is locked in a secret legal battle against 3 of his children over the future of the family’s #media empire, as he moves to preserve it as a conservative #political force after his death...

Those 3 siblings... were caught completely off-guard by their father’s effort to rewrite what was supposed to be an inviolable trust & have united to stop him"
#GiftArticle #GiftLink
https://www.nytimes.com/2024/07/24/business/media/rupert-murdoch-succession-fox.html?unlocked_article_code=1.900.BKTm.Phy6Zss2sBv1&smid=em-share

#Press #News #Politics #GOP #Conservatives #USA #USPol

Intellectual humility is associated with less affective polarization and, among conservatives, less polarized attitudes

Perhaps driven by more political heterophily among the humble

https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/abs/10.1111/pops.12890

#socpych #polpsych #polisci #research #socialscience #socialNetworks #polarization #politics #conservatives #attitudes #newpaper #newpsychresearch @socialpsych @politicalscience