Some damning maps of the heat island effect by @globeandmail colleagues. A clear link between wealth and safe conditions. Toronto: 1/ 
Vancouver: 2/
From this important piece by Matthew McClearn and @KBlazeBaum theglobeandmail.com/canada/article… 3/
Meanwhile: new Toronto parks, in the “parkland-deficient” downtown core
I wrote on this
https://twitter.com/alexbozikovic/status/1414216555269918721
Narrow the streets and plant them. Why does Toronto policy insist on taking down mature trees to create 18’ wide traffic lanes?
https://twitter.com/morewithmorley/status/1441450126837493761
Amazing: this row of trees is getting cut down to add a sidewalk - and protect the lane widths and the adjacent school parking lot
The real battle for permeable and green surfaces is on streets themselves. But “road width constraints exist based on the City’s Road Engineering Design Guidelines”
The nation’s most privileged neighborhood, and a historically working-class one
https://twitter.com/yellsatcars/status/1441937322854035459
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