i'm very disappointed in gavin newsome's decision to abandon a clean-energy transportation project.

i guess chevron got their money's worth, in the end.

and, yes - she had to resign.

that said...

the toronto transit system is not a municipal system at this point, it is a component of a large, regional system that spans a number of municipalities, as well as a collection of rural regions. this is a system that already extends deep into ontario in every direction and could very well find itself overseeing electric rail connections to detroit, to sudbury and to montreal within the next few decades.

i would support the integration of the ttc with the go trains under the model of a kind of crown corporation. the reality of regional transit means the surrounding cities need a say, too - not just the toronto city council. but, i'd like to see the operating decisions made at the municipal level.

one possibility would be a board that has x number of members from the different cities, perhaps even chosen directly. so, toronto may get 60% of the seats or something, but cities like hamilton and kitchener would get some seats, too.

a pure upload is dangerous, as it is giving the government a valuable asset to sell for a song to it's buddies. but, it's probably not the right idea, anyways.

they're going to sell it off to their cronies.

https://www.thestar.com/politics/provincial/2019/02/12/province-and-city-release-framework-for-deal-to-upload-torontos-subway-to-queens-park.html

see, and what you have to understand is that this isn't a financial decision, it's a social engineering tactic by a government that wants to turn the clocks back - and has an alarming amount of support for it.

https://www.thestar.com/politics/provincial/2019/02/06/experts-call-ontarios-full-day-kindergarten-visionary-the-ford-government-is-eyeing-changes.html

"for your crimes against the market, you shall be sentenced to actually read atlas shrugged out loud under the careful supervision of jon lovitz. all of it. no skipsies."

it's like playing whack-a-mole: you round up a bunch of suits on corruption charges, and the system just regenerates them instantly.

you have to get to the root cause, which means abolishing capitalism itself.

in the mean time, we have a choice of equally corrupt bourgeois parties with differing social policies and competing social visions. that's what elections need to be about, not some red herring about corruption.

"this just in, frank...

there are new allegations coming in tonight that capitalism is corrupt. i repeat: there are allegations coming in that capitalism is corrupt. are these claims credible, frank?"

*pause*

*snicker*

*click*

"we appear to have lost frank. but, we'll be following these shocking revelations as more information comes in."

THE FUTURE OF THE FREE MARKET IS AT STAKE.

awww.

those poor capitalist contractors weren't able to compete freely on an open market.

awww.

i suspect that most people don't care about construction firms buying contracts in libya any more than i do. the thing is that the media might insist that they ought to.

i think trudeau can get out of this fairly easily by creating a good distraction.

i would like to see the liberals knocked down to a minority, and trudeau slowly pushed out, but i don't want to see the conservatives sweep to power on a corruption scandal. yuck.

so, i have to point this out every once in a while because there really does seem to be some evidence that somebody is masquerading as me, or at the least not going out of their way to deny a misidentification.

i am an openly transgendered male to female canadian citizen in my late 30s. i was born in ottawa, ontario in the early 1980s and have lived in windsor, ontario since mid-2013. both of my parents were born in canada, and to my knowledge all of my grandparents were born in canada, as well (albeit rather scattered across the country). i currently have grandparents in victoria, ottawa, florida and presumably hell, if anywhere at all. my mother lives in ottawa; my father is dead.

my mother is of mixed european and asian heritage, but would identify as european. my father's ancestry is not entirely clear, but probably includes jewish, italian, quebecois and native american ancestry. he may also have some african american ancestry. he never did a dna test, to my knowledge, but my step-mother was a lab technician at the red cross, and confirmed that he had a rare blood type which is indicative of the presence of some kind of south asian ancestry, which he was unable to explain via his family's legends. two possibilities are some kind of inuit ancestry (possible inuit/cree mixing) and potentially some kind of gypsy ancestor. it's his own father that seems to have been of a complex ancestry. his mother was adopted, and raised a zito.

i was raised without a religion, identify as an atheist and would consider myself culturally white, if ethnically mixed. i was told and assumed i was of white european ancestry until i was in my early 20s, although in hindsight it seems as though people at school and work made different assumptions. i have spent most of my life completely oblivious to this.

my skin colour is in fact highly reactive to variations in sunlight, and will modulate from nordic white to a heavy italian brown based on how much time i've recently spent in the sun. i tan easily, and don't burn.

i have recently made an attempt to centralize my internet presence around this blog and can in good faith claim that profiles not listed from this account do not belong to me. i repeat: if you cannot link to a profile from this page, you should have a high level of confidence that the person that owns that profile is not me.

specifically:

- i rarely post at facebook nowadays. this blog was meant to provide me with a way to migrate out of facebook. i have one profile (jessica amber murray) and some pages related to the music. that is all.
- i have one reddit account with no more than a handful of posts. i do not frequent reddit, and have little intellectual respect for it as a community. i would celebrate if the servers were hit by an asteroid, and the site was forever abolished.
- i have one twitter account that is essentially a parody. i just really don't tweet.
- while i did finally purchase a smart phone in mid-2017, i do not have a sim card, and rarely use it. i purchased a chromebook in late 2018 that i expect to use much more frequently.
- i have not been to detroit since may, 2018 and may not be back for some time, still.
- i do not play any video games at all whatsoever, and have never had an interest in first-person type shooter games. i have never owned a modern game console; i had a sega genesis in the early 90s, but i had entirely lost interest in it by the time i was 15 and never upgraded it to something newer. i played a lot of civ 2 in high school, but i haven't touched it in years.
- i don't know anything about 4chan or trade bitcoins or use tor or go into the darkweb or anything like that.

as mentioned: it should be easy to identify if a profile belongs to me because i will link to it from this page. and, if i don't link to it from this page, you should have confidence that it is not my profile.

clearly, any imposters have decided they have something to gain from the charade, and if they continue to trick you then it's worth their time. i'm simply not going to spend my time chasing these people down. there is one specific high school student in new york that i am aware of that uses my previous youtube handle as a twitter id, and that i have confronted, but it should be clear that this person is not me. i am also vaguely aware of a supposed "doppelganger" in detroit that i may have even spent some time partying with, but i can only clarify that i live in canada and let you figure it out.

it is ultimately your responsibility to take me seriously when i tell you what profiles are mine and which ones aren't - and the longer you feed the imposters, the longer they'll carry on the charade.