The 15 minute fish bowl
Who are some of the principle engineers in Canada's 15 minute cities
Look walkable affordable communities are great. It’s The Hotel California part that gets a bit creepy. The cameras on all the street lights watching you. ALL the street lights, alternating with antennas? Happening already in Mississauga, today’s city.
"Relax, " said the night man
"We are programmed to receive
You can check out any time you like
But you can never leave"
The 15 minute fish bowl. I wonder who sprinkles in the crickets?
Cherise Burda
She’s way ahead of us. 9 years ago:
I'm Cherise Burda, Ontario director at the Pembina Institute. Ask Me Anything.
“Hi Reddit! I work at the Pembina Institute, a non-partisan Canadian think tank that's all about clean energy (http://www.pembina.org). My focus is on transportation and urban development research in Ontario. These days, that means I'm thinking a lot about transit in the GTA - and the provincial election. So ask me anything!”
This is her answer to a question 9 years ago:
“I love this question. We need a governance model that makes decisions based on evidence, not politics, and defers to the technical experts.”
OK. Death to democracy then. This is how the technocrats are brought up. They are bottled, nappied, and burped on this theology. Well I suppose she liked, not electing public health officials, and letting their changing ‘technical’ expert opinion govern us in all aspects of our lives; medical; childhood education, business, economy? Well in her dystopia there is a lot more room for good technocratic governance.
In 2016 she was the “Executive Director, Ryerson City Building Institute”
“Magic Moment: As Ontario Director of the Pembina Institute, I transformed it from a think tank focused on electricity/energy sector to a thought leader on transit, mobility and urban planning, recognizing that the phase-out of coal meant that transportation and urban form represented the majority of Ontario’s GHG emissions.
Next Big Challenge As An Industry: Implementing the province’s “growth plan” goals of urban intensification in a way that is cost-effective and achievable for developers and municipalities, and actually results in complete communities –
walkable, transit-oriented, great public realm with more housing options. Solutions such as a community permit system can help bring residents on board and reduce local opposition to density.”
Fast forward to 2021 where Cherise Burda works with City of Mississauga Ward Councillor Dipika Damerala to ‘shape the 15 minute city for Cooksville’ in Mississauga
“15-Minute City Online Forum to Help Shape the Future of Cooksville”
This was an online forum. I wonder who knew it was taking place and what it really foreshadowed.
“The City of Mississauga is hosting an online City forum on the “15-Minute City” concept with a focus on Downtown Cooksville. The forum will discuss creating communities where residents’ essential needs like medical facilities, pharmacies, schools and shops can be reached within a 15-minute walk. This forum launches a planning policy review, which will seek input on key policy directions from the community.
What:
An online City forum that will introduce the “15-Minute City” concept. Join the conversation with Cherise Burda, Executive Director of City Building Ryerson and guests Neluka Leanage, Founder and CEO of SafeGround and Alex Bozikovic, an architecture critic and journalist from The Globe and Mail.
When:
Thursday, April 22 – 6 to 8 p.m.
Who:
Ward 7, Dipika Damerla
Mayor Bonnie Crombie
Mississauga residents
Residents’ Associations
Property owners and renters in Cooksville
Community groups
Cooksville BIA
Development industry
Business owners
School Board/local schools
Transit riders
Members of Council
City staff
Where:
This is an online forum. Registration is required. Participants will receive meeting instructions and additional background materials once they have registered.
Background:
The 15-Minute City Forum aims to educate and inspire the public through a forum on the concept of the “15-Minute City” and to seek input on if and how it could work in Downtown Cooksville.
The forum also introduces the Downtown Fairview, Cooksville and Hospital Policy Review which will establish a refined land-use planning framework that will guide the future growth of these three communities.
For more information about the 15-Minute City Forum or the policy review, visit yoursay.mississauga.ca.”
Image from Storeys
Interested in having a say on behalf of Mississauga residents? They have their Media contact at their disposal:
Media Contact:
City of Mississauga Media Relations
media@mississauga.ca
905-615-3200, ext. 5232
TTY: 905-896-5151
So who’s got the Development to ‘test the concept’ of the 15 minute city.
Connecting Cooksville Community Proposal to Test 15-Minute City Concept
PUBLISHED: 4:17 PM OCT 31, 2022
“With a new mixed-use community proposed in Mississauga, a Toronto-based real estate developer is applying the international urban-design concept of the 15-minute city to the GTA.
“Really, when it comes right down to it, a 15-minute city is this global movement to build communities where people’s daily needs are met within a short walk of their homes,” Ken Wilcox, Vice President of development at TAS, tells STOREYS. “So, within a 15-minute walk of your home, you have everything you need to satisfy your daily needs,” he adds.”
It sounds absolutely Great!! Mississauga a 15 minute city.
But what are the goals of C40 and 15 minute cities. It’s helpful to drill down into this dystopian document published for guidance.
https://www.c40.org/wp-content/uploads/2021/08/2270_C40_CBE_MainReport_250719.original.pdf
What are C40 cities supposed to be working towards?
Please review their Consumption interventions by category. I want you to go through the report and focus on the abysmal targets for consumption they have decided in these cabal of mayors that we require to address climate action. This one report is so appalling.
These councilors, and technocrats in institutions have for our future: 3 items of new clothing per year! They have decided the exact number of calories we should eat 2500/per person per day. They have decided the exact amount of meat as a ‘consumptive target’. ZERO.
6.1 Targets for consumption climate action
6.2 Summary of emissions reduction potential across focus consumption categories 6.3 Buildings and infrastructure
6.4 Food
CONSUMPTION INTERVENTION PROGRESSIVE TARGET IN 2030
AMBITIOUS TARGET IN 2030 0 kg meat consumption 0 kg dairy consumption (milk or derivative equivalent) per person per year
2,500 kcal per person per day 2,500 kcal per person per day
6.5 Clothing and textiles
6.6 Private transport
6.7 Aviation
6.8 Electronics and household appliances
7. Delivering consumption interventions will provide wider benefits in cities
7.1 Wider benefits of consumption interventions
7.2 A just transition to a low-carbon economy
8. Delivery of consumption interventions
Here’s a 15 minute city in China with QR Code activated barricade.
We hear much that 15 Minute Cities are conspiracies, or that they aren’t meant to ‘coral us’. The documents, and studies, and sheer amount of data shows otherwise. Just Transition is already part of our parlance. Household appliances came out of 2023 roaring with Hochul, Biden coming for gas stoves.
Any reader of my blog will see the evidence is everywhere, except in Legacy Media. Refusing to address it, means our media is made up of the naïve, the uncurious, or the corrupt. But do not for one second think the Cricket Sprinklers haven’t been working for quite some time on 15 minute or C40 cities.
Your city might be located in the C40 or it might be located below in https://www.globalcovenantofmayors.org/our-cities/
Mississauga has begun mountings cameras on every other street lights, in major and minor streets alternating with antennas.
Just to watch us with those tax pater dollars for curiosity, boredom?
Or because your movements as a citizen are terribly important all of a sudden.
If you have information as a whistleblower, because you work in the municipality, or in construction on the infrastructure changes that are being built to accommodate the 15 minute city in your area please reach out.
There are many organizations looking to have this information.
Movement only gets that important, when its very fast.
Usain Bolt, USA Today image
Or when its hampered in its entirety.
Image from Kuwait Times
If you are in a city that has a dystopian future planned for you: the great PR talking points like walkable community, don’t require, cameras everywhere, QR codes and abusive control of diet, mobility and clothing.
Tell our readers what has been effective in clawing this back in your community and what actions community groups are taking where you live.
I'm guessing we inhabit the country of the genocidal few—the men & women of Davos... an unelected body.
Awful. I know.
Even more damning is to know that eugenicists run Canada.
We thought to have laws to prevent such occurrences... they're turned on their heads.
Remember the late Maurice Strong, who promoted the DEINDUSTRIALIZATION of the West in the 1994's (?) Rio Summit?
Same track record! Same Davos's eugenicist people...
Just look around you; they are everywhere to be found.
They hide behind each of our doors.
Luc
Thank you. We had a nice turn-out at our Campaign for Freedom March in Oxford over the weekend. I wrote about it and how 'So-called Smart Cities are Future Prisons for Us All' at this link here:
https://powerversuspeople.substack.com/p/last-saturdays-campaign-for-freedom
Your post is excellent. For example, it literally shows how they already are prisons in China. I'm going to add it as supplemental to my own post to help others see it too. Thanks again.