High Noon at High Park

Cyclists. Drivers. Pedestrians. They have a strained relationship. Read any news story and you’ll hear how poorly they get along. It’s war. This is a strange phenomenon, given that all three fit in the category “people.”

But that’s what labels do. They split us. It’s not so much divide and conquer as it is “divide and falter.” When you start to carve up humanity into “us” and “them,” it never ends well.

Lately, these misguided labels have been applied to those using public parks, most notably Toronto’s High Park and, to a lesser degree, Vancouver’s iconic Stanley Park.