Paul Croft

YouTube video by eitan19611 Zager And Evans - In The Year 2525

This one seems kind of relevant these days: youtu.be/izQB2-Kmiic?...

Frodo: I wish so much unbelievably stupid shit had not happened in my time Gandalf: So do all who live to see such times. This is all exceptionally stupid, though

placed on hold and hearing familiar music...took me a while to place the @wtyppod.bsky.social ad theme 🤪

Overnight, Via #14, th Halifax bound Ocean hit trailers parked too close to the rails, st alexandre de kamouraska, 10 minutes from Rivière-du-Loup

View from behind of two cats peering intently from inside at a small bird which has landed on the balcony railing of my apartment.

New fren dropped by today.

Politicians say long-dormant Cape Breton rail line could be revitalized soon | CBC News It's been a decade since trains stopped running on the line between Point Tupper and Sydney, N.S., but several ideas are under discussion that could lead to renewal of the tracks.

Bring back the Bras d'Or!

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Jonathan Kay pretty sure cancel culture to blame for him using dog shampoo TORONTO - After his tweet about mistakenly using dog shampoo for several months went viral, Canadian journalist Jonathan Kay has been hard at work explaining how exactly “the cancel culture Twitterati...

*Jonathan Kay enters the chat* thebeaverton.com/2021/02/jona...

sidewalks on side streets a bit slippy; right downtown everything seems alright - Cogswell is good coming down the hill.

Not really seeing that; there are enough caveats in the MMLOS framework (one of the better documents on this in Canada) about how and when to consider on-street parking (eg user safety trumps other considerations).

some additional Canadian cities based on a quick look at available data I could find:

Halifax = 0.164 (2024 est. CMA population, 2024 ridership)
Ottawa = 0.155 (2021 CMA population, 2024 ridership)

Transit fares are going up. Why do Canadian cities struggle to keep it affordable? | CBC News With transit fares on the rise in a number of Canadian cities, some experts say it’s time to rethink how we fund public transportation so that lower-income riders — who rely on it the most — aren't pr...

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This book is my origin story. Sadly, did not hang on to it.

2035 is soon?

Pole that was previously blocking a sidewalk has been removed; just had to wait on 3rd party contractors to do there thing.

Dreessen. Gets. Action.

We don’t give a scit ;-)

The way things are going for the Charge in Ottawa, we should just snipe the whole team!

*chef's kiss* maps.app.goo.gl/4ANUzY3svXCb...

Ice fog and an LRT delay; yup guess I’m back in Ottawa.

Image shows "supertrain" a nuclear-powered train from a short lived 1970s TV show.

we were so close...

ummm
I missed that line in Flanders Fields

And Purdy’s Wharf of course.

You can get from Brunswick Street near Cogswell to Duke/Grenville via Scotia Centre/Barrington Hotel/CIBC building.

That looks like it's going to be messy.

I'm not sure there really is a direct comparable but downtown core is probably the best. Not something that is typically formally defined in planning documents though.

This scene captures the quiet magic of Tokyo’s unplanned, human-scaled backstreets—where cars are welcome only as guests, weaving their way gently through pedestrians and cyclists. Streets like these remind us that vibrancy and human connection are at the heart of every truly liveable, lovable city.

Point Thousand Cows?

looks very much like 1459 Carlton. maps.app.goo.gl/15EZsqSogFJq...

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The wikipedia article is fairly informative. The knock-on effect of the incident is interesting re: settlement history in Ontario en.wikipedia.org/wiki/HMS_Spe...