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Photo of a sapling of about 6 feet surrounded by very dirty and salty snow on a street corner.

The last tree they planted here lasted all of 6 months. I have no idea why: lots of light, plenty of space…it’s a real mystery. 🤷‍♂️ #Centretown #OttTree

A toddler is dead in Calgary because we allow these jacked up SUVs with very minimal forward visibility. The drivers of these can’t see people in the crosswalk.

When will these be banned?
#Calgary

Your eulogy for your racist friend wasn't a great start

Mark Sutcliffe and Lowell Green were both subjects of the same Broadcast Standards complaint over anti-Black racism in their coverage of a 1997 police shooting of a man having a mental health incident

Here are transcripts from Sutcliffe and Green's radio shows:

www.cbsc.ca/decisionsarc...

So @mayormarksutcliffe.bsky.social grew up listening to a racist on the radio and then spent 20 years as his friend and colleague

I honestly didn't have "Sutcliffe declares himself a racist" on my 2026 bingo card!

Wow you're celebrating the life of a racist. Not a good look

Lowell Green was a racist demagogue who used his CFRA radio show as a soapbox to rant about immigrants and target racialized communities in Ottawa

Contrary to Ottawa Mayor Mark Sutcliffe's eulogy here, Lowell wasn't proud of Canada – he wrote an entire book about how it wasn't white enough for him

Montreal’s downtown pedestrian street on a warm and sunny winter day (-5°C, 23°F)

Ādisōke, the story Gather around, gentle taxpayer, as I take you on a tour of the media relations sausage factory.

The story of the new library needs to be told and understood before it’s too late, not after. I don’t want another LRT debacle. Share if you agree. brigittepellerin.substack.com/p/adisoke-th...

Today we commemorate the brave veterans who, four years ago this weekend, served at the Battle of Billings Bridge 🫡

Shawn Micallef: Toronto is facing its worst police corruption scandal in decades. Here are three things that need to happen soon The corruption revealed by Project South undermines the public trust that is the foundation of policing.

In the Toronto Star I write about Toronto Police's violent corruption scandal. Will it move the needle on police reform? It's a dramatic escalation in a long history of police intimidation, bullying their critics & broken trust. I argue 3 big things have to happen, including firing this chief.

I was reminded that yesterday was the 4th anniversary of the now-dubbed "Battle of Billings Bridge" when over a thousand of us in Ottawa blockaded convoyers from coming into our city.

With the growing far-right, it's a good reminder of how we can still fight back - and win.

Me too!

I was a little confused as I walked by though. I think it's a coffee shop but they had what I assume was the previous tenants "superior vapes opening soon" sign all lit up 😂

I can't imagine anyone wanting to spend time at Lansdowne as it becomes an active construction site again. So sad

WM-20 Sony Walkman

Such a classic. I had a cheap knock off version that often broke.

I always lusted after the tiny metal Walkman WM-20 though it felt so futuristic

I hadn't expected it to "transform over time" in quite this way ...

The Moving Waters sculpture being pulled down for scrap and lying on its side in mud

2014

The sculpture is composed of organic steel shapes that embody the fluid movement of water in the Rideau Canal. At night, the sculpture is illuminated by light-emitting diodes. The light displays are programmable, so there is always something new to see as Moving Surfaces transforms over time

P3: takes longer, costs more, delivers lower value. Worked for phase 1; worked for Lansdowne 1.0, so we did it again for phase 2 and L2.0

We’re looking for Ottawa’s worst commute on public transit If you think you have Ottawa’s worst commute on OC Transpo, we want to hear from you.

Opportunity abounds
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I blocked them the first time I saw their rants

I see you city news! Good job.

No VEHICLES are killing pedestrians. Its the DRIVERS

“We don’t have a timeline, we never promised a date, it’ll be ready whenever” - OC Transpo interim GM on the Eastern LRT on CBC Radio

The convoy experience changed me forever and shattered many of my assumptions

One of the only good things I experienced was the way it brought our community together to say "no" and to support each other when we were abandoned

My eyes are opened now

I was there when the word came out to move the table across the road and block it, trapping the Convoy. We let numerous non-convoy vehicles through. Threats were made against us that the other parts of the convoy was going to come and deal with us. Police, provincial gov’t, federal too, did nothing.

Transportation Matters Part of a series - Part 1 of Many

First in a series thinking about transit and transportation. This is key to making city’s work and essential for #OttCity future.

And I’ll get better about more timely posts #Substack

@occtranspo.bsky.social
@jleiper.bsky.social
@seandevine9.bsky.social

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We make poor choices, we're hardly bankrupt

We wasted a half billion on Lansdowne, hundreds of millions every year on suburban road widenings. Stop them

Make suburbanites pay an appropriate tax for the sprawl they've chosen instead of being a net drain on city revenue

As Tumbler Ridge Mourns, Anti-Trans Misinfo Spreads | The Tyee No good will come from the conservative rush to weaponize the shooter’s identity in this story.

“The fact that this tragic event in #TumblerRidge immediately inspired calls for restrictions on gender-affirming care and trans rights at large in Canada should raise huge alarm bells for trans people and our allies.”

Store front window at Highjinx

Highjinx is a beloved social enterprise in our community and I am committing to ensuring that they can continue operating in their location on Kent Street.

Charter survived the last secret chat group and inquiry and has even been promoted

I'm sure none of those weasels involved in that little chat group has suffered for their failures and lies

100%

Likely just another thing OCTranspo keeps secret