The Journal: Four unidentified military-style drones breached no-fly zone to target Zelenskyy's arrival in Dublin www.thejournal.ie/drones-dubli...

Devine has been bringing it lately. Props to the voters of Knoxdale–Merivale. You chose well.

Watching a councillor try to gaslight Redditors on the opportunity costs that come with financing Lansdowne 2.0’s debt is making me (even) angrier about this current term of Council and is sharpening my eagerness for next year’s election. Some of you got swallowed whole by OSEG and it shows.

Introduce yourself with five concerts you’ve seen: George Michael The Prodigy R.E.M. PJ Harvey Soundgarden

For those not paying attention: OPS gets the biggest budget increases every year for some reason.

Ottawa, take note (especially if you live in the Red Zone). They'll likely be winding their way downtown around 11.30 am or so. If you live in any of the neighbourhoods that were adversely affected by the original convoy, be aware and spread the word that these dopes will be around.

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Amalgamation is a great way to kill a city.

Lansdowne 2.0 passes. For: Brown, Carr, Curry, Desroches, Dudas, Gower, Hill, Hubley, Kelly, Kitts, Luloff, Plante, Skalski, Sutcliffe, Tierney Against: Bradley, Brockington, Devine, Johnson, Kavanagh, King, Leiper, Lo, Menard, Troster

Word of the Day is ‘catchfart’ (17th century): an obsequious individual who sucks up to the boss and always follows the political wind.

if you’re a cyclist or pedestrian I’m gonna strongly recommend avoiding the Laurier/Elgin intersection. The traffic cone placement through the construction zone is bananas.

"Have you kids seen my elbows? Are they under here, maybe?"

A view from Ottawa, a Winter Capital™

The contempt the city has shown for this expensive and genuinely impressive piece of art it bought and proudly installed is just perfectly symbolic of how it treats both the public realm and its own investments. ottawacitizen.com/news/artist-...

Every time Sasaki adjusts his hat it looks like he’s having a mini nervous breakdown

The number of people that show up at a bar at gametime that get upset when they can’t get a table when a Canadian team is on the brink of winning a championship never ceases to amaze me. What a bunch of dopes.

Regardless of what Sutcliffe thinks, Lansdowne 2.0 is not a popular project and Ottawans don't want it as it is currently being presented to us. Have a look for yourself. assets.nationbuilder.com/shawnmenard/...

The irony of Mayor Sutcliffe calling out “myths” over his version of “facts” is something to behold. Is it a fact that “Lansdowne 2.0 will generate revenues that *will* cover 69% of the total investment”? Or is that optimism bias? Not that I’m trying to spread misinformation here.

NEW- We’ve discovered 7 concerning issues with the new information on Lansdowne 2.0 released by the city just one week ago- 1) $17.4 million per year (not $4.3 million) is being carved out of Ottawa’s Budget until 2070 to pay for Lansdowne 2.0 debt ($696 million in payments).

Second Sons, led by MacKenzie recently showed up at CBC offices in Ottawa to decry he he calls the network's "anti white" agenda. He has also made some pro nazi posts lately. -30

Looks like Ford's backing down on killing rent control for pre-2017 buildings. That doesn't mean tenants should stop organizing. @catmckenney.bsky.social, I hope you still go forward with your Protecting Renters Townhall.

Heads up, Centretown… we might have some fascists doing a photo op.

1. One of the key criticisms of the province’s report on the Ottawa LRT fiasco was related to the inappropriate proximity between the civil service and the mayor’s office. The official City of Ottawa social media account promoting a controversial project that hasn’t been approved yet by council…

It feels very inappropriate for the city’s official account to be pushing a one-sided pro-Lansdowne argument pre-council vote. Was this supposed to come from the mayor’s account?

I think the crows in Centretown are having some sort of conference on my block this morning.

Excellent reporting by ⁦‪Arthur White-Crummy‬⁩ … I am deeply disturbed that #ottcity has not released the wording for the Lansdowne 2.0 RFP. They seemed to have learned nothing from the LRT2 predicament debacle. Where is the transparency?

The CBC Ottawa Morning Lansdowne interview with the Mayor is wild. He just compared the way we don't require library buildings to turn a profit so we should not expect Lansdowne to make money. Dude, the whole agreement of the waterfall agreement is to lower risk and increase revenue. #OttPoli

Council being deliberately kept in the dark on a major project that will cost Ottawans hundreds of millions of dollars? If this doesn’t sound familiar to you, you don’t really follow municipal politics. Lansdowne 2.0™: Brought to you by Watson 2.0.

An OPS cruiser drove right past these two bike lane blockers, because of course it did.

Anyone that says kids don't paying attention to politics and the effects leaders can have needs to be sent a copy of this game. The game board being shaped like the Pentagon is a smart touch.

As always, Ottawa is so far behind that we aren’t seriously trying to catch up… and we’ll continue to fall behind with the sort of leadership we’ve been experiencing on both sides of the aisle at Council. #ottbike

It’s a "crisis" when immigrants "take jobs away", but "innovation" when machines do. Funny.

PP casually telling extremely obvious lies that not only completely defy logic, but defy what we all witnessed with our own eyes. And 41% of Canadians voted for his party less than a year ago. We are not immune to what’s happening in the States.

Considering how effective ASE is at reducing the speeds of motorists, it still baffles me that the most densely populated ward (the ward that had the highest percentage of cyclists and pedestrians, btw) still doesn’t have a single speed camera. Why?

Pete Hegseth accidentally flipping a skateboard into his nuts on live TV

In all this nationbuilding Carney is supposedly working on, which of these projects are actually for the people and not for corporate interests?

As much as I hate following in Toronto's footsteps… @jleiper.bsky.social @arieltroster.com @lainejohnson.bsky.social @seandevine9.bsky.social

A lot of people in my feed are questioning the rationale of the CBC covering the funeral of a far-right personality that has predictably devolved into a Tяump hate rally. To them I ask: why wouldn't our national broadcaster cover the moment where the US' Second Civil War finally kicks off?

This affects over 1000 properties and nearly 60k units across the city.

So when girls' leagues start folding, all that money that was used to run them will be rolled back into those schools' coffers, right? Certainly they'd never just move those funds into boys' sports 🤔

Bye Bonnie Crombie, we hardly knew ye. Now the question is: will the ONDP finally cash in on the continued aimlessness of the Ontario Liberals?

If this lying twerp ever went to an actual war zone he would probably shit his pants in fear. When is this idiot ever going to realize that Canada doesn't want him to be Prime Minister? www.cbc.ca/news/politic...

This is an archived government report that found that “Since 1990, far-right extremists have committed far more ideologically motivated homicides than far-left or radical Islamist extremists.” It existed yesterday and is gone today.

Why do Ottawa's conservative-in-centrist-clothing mayors obsess over butter tarts? This guy couldn't be more Watson 2.0 if he tried.

So a conservative gets killed by another conservative, and Poilievre's response is that he wants more police protection from the increasingly fractious and violent society his years of polarizing rhetoric has helped create? 🤔

One of those "it's hard to be shocked in 2025, but...." stories. www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...

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Just a reminder to check for your name in this list of books that OpenAI trained from. If your name is there, they probably owe you several thousand dollars. OpenAI cried that if everyone eligible author files, the company will go bankrupt, so I'm alerting every author I have ever spoken to.

Heads up: Afternoon downtown traffic is going to get even worse for a few weeks, or at least until some of the 417 on-ramps are reopened. Avoid Elgin entirely if you can. Motorists: be patient, and don't block intersections, you just make things worse. Everybody else: keep your head on a swivel.