How not to plow a sidewalk. #Ottawa #ottcity #winter #weather #meteorology

Stephen Marche on the Canadian mood as the US spirals. (gift article) www.nytimes.com/2026/02/06/o...

At Planning Committee yesterday, we voted unanimously to replace a road that was originally going to connect Preston to Lebreton Flats with a pedestrian and cycling bridge. This is a win for active transportation and for traffic management in Little Italy. www.ctvnews.ca/ottawa/artic...

After applauding the killing of Renee Good, the Toronto Sun’s former parliamentary bureau chief Bryan Passifiume has re-emerged from a month-long exile Now appears to be filing stories every two hours throughout his workdays for the Sun:

I’m sharing Aliya’s entire opening statement. We owe it to her, and those who no longer have a voice, to watch. youtu.be/zrcW8SZtYpI?...

More hypocrisy from PP His top adviser lobbied for a grocery chain that gouges Canadians. He voted against legislation to crack down on price gouging by grocery chains. vt.tiktok.com/ZSatnU8KY/

Is it just me or is this guy starting to turn orange?

A great day to celebrate the Mechanicsville Community Association’s winter carnival on a sleigh ride with @catmckenney.bsky.social!

OK little fella. Tomorrow’s your big day! We all rootin’ for ya! . . . . . . Just don’t you go screwing it up, now, ya hear?.

Richard Pierpoint was kidnapped and enslaved for over two decades. He eventually escaped to the north and fought against the Americans in the American Revolution and the War of 1812. Today, he is honoured in Canada. This is his story. 📸Malcolm Jones 🧵1/10

He responded. vt.tiktok.com/ZSab1WF7Y/

An oft-repeated statistic says men apply for a job when they have 60% of the qualifications while women wait till they have 100%. Pretty sure that stat was debunked, but … Several men seem to think that being Mayor is a suitable starter job for someone with no municipal experience. It’s not.

This year is the 20th anniversary of my arrival here in Vancouver to take the chief planner’s chair at 36 years old. It’s the longest by far that I’ve lived in any city, and it especially feels like my true home because we’re raising our kids here. I’ll keep working hard for a better Vancouver.

I worked hard with the industry to create a strong foundation in support of music in Ottawa, including with City funding to OMIC to establish and sustain it. I am proud of the work they're doing to save the Music Industry Arts program at Algonquin, the graduates of which enrich and enliven our city.

Very happy on this cold morning to join @catmckenney.bsky.social, many of my colleagues and MPs and MPPs at a special Alliance to End Homelessness event.

Wannabe ICE in Canada, feeling empowered. (For some reason the CBC article said 'headscarf' not hijab.)

Co-signed. You deserve compensation for the unacceptable level of transit service happening right now.

Nope. Climate change hasn’t gone away. The warnings become ever more strident. rabble.ca/environment/...

The user Interface in automobiles needs government regulation. Nothing illustrates that more than renting a car and having to figure out how it operates. Switching cars is like switching between Windows/MacOS and Linux. It's familiar but really fucking different at the same time

On the ongoing unreliability of OCTranspo.

So apparently new signups are surging at Skylight, a replacement to TikTok, since the latter is has gone MAGA and is quickly banning leftist, anti-ICE content from the platform. skylight.social/

Meanwhile, slightly to the south east of us here in eastern Canada . . . “Parts of Australia sweltered in record temperatures of close to 50 degrees Celsius on Tuesday as the country sweated through a prolonged heat wave.” (via Globe and Mail)

There’s snow fooling around today, #OttCity! About 10 cm of snow has already fallen, and more is on the way. Crews are out clearing sidewalks, roads and the winter cycling network, and they will continue working as the snow keeps falling. Thanks for your patience today. https://bit.ly/3zAe1Mw

Aislin’s cartoon in the montreal Gazette:

Today we will find out that Mike Johnson knows nothing about the shooting in MN.

The City of Montreal is considering implementing regulations that would require grocery stores and restaurants to donate their unsold food to food banks and other charitable organizations. According to Quebec data, the endeavour would help prevent an annual waste of 740 tonnes of food.

My reaction to the "Ross Douthat: The Binary Logic of the Carney Doctrine" opinion piece in the NY Times.

Boycott the World Cup Not a foot should be set in that country until the madness stops

If you remove all news coming from the US or the american government, the world is a much better place.

A Steller's jay that I saw this weekend at Salt Point State Park, California, USA. #birds

This morning: Trump displays an AI map of North America in the White House showing Canada, Greenland, and Venezuela as part of the US. www.newsweek.com/trump-shares...

City teams are out in full force to clear roads and sidewalks as fast as they can today. But the heavy snow will affect the afternoon commute and OC Transpo is reducing the number of stops available. Please keep an eye on the Alerts before heading home. www.octranspo.com/en/alerts/#a...

Good morning, @MayorMarkSutcliffe.bsky.social Bonjour, Monsieur le Maire.

CBC News also covered this dubious website’s “quality of life” ranking The *only* source cited for its data on Nanaimo is *one* link to monthly bus pass fees on BC Transit’s website (CBC does quote a researcher casting doubt on data / methodology, but it only skims the surface of how thin this is)

full story www.creativebyrovelo.com/therovelorec...

So is Canada sending troops to Greenland? From Politico Europe: “A European diplomat said that troops from the Netherlands, Canada and Germany were also taking part. The diplomat and another official with first-hand knowledge said France was also involved.” www.politico.eu/article/denm...

We are building the first-ever standalone public bathroom facility in downtown Ottawa. It’s about damn time. Public toilets are a basic human need. Because when you gotta go, you gotta go … www.ctvnews.ca/ottawa/artic...

Is Ottawa really the most liveable city in North America? Not so fast, Mr Mayor. Not so fast. pressprogress.ca/quality-of-l...

If you’re Canadian, please stay out of the states. I don’t care if it’s cold here. Don’t expect Canada to help you out should you get taken by ice. It’s especially risky if you’re a visible minority. This is a democratic state and I never thought that this could happen there.

There is increasing chatter about the need for governments to get the hell off of X and Grok. With this in mind, I’ve sent the following letter to Evan Solomon, Canada’s AI minister.

A little clematis party to brighten up a bleak week. Spring 2024. #bloomscrolling #clematis #springiscoming

PP's relevance continues to plummet vt.tiktok.com/ZS5CgfL7c/

Sorry, Tim Davie. Wrong decision. Staying in a cess pool doesn’t help clean up the cess pool. Leaving helps it sink into irrelevance. www.theguardian.com/media/2026/j...

@glengower.ca The OCTranspo leadership needs to plot the stopped trains on a track heat map. They are not randomly distributed. That implies it's a track issue not an axle issue. So what is RTM doing to fix the issues. Not all issues can wait until the annual June maintenance closure. #OttPoli

North America, circa 2027

Mark my words - Boston Dynamics, and other companies like them, will make superhuman robots that will be used by governments to suppress their citizens.

It's time for a new countdown - Which opens first: Stage 2 East or nominations for #Ottawa City Council?

That's Not Fair,But In Chumplandia It Is A Reality......

Breakthrough of the year? Renewable energy www.science.org/content/arti...

Excited to share the news that tomorrow we’ll have two seconds* more sunlight than today. ————- * Ottawa Ontario. Your kilometrage may vary. #solstice