Every GOP primary story is like “syphilis loses to pancreatic cancer”

@bikeottawa.bsky.social deep in the weeds, but there's a window of opportunity to address bike parking city wide here, fyi!

Rule of thumb ... if people are still buying over-priced mega trucks that cost $$$$, then gas is still too cheap.

The City of Ottawa posted the raw speed data from before and after Doug Ford banned speed cameras and the effect is so obvious it's not even necessary put a line marking when that happened. This chart shows the percentage of drivers going 15km/h or more over the posted limit.

Phones actually recording audio to listen to us would be better.

I'm someone who was there at the midnight releases of the Harry Potter books and movies. Watching this show puts money in the pockets of J.K. Rowling. And if you do that, you're helping fund a deadly worldwide campaign of hate against trans people. Consult your conscience.

A new contender for best headline

Or they just cannot admit to a heated affair, suppressed beneath ritualistic performative rivalry, due to the constraints imposed by a retrograde culture, birthed by the patriarchy, which imprints on souls before anyone has a chance to experience the benefits of any alternatives Also probably dorks

Niagara County voted 57% for Trump. All of the counties outside Buffalo and Rochester favoured Trump — many of them by 60% or more. Americans voted for belligerent nationalism and isolationism, and they're getting it.

Under Trump’s leadership, the US has become a fascist, imperialist regime—and Canada sits squarely in its sights. Political scientist Stewart Prest examines why staying neutral is a doomed strategy: https://thewalrus.ca/canada-is-betting-trump-will-come-to-his-senses-that-bet-is-going-badly/

I'm volunteering as a Board member for Planned Parenthood Ottawa - and part of those duties is as a member of the hiring committee in charge of finding our next Executive Director ... ppottawa.ca/get-involved...

Fare strike, one person at a time. I'm already in. You? Prices are jacked up. Service is getting cut. Quietly quit. We have the numbers.

Please read. vajenda.substack.com/p/abortion-r...

Killing time in Toronto during my VIA Rail delay, coming soon to a screen near you as a Heritage Minute Please enjoy this reflection of the CN Tower

Clean hip check

😭 you keep enforcing a no stopping zone so transit can move freely why do you hate freedom 😭😭😭😭😭😭😭🍔

Here's a neat trick they teach in authoritarianism school: If you purge the people who measure the effects of your policies (BLS, MMWR), you can just claim everything's great, and nobody can prove how much damage you're doing.

John Candy’s boss fired him from his paper salesman job with a parting shot: “Never should have hired an actor.” For Candy, it was a sign. Author @pulmyears.bsky.social traces how that moment of rejection led him to stardom: thewalrus.ca/john-candy/

I am begging Canadians to understand that Canada Post, like public transit, should not be a business - it's a service. Canada Post is a lifeline for rural, remote and Northern communities and overall, we need to re-evaluate why people think they "need" random shit delivered ASAP.

Hospitals would lose money and so would police and schools if we looked a profit & loss, privatized and replaced them with US multinational delivery services. In the age of “Nation Building” why is an oil pipeline worth subsidizing, but not the service that delivers our election ballots? #cdnpoli

Coming soon to a sundown town in Alberta near you: Papers please!

Looks like the 417 at rush hour!

First time on an electric bus! So quiet!! Also these screens are a solid upgrade

New Consultation: Gladstone And Gilmour Bikeway Consultation: Gladstone And Gilmour Bikeway https://engage.ottawa.ca/gladstone-and-gilmour-bikeway

Forty Creek it is. 🥃🍁

Bikes unlock so much public transit ridership as a viable driving alternative. Wanted to take kid 2 to the aviation museum today. 🚗 : 26 mins 🚍+🚊 : 2 hrs 🚲 : 52 mins We biked to LRT, got off at UofO station, then biked the rest. Transit + Bike: 37 mins OC Transpo recovery needs bikeshare.

Or for that matter, the leadership of Air Canada, who stranded tens of thousands of passengers for while trying to cling to unjust employment practices.

This is the "bubble law" Engage Ottawa site. #OttPoli

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Perhaps the cabinet should only be paid when they're present in the House of Commons.

I support the union

Do I have this straight? Air Canada sells me a ticket at the price-point of a regular airline, gives me the perks of a budget airline and relies on unpaid crew labour?

It’s important to remember cisgender women getting hurt by this is a feature not a bug as it both makes trans women fearful of existing in public and signals to cis women how they must act to be protected by the state.

Also: thugs, criminals are code for black

New Consultation: Official Plan Update (Official Plan Update) https://engage.ottawa.ca/official-plan-update

Alberta’s bizarre and dangerous experiment in vaccine rationing began Monday with the appearance of a website where Albertans can register to be considered for COVID-19 immunization sometime in the fall if any vaccine is left. @djclimenhaga.bsky.social writes. #abpoli #abcovid

You know how people called women hysterical for predicting the right wing would take down Roe v. Wade (which they've done) and then attack access to birth control (which they're doing)? Hear me when I say that women's very right to vote is next. www.npr.org/2025/08/09/n...

STATEMENT: We strongly condemn Israel’s targeted assassination of journalists in Gaza. And we call on our media colleagues everywhere to join us in speaking out. ricochet.media/media/statem...

"If the U.S. can't get its greenhouse emissions under control, they need to face real consequences" said the rest of the world.

We're working on all of this. We think we can get it done. We need your help. opencollective.com/civicband thanks for reading, boosts appreciated ✨ 16/16

In 2022, a local #alamtg activist named Rasheed Shabazz was asking around on twitter about digitizing meeting minutes and monthly reports from local organizations as part of his ongoing research into the racial history of Alameda. 1/n

Australia Admits All Those Animals Made Up theonion.com/austral...

Fun, added a MAP view of the traffic cameras! ottwatch.ca/traffic_came...

New Consultation: Proposed New Parkette At 320 Mcrae Avenue (Proposed New Parkette At 320 Mcrae Avenue) https://engage.ottawa.ca/proposed-new-parkette-at-320-mcrae-avenue

Other People's Cottages PeaceLoveCanada.ca

new job; more code

Increasing service hours is the number one way to increase ridership (& therefore revenue).

Adult in car with child: $0 user fee per trip Adult in car with 11 year old: $9 there, $9 back. OC should be free

It’s critical that OC Transpo not encourage people to establish the transit habit when they’re young, lest they grow up into transit-dependent adults.