Interesting tool! (It looks car-centric but If you don't drive, you can add transit fares and set things like parking/gas to $0 - I just entered the amount of time I spend on the bike, and it calculated what that time was worth - although I don't really consider that time wasted) www.rtocost.com

This is an interesting idea. Pick a commercial area in Ottawa that could use more foot traffic, identify a vacant store, City retrofits it for bike parking. It's likely cheaper than building new infrastructure. Even as - dare I say - a pilot project. @sjamieit.bsky.social thoughts?

Happy #FridaytheThirteenth ! The only official and accurate picture of the Friday Thirteenth Jinx. ( #PhantomsFriday for good measure.)

I think it has incredibly valuable applications, but it is generally cooking the planet to make incredibly ugly slop that no one, even its creators, particularly like as a tech demo for big corporations for how they can fire huge numbers of creative people for a slightly worse product.

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.

Trans beloveds: maybe take a break from the internet today. Absolute ghouls are exploiting a horrendous tragedy to spread hate and transphobia. Love and grief to everyone in Tumbler Ridge today. Love and solidarity with the trans community.

I'm pretty good at operating tiny buttons in response to predetermined environmental stimuli, in case any scientists out there are looking to hand out small cheese rewards for that

Increasing autism rates over the last 25 years may just be kids with mild forms getting diagnosed. Rates of moderate to severe impairment due to autism have actually fallen slightly. onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1002/...

Canada is second worst in this cohort.

omg everybody go draw a horse this is what the internet was made for gradient.horse

Liberal MP Bruce Fanjoy from the Ottawa-area riding or Carleton is breaking ranks with the Carney government on its Return to Office policy for public servants: “There is little to no evidence that a one-size-fits-all RTO policy will improve productivity or service to Canadians”

Online betting sites shouldn’t be able to advertise. You should have to learn about them through your unreliable uncle or your friend’s older brother who should really be hanging out with people his own age.

The government is giving a loan to a Crown corporation that should just be a public service that we pay for because it provides an essential task that Canadians depend on. We don’t provide loans to the health care system or schools; we just pay for them.

There were 10,000 signatures when I signed the petition calling for all federal Party Leaders to have a top secret security clearance. Have you?? Anybody know how many signatures it has now? www.ourcommons.ca/petitions/en...

I just read "The Tangled Garden: A Canadian Cultural Manifesto for the Digital Age" by Richard Stursberg, and in a chapter he writes about how Harper's government made substantial cuts to Canadian arts, painted the CBC as a Liberal mouthpiece, and treated Canadian culture with "malign neglect".

Tuned into CBC news to hear that Stephan Harper could be Captain Canada and save Canadian unity and also that he thinks that Canada was handed down by Providence.

Signed. No potential or actual Prime Minister should be without a security clearance.

Sutcliffe on RTO: "We want to see our downtown thriving and prosperous." I mean, did this guy even live in Ottawa before the pandemic? Centretown was always dead after 4pm. It's not about forcing people out of their communities to buy a sandwich and clog the streets with car traffic.

Jeff, this petition to save the successful museum studies program has hundreds of signers but needs more: museums across Canada depend on the skilled graduates of this highly specialized Algonquin program. secure.avaaz.org/community_pe...

A capital city needs a strong music and events workforce. Protect the Music Industry Arts program at Algonquin. #MIAMatters ottawamic.com/news/miamatt...

🇨🇦Vancouver councillors want ICE-Gestapo banned from FIFA World Cup events. ICE-Gestapo has been murdering US citizens. "We don’t want it disrupting the success of an event that we, collectively, have invested a lot of money in,” #Cdnpoli #CanadaSky🇨🇦 www.ctvnews.ca/vancouver/ar...

Remember, sneering works. It’s working now. That’s why the lowliest AI fan and the CEO of Microsoft are trying to get us to stop saying “slop.” AI art is supposed to be its flashy flagship and treating it as disposable rubbish (which it is) ruins everything

I wrote about the new Muppet Show, which is, thank God, exactly like the old Muppet Show.

Norwegian skier Nikolai Schirmer has handed the International Olympic Committee a petition signed by more than 21,000 people who want to stop fossil fuel companies from bolstering their reputations by sponsoring winter sports.

All of this was capitalism doing what capitalism does to a industry that should be treated as a public good, a utility, rather than a business. Then came the billionaires. 4/

Minimizing the window where I read about how our world is a joke and we're at the mercy of megalomaniacal evil perverts. Logging on to the work zoom. "Heyyyy I'm good! How are you?"

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:

This shit hits like a sledgehammer right now. It's not even remotely an exaggeration.

Oh. My. God. Chomsky talking about the 'hysteria' that has developed about the abuse of women and giving Epstein advice on how to handle the media. In 2019. The Media studies discipline and much of the left should reflect on the power given to this one flawed man to shape generations of thought.

The collapse happened Wednesday due to heavy rains at the rebel-controlled Rubaya mines. Congo is a major supplier of coltan, which contains a key component in the production of smartphones. n.pr/4rhM2JY

Poilievre just told #CP26 "There's never been a referendum crisis or a national unity crisis when Conservatives have been in power It's an interesting coincidence isn't it" False. BQ was the product of Mulroney's time in office. Borden - WWI conscription crisis. Sir John - Louis Riel. C'mon man.

Pressure works. Contact your MP and ask Parliament to investigate the extent to which Canadian companies are working with and actively helping ICE. Info below.

Will just be here watching this clip of Catherine O’Hara saying the word "baby" on Schitt’s Creek for the rest of the day….RIP 🥺🙏

Horrendous news. An icon, a trailblazer, and a gift. I’ve been a fan since SCTV.

90% of my animation friends are unemployed. I'm on hiatus. The value of animation is proven every year. Greenlight new shows! Don't overdevelop. Don't chase trends. You can't chase trends w/ animation! It takes too long! Tell good stories. Take risks."Demon Hunters" was a risk & look how it paid off

Here’s a Canadian story that is an example of cutting off your nose to spite your face: The Conservatives decided to blame immigrants for the housing crisis. The news media parroted it without any inspection whatsoever and so ppl believed it. Demand and supply right? WRONG.

Today is the 38th anniversary of the Morgentaler decision, which we shouldn't forget as threats to reproductive choice keep rearing their ugly heads. www.cbc.ca/player/play/...

Last night I spent 20 minutes on the unheated platform at St-Laurent (-12) while Line 1 was on "Hold". The fact that we have outdoor, unheated platforms in January is baffling.

For the evening crowd, my latest @cba-nationalmag.bsky.social story about what's on the Order Paper in the current parliamentary session #cdnpoli #cdnlaw

A Canadian-made armoured vehicle was spotted on Minneapolis streets the day ICE murdered Alex Pretti. The company that sold ICE that monster as part of a $10 million deal? Roshel. What’s more: Canada’s government brought Roshel’s CEO on a trade mission SIX DAYS AFTER Renee Good was murdered.

Join @railfans.ca, @bettertransitottawa.ca and Jeff for a webinar exploring citizen-led data tools that provide insight into public transit in Ottawa on February 2 at 7 pm. Use the QR code in the flyer below to register or kitchissippiward.ca.

Are we broke or not, guys?

Ottawa, the Applied Museum Studies program at Algonquin is "the program itself is one of the only programs dedicated to museum studies in the country, and the only one people can go straight into from high school." Please sign this student's petition secure.avaaz.org/community_pe...

“To make a pivotal speech about the need for new alliances, and the very next day, lay off the exact people responsible for building said alliances, is confusing to say the least.” @ldobsonhughes.bsky.social making some great points here: www.thestar.com/opinion/cont...