The Ottawa International Animation Festival has unveiled the shorts competition for its 50th anniversary edition. New films from Don Hertzfeldt, Atsushi Wada, Anna Mantzaris, Georges Schwizgebel, and dozens more made this year's lineup. www.cartoonbrew.com/festivals/ot...

Live updates: City of Ottawa officials give update on Canada Day storm cleanup

View from the Corktown Bridge. Rideau Canal, Ottawa. #summer #nature #trees #water #sunset #city #travel #biking #MyOttawa #architecture #photography

"The Ottawa-Gatineau area is cleaning up from massive, powerful thunderstorms that struck the afternoon and evening of Canada Day." www.cbc.ca/news/canada/... #CBC #news #Ottawa #weather #meteorology

Canada Day activities in Ottawa have been suspended due to the weather! Check out the latest updates here: If you have photos or videos you'd be willing to share, please send them to [email protected]! www.cbc.ca/news/canada/...

CBC News has learned more about the deaths of two boys and their father in eastern Ontario and Ottawa. www.cbc.ca/news/canada/...

#SNES #watercolor #study #art

I think the one of the oldest things I own is an air popper popcorn machine. I got it as a gift when I was like. 14. Still going strong.

Me celebrating every small nation's goal in the world cup:

"Most roads have reopened in #Val-des-Monts, Que., after flooding caused by severe thunderstorms rendered them impassable overnight." from @talktogabrielle.bsky.social at #CBC #news www.cbc.ca/news/canada/... #Quebec #weather #meteorology

The push to revive a long-dormant mine for gold near Tofino — a dreamy, surfing town — on Indigenous land (Tla-o-qui-aht, in particular, who’ve spent decades protecting the biodiverse region) has sparked backlash from the community. Story by @zoeyunker.bsky.social #bc #tofino #indigenousrights

I’m on Waldo’s trail. He’s in Ottawa. I think he wants to be found. #WheresWaldo

Compulsion Games, based in Montreal, made South of Midnight. It won awards at the Game Awards and the Canadian Game Awards.

A friendly reminder that Double Fine's Psychodyssey is one of the finest pieces of media ever created, and a must-watch for anyone who cares about video games, yet somehow it's also completely free www.youtube.com/playlist?lis...

These jellyfish larvae: * . * . * . * . * * . * . * * . *

I know Calvin’s dad is already having a moment, but every terrible “outsource precious and fleeting moments with your children to tech so that you can spend more time on your work” pitch makes me think of that one strip I never really cared about as a kid, but care a lot about as an adult.

I enjoyed this retrospective look at the all-women Ghostbusters reboot. I was a teen when it came out and I'll never forget the row of little girls all sitting in front of me in the theatre. At the end, they stood up to dance and cheer with the credits. www.theguardian.com/film/2026/ju...

this is the ideal newspaper columnist. you may not like it but this is what peak performance looks like

Please Use AI

Ubisoft's Winnipeg studio is being shut down, not long after its Halifax studio. mobilesyrup.com/2026/06/10/u...

Fun career milestone: My first TikTok for CBC News about the federal government’s AI strategy and the promises it makes about jobs! #cdnpoli #canpoli #canada

I'm on the bus and watching someone play a Mario game on a Nintendo DS over their shoulder. I really respect that.

Art of the day Guim Tió Zarraluki

Scientists--I'm a journalist looking for interesting examples of global health research that has managed to continue or adapt following the dismantling of USAID. Re-posts appreciated!

Like covid-19 and mpox before it, the decision to relabel PCOS as polyendocrine metabolic ovarian syndrome is a welcome one – and reveals why a name is never just a name

Ottawa Charge head coach Carla MacLeod has been named as a finalist for Coach of the Year.

This is true lol

Joining @RebeccaZandberg on @CBCOttawaMorning at 6:45 am. www.thestar.com/politics/pro...

Charge HC Carla MacLeod on the atmosphere in Ottawa tonight before their 2-1 win: “I stood there before the game started and I was like, how is this my job? Like what a gig I've got. Just to have our fans and the community show up. Ottawa's such a hockey crazy community. They love it.” #PWHL

I honestly don’t know why I still take pictures of tulips each year. I already have about 21,000 from previous years’ tulip festivals.

The Montreal Victoire have just beat the Ottawa Charge yet again! Game 3 in Ottawa on Monday is going to be tense!

The PWHL has a goalie problem and it’s bc they’re all brick walls

The Ottawa Charge may be down early 1-0 in their Walter Cup Finals series against the Montreal Victoire, but from their perspective, there’s still tons of hockey to play.

A humpback whale found dead this week off a Danish island has been identified as the animal released two weeks ago in a spectacular and controversial rescue effort after repeatedly becoming stranded off Germany's Baltic Sea coast, Danish authorities said Saturday. n.pr/4uhsbN1

ONGOING : 🚇Line 2 Alert: Delays may be experienced. Train arrival and departure times are currently unavailable. We are working to resolve the matter. Updates to follow.

CBC reports on the Canadian side of Kars4Kids: "Canadian tax filings show the organization transferred $12.6 million to the U.S. and Israel in the fiscal year 2025... for projects such as the Texas Torah Institute and the Cincinnati Hebrew Day School." www.cbc.ca/news/canada/...

Guys, guys. The water slug I designed for Subnautica 2.

ConcernedApe Says Haunted Chocolatier Is "Way Bigger" Than Stardew Valley. (Repost)

Powerful reporting on how security forces in Israel use rape and sexual abuse as a form of torture against Palestinian men, women, and children (CW: This piece includes graphic details of sexual trauma.) By @nickkristof.bsky.social Gift link:

My favourite part of the astronauts talk at the NAC in Ottawa today: They worked with a poet before launch to learn how to properly describe what they were about to see.

The Montreal Victoire have advanced to the Walter Cup Finals after beating the Minnesota Frost 2-1 in regulation. Montreal will meet the Ottawa Charge, and for the first time in PWHL history, it will be an all-Canadian Finals. The Walter Cup is coming to Canada.

What’s better than a playoff thunderclap? Well how about a series-clinching thunderclap! The Ottawa Charge beat the Boston Fleet 4-3 in double overtime to advance to their second consecutive Walter Cup Final!

After waiting years for a new Star Fox, I got impatient and started making my own game. Years later, there's another Star Fox 64 remake and I'm still working on my game

They will be joined by Canada's Carney -- the first-ever non-European leader to join the EPC talks, in a sign of the ever-closer ties between Ottawa and Europe ushered in by Trump.

While reading up on the photographer Yousouf Karsh, a Canadian-Armenian who survived the genocide and later studied photography with his uncle in Sherbrooke, QC, discovered that Karsh's brother, Malak, founded the Canadian Tulip Festival of Ottawa in 1953! ottawatourism.ca/en/ottawa-in...

we dont throw away perfectly good food in this house! we put it in the fridge and wait for it to go bad and THEN throw it away. as is good and proper

Yes! There is SO much evidence that even small interactions with strangers and acquaintances alike, boosts our mood, breaks isolation and strengthens people's ties to community.

This out of context billboard my brother drove past in South Louisiana remains undefeated

My favourite trick for a word like this is for how to correctly remember how to spell "necessary" How many C's and how many S's? Well, a shirt has one Collar and two Sleeves! 1 C, 2 S's! It feels very silly but it works

#ArtemisII My latest cartoon for @newscientist.com