Why do I have to read an Irish paper for a feature about this?

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.

Skye meets feral momma who abandoned her on the lawn, placenta still attached. Skye doesn't harbor any ill will, and feral momma only cares about food.

Es ist wieder soweit! It's time to take down and responsibly dispose of your xmas tree. Please consider the Christmas tree cannon

Have to post this as she just looks so majestic. No cheating, repost with the most recent photo of your pet

As Canadians, I think it is our civic and collective duty for our 2026 New Year's resolution to simply be striking far more fear into the hearts of the politicians we elected than we currently do when they do stupid shit

www.cbc.ca/player/play/... 🌟 such a great honour from the country I love. 🙏🏻 here’s to being of service to the greatest good of the greatest number! ❤️ #belugagrads #ABCDemocracy

We’re starting this season with a BANG! 💥 The Rideau Canal Skateway opens tomorrow, Wednesday December 31, at 8 am! We’re in the home stretch of preparations to open a 3.4 km section between Somerset West and the Bank Street bridge. The Bank Street stairs will not be open for now.

I need some positivity. Quote or reply with your favorite bike memory of 2025. It can be a great ride, an advocacy accomplishment, whatever. Let's celebrate bikes. My personal favorite was finally doing a bikepacking ride up to Portland, Maine! It has me excited for bigger adventures in 2026.

In the week since it was published, this story has become one of our most read of 2025. “Every single semester, a student raises their hand: 'Professor, is there any hope on climate change?' How about this year when the new semester starts in January, you get to look them in the eye and answer."

PSA: if you live in Ontario, Québec, New Brunswick, or Nova Scotia, you can order native plant seeds for FREE from the Ottawa Wildflower Seeds Library. Their annual seed giveaway starts today! wildflowerseedlibrary.ca

the recurrent line that has always stuck out to me, "name any issue and i'll tell you how cars make the problem worse", is extremely true because once you See cars you cannot unsee them.

I swear Canadians don't have year round winter and live in igloos, but we do try to enjoy our winter while it is here.

When I heard this story of resilience and community, knew I had to share youtube.com/shorts/IXy9U...

Happy holidays! Pigeons make milk, and I hope this fact fills you with joy and concern during this festive time of year

here's the 60 minutes cecot video part 1 of 5 - recorded/uploaded by and all credit to @jasonparis.bsky.social I just reduced background noise, chopped the 14 minutes into 3 minute segments each compressed under 100 mb for bsky's limits, cropped and rotated a few degrees for easier viewing on here

Aaaaaaaasaaaand DK Metcalf just punched a fan

"Across the highest adult performance, peak performance is negatively correlated with early performance" Is uite literally what you'd see if coliderbias:

What a difference! Our city decided to start clearing a missing connection in our winter cycle network and now I have no excuse not to ride all year. #OttBike

I did this interview at Yonge & St Clair, the reporter hoping he'd catch a gig worker bombing down the sidewalk. Instead a pickup truck was parked in the bike lane behind us, and for the entire conversation rider after rider was forced into traffic. www.cbc.ca/news/canada/...

This one is for you @glengower.ca. Just one of tens of stories I've personally heard, and based on statistics, tens of thousands of people who've made the same conclusion. We're blowing off our legs with our current path. www.reddit.com/r/ottawa/s/S...

“At least six Canadian children, with birth years ranging from 2009 to 2024, were detained during the period. One Canadian child was held for 51 days — more than twice the 20-day limit set by a long-standing U.S. court-ordered agreement.” Expert warns Canadians to not travel to the US:

#ai #mozilla #firefox #fuckAI #genAI #fuckGenAI

Guerrilla traffic safety gets me excited www.cbc.ca/news/canada/...

Forward.

Three children in Ottawa have died of flu-related complications this season. PLEASE make sure to get vaccinated ASAP.

Another poison pill buried in Mark Carney’s budget: a repeal of a reduced postage rates for books and shipments between libraries. Libraries across the country are sounding the alarm for what it would mean for the viability of another essential public institution.

Shout out to the woman driving north in the bike lane on O’Connor (for those not in the know, O’Connor is a one-way street going south) who then made a left turn through a red light with a little wave of thanks for everybody honking at her #Autowa

Inspired by all the #TreeByBike posts I stubbornly insisted on doing our own. -19C wind chill and good snow depth made it difficult but Gatineau's expansion of snow clearing made it possible.

UNINTERRUPTED CYCLING NETWORK. In most cities, cycling involves a constant cycle of stop-and-go. You hit a red light, you wait for a turning truck, you yield to pedestrians. It kills the momentum. Here in Oulu, the experience is completely different. Here’s why👇 1/3

I honestly can't think of an issue where my mind has been more thoroughly changed by listening to people on social media. While MAiD is something that in principle I'd support, it's not possible to have it as a truly consensual option under current systems- something I learned from disabled folks.

doing promo is physically painful for me but i really would love it if you bought or read my newest book that came out a few months ago. i think it’s the best thing i’ve ever made and im so immensely proud of it. simplicitybook.xyz

If you listen to The Bugle podcast... Andy Zaltzman's other life #cricket @zaltzcricket.bsky.social @lastweektonight.com

Not sure those unfamiliar with the geography of Eastern Ontario appreciate how absurd it is Via forced passengers to sleep overnight at the station in Brockville Brockville is only an hour and a half drive from Ottawa. Via couldn’t get buses to shuttle them back? How is there no contingency plan?

"The site of the collision was approximately 280 metres from a previously-stationed mobile Automated Speed Enforcement camera, which was removed following provincial legislation" #Bill56Kills #ZeroVision

On habite dans un pays embarrassant.

But there IS a rule stating that one recall petition is approved against an MLA and it fails, nobody can try again to recall that member until after the next election. So a do-nothing recall campaign can serve as a catch-and-kill for an MLA's supporter.

Uh oh, you have billions invested in generative AI: aftermath.site/generative-ai-...

LOL. No.

if you try to serve me a ‘woman-sized dinner’ i’m going to bury one of my ‘woman-sized fists’ in your eye socket

Oh Steve...

If this happens, I hope the headlines read “Eldest Boy Acquires Succession”

Terribly stupid idea that will satisfy faux-populist urges to dunk on public servants while simultaneously making the lives of public servants and the service itself so much worse. Goofy stuff.

new video shows Kit Kat did not “dart underneath” the vehicle as waymo originally claimed. he was sitting under the car in front of the right wheel before it just ran him over. someone even approached the vehicle to try and get him to move seconds before it happened. missionlocal.org/2025/12/sf-w...

Book below. Much first hand observation in it from multiple perspectives. If anyone says it’s extreme to make the nazi connection to today, you just have to read about Germany in the 30s en.wikipedia.org/wiki/In_the_...

Just finished listening to In the Gardens of the Beast based on this post. Hard to overstate how similar what is happening now is to what occurred in the early 30s in Germany. Worth a read.

PM Mark Carney and premier Danielle Smith may never get a pipeline from Alberta to the Pacific, but they're working to link Canada's energy future to fossil fuel production I spoke with @sethdklein.bsky.social about the climate carnage breachmedia.ca/mark-carneys...

Girl Guides of Canada has made a statement, likely in response to the cowardly decisions of Girlguiding UK. 🏳️‍⚧️