David Hope
@davidhope.ca
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Quantitative Biologist. Happiest on a bike or knee-deep in peat (Ottawa, Canada).
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Had the privilege of a work trip to the Hudson Bay Coastal Lowlands this spring. Just amazing landscape up there. I'll post a few pictures here.
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Defence Scheme Enjoyer 🇨🇦🇺🇦🇬🇱🇲🇽🇵🇸
2 days ago
Why do I have to read an Irish paper for a feature about this?
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‘It’s surreal’: US sanctions lock International Criminal Court judge out of daily life
Canadian judge Kimberly Prost is unable to use credit cards, transfer money or book everyday services in what she calls an attack on the independence of the judiciary
https://www.irishtimes.com/world/us/2025/12/12/its-surreal-us-sanctions-lock-international-criminal-court-judge-out-of-daily-life/
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Dave Robertson
about 15 hours ago
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.
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Goodbye home office: Remote work ends for thousands of public, private sector workers in 2026 | CBC News
The new year will bring some big changes to the rules on in-office work for many employees across the country, including tens of thousands of provincial government staff in Ontario and Alberta, who wi...
https://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/edmonton/year-return-to-office-9.7032172
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Jean
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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.
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Richard McElreath 🐈⬛
about 18 hours ago
Es ist wieder soweit! It's time to take down and responsibly dispose of your xmas tree. Please consider the Christmas tree cannon
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Have to post this as she just looks so majestic. No cheating, repost with the most recent photo of your pet
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Clare Blackwood
1 day ago
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
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Raffi_RC
3 days ago
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
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Children's singer Raffi among 80 appointments to the Order of Canada
Iconic children's entertainer Raffi is among the 80 people appointed to the Order of Canada Wednesday. Although he was first invested as a member of the order in 1983, he's now being promoted to compa...
https://www.cbc.ca/player/play/video/9.7030956
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3 days ago
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.
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Gravel Influencer
5 days ago
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.
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Canada's National Observer
5 days ago
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."
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This University of Toronto Professor wants Carney to answer to her students
Each year, University of Toronto professor Laura Tozer updates a slide deck that she presents to her graduate students on the state of climate policy in Canada. This year, she is deleting everything.
https://www.nationalobserver.com/2025/12/24/news/university-of-toronto-professor-carney-letter
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Madeleine Bonsma-Fisher, PhD
7 days ago
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
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Ottawa Wildflower Seed Library – The Ottawa Wildflower Seed Library
https://wildflowerseedlibrary.ca/
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Katie Tightpussy, Editor-In-Chief
7 days ago
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.
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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.
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Tom Babin
10 days ago
When I heard this story of resilience and community, knew I had to share
youtube.com/shorts/IXy9U...
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When I heard this story of resilience and community, knew I had to share #cycling #ebike
YouTube video by Shifter
https://youtube.com/shorts/IXy9UVAbmpA?feature=share
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Rosemary Mosco
11 days ago
Happy holidays! Pigeons make milk, and I hope this fact fills you with joy and concern during this festive time of year
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Chris DeLeon Ⓥ DevPods.gg gamedev community
11 days ago
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
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Ethan Freedman
12 days ago
Aaaaaaaasaaaand DK Metcalf just punched a fan
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Michel Nivard
14 days ago
"Across the highest adult performance, peak performance is negatively correlated with early performance" Is uite literally what you'd see if coliderbias:
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Andy Craig
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Sean O’Kane
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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
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17 days ago
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.
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Occasional Transpo
17 days ago
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...
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From the ottawa community on Reddit
Explore this post and more from the ottawa community
https://www.reddit.com/r/ottawa/s/SL1lXWfKan
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Kelly
17 days ago
“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:
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‘My advice actually would be don’t go’: Expert warns Canadians about U.S. travel risks
A growing number of Canadians, including several young children, have been arrested or detained by U.S. immigration authorities over the past two years, according to newly released government data obt...
https://www.ctvnews.ca/canada/article/my-advice-actually-would-be-dont-go-expert-warns-canadians-about-us-travel-risks/
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Chaireth 🔜 MAGfest
17 days ago
#ai
#mozilla
#firefox
#fuckAI
#genAI
#fuckGenAI
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Onesock
18 days ago
Guerrilla traffic safety gets me excited
www.cbc.ca/news/canada/...
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Unsanctioned roadway barriers installed in the dark of night on Gabriola Island | CBC News
Just a few weeks after residents pleaded with local government to take action on "traffic chaos" at Descanso Bay Ferry Terminal on Gabriola Island, someone has gone rogue and installed delineators alo...
https://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/british-columbia/unsanctioned-barriers-gabriola-island-9.7017210
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Tom Flood
19 days ago
Forward.
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Ariel Troster
19 days ago
Three children in Ottawa have died of flu-related complications this season. PLEASE make sure to get vaccinated ASAP.
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Paris Marx
19 days ago
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.
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Libraries say budget proposal to end shipping program would be 'catastrophic | CBC News
Libraries across Canada say a proposed change in the federal budget bill would end their ability to ship books at reduced rates, threatening interlibrary loan programs and possibly forcing the closure...
https://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/newfoundland-labrador/canada-post-libraries-9.7013972
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Toon Dreessen
20 days ago
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
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Inspired by all the
#TreeByBike
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Harri Vaarala
20 days ago
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
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Jess McLaughlin, PhD (they/them)
21 days ago
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.
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mattie lubchansky
21 days ago
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
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🌹ᴀʟᴀɴ ᴇ ʜɪʟʟ
21 days ago
If you listen to The Bugle podcast... Andy Zaltzman's other life
#cricket
@zaltzcricket.bsky.social
@lastweektonight.com
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How John Oliver’s comedy partner transitioned from stand up to statistics
Andy Zaltzman was hooked on cricket after watching Ian Botham in the 1981 Ashes and is now a fixture on the BBC's Test Match Special
https://www.nytimes.com/athletic/6865671/2025/12/10/andy-zaltzman-tms-cricket-john-oliver/?source=athletic_user_shared_article_copylink&smid=url-share-ta
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Luke LeBrun
22 days ago
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?
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Cassie Smith (she/her)
22 days ago
"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
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Woman in her 70s dies after being struck by vehicle in Scarborough
A woman in her 70s has died after she was struck by a vehicle in Scarborough on Thursday morning, Toronto police say.
https://www.ctvnews.ca/toronto/article/woman-in-her-70s-dies-after-being-struck-by-vehicle-in-scarborough/
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On habite dans un pays embarrassant.
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Jason Markusoff
23 days ago
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.
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Aftermath
24 days ago
Uh oh, you have billions invested in generative AI:
aftermath.site/generative-ai-...
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Stephanie Carvin
25 days ago
LOL. No.
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rax ‘levon honkers’ king
25 days ago
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
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In Otter News
26 days ago
Oh Steve...
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Dave Wiskus
26 days ago
If this happens, I hope the headlines read “Eldest Boy Acquires Succession”
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David Moscrop
26 days ago
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.
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regular meghan 나영지 🇵🇸
28 days ago
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...
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Shawn Micallef
2 months ago
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_...
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In the Garden of Beasts - Wikipedia
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/In_the_Garden_of_Beasts
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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.
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Negro Frolics
29 days ago
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
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breachmedia.ca/mark-carneys...
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Mark Carney’s pact with Danielle Smith is climate carnage ⋆ The Breach
Author and analyst Seth Klein joins Desmond Cole to break down how Carney and Smith have fulfilled Big Oil’s entire wish list
https://breachmedia.ca/mark-carneys-pact-with-danielle-smith-is-climate-carnage/
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Larissa
about 1 month ago
Girl Guides of Canada has made a statement, likely in response to the cowardly decisions of Girlguiding UK. 🏳️⚧️
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