I don’t immediately know how to attribute a statement issued via a chatbot, but it’s not this.

Family of 4 headed downtown on a Sunday for some wandering, shopping and exploration: $16.40 each way, $32.80 round trip. Parking for 2h $6 And we wonder why ppl drive.

OC Transpo in two acts: Offer free service, then offer no service at peak demand.

OK, OK, I'm going outside.

Meanwhile, here's Mark Sutcliffe proudly saying the city's housing plan is "being described as the most ambitious municipal housing plan in Canada." ottawacitizen.com/news/sutclif... Yes, BY THE <sputters> THE, THE MAYOR. www.cbc.ca/news/canada/...

Twenty-five years after Ottawa's amalgamation, still the same fantasy. Nepean was debt-free largely because it could offload expensive infrastructure to the regional government and expensive social services to the smaller central City of Ottawa. Not its inherent virtue. www.cbc.ca/news/canada/...

Most delightful citation I've seen for a new appointment to the Order of Canada. "That's 'Nardwuar the Human Serviette, *C.M.*'" www.gg.ca/en/appointme...

I guess I'll do some year-end self promotion, seeing as it's the style at the time. This is the story I worked the hardest on, stressed out about the most and hope made a difference this year

It's one thing for a government official to say they have no comment on a possible story. As the flack says, no reporter is ENTITLED to responses. Not acknowledging an inquiry at all, however, invites a reporter to keep trying to make sure you've seen it. You really can't get mad about that.

Hey, fellow eastern Ontarians/western Quebecers/etc.—there could be some icy trouble coming. We got a little portable battery pack thing a couple of years ago after some prolonged power outages. I just dug it out of the basement closet and it was dead. Now it's charging. Plug in your pluggables!

Cannot fault the canal crews’ commitment.

I know it's only meant to be cute, but I'm always bugged when the government suggests that Santa Claus needs its permission. www.canada.ca/en/transport...

It's a little late this year, but it's a grey and chilly morning hereabouts and it's time to warm up a bit with the annual reading of @acoyne.bsky.social 's finest column. nationalpost.com/opinion/andr...

In 2023 I became obsessed with videos of dads in cargo shortswaiting in parking lots during Taylor Swift's Eras Tour. So when she came to town, I grabbed a camera and headed down to talk to them. I thought it'd be funny. It turned out to be something else entirely.

"I would not rule out treachery" is a hell of a thing for a writer at the notionally respectable Atlantic to say without relating any attempt to find out the truth of what happened IN A PIECE ARGUING FOR MORE OF THAT.

Good news: The Department of War says NORAD's going to be all ready to track Santa tomorrow night, at war.gov. www.war.gov/News/News-St...

He’s gonna end CUSMA this week, isn’t he

Westinghouse is a Canadian-owned company that wants to build the next generation of Canada's nuclear reactors. Natural Resources Canada warned its minister Tim Hodgson that the Trump administration sees Westinghouse's reactors as an instrument of American influence. thelogic.co/news/exclusi...

I’m not a lawyer and I know of half a dozen of these crawl-under-your-desk-and-die humiliations. How do lawyers keep doing this?

The annual question: which one goes in the stuffing, and which 13 go into the cupboard to wither for three months before returning to the earth as slow compost?

The U.S. Department of Homeland Security has a searchable database of "criminal aliens" it has arrested, which it calls the "Worst of the Worst." You can filter by country and learn that a number of them are Canadians: www.dhs.gov/wow?combine=...

In awe of these gorgeous, evocative images my colleagues — the photographers of The Canadian Press — shot this year. www.thecanadianpressnews.ca/multimedia/t...

concluding that people don't need their newspapers to be accurate is professional self-harm done for no particular reason other than to justify layoffs and satisfy the AI lords

The cultural impact of Rob Reiner cannot be understated. Legend isn't big enough a word. It goes to 11. You can't handle the truth. As you wish. I'll have what she's having. I'm your number one fan. You guys wanna see a dead body? The very idea of a bucket list. The West Wing. All from his movies.

I'd certainly have been thinking about stomping off and hiring a taxi or something. In decent weather—not last night, admittedly, which was snowy and blowy—I'd have been, like, "I could even WALK it if I have to."

Colleague @kevincarmichael.bsky.social begins his exit interview with outgoing competition commissioner Matthew Boswell with the question: "You’re a hard rock guy, then?" (Trust Kevin. He knows what he's about.) thelogic.co/news/the-int...

So we’re not salting or gritting this year, I guess? Just scraping the sidewalks down for maximum slipperiness? Every snowfall so far has been like this.

A year ago, Kevin O’Leary announced plans to have a colossal data centre starting in northwestern Alberta in 2027. How’s it going, we wondered. O’Leary Ventures wouldn’t say. So I went to Grande Prairie to see. https://thelogic.co/news/the-big-read/wonder-valley-data-centre-alberta-kevin-oleary/

In other municipal news, Miami's elected its first female mayor and first Democrat to the job since the last century. But let's take a sec to appreciate the quality of the candidates.

Everything else aside, a veteran politician wrote a whole op-ed about how the failures of city policies he identifies are the fault of the people who, unlike him, vote against those policies.

This is partly a story about Microsoft expanding its data centres in Canada, but it's mostly about how we define "sovereignty" over our data and key digital infrastructure. I think Microsoft makes about the strongest case possible, for a company subject to U.S. law. thelogic.co/news/microso...

The 2024 budget talked about working up a plan for "regulatory sandboxes"—temporary exemptions from restrictions to allow experiments with new things, especially products, that existing regulations didn't anticipate. It's in a few places, like this:

The Globe and Mail published an editorial warning that Lansdowne 2.0 might not be a great plan, nearly a month after council voted to do it and with a photo of LeBreton Flats, which is not mentioned in the editorial. www.theglobeandmail.com/opinion/edit...

They should teach this news release in PR training programs.

There's enough inaccurate or concerning information in the way in which @en.ottawa.ca is communicating about the 2026 Budget that I felt it should be addressed. And it's the concept of $252M in "savings" that I want to talk about, because this information is being used falsely. 1/

oof. www.bbc.com/news/article...

CPAC is absolutely vital and if we can't find the (relative) pocket change to preserve it what are we even doing here.

listen, i've seen a lot of bullshit that turned my stomach and sent me to therapy etc but lmao this shit's got every gc buzzing like "sorry what the fuck" LITERALLY ALL OF US THINK THIS IS WEIRD

In principle, the CRTC pays costs for groups that make public-interest cases in its hearings, so that business and industry isn't the only perspective it hears. In practice, the CRTC can take so long to make those payments that the advocacy groups are dying out. thelogic.co/news/crtc-ad...

One effect of "cash bail," which Ontario is herewith seeking to institute, is that poorer people stay in jail awaiting trial—losing housing, work and so on—even on petty charges while richer people don't. news.ontario.ca/en/release/1...

Faked sales claims. AI-driven hunts for malefactors jn a “high-trust company.” Executives heading for the exits. @aleksagan.bsky.social has an exclusive report on bad doings at #Shopify.

Sure, yes, adults shouldn’t go out in public in their jammies, as a general rule. And yet maybe people in air travel could ask themselves: “Why are so many of our paying customers so furious?” “Their clothes are too comfortable” might not be a complete answer.

I guess if we ask Americans to read this story by colleague @joannasmith.bsky.social it could make the president mad. But she talked to several American entrepreneurs in small manufacturing businesses about how tariffs are hurting them and their companies specifically. thelogic.co/news/the-big...

Not over until he’s formally known as Larry Mountbatten Windsor.

Saab wants very much for Canada to buy its Gripen jet fighters. Its chair, Swedish magnate Marcus Wallenberg is with his king on a state visit and talked to me and @joannasmith.bsky.social about just how the competition heated up again and what Saab is offering. thelogic.co/news/exclusi...

The "supercharge beauty" stuff was promo B.S., but it's all actually pedestrian stuff. L'Oréal will use AI to make ads, and for a product recommendation tool.

POV: you are a young woman celebrating a recent academic success