We’re fighting for our children. They deserve a safe cycling environment to: Get around on their own steam Go to school, the library Go for a fun ride with friends Join us in opposing Ford’s regressive policies. Send a letter opposing Bill 60 now! Please share! www.horizonottawa.ca/back_off_ford

WATCH: Seriously, if you’re following ANY bike-lane debate, you HAVE TO WATCH this news story. You actually can’t make this up. Ford claims without evidence that bike-lanes are bad for small business, and THE ACTUAL BUSINESS ASSOCIATION obliterates him with data. Safe bike-lanes mean business.

It’s a predictable pattern. Suburban and rural (mainly) voted to spend more, get less, align themselves with private interest to fund a project that doesn’t affect them, delivering lower value at the expense of urban quality of life and wrecking women’s pro hockey in the capital.

For some reason we’ve started attracting pigeons to the backyard.

Heads up! There is a leashed white dog, running free on Beechwood Avenue headed south near Jolliet Ave

Are we invading Poland

If you’re thinking about all the scandals and deadly interference/overreach decisions by Ontario Premier Doug Ford, and thinking “why do people keep voting for him,” remember most people don’t. Ford wins because of “first past the post” and the fact that the NDP & Liberals in Ontario split the vote.

NDP, Liberals and Greens split the vote.

Cats walk in a unique way called direct registering, where they leave only two footsteps instead of four. #FridayMorning #FridayVibes

Have you heard of “The Populist Playbook?” A few years ago, I posted what I still consider one of my most important messages. It was about “The Populist Playbook” that I’ve watched play out often over my 33+ years of city planning. Since then, it’s only gotten worse. Do the steps sound familiar?

Definitely Edinburgh, although I saw a chap putting up anti-20 minute cities stickers the other week…he was walking…in a town where you actually can access most things in 20minutes

Weeps in (some) #OttCity BIAs whining about street parking (while a city owned/built off street garage in hood goes largely unused) and other businesses celebrate the reopening of one pedestrian block in the Market in celebration of MoAR PaRkiNG

!!!! This is a DISGRACE and so deeply disturbing. Support Luke! Support Press Progress! Support journalism!!!

This breaks some people’s brains. In most cities, Costco stores fuel sprawl & car dependency. In Vancouver, our full-sized downtown Costco has residential towers above & a skytrain station next door. LOTS of customers don’t drive to it. We live a block from it. We call it “the convenience store.”

Someone is happy I’m home.

Mmmmm bc I’ve always thought something was missing from my almonds… my life is now complete….

Tremendous to hear some veteran Ottawa city councillors argue that Lansdowne 2.0 is needed because the previous overhaul that they voted for is crap.

Your saying that Gov comes up with procurement rules and then bends or breaks them to suit their own means…. No…. Surely not… say it ain’t so….. (sobs in GAC RFPs)….

The US is the world's largest oil and gas producer. Yet, "China is now making more money from exporting green technology than America makes from exporting fossil fuels."

Council appears set to disregard informed public opinion today, so OSEG will be the winner here. Question now is whether there will be any political fallout next year. cityofottawapolitics.substack.com/p/and-the-la...

Our pals @ontariobybike are looking for your input on your cycling activities in Ontario. Take the survey at: www.surveymonkey.com/r/2025Cyclin...

Window wall is a curtain wall that leaks; there’s a reason so many fail and a reason my insurer won’t cover their design. But it’s cheap. Black swan event on insurance horizon.

I used to be in favour of the Lansdowne 2.0. I've changed my mind ottawacitizen.com/news/local-n...

According to this ranking, Canada’s reputation has improved since 2024. We are now the 2nd most reputable country in the world. The United States has dropped from 30th to 48th in that same year, the biggest drop of any nation BY FAR. Its reputation-peers are now Kuwait, Algeria, Kazakhstan…

I have an idea: If city council votes to put more money into Lansdowne, the move could include renaming it to "Watson-Sutcliffe Park." Whatever resulted, good or bad, would be tied to their names indefinitely. ottawacitizen.com/news/local-n...

Wrote to the mayor's office with concerns, and received a very condescending and rather off-topic reply from somebody. Newly retired professor here. I'm really pretty good at spotting when someone has used AI to write an email. Not exactly the A-team when it comes to communications, is it?

Residents and people who followed the story and read the reports are turning on Lansdowne 2.0. The more you know, the more it’s no. ottawacitizen.com/news/local-n...

This is a great piece from Bruce Deachman, on Lansdowne 2.0 and responsibility. ottawacitizen.com/news/local-n...

“The reason we’re here is that the rosy projections from Lansdowne 1.0 never materialized. The lesson from that shouldn’t be to double down.”

Brrrrr.

🤑Landsdowne 2.0 💸stop the steal💰your grandkids will thank you🙏 youtu.be/w4jT771xinA @horizonottawa.bsky.social @betterottawa.bsky.social @seandevine9.bsky.social @jleiper.bsky.social @lainejohnson.bsky.social @neilsara.bsky.social @davidreevely.bsky.social @toondreessen.bsky.social #bellscorners

I think the charge will change their home city for any of the cities in #canada who won’t squeeze them into smaller barns or not allow them to compete for weekend schedules with the OHL who will always take precedent

This is too big of a decision to screw up, but the Mayor with his one track mind just keeps going ahead.

“In this moment of political darkness, New York will be the light”. - Mamdani victory speech. What a speech. Cities are great.

“Ottawa has an opportunity to lead, not follow. The team is thriving. The fan base is real. The moment is now.” Absolutely: the city can lead or cave to the profit driven plan (profit that may never appear) to spend more and get less. It’s on council to set the path and our future.

“For years, facilities were designed around men’s schedules and men’s teams. Women were told to make do. And now, just as women’s hockey has earned the right to think bigger, the city is planning to think smaller.” Lansdowne 2.0 is a bad deal for Ottawa on so many fronts.

Lansdowne 2.0 doesn’t give Ottawa what it needs. The plan is built around the limits of a public-private deal that leaves the city with hundreds of millions in new debt for a project that won’t serve residents well.

Earlier this year, I met a Croatian journalist who was in the US doing a piece on America’s politics and I asked her what surprised her. And she said, “What you all call the far left is just being normal.”

Brillant campaign. Brillant ads. Congratulations on this historic win!

BREAKING: Zohran Mamdani wins the New York City mayoral race, NBC News projects. nbcnews.to/4nIzNUC

POV: You’re finishing drawings while the ghosts of deadlines lingers behind you 👻 Happy Halloween!

Watch the recording for more information. www.youtube.com/live/QggO3gd...

What do you think is most important for Lansdowne? We joined the Lansdowne 2.0 Public Forum. The conversation touched on community priorities, green space, arena use, & city planning, giving residents the chance to share. It was a great reminder that shaping our city takes community voices.

My latest, on Lansdowne, the risks we don’t know and the lost potential to create something we can all get behind. Make better #PlacesForPeople @neilsara.bsky.social @shawnmenard.bsky.social @jleiper.bsky.social @jchianello.bsky.social @mayormarksutcliffe.bsky.social bit.ly/3LmTt2T

They're represented in the small minority of urban councillors. This stupidly huge muni ensures the rural and suburban views rule the downtown.

No city councillor should be so financially illiterate that this sounds like a good plan. #OttPoli

Worth nothing some important facts about this plan: property taxes are integral to financial numbers and depend on taxes from the towers being used to offset the costs, rather than going towards all city revenues; that’s not how property taxes work anywhere else in city 1/

Ottawa Auditor General doubles down on her risk assessment for Lansdowne 2.0: www.cbc.ca/news/canada/...