This was a scurrilous ad hominem attack on the integrity of City Council colleagues by @timtierney.ca. During a Term of Council when we've all sought to avoid the petty divisiveness of the last term, Councillor Tierney sadly brought us all lower yesterday. 1/ ottawacitizen.com/opinion/budg...

Speaking directly about Councillors Leiper and Troster, he said: "What is surprising is their unwillingness to prioritize community safety." You do not accuse fellow councillors of not caring about the safety of their communities. That crosses a line. It's unacceptable and merits an apology. 10/

What Sutcliffe did with the $1 million bullshit announcement is leverage non-political services to intentionally subvert the ability of city council to even have a discussion and he should be taken to the carpet for it. Non-stop cuz he’s just getting started. Marks done this 2x already #ottawa

Is your councillor a chronic no-voter on city budgets? | Opinion - Ottawa Citizen Or is he a ‘Yes Man’? No mention of housing emergency, mental health crisis & poison drug epidemic. This Councillor should know better after almost 20 yrs on Council that his ward differs from inner urban areas

Tierney blames downtown councillors for the rise in crime for supporting the ANCHOR program that has been, by all accounts, a success at diverting mental health calls away from @ottawapolice.bsky.social. Tierney's status quo approach has changed nothing.

Tierney says using ANCHOR is bad because "crisis workers are not trained emergency response teams" while sidestepping the often-demonstrated fact that police are not trained to deal with mental health or substance-abuse crises. If police could handle this ANCHOR wouldn't exist!

The Nobel Prize committee should announce the World Cup winner tomorrow

This is pretty decent. This is why we'll never be a 51st state. We still have legislators that haven't given up the fight on our institutions. The US political system is so apathetic, it's built on bad faith stalling which "modern conservatives" are trying to emulate here.

I think the best approach the city can take is to use the loosest interpretation of the legislation and move ahead with projects. I don't think Ford is actually paying attention to Ottawa.

Giving $1 million of city money to pay for private security in the Byward Market is outrageous. All it will do is displace more unwell people into Centretown and surrounding communities. And announcing this at a press conference before consulting council? Not cool. www.cbc.ca/news/canada/...

Do you find yourself in conversations with people who like to talk about how "they would never ride a bus" or who worry about "bus stigma"? I was just reminded of this 2017 article of mine, which tries to blow all that nonsense away. Hope you find it useful. www.bloomberg.com/news/article...

This was a campaign event. I have great respect for Chief Stubbs, Chief Hutt, and Chief Poirier, and I think that it was inappropriate to use them like this. www.cbc.ca/news/canada/...

Canada should do this. www.ctvnews.ca/world/articl...

I let CBC Music curate the majority of my music.

If you’re mad about life being unaffordable, you should maybe look at how the requirement to own a car to live in #canada is being more and more explicitly forced on everyone. Mortgage rates and fucking gas prices ain’t it buds. Your household needing to own 3 cars is more likely the problem.

We have nice new fancy colour screens in our new Line 2 stations that just say "Every 12 minutes" because the project to get real-time train locations in the central database keeps being deferred. So, these screens we spent money on are now useless.

This is Mr. Paworotti. His favorite Christmas song is Howl-lelujah. If you'll excuse him, his solo is coming up. 13/10 (TT: therealpaworotti)

Are these "continuous improvements", or sleight of hand? Obfuscation, deflection, misrepresentation, whatever you want to call it. It's the pre-election budget, and someone's pumping the tires, but the tires have holes. That "hisssss" you hear is the sound of credibility leaking.

While "peace" negotiations continue, remember that Russia could simply stop the war at any time.

Franklin the Turtle was created by Canadians Paulette Bourgeois (writer) and Brenda Clark (illustrator) in the 1980s. The books were written to teach children about self-respect, friendship, courage, honesty, empathy and overcoming fears.

At what point will the conservatives realize that the only reason that they lost the last election was the sole fault of Pierre Poilievre. He’s an asshole. Everyone knows it. He is only in it for the attainment of personal power. Not for Canadians.

We should all take our Charge kazoos (or any kazoo for that matter) down to Ottawa City Hall on Dec 10th for a rousing group rendition of ‘Yakety Sax’ for budget vote day.

That sounds a lot like Festivus 😄

Imagine the hole in Alberta’s budget when the price & demand for oil is in long-term decline in 2030s as a result of the energy transition and increased demand for clean energy. Not nostalgia for the past, it’s about winning the future. Just economics, folks.

Insane not to close off that street for the duration of the holiday season.

Make them dictated bus lanes. The bikes can use them too

Something that doesn't violate Bill 60: modal filters. They make the entire street much safer to bike on without actually removing any motor-vehicle lanes. Use them more! Also, putting a contra-flow lane on Percy Street won't violate Bill 60 either. Combine that with modal filters and: fietsstraat🤩

That's ridiculous! How about we build it anyway and then sort it out in the courts.

Inject 24/7 bus lanes into my veins. Want to gain ridership? Have buses repeatedly blow by stagnant traffic.

As a low woodwind player, sitting in front of percussion or brass was always good for a little hearing loss. But knowing the joy that one crack brings, like the slap of 2 hinged 1x4s for the whip crack in Sleigh Ride, it's worth it every time.

It will never get built, but it's still irresponsible to even consider another pipeline. Albertans need to come to grips with a future without oil revenue.

Civil disobedience in Ottawa - the NCC closes off stairs everywhere because of course no one wants to walk in winter, right? And the barriers go up on when someone’s calendar says they go up, irrespective of whether there is actually snow on the ground. Let people go at their own risk.

It is SO irritating to walk or bike past a chained-off stairway or bridge with a "not winter maintained" sign on it that went up on schedule on November 1st, with temperatures around 5C and absolutely not a flake of snow on the ground

one of the coolest things about ChatGPT is how you can actually just never use it. you can fill your whole entire life with simply not once using it. it's incredible.

Colleen Jones asked me to interview her a couple of months ago during a chemotherapy appointment. She told me to write one heck of a story. I hope I did her proud. About always believing something wonderful is about to happen. My tribute to Colleen: www.cbc.ca/sports/olymp...

I work in the building trades in BC. I work on O&G projects, pipelines, LNG plants, and in refineries. It pays my bills, provides for my family, and allows us to live a decent life. Even I don't want another goddamn oil pipeline. 🧵

As tradespeople, we have transferable skills. We can do the exact same work we do on pipelines and O&G facilities at hydro dams, nuclear plants, on windmills and at solar farms. Give me some work where I don't have to compromise my ethics to make a living. 🧵

Colleen Jones was larger than life. I’m devastated by her death. And will be forever inspired by how she lived. And fought. And loved. More than anything I’ll miss our laughs and lattes. And am so grateful for every second we had together. I love you, Coll.

Canada should be focused on nation-building. Instead we are getting sucked into a needless pipeline war to appease Moe and Danielle Smith. If the PM tries to kill the tanker ban without consulting BC premier Eby or First Nations he will be in for the fight of his life. And he will lose.

It’s one more reason that I’m advocate for a re-think of Ottawa’stransportation plans, centred around the transformation of CN Rail’s Beachburg Corridor into a major east-west transit corridor connecting our city’s strategic centres and intersecting existing transit lines. 3/

Pierre Poilievre attacks experts because he is a creation of the political establishment. He has never had an adult job outside of politics. His entire political and ideological worldview has been formed in a consequence free bubble of entitlement. He is the only expert he needs.

Google at its peak was basically the best information retrieval system in human history and they and every competitor decided going from there to “you didn’t want answers you wanted half-assed auto-complete 80%-wrong hallucinations” in a few years was the right idea

Today’s xkcd made me cry. In a good way. xkcd.com/3172/

Does a 10 minute headway on the LRT constitute "enhanced" service?

OC Transpos projected budget is like $930M this year. It'd also cost about $1M to bring back 5m Line 1 headways during off-peak. $2M to notably make the service better. This is the City of nickle-and-diming things we need, while handing developers $500M because said businessmen suck at business.

We’re about to invade Venezuela because trump wants their oil. No other reason. The airspace has been cleared. Embassies are being evacuated. Flights are being canceled. He’s going to kill people for oil.

I think the most important question is which is best to fight in the current drone warfare environment?

I don't understand how anyone can watch how blatantly Grok is manipulated to answer the way ownership desires it to and then act like the other LLM chatbots couldn't possibly be similarly but less obviously compromised to produce responses in whatever way corporate interests and priorities dictate.