Standing outside the gates of the Qu'Appelle Indian residential school.This a haunted dark place. A 5-year-old taken through these gates had a lower chance of survival than a Canadian soldier fighting in WW2. The red dress and the orange shirt hang on the gates. We remember #orangeshirtday

Did you know that drivers don't care and will just plow through flex posts and maybe people too because they're speeding and/or distracted?

Other G7 capitals have done sim; London has made transformative change, but no one can hold a candle to the change that #Paris has undergone in terms of making #PlacesForPeople Let’s remember that #OttCity could’ve done this as well; we’ve had 20y of austerity. Time for change @jleiper.bsky.social

A double-decker busload of people being held up by a few dozen parked cars, parallel parkers, and left turners. What a mess. #bankstreetbuslanes

Imagine Lebrton Flats, housing the War Museum & Holocaust Memorial, becoming a site for a new UN HQ; as an act of reconciliation and hope for better tomorrow, could provide homes, markets and international places for dialogue, trade, research and diplomacy. Dream big #OttCity

This is painfully slow. Literally walking pace. But no need for bus lanes on the weekend or anything. Only weekday rush hours, and only in one direction at a time. Street parking is just such an amazing use of this limited space! /s #bankstreetbuslanes

Bring the United Nations to Montreal.

I'm a graduate of Punk Rock University. (I'm the airborne guy with the bass) As kids we organized our own shows, put out records, toured by sleeping in punk squats. We sang about fighting fascism and racism. Now it is here. This is what Joe Strummer trained us for. I'm ready.

Trump is threatening to sabotage HIS OWN GOVERNMENT if there is a shutdown. Ok. Thats dumb but you own that. Why are we not hearing Dem leaders saying that? “Well that sounds reckless, Americans won’t be happy about that.”

This was such a terrible decision to make. We agreed to safer streets, investing into alternative modes of transportation, and more in our official plan and the transportation master plan. What's the point of any of that if a loud minority can undo all of it? ottawacitizen.com/news/manor-p...

Maybe if he had a security clearance he could meet them too.

At some point, #OttCity will need to stop insisting that cars have front-door access to every single destination in the city. Particularly in the downtown core, where our Official Plan explicitly commits to prioritizing safety and sustainable transportation modes. ottawacitizen.com/news/cars-on...

It takes a lot of balls to say this when you've defunded the whole service and allowed for massive service cuts.

Politicians like Pierre Poilievre and Donald Trump empower the most hateful and ignorant people among us to say publicly what they would only previously say privately. They provide validation for extremism. They sell misinformation based on fears mixed with hopelessness.

Show me the money! OCTranspo doesn't run a deficit, it's just not funded properly in the first place

I called my Mom to see how she is doing. She broke her arm but was out again this morning with the Grandmothers Against Genocide vigil. She said, "Do you know someone named Timothy Snyder?" Wow Mom. He is the expert on fascism. She said he took a picture of her sign. My Mom rocks.

To anyone who came out to the open house yesterday about bus lanes on bank... Wow, what an amazing amount of support. Unanimously every speaker, besides the BIA, said they want the city to be BOLDER! We've written a summary of the event here : strongtownsottawa.ca/2025/09/25/t...

“It is America’s shadow made flesh, a rotting pumpkin idol proving that when a nation kneels before money, power, and spite, it doesn’t just lose its soul—it shits out this bloated obscenity and calls it a leader.”

I get that the news cycle is packed right now, but I just heard from a colleague at the Smithsonian that this is fully a GIANT SQUID BEING EATEN BY A SPERM WHALE and it’s possibly the first ever confirmed video according to a friend at NOAA 10 YEAR OLD ME IS LOSING HER MIND (a thread 🧵)

This may have been the most insane and incoherent four days of his presidency. Tylenol, the U.N., I hate my opponents, other countries are going to hell, this escalator's broken, I'm mad at a TV comedian, I like Ukraine now. It really feels as if some minimal tether to reality has snapped.

It was bonkers. A living breathing version of the often unfair but this time spot on disparaging stereotype of an American.

They'll be doing Case Studies about Trump and MAGA in postgraduate Abnormal Psychology courses for centuries.

Heads up folks on wheels, and doggos on paws, there's a large pile of broken glass in the green painted bike lane beside the Newport restaurant on Churchill at Scott. I don't think there's any point in 311ing it, so I'll try to remember to borrow a little hand broom from work today.

This watermain is from 1976. Ottawa has 1009km of watermains older than this one. Council just deferred $2 billion in identified water and sewer renewal work for the next decade. You're going to see a lot more of this happening in the future.

Don't think I've ever felt this embarrassed to be an American. There's shame and anger too. But mostly embarrassment. We're the laughingstock of the developed world. And we should be.

Trump is aggressively ignorant. He does not learn, actively resists it, and has surrounded himself with people who enable his stupidity.

MAGA, ignorant, and proud of it

Donald Trump has shit for brains, and that’s being polite.

Tylenol is about to be rich from the Fed govt after the ABSOLUTELY for certain lawsuit

I don’t know about you, but I need a Tylenol.

Apparently, it’s socially unacceptable to compare anyone or anything to Hitler. Mention Hitler, and you’ll be shouted down with a chorus of “Godwin’s Law”. Well sod that. Until we start comparing Trump to Hitler, we’re unprepared for what is barrelling towards us. 🧵1/4

Morning rush-hour near London's Oval station. Trains pass underground every few minutes and there's a continuous flood of bicycles, but still there's one lane of gridlocked traffic. Your city will always have exactly as much gridlock as it makes room for.

the Moody yards should be covered in solar panels

#Art #Angles #BlueSkyArtShow #Photography #Photo #Minnesota #AlphabetChallenge #WeekLforLines

Traffic in DT and the market is a complete disaster. It’s clearly evident lots of people want to be here, but the problem, as always, is cars. We know the solution. We have the answers. We just lock the courage to make both decisions. @brenttoderian.bsky.social

Time to get a new starting word I guess! Wordle 1,553 1/6* 🟧🟧🟧🟧🟧

The first time an Alberta government invoked the notwithstanding clause, public outrage forced a reversal in less than 24 hours. I wish to God Albertans would show the same moral fury now, when school children are outed & bullied by the government that is supposed to protect them. #ableg #abpoli

Japan has a wrestling camp for kids where at the end they have a show match in front of their parents to show off what they learned. Thought you'd enjoy this.

Antifa

boiling the ocean for the chance to have an app not tell you how to make a sauce properly

Hey look, a dead canary.

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Because it is underfunded. Saved you a click.

And RIP The Washington Post too, while we’re at it.

Far as I can tell, Robert Redford was: * successful at everything he tried * genuinely intelligent & insightful * desired by women * envied by men * an absolute mensch to everyone he dealt with * a tireless, lifelong philanthropist ... and he died peacefully in his sleep. 10/10 life. No notes.

Guess What? Canadian! - Standard Time

It’s long past time I flood the planet again.