City Council passed Ottawa’s “Bubble By‑law” this week. I voted against it - and I’m comfortable with my vote. Not because I oppose safe access, and not because I dismiss the fear many residents feel, but because of how this by‑law chose to address those fears. 1/

Given the fact that the media in Ottawa is almost fully captured by Sutcliffe, these new polling numbers from Liaison are pretty remarkable. Under water on every major issue including MASSIVE unpopularity of Lansdowne 2.0. Source: www.reddit.com/r/ottawa/s/B...

Proof I never delete any email. From the early beta days.

NASA is slashing their budget farther and faster than 🇨🇦 so we might end up with a higher proportion of astronauts.

Good news about 998 helping people. Canada was a year or two behind, is there any 🇨🇦 data out yet? @ottawapublichealth.ca

The @ottawasensfr.bsky.social aren’t.

The Canadian Press has a live stream of Toronto fire crews melting Drake's ice block 😭☠️ www.youtube.com/watch?v=B5Ab...

Happy Earth Day to all my fans 🌎🌍🌏

Congrats to the new Apple ceo John. After Steve and Tim, the next two will be Mike and Dave.

🚨 BREAKING: 25+ of Canada's leading rights orgs, privacy scholars, and legal experts just delivered a joint letter to Parliament. The ask? Kill #BillC22. The reason? It would be "the most expansive invasion of Canadian privacy rights in modern history." 🧵 openmedia.org/press/item/c... #cdnpoli 1/

Coachella is trying to wipe all of the footage of The Strokes protest set so I’m gonna post it here. The last images on the screen made me cry.

It’s really a question of where he hears things from and where he doesn’t. Far as I can tell the opposition to closing the Ontario Science Center is fairly “loud and clear”. Why hasn’t he heard that?

ALERT: Canada 🇨🇦 has a new lawful access bill on the dock that will impose * mandatory wired-in surveillance infrastructure on all service providers (i.e., backdoors) * that is undertaken through secret orders * and will include mandatory metadata retention 😬 www.justice.gc.ca/eng/csj-sjc/...

“Why would we, ... in the name of protecting people, create a whole other legal mandate that requires the collection and storage of even more personally identifying information that would be subject to either data thieves or data breaches?” EFF’s @aaronmackey.bsky.social told @nbcnews.com.

Traffic standard truths

Too much Canadian content in one article. 🤯

There are still zero 7-Eleven stores within an hour of Ottawa. We live in a 7-Eleven desert.

Huge win for 🇨🇦 Canada’s MDA Space in this Amazon-Globalstar-Apple sandwich. www.aboutamazon.com/news/company...

Notifications for deleted shouldn't remain in any OS notification database, and we've asked Apple to address this. In the meantime, you can prevent any preview text from your Signal messages from appearing in your notifications. Signal Settings > Notifications > Show “No Name or Content”

Happy Friday everyone. I’ll be joining a few local celebrities and judging end-of-term technology projects down at the local college.

Great. Can we waste bandwidth on higher fidelity sound, not video, thx.

Anyone else not showering for 11 days in solidarity with Jeremy Hansen?

Still driving one of the few EVs built in 2014. Range is a bit weak, but gets the kid to hockey practice, in Canada, in the middle of winter.

They’ve had real Wi-Fi on the international space station for a while.

I went back to capture what the astronauts said in full when the clock was stopped at T-10 minutes and they were asked if they were go for launch: This is Victor. We are going for our families. This is Christina. We are going for our teammates. This is Jeremy. We are going for all humanity.

I watched a Falcon Heavy launch at Banana Creek a few years ago. Nothing like seeing a rocket launch live. The tv sound doesn’t capture it.

We all thought the 3GB was an April fools joke.

Hope everyone involved has a great day tomorrow and the weather at Cape Canaveral is perfect. 🚀🌖

@gandersocial.ca old pal, got any more early access invites to send out before the end of the quarter?

Aka they just generate the text that users are asking them to generate.

It’s gonna be rough

Should we all reintroduce our baseball allegiances for a quick refresher? No explanation. -Jays for the AL. 🧢🐦‍⬛ -Cubs for the NL. 🧢©️ Blue hats either way.

Need some advice on talking to parents about social media use too. The 60+ crowd is horribly susceptible to fraud/scams and generally having their brains cooked by the infinite scroll.

Wealthsimple and other fintechs spent over a decade trying to convince regulators and ordinary consumers that they can be responsible alternatives to conventional financial institutions. This is an odd, but also entirely foreseeable, move. www.theglobeandmail.com/business/art...

I would very much like it if somebody asked senior politicians who hold elected office whether they think that prediction markets should be legal in Canada. Let's get Mark Carney on the record about this. And Doug Ford. And hell Pierre Poilievre and [federal NDP whoever] and Marit Stiles too.

Dear Ottawa tourism: Don't let the Mayor get his hands on tourism promotion for the city. Poor sad Xmas tree.

Modernizing our residential streets to make them safer for vulnerable road users shouldn't be the heated debate we often see. The tragic loss of Peter Clark, school crossing guard in Barrhaven, was avoidable. If you have info to share, pls contact the OPS: 613-236-1222, x2345

I want a 100-car funereal motorcade of city vehicles for Peter Clark's procession the way we do for cops. I want the roads closed, the City flag flown at half-mast, and it to be covered on the radio the way we do when a police officer dies.

Yaaas. This is how we did retweets in 2009!

If you’re wondering why they have 3 massive warehouses in Ottawa now, it’s because the Quebec ones unionized a few years back so they closed them all. Now they sort all the Quebec deliveries here.

Would it matter to you if your cellphone provider were forced to preserve information about where and when you used your phone, and who you were in touch with, for possible use by police? Why I think this new power in Bill C-22 violates the Charter: www.robertdiab.ca/posts/metada...

My dudes, the AI was invented in our universities: Waterloo, Toronto, Montreal and Edmonton.

Afroman found not liable. A complete victory for the rapper and a massive unforced error from the cops and their attorney. www.billboard.com/pro/afroman-...

Do EVs even need “dealerships”? Just order online and deliver them to peoples houses. Build Your Dreams amirite?

Holy sh*t. Wab Kinew's government just made using data to increase prices an unfair business practice. This is historic for Canada. *Proposed bill bans suppliers from charging higher prices to certain consumers based on personalized or algorithmically determined information. t.co/ZugFOj7983

This is really wild.

Just 700TB. Not much was exfiltrated.

UPDATE: 🇨🇦's house just REFUSED to accept a Senate amendment that would put a sunset clause on PERMANENT immunity to privacy law for federal political parties! LPC, CPC, and NDP did not have the courage to defend their choice; only @elizabethemay.bsky.social spoke to the obvious issues in #BillC4.

“Too often dismissed as a consumer protection issue, data governance is a core condition of economic competitiveness and national security. Data sovereignty is ultimately about self-respect, and it’s way overdue.” Good stuff from @vassb.bsky.social www.theglobeandmail.com/business/com...