We biked to hockey today almost entirely on all ages and abilities infrastructure. And then brought our bikes on the train back home because kiddo was tired after his games. This is what having good quality transportation options is all about!

I took an overnight train from Milan to Sicily, and the train drove onto a ferry, we all got off and enjoyed the boat, and then the train drove off the ferry.

Just a regular day in #ottawa

There used to be a speed camera here.

This is my politics

So it is possible to suspend a police officer without pay in Ontario afterall . . .

So Doly Begum left the #ontario NDP to run for the federal liberals, to replace Bill Blair, and fucking John Tory endorses her? Jesus it’s all meaningless bullshit huh… and she doesn’t publicly disown his endorsement? Shit this is depressing #onpoli #cdnpoli

I think you know who to call.

Current status of the Strait of Hormuz dispute

"Gonna just say some shit now and you're all gonna clap" *clapping*

Damn, new roads

first in my bloodline to see someone get excommunicated by a community note

Kevin O’Learys like, well Canadians are dumb enough to let me build one that requires the power of the fucking sun to run it and water is infinite in northern Alberta

Not made by an LLM that’s for sure. Fucking love this

Okay CTA. This is a good sign.

Manor park wet dream right here

You know what doesn’t fucking matter living in a city with the lowest tax rate increases? Lowest tax rate increases when your city requires most households own multiple vehicles to live here. The field is so wide open on this and it makes me crazy no one is even trying to change the story frame

I find it interesting that his comms shop is recommending this as he reelection key message. It’s not part of a defensive strategy tho cuz there’s a lot of vulnerabilities with this messaging schtick #ottawa

Honestly I'm kinda shook at how cheap these systems are to set up and operate. 10 mil for a city-wide system with such a big transformational potential is not-close the best bang we can get for our buck.

The Bike Share Memo and Feasibility Study is now released. We’ve been waiting for some time for this. You can read the documents here which highlight the potential for a national capital public program. www.shawnmenard.ca/city_release...

Every street in the core should have space like this built into it in, with less dead trees naturally #ottawa

Also this. Her professional experience doesn’t eclipse the batshit positions she’s taken, which are not from like 2016 or whatever. Big tent is like describing a barn that has cows, sheep, pigs and chickens in it at this point

Majority governments are bullshit. Proportional representing is so desperately needed but is antithetical to the types of power people want to wield in #canada And having Gladu and Karina Gould are now caucus buddies? The one who ran for leader with that policy suite? Fuck all the way off

Betting on war is so incredibly fucked up.

So is/was NYC so dysfunctional that there was genuinely this much low hanging fruit just hanging around? Or does my city government not know what fruit is, never mind if it's low hanging?

Caught moments of the #ottawa finance committee meeting today and it’s sure fucking wild to think those putting out these rosy projections of the state of the city live in remotely the same world we do. Political leaders are generationally not living up to the urgency of this moment

hmm, what if i told you that it wasn’t

(after killing a million Iranians) “Mr President what are you going to do about the rising price of groceries

We've a mainstream north american/western culture that has completely vilianized righteous protest.

Yep. #Canada doesn’t have the stones, we should refuse but will keep pretending it’s all fine.

Reason #7: Price insulation from energy wars started by psychopaths. www.bikebike.ca/blog/6-reaso...

Federal conservatives are never going to fucking shut up about high speed rail, even though Dougie is gutting laws and doing expropriation for his fucking 413 highway and Danielle Smith in #alberta will most certainly do some distraction announcement for rail between Calgary and Edmonton #cdnpoli

Guys, that's the Earth there on the right, past the moon. That's us.

my parents on the moon launch mom: why are they going to the moon dad: same reason we go to your brother in Australia- some people like going very far away to a place where you die if you go outside

Earth behind the moon is quite something to see. #Artemis

Orion capsule ➡️ 🌕 ➡️ 🌎

The live stream is wild and beautiful

It was awful enough during his first term, but the insistence of the news media to treat Trump press conferences as if they are normal press conferences is one of the reasons the United States is not a democracy anymore. No reaction from journalists to outright lies and unbelievable statements.

I'm curious what impact appointing Regional Chairs and providing them with 'strong powers', who (at least in Waterloo Region) also sit on the Police Service Board, will have on the police budget process. #WRcouncil #WRPS www.therecord.com/news/waterlo...

I wanna be clear tho: I think Jeff should use the strong mayor powers too if he was ever in a chance to get elected. No new roads, road widenings etc for 4 yrs. Road renewals come with infrastructure essential to live without car. And get busses. All the money for busses and transit staff #ottawa

$100 he is. Having your hat in the ring early doesn’t matter this year cuz keeping your name in the media cycle is virtually impossible. Quick, who’s the dude in Dunrobin? Tim’s gunna go hard for police funding and his signature policy will be the southern ring road #ottawa

I agree. I hope they stay high so people change their behaviour (drive less, take public transit, get on an ebike). However, high gas prices also means high food prices, unfortunately. Not that getting rid of taxes would help with that.

Saw a post from a Canadian in Lebanon earlier that read something like “be grateful the price you’re paying for this war is in gas and not in lives” and while that’s obvious, it’s still a really important reminder.

My Easter hot take: I dont care about gas prices. The focus on gas prices is the bane of our societal existence. Getting rid of taxes on gas will do nothing to lower prices or fill municipal budget gaps. You can also cover the country in pipelines and your fucking gas prices ain’t coming down

I remember getting roasted in the fuck cars subreddit cuz I said that EVs are trash and I hate them (I’m a shill for Shell was the resounding chorus. Still hate them, haven’t been on Reddit in years

Most of a vehicle’s lifetime costs are *operating* costs, not *capital* costs.

Stpuidest possible framing… it’s an issue cuz critics say it is? God we deserve the dumbest government and timeline

The new Ottawa Charge attendance record, and it wasn’t even close.

On a related note, year after year the city intentionally treats any surface that people don’t drive on as unnecessary to maintain. Roads have been bare and dry for weeks. The sides of the roads are the usual storage gutter for all the road debris. And MUPs? For “recreation” #ottawa