A message to Canada's mining industry: if you think you are going to get mineral projects fast tracked without serious opposition think again. Why would any First Nation community agree to new projects if this is the kind of people you hire? Is she bringing the cages with her?

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What an amazing way to visualize early human migration. Lovely map by @HarvardCGA. A great colour scheme and an appropriate map projection! Source: buff.ly/3lbxonJ

It costs the City of Ottawa $465/person each year to serve new low-density homes, over & above what it receives from property taxes/fees. On the other hand, high-density infill such as apartment buildings pays for itself plus an extra $606/person each year. Sprawl costs, infill saves. #UrbanTruth

June 5, 1989: lone man blocks the path of 13 tanks in Tiananmen Square with his body. 24 hrs before, the CCP violently massacred pro-democracy students after a 6 wk standoff. Nobody knows what happened to Tank Man, but his act of bravery became one of the most iconic images of the 20th century. ✊🏽

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The epicenter of the Ebola outbreak is in Mongbwalu, a poor gold-mining town of 130,000 people, in Ituri province, in eastern Congo. n.pr/4nT0eIX

A walk-up Hazardous Waste Event is happening on on Saturday, June 6, from 9 am to 1 pm at the City of Ottawa Parking Lot located at 234-250 Slater Street. Safely dispose of small amounts of hazardous waste without a vehicle. For a list of accepted items visit ottawa.ca/hhw

There are many kinds of genocides...

i have yet to see a single cis person say something about the fact that the government just designated trans people a terrorist group and threatened to kill all of us.

My cousin's husband, photographer Thomas Scheier, and Gopolang Ledwaba working on a wonderful project in Soweto. The journalist is my other cousin, Julie! How Photography Is Changing Lives in Soweto:- youtu.be/0x6bNIeATEk?...

Fellow Canadians and especially Ottawa folks, please share!

I went home recently to write about Alberta’s separatists. What I found was a movement wildly, dangerously disconnected from reality. www.thestar.com/opinion/star...

THIS IS NOT NORMAL!!! ALL EYES ON ALABAMA! Amid tornado sirens, flooding, and evacuations, the AL State Senate rammed through a bill to disenfranchise voters and strip representation But ppl are still showing up b/c this is an attack on us all & our democracy -TN

Airports are vital infrastructure. It is astounding to hear the Prime Minister talking about selling off our airports. Who is he selling the airports to - the Americans? The Saudis? Elon Musk? This is a very bad idea and the PM needs to come clean on this scheme. www.youtube.com/watch?v=9we7...

Invest in non-market housing!

AIDS Creeps Back in Parts of Zambia, a Year After U.S. Cuts to HIV Assistance. A once-robust HIV treatment and prevention system, credited with saving hundreds of thousands of lives, has begun to crumble, by @stephanienolen.bsky.social www.nytimes.com/2026/04/25/h... via @nytimes.com

No doubt, the Build Canada Homes partnership is problematic as a deal for Ottawa. But I voted for it because it will inject $150 million in federal funding for not-for-profit housing projects. Glad to learn that a 110-unit CCOC project on Hickory will be among the first. www.pm.gc.ca/en/news/news...

“Benches aren’t just disappearing from large railroad stations, but also from subways, parks, plazas, sidewalks, and esplanades…in the past decade, across the U.S., hundreds of places to sit in public have quietly disappeared.” The Disappearance of the Public Bench. By @placesjournal.bsky.social

Finally, they listened! We are getting U/G connection from Carling LRT to hospital! "feedback from the public and stakeholders indicated strong support for a tunnel solution because of its more direct, seamless, and intuitive user experience."

Wet towel in space: NASA astronaut demonstrates how surface tension forms a perfect water sphere in microgravity at the ISS

Every politician & Ontarian should call this the Doug Effect.

Perfect splashdown! Wordle 1,757 🟩⬜⬜⬜⬜ 🟩🟩🟩🟩🟩

So glad the publicly run SCS are closed so we can all feel safer🤪🤯

who’s next? Cheryl Gallant?

Yes!

americans only save the world in movies

Building proper public infrastructure that can withstand the challenges of downtown Ottawa is expensive — but the alternative is unacceptable. Public washrooms are a human right and a basic need. www.cbc.ca/news/canada/...

Goodbye beautiful man. RIP m.youtube.com/watch?v=O5tv...

A week on planet earth. This animated map shows the global temperatures in early March of 2026. Source: buff.ly/1vWiatQ

No thank you

This was entirely predictable. And now we are mourning the loss of an Ottawa crossing guard who was just trying to keep kids safe. Shame on the Ford government for putting populist politics over people’s lives. ottawacitizen.com/news/ottawa-...

This is where I get to say "Told you so". Don't do it. We can't have a liveable vertical city with bad social infrastructure.

Fill this out. Tell them to get rid of LED headlights👀 tc.canada.ca/en/corporate...

Dear all cities: stop installing mandatory beg buttons. Thanks for coming to my urbanism lecture.

*RUMP ADMINISTRATION BETRAYAL, MURDEROUS SABOTAGE

the comments tell all😶

just plainly evil.

Turn William Street into a pop-up used car dealership

This is from 1975.

Dream bigger. Have a vision. Create and celebrate excellence in making #PlacesForPeople Thanks to the NCC, #OttCity tops the list of great cities; let’s do our part as well. We have the talent and skill. But as a city bureaucracy we don’t seem to care or even try. ottawacitizen.com/opinion/otta...

The latest issue of the Somerset Ward newsletter is out, with updates on community security, a hotel acquisition for family housing, the public consultation for Laurier/Bronson, and more! Read and sign up here: www.arieltroster.com/swm_67

my interview with Pete Hegseth www.youtube.com/watch?v=-wf4...

TVO doc on Valentine's Day. What's Cupid up to here???

"People are trying to politicize this. It's not about guns. It's not about transgenderism. It's about mental health. It's about a lack of resources. I truly believe that she did everything she could to try to help." - Maya's Mom speaking up for the shooter's mother. #Prayersfortumblerridge

BREAKING: The Epstein survivors are releasing this ad on this Super Bowl Sunday to send the message that they will not “move on” from the largest sex trafficking scandal in the world. #standwithsurvivors

Where does Harriet live?

The Washington Post just laid off its entire award-winning photo team. They were our eyes in places we'll never see. It's a horrifying loss at a time when lying governments, propaganda and AI slop are on the rise.

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