Send Doug Ford to the Principal's office

Both @jleiper.bsky.social and I are fighting for a budget that puts people first, a budget that delivers reliable transit, safe communities and a city where everyone can afford to live and thrive. Add your name to tell City Council that we need a budget built for people: www.arieltroster.com/budget

Takeaway: Helsinki controls 70% of the land within its boundaries. Hey Ottawa, can we do the same? centre.support/study-tour-i...

Looking forward to seeing folks today at the Rainbow Bistro in Ottawa. The @grievousangels104.bsky.social afternoon show is sold out. Tickets available for the 7pm show. Rainbow Bistro in the Market. See you there. www.youtube.com/watch?v=0pPt...

I feel much safer today knowing that we deported a Babson College student back to a country where she hasn't lived since childhood. She wasn't even flying internationally. She was flying to Texas.

I was nervous when I agreed to be interviewed for CBC’s Fifth Estate about safe supply, but they got the angle exactly right. Safe supply was never implemented properly because govts were scared to prescribe what people are actually addicted to. It was set up to fail. www.youtube.com/watch?v=6XJ-...

This past week there was a photo from Trump's gala of a barely clad woman frolicking in a giant champagne glass. She looked like a teen. It made me think of Jane Doe-another young woman who attempted to shine a light on the darkness in Trumpland. My latest. charlieangus.substack.com/p/trumps-hea...

Exactly what we said would happen when the Ford govt forced the supervised consumption site at Somerset West Community Health Centre: more overdoses in public. Bad for people with addictions, a burden on city services and terrible for the vitality of Chinatown. www.ctvnews.ca/ottawa/artic...

This post really helped me put the videos I've been seeing in context. Everyone should read it. Coincidentally, I found the whistle I have owned for decades in a box when I was cleaning out a closet the other day.

Tlingit artist Nicholas Galanin, “Architecture of return, escape (The British Museum)”, a deerskin map a floor plan of the British Museum and possible escape routes for various Indigenous cultural belongings held there.

On this date, Matthew Shephard died 27 years ago. He was beaten, tortured, and left for dead on fence for being gay. Please keep him and his wonderful mother Judy in your thoughts. And let's all work for a world where such horrific things do not happen to anyone. ❤️🏳️‍🌈

Pledged to plant a million trees, but that’s not in the budget either. As aspirational as the goal is, if it’s not in the budget it’s not there. www.cbc.ca/news/canada/... @brenttoderian.bsky.social @toderianuw.bsky.social for the image

Paulette was an integral part of so many progressive causes in Ottawa. I will miss her sharp analysis, her humour and her warmth. May her memory be for a revolution. ottawacitizen.remembering.ca/obituary/pau...

"In the span of three days, Disney won five Emmys for Andor (a show about resisting fascism) and then suspended Jimmy Kimmel (for resisting fascism)." – @case.murphy

I spoke many times with Catherine McKenna about the failure of the RCMP/Parliamentary Security to address rising levels of threat. Homes were outfitted with security cameras but little was done to track online threats. Good people gave up on serving the public. nationalnewswatch.com/2025/09/12/f...

there simply isn't enough coverage of the fact that, as a matter of ideology and public policy, trump and his administration think domestic violence is good

Tree equity means that all neighbourhoods — regardless of the race, health or socio-economic class of its residents — should get the benefits of trees. www.cbc.ca/news/canada/...

Got some AirPods PRO. "To play sound that better suits your unique ear shape, Personalized Spatial Audio works with the TrueDepth camera on your iPhone to create a custom profile based on your head’s geometry." 🦻🤖

“Is your heart beating and do you plan to live? Then come this way and we will figure out the rest on the other side.”

THE RISE OF END TIMES FASCISM My first major piece of the new Trump era, co-written with @astra.bsky.social. The governing ideology of the far right has become a monstrous, supremacist survivalism. Our task is to build a movement strong enough to stop them. www.theguardian.com/us-news/ng-i...

Think Trump and MAGA can’t happen in Canada? “The Handmaid's Tale among more than 200 books to be pulled at Edmonton public schools.” It can happen here too if we don’t stop it. Some of it already is.

A very fun read and also timely in the "elbows up" era.

After a summer break, our crew talks budget directions, the evergreen issue of extending lifeguard season, why the LTFP is MIA and the NCC-Sens decision. It's feeling like back to school season! #ottnews Muni Panel: Is the City Breaking the Law? open.substack.com/pub/the613/p...

I pulled over and stepped out into the road to take a few pictures. There is no disguising how ugly this parking garage is or will be.

This is amongst the most impactful two minutes of broadcasting I’ve ever seen. By Emma Murphy, International Editor, ITV News. #Gaza

All the dire implications notwithstanding it is hilarious how evil this technology is. Billions of dollars spent on this greasy lying stupid thing that was literally built to replace people, and everyone that uses it gets weaker, lazier, dumber, and sadder for having done so. Well done all around.

Calgary Stampede celebrates its annual horse euthanasia program - just a small price to pay every year to celebrate the less than 1% of Albertans who are actually cowboys.

US sanctions Cuban President Díaz-Canel and other officials for human rights violations.👉👈

the times is reporting that fema let call center operator contracts expire on july 5, the day after the texas flood, and calls answered went from 99.7% that day to 36% the next to 16% the next www.nytimes.com/2025/07/11/c...

Heat wave caused my grocery store's refrigerated display cases to seize up!

Hey Ottawa, it's budget time! How about those potholes? LRT down again? Housing affordability? Doing less with less only goes so far.

Excellent year-end bike bus with @arieltroster.com and Cassie Smith. Cambridge to Devonshire with a pick-up at Primrose. These kinds of initiatives reduce congestion for a more resilient (and joyful) transportation system. We still have lots of work to do to ensure they’re safe, though!

“Interesting content “

These are the people who look (and act) like foreign invaders.

Can you spell N.I.M.B.Y? “There’s been a lot of talk lately about addressing the housing crisis and adding more density to our cities,” Mr. Heatherington said. “We, of course, aren’t against that, but there’s more than enough room to add that density in other areas.”

Say no to the golden handcuffs. This is a multibillion scam that will force Canada further into the military "protection" of the authoritarian regime in Washington. It is about making us a vassal state. We need to put the protection of our interests as top priority for military investments.

Whaaaat?!

The Bell Street North gang. #caturday

Erasure is part of the plan

In Toronto, at the Exhibition grounds. #cdnpoli

Seems like a song for the times www.youtube.com/watch?v=Kg_L...

Getting voters to care about foreign aid is a tough sell, I know. But Trump's decimation of USAID is going to make the world poorer, more dangerous, and sicker. Other countries need to step up. www.thestar.com/opinion/cont...

He spoke some good words.

Voted just now in Ottawa Centre. ✅🧡

Defunding the CBC as Pierre Poilievre intends to do could have unintended consequences of cutting off Quebec from the rest of Canadian news—in many regions, Rad-Can and CBC staffers team up to report. So you’d effectively push the country toward a more sovereign QC. www.cbc.ca/news/politic...

MCC!! mccthrift.com

“The Conservatives claimed that the Edmonton-area rally was attended by 15,000 people, for example. CBC News counted roughly 1,558 in one panorama photo shared by the campaign”