This is shameful. I’m aghast at how ignorant some parents can be.

Ontario property assessments haven't been done since 2016 and it's getting ridiculous. Suburban homes are paying much lower property taxes than they should be. Annual property taxes: ↙️ $8575 | $6360 ↘️

Tremendous to hear some veteran Ottawa city councillors argue that Lansdowne 2.0 is needed because the previous overhaul that they voted for is crap.

This is super gross

I know it’s too much to expect them to know their history, but if the American Revolution had a motto, it definitely would not have been “immigrants go home.” It would have been “get your fucking soldiers out of our cities.”

I wonder if the citation will note that a judge found that Jim Watson undermined city council to foist an unfinished and flawed LRT system onto the people of Ottawa and then lied to the inquiry into the scandal. www.ctvnews.ca/ottawa/artic...

Smart home devices should be mandated to have local access in addition to cloud access. Home Internet down? Local access. Live in the deep woods? Local access. Don’t want monetization of your usage patterns? Local access. (This last point is the main reason devices don’t have local access.)

Hallowe'en is just around the corner and it is one of the most dangerous days for children. Here are some safety tips: 1) Avoid hitting children with your pickup truck, SUV or other motor vehicle. It is technically against the law to harm or kill a child with your vehicle and you could be charged.

Unfortunately data is never enough for people who make decisions based on culture wars. The data could show 100% compliance and 0 accidents after installation and they would still try to rip these cameras out to make our streets more dangerous. It is still amazing to see how clearly these work!

The existence of food banks points to a policy failure.

“Restore merit, end DEI” says man who could only get elected in Canada’s safest Conservative stronghold

The rationale behind our 154% duty is to protect local manufacturing. I get that. But even with that in place there is just very little manufacturing of panels in Canada. Its around 1000 jobs in the whole country vs tens of thousands in install / servicing we could gain if solar was a lot cheaper

Over at @strongtownsottawa.ca we've calculated the productivity of different development patterns in #OttCity. Tax per hectare is easy. Lately, I've been estimating the cost of servicing. These numbers are much more abstract but it's been fun. Here is some data I'm tracking.

Once again, speed cameras work. (This is data from Ottawa, published in 2024.)

An adult driver angry at a child they hit with their car. Our car culture summed up in one video.

Also Doug Ford: “Fuck your kids”

Coca-Cola Coke Zero

The Ontario premier either doesn't understand that speed cameras save lives, or he doesn't care.

One might wonder how many are in hospital, or even the ICU, with complications to the MMR vaccine. My totally wild guess is … zero?

In discussion with a computer scientist from the University of Cambridge last night: Me: "you've described some of the things that AI is good at. How would you describe the category of things it's not good at? **pause** Him: "Anything where it has to be right".

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Bloody solar panels, cluttering up the countryside and preventing desertification while providing clean energy and growing food.

Ottawa’s busiest photo radar cameras this year have issued fewer tickets than they did last year, suggesting drivers are adapting to the presence of the cameras and slowing down.

Doug Ford: "Speed cameras DO NOT slow people down." Speed camera data:

Yes, speed cameras work.

“Solar energy is not the boogeyman. Properly managed, these solar power projects can actually enhance and increase agricultural production and become diversification projects that can save family farms"

Tear

That he feels he can say this, publicly, is 100% Doug Ford giving this behaviour his approval. This should be an embarrassing secret bro takes to his grave. The way these people drive & treat others will be related too. The sociopathic lid is off.

I believe a not insignificant number of issues would be solved if people understood that the street in front of or near their residence is not in fact some kind of special extension of their personal property specifically for automobile storage.

That square in Gouda is so nice.

Anora cost $6M. Everything Everywhere All At Once cost ~$20M. CODA cost $10M. Nomadland cost $5M. Parasite cost $11M. Green Book cost $23m. The Shape of Water cost $20M. Moonlight cost ~$4M. Spotlight cost $20M. Birdman cost $18M. 12 Years a Slave cost $22M. I think you get the point.

"The intent of this project is to create a continuous east-west cycling corridor through Centretown" By "continuous" we mean for people in cars. Bikes on the other hand will need to make several turns, wait at multiple lights and use 5 different streets to go east or west.

“I have personally seen children on their way to school forced to cross the street because a group of people using drugs has taken over the sidewalk.” I’ve done the same several times this past year pushing my child in a stroller to daycare. It is both remarkably sad and disturbing at times.

So slow :(

People weren’t lying, this Paris bike thing is really taking off.

Can’t wait for this to open for service. It’s going to be game changing for my trip from Centretown to Kanata for work.

Ooof

Ottawa thinks this is fine

Gentrification is what we call it when demand exceeds supply. It is not caused by bike lanes. The answer is not to suppress demand by enshittifying cities, or to justify endangering & killing people outside of cars as a rent control mechanism, but to increase supply.

“The City appreciates the patience of residents regarding the ongoing construction on the western sidewalk of Bank Street beneath Highway 417” Putting cones over a hole and leaving it like that for 8 months is not "ongoing construction".

“Murky regulations”? Not even remotely murky. These are outright banned in Canada. If we gave a shit about increasing renewable energy generation we could legalize these tomorrow. But we clearly don’t really care in Canada www.cbc.ca/news/climate...

FAFO

This is next level snowflake behaviour.

Bikes unlock so much public transit ridership as a viable driving alternative. Wanted to take kid 2 to the aviation museum today. 🚗 : 26 mins 🚍+🚊 : 2 hrs 🚲 : 52 mins We biked to LRT, got off at UofO station, then biked the rest. Transit + Bike: 37 mins OC Transpo recovery needs bikeshare.

Hey @helps.octranspo.com I’m at Tunney’s and the canopy on the bus loop side platform at the bottom of the stairs is still leaking when it rains. I reported it on the other site many months back, still not fixed.

It me

Don’t threaten me with a good time

imagine actually writing the sentence "Hamas propaganda lines such as 'stop killing children'"

We truly are in the dumbest timeline