fiverdrive.bsky.social
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I don't know a lot about shoring up escarpments, but it feels absurd that this project will take 4 years to complete.
At this point, I'm genuinely concerned that this won't be reopened before they eventually shut down the canal MUP for 90 weeks in preparation of the rapid bridge replacement.
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It’s wild to me that of all the locations in Ottawa that have speed cameras, Kent isn’t one of them… especially given green lights will align for many blocks at a time.
Why does one of the most pedestrian-dense wards in the city have no speed cameras whatsoever?
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That’s one of the tunes from Hospital’s peak period. Within two years it became really clear from their releases that the label was chasing a far larger, mainstream audience and doing so turned me off them completely.
Unfortunate, given the absolute classics they’d put out previously.
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Did the Conservatives who lost these close ridings not have a representative present to personaly observe the counting & recountings of the ballots as is their right?
Or were they not present for some reason, perhaps so the CPC could fundraise off their absence… like PP & his security clearance?
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Of course it hasn’t.
Example:
www.cbc.ca/news/politic...
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Know what would be a good show of "mutual respect"? Not having it be legal for construction noise to start as early at 7 AM six days a week.
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If we want to be critical of conservatives we can't be using the same tactics they use and think we're making smarter, more convincing arguments than they do.
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Going at PP by characterizing his $8.8M in expenses as waste is not a good line of attack, imo… not without also opening up other MPs' expenses to accusations of "waste" as well.
If JT's $4.1M in expenses is ok, but PP's $8.8M isn't… where's the line that delineates how much spending is "waste"?
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It’s lovely that you’re trying to humanize him like this, but Muskbot does not have the capacity to generate tears.
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You can replace “Europe”
with “Montreal” and this reads exactly the same.
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“I probably deserved the ticket”?
The “debate” ends right there.
It doesn’t matter if a human or a camera finds you guilty, you yourself have agreed that you broke the law.
Grow the fuck up, pay your ticket, and stop embarrassing yourself.
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If bylaw services has hired X amount of student officers
to help with “enforcement”, they’d be spread very thinly if all of the parks came online for drinking.
Personally, none of this will stop me from buying a beer at an LCBO, crossing the street and enjoying it on a bench as I watch ppl go by.
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Same, except the hand reaching down is a drone and instead of it giving a high-five to the would-be drowner, it's deliberately pressing that hand underwater in an attempt to kill the swimmer.
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Hmm, maybe I'm just wrapping my own typical pre-race nerves into my perception of this…? 🤔
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That's fair, and agreed about women's safety concerns when running; I go for night runs regularly and it's an injustice that many women can't do the same without fear of harassment or worse.
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I think your work is important and that most of us would benefit from your course, but I question whether the start line of a race that people have spent months training for is the right place to do this work, given where runners' focus is at that moment.
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No need for changing the content until the people they buy get their first few paycheques… then they get hooked by the money and the bad actor starts feeding them stories.
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The posted speed limit on Elgin is 30km/h. Nobody drives at that speed unless traffic is heavy, and there’s no enforcement despite it being in one of the most densely populated and most pedestrian-heavy areas of the city.
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Holy yikes, Batman.
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I see a clown face. Seems appropriate.
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The background music was "Talk About The Passion" by REM.
Amusing, given how little passion the Leafs have shown this game vs a guy like Marchand.
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Funny how we don't scream at them when their guns are smuggled into Canada.
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You know who's supposed to protect the US from what comes in through Canada? People on the **US** side of the border.
When the majority of guns used to commit crime in Canada are being smuggled into Canada from the US, do we squawk at the US about it?
No.
Protect your own side of the line FFS.
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How much land generates next to no tax revenue while still having roads, power lines and water that need maintenance and servicing via tax dollars generated elsewhere.
Would love to see maps for residential tax revenue, commerical tax revenue, by pop. density and for expenditures.
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I don't think she's parked, she's driving.
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Thanks for your tacit admission that you have nothing of substance to offer on this matter.
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PP wouldn't be arrested. He'd be evicted.
CPC fundraising is irrelevant and should not factor in to whether the law is followed or not.
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"never liked his music"
thehill.com/blogs/ballot...
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It's not petty politics, it's following the law.
PP staying at Stornoway while not having a seat in the House of Commons is a violation of the Official Residences Act.
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If one wanted to pour billions of dollars into the pockets of organized crime via construction companies, this would be a way to do it.
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Agreed re: the province. Thankfully the province didn't wait for the feds to step in on that situation.
I'd prefer the City didn't wait for a minority federal government to pass similar legislation. We don't need kids screamed at by anti-trans idiots as they go to school.
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I fail to see why kids at a public school or a devotees of a church should have less protection just going about their day as the poor women who used to have to endure vehement abusive harassment while going to/from abortion clinics.
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You really wonder why OPS shows preferential treatment to some groups (convoy) but not others (pro-Palestinian protesters, union protests)?
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Strong mayor powers can only be used to push things the provincial government wants. Judging from what we’ve seen
of him, Montreal-style street closures don’t strike me as something Ford is down with.
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Was he scooped up along with some grandmas and a streetcar operator?
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I still don’t understand why SWCHC shut down their supervised site a month before they were mandated to, especially given all sites that were set to close were granted an injunction against closure in light of a Charter challenge.
SWCHC gave up early. Why?
www.cbc.ca/news/canada/...
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You realize that CBC still airs Canadian content despite it also broadcasting Coronation Street, right?
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"They’re like arsonists who set fires so just they can rush in and save people"
It's what conservative pols do: take existing systems that work, drive them into the ground with austerity & when things become untenable, they say "let's privatize it, it's clear government can't run this properly".
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It was an important win for the LPC, but let's not act Canadians overwhelmingly rejected the CPC and its policies.
Poilievre got 2.3M more votes than O'Toole (a relative moderate) did in '21, and would have had more had JT not dropped out or if Tяump hadn't happened.
There's far more work to do.
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There’s no way OSEG’s on that list, right? 🤔
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It disturbs me that Sutcliffe’s misinformation campaign worked as he wanted it to.
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It's the exact same situation with Poilievre and the anti-abortionists in his caucus.
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My favourite is still that one TPS squad car suspiciously/conspicuously left all alone on Queen West that ended up being set on fire.
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He's made a noticeable swing rightward in the last few months. I can't imagine being an LGBTQ+ person that voted for him in the past.
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Your governor isn't doing you much good either.
Three weeks ago he was doing clips appealing to Canadians to visit California. Now he's crowing over Trump wanting to crush our film industry.
Why would any Canadian want to spend money in your state right now?
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He's making us sound like children when he says we're "taking out our anger on the United States".
When a dog bites you unprovoked, you don't reach out to pet it.
We are merely exercising what limited power us everyday Canadians have on the US by choosing to keep our dollars here at home.