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Academic upgrading (taking missing courses to be able to enter college or university) should be a core offering of all colleges in Ontario! Not everyone knows what they want to do after High School, or figured out how they learn best yet. We need to ensure there's future opportunities for all.

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A journalist asked if I had any "local ideas" for @mark-carney.bsky.social who's running to be PM in my own riding of Nepean. I certainly do! With due credit to the amazing imagination of @dunrae.bsky.social.

submitted 3 days ago • 2 comments

The TMP is pathetic and unambitious. Only positive is that it shows that the infrastructure cost for a radically better and more fiscally responsible city is attainable with the current budget if used appropriately.

submitted 4 days ago • 0 comments

I'll be honest. The new Transportation Master Plan for #Ottawa is disappointing, demoralizing, unambitious, apathetic, and most of all -- unsustainable. By reducing overall transit investment, it shows just how unserious our city is. This won't save us money -- instead, it'll cost us dearly.

submitted 4 days ago • 1 comment

💥🇭🇺 Police have given up guarding Budapest’s Liberty Bridge as anti-government protesters shut down traffic on four major bridges, rallying against Viktor Orbán’s new law curbing freedom of assembly and banning the Pride march. They vow to escalate with a 24-hour shutdown next week.

submitted 4 days ago • 103 comments

Duncan has beautiful, easy and proven ideas on how to build a better City. no need to reinvent the wheel

submitted 5 days ago • 1 comment

- At a rally to save bike lanes which would improve road safety Dave Points out a key issue with the mainstream approach which is not attacking the root cause - he calls out police ticketing cyclists. - Police on bikes immediately pull him over and ticket him on his bicycle. rOAd sAfETy

submitted 6 days ago • 5 comments

The fourth step of the public investment process for a strong town is to repeat the first three: humbly observe where people in the community struggle; ask yourself, “What is the next smallest thing we can do right now to address that struggle”; and do it right now.

submitted 7 days ago • 1 comment

I received a heartbreaking email today: A paper in a special issue I’m editing is being retracted because one of its authors is afraid of losing their job and their legal status in the U.S. if they publish a scientific study on evolution. Yes, on evolution, nature's engine of diversity.

submitted 7 days ago • 1139 comments

You need abundant housing if you really genuinely want your city to be accessible to the middle class. Income-restricted housing is fine and good but it doesn’t get around this reality.

submitted 11 days ago • 5 comments

It is a chilly Sunday in Ottawa, yet people are out enjoying their neighbourhood coffee shops, like Union Street Cafe. Unfortunately, Ottawa makes it illegal, through zoning, to have commercial buildings throughout most of the city’s neighbourhoods. Ottawa needs zoning reform.

submitted 13 days ago • 0 comments

Really important piece about what tariffs do. Bookstores across Canada are about to be hit with 25% tariffs on most of their stock, and it's worth thinking about who this is hurting: not as simple as "buy Canadian." globalnews.ca/news/1109106...

submitted 14 days ago • 4 comments

Sufficient supply of housing, and the effect on housing costs, is crucial to so many of the issues we currently face as a country. High housing costs is having a wide ranging negative effect that isn't contained to only the large cities.

submitted 16 days ago • 0 comments

Canada needs to build 3 million homes in ten years to keep up with population growth and to address pre-existing housing shortages. Alberta needs a whole lot more homes as they continue to attract families from other provinces. Read more here: www.missingmiddleini...

submitted 16 days ago • 3 comments

The Tewin development is a mistake ⬇️ It will degrade Ottawa’s environment and cost taxpayers billions - infrastructure, services, etc. There is no shortage of underutilized land in existing neighbourhoods - e.g. near the recently opened LRT Line 2 LRT. www.ctvnews.ca/ottawa/artic...

submitted 17 days ago • 2 comments

The city of Ottawa is in the middle of a zoning update. They still haven't realized the large change in zoning required to allow for the infill and housing we need to get built.

submitted 16 days ago • 0 comments

Presented without comment (and thanks to the resident who was persistent in nudging me to get these), here are the municipal tax revenues collected in 2023 and 2024 by ward: docs.google.com/spreadsheets....

submitted 18 days ago • 5 comments

No annexation. No statehood. But also: No demands for a national vision. No stripping immigrants of citizenship. No giving up what defines us to prove we're not them. No giving up on our liberalism because it's in trouble. No is enough.

submitted 21 days ago • 15 comments

Cities in 🇨🇦 can adopt buy-local or non-US procurement policies in response to the Trump Trade War. But the biggest thing we can do to build a strong, independent economy is allow more homes and businesses to be built. #urbanism #elbowsup

submitted 20 days ago • 3 comments

Been telling anyone at @aefpweb.bsky.social who would listen that this admin will willingly, vindictively hold Pell and Loans in the fall to force ALL institutions to comply with this basic outline. I believe it in my bones. I also think they'd accidentally fuck up the FAFSA before that, too.

submitted 23 days ago • 2 comments

Here's the episode of The Memory Palace: A Brief Note Written After Reading that the National Park Service has Removed the Word Transgender from its Website for the Stonewall National Monument in New York. dts.podtrac.com/redirect.mp3...

submitted 25 days ago • 2 comments

Documents unearthed as part of a legal challenge show the Doug Ford government received expert evidence that planned bike lane removals could worsen traffic congestion in Toronto and lead to injuries. #BikeTO #ToPoli #OnPoli

submitted 25 days ago • 8 comments

"DOGE and its boss, Elon Musk, have ... focused their activity on the eradication of the federal civil service, along with its culture and values, and its replacement with something different. In other words: regime change."

submitted 30 days ago • 5 comments

After years of alarm over unelected bureaucrats pulling the strings, what better example can you find than this moment the US government is in? DOGE is the thing it claims to fear the most. Elon Musk is the problem he purportedly wants to solve. Doge is the Deep State. @brbarrett.bsky.social:

submitted 30 days ago • 49 comments

This is a basic obviosity but there's no reason to not simply state that Trans people were degraded and dehumanized by Trump last night to waves of applause. Everyone saw it, it was disgusting, it made me fear for friends and family, and this rhetoric can't ever be considered normal or okay.

submitted 32 days ago • 1 comment

The institutions of this economy depend on the institutions of this democracy.

submitted 32 days ago • 19 comments

Now more than ever Ottawa must tackle cost of living ⬇️ 🏡 • legalize a wider array of housing • fund non-market housing • use municipal land for non-profit development 🚌🚈🚲👟 • affordable & reliable modes of transpo 🏫🏥🏪 • allow amenity & service rich neighbourhoods

submitted 32 days ago • 0 comments