Mayoral candidate Jeff Leiper is offering a "Transit Service Guarantee" that isn't really a guarantee. It's just a promise to tell you whether transit sucks: www.leiper2026.ca/priorities?a... Which OC Transpo does, with observable results: www.octranspo.com/en/about-us/...

This is obviously not OK, but anybody who's ever had anything to do with theatre can probably understand the temptation.

Pixie Casey@pixiecasey.bsky.social · yesterday

in insane local news, the 26 year old director of a rocky horror production was arrested for sending threatening messages to himself in order to get the play shut down bc he didn’t want to deal with cast drama www.mynbc5.com/article/rock...

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Sutcliffe’s public persona is that he’s a nice, reasonable, middle-of-the-road business guy. This is quite at odds with that, though consistent with the campaign he ran four years ago. https://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/ottawa/mayoral-race-turns-negative-sutcliffe-campaign-launches-attacks-9.7291102

Canada Goose would take a hit if new Trump tariffs kick in on Aug. 19, but not a terrible one, CFO Neil Bowden said today. Fall and winter are pivotal for sales, the U.S. accounts for only about a quarter of Canada Goose's business. thelogic.co/news/canada-...

Canada Goose shrugs off Trump’s 50% tariff threat - The Logic

New duties on Canadian exports would hit its parkas, but Asia is a much bigger market for the luxury clothier

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The likeliest next premier of Quebec is against Alto because it’s a big federal project and the current premier of Ontario might be against it out of spite. Rail lines, like pipelines and airports, are federal jurisdiction. They’re a lot easier with provincial cooperation, but they don’t *need* it.

Mark Shaw@markshawtoronto.bsky.social · last wk.

Turning a big dial that says “PUNISH TORONTO” on it and looking back at the audience for approval like a contestant on the price is right

The difference between Andy Rooney and whatever Ross Douthat is going to be doing on '60 Minutes' is that Andy Rooney saw the bodies at Normady and the horror of the concentration camps, because he was a honest to god war correspondent before he became 'Andy Rooney' -- www.salon.com/2011/09/28/i...

In defense of Andy Rooney - Salon.com

Yes, he's grumpy, often way off-base and very easy to parody. But Andy Rooney's also a terrific American writer

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Canada's newfound focus on defence investments is great news for the national cyberspying and cyberdefence agency, according to internal documents. Also, it shouldn't have to buy from Canadian suppliers. thelogic.co/news/cse-buy...

Canada’s cyberspy agency exempts itself from Buy Canadian rules - The Logic

Documents show the head of the Communications Security Establishment signed off on an exemption covering everything the agency buys, even as its budget climbs past $2 billion

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Thousands and thousands of real live humans work in the city government, yet somehow they’ve collectively decided they should speak publicly in the voice of an evil robot.

City of Ottawa@en.ottawa.ca · last wk.

Furniture donations are helping many in #OttCity recover from the July 1 extreme weather event. You can support the Furniture Assistance Initiative by donating through Matthew House Ottawa. To find out how you can donate: https://bit.ly/4gLJ1j4 Thank you to everyone who has contributed so far.

And I thought Jill Dunlop's staffer was having a bad week.

The Liberals just named a dairy farmer and director of the Dairy Farmers of Canada as their candidate in the Chicoutimi-Le Fjord byelection. www.facebook.com/LiberalCA/po...

This is horrifying.

Tim Bousquet@timbousquet.bsky.social · 2w ago

OMG. They charged and convicted the wrong man for child luring. It was someone else using a similar social media handle. And the wrongly convicted guy spent 18 months in jail.

I’ll take the giant, the guy with the spear, the round thing that smashes through walls, and the colonel (who I assume has a brigade at his command).

Discontinued Foods!@discontinuedfoods.bsky.social · 2w ago

Things aren't great, let's have some fun

I suspect most Americans are barely aware this is happening.

Max Fawcett@maxfawcett.bsky.social · 2w ago

I don't think most Americans have internalized yet how permanent the relational damage is. No, Canada can't trade haymakers with the Trump administration (or any US administration) in a trade war. But can we bleed a few key sectors out, slowly but relentlessly? We might have to try.

Mark Carney wants $500B in foreign direct investment in the Canadian economy. Internal docs from Invest in Canada, the agency most responsible for getting it done, say that Job One is stopping the myriad departments involved from stepping on their own feet. thelogic.co/news/investm...

Canada needs an investment ‘hub’ as Carney steps up push for foreign money, says federal agency - The Logic

The prime minister wants $500B in private investments but the government keeps tripping over itself, warns an internal plan obtained by The Logic

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How I wish my editors had the same understanding of a "deadline" as governments agencies and departments do.

This is a whole new level of removing human agency.

CTV News Ottawa@ctvnewsottawa.bsky.social · 2w ago

Woman taken to hospital after being assaulted by broken bottle in ByWard Market

When the Californians assure Canadians that we’re all friends and they are on our side, won’t we please buy their wine and come back to visit.

Canadian defence and security agencies need the kind of services that U.S.-based Palantir offers, but it's ever harder to do a deal with Palantir that doesn't draw criticism—for all kinds of legit reasons. Meet a couple of the Canadian companies that want to step in. thelogic.co/news/canada-...

The Canadian companies trying to break Palantir’s grip on intelligence software - The Logic

Anvil and Caseway are building intelligence tools in Canada, but a US$300-billion American giant got its wares here first

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Ah, but since other market participants will make money if there ISN’T a fire, those people will be equally incentivized to prevent fires—they’ll be out raking and wetting things down and so forth. Betting on whether there’ll be a fire can have no net effect on fire making.

Listen I will just say to any American politicians who are just watchimg their colleagues issue veiled threats at Canada for having wildfires in one of the largest boreal forests in the world you better not issue any "please buy or wine and visit our casino" notices

Metrolinx won’t say how much it paid the premier’s friend for implausibly-valued air rights he didn’t even own. “Every dollar paid out to the premier’s bestie is money of the people of Ontario, and we deserve answers” said @maritstilesndp.bsky.social www.torontotoday.ca/local/transp... #onpoli

Metrolinx refuses to disclose ‘air rights’ settlement it paid premier’s friend’s company

Agency cited solicitor-client privilege, ‘litigation contemplation’ and need to protect Ontario’s ‘economic and other interests’

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Good news: Housing prices could soon be on the way up again! www.rbc.com/en/economics...

Canada’s housing market takes another small step towards recovery

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I find myself skeptical. The sun is RED.

A whole C.D. Howe analysis complaining that planning policy in Ontario hasn’t delivered the single-family homes people want without *ever once* contemplating the reasons for that policy. https://cdhowe.org/publication/gta-homebuyers-want-ground-related-housing-but-planning-policies-miss-the-mark/

Buddy has had days to think of what to say. www.cbc.ca/news/canada/...

City official 'extremely sorry' for impact of surprise fireworks | CBC News

Ottawa's general manager of emergency and protective services says he's "extremely sorry" about a decision to set off unused Canada Day fireworks eight days later and with no public notice.

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The proposal is for a fairly small data centre, as these things go. 35 megawatts, and about the physical size of a Walmart, with 229K square feet across two storeys.

Emmerson Jull@emmersonj.bsky.social · 4w ago

Mississauga is just one Ontario municipality rallying against giant data centres. Footage from a town hall and councillor statements show support for a moratorium on data centre developments + concern towards current 229k sq ft Prologis proposal: www.nationalobserver.com/2026/07/10/n...

Aside from warning about the racket, they might’ve announced the plan *so people could go watch.*

Ariel Troster@arieltroster.com · 4w ago

FYI, councillors received no notice that they were going to let off the Canada Day fireworks at 11pm last night. It seems that it was determined that it was safer to do this than try to remove the unexploded shells from Lemieux Island. But on a week night, so late, with no notice = unacceptable.

We said we were going to annex you, you got offended. Who’s to say who started this, really.

Scott Robertson@sarobertson.bsky.social · 4w ago

CTV: I think part of [the tensions between Canada-US] is because of some of the language that your president has used around the relationship with our country. Hoekstra: Some of the language that some of your premiers have used and some Canadians have used, there's fault to go around to both.

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