David Reevely
@davidreevely.bsky.social
Logic reporter, Ottawa Citizen and Canadian Press alum. I cover Ottawa, cybersecurity and defence, telecom, space, health, infrastructure and whatever else needs doing. Signal: @davidreevely.68
A 15-minute city conspiracy theorist who lives in *Somerset* ward is the wildest thing. Like a flat-Earther astronaut. Just look outside your door! That’s the whole idea! The entire thing!
Ariel Troster@arieltroster.bsky.social · 5d agoI met my first 15 Minute City conspiracy theorist while door-knocking tonight, and all I could think about was this explanation by @tomflood.bsky.social …
Defence startups are not like other startups, and mostly, Canadians who can finance them don't understand them. Here's how two organizations that work with founders are trying to bridge these very different worlds. thelogic.co/news/mars-pa...
MaRS joins forces with accelerator Vimy Forge to help defence startups - The Logic
New partnership aims to connect investors with promising military and dual-use companies as Ottawa starts spending big on defence
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The House of Assembly voted 21-18 in favour of the Churchill Falls deal. #nlpoli
You'd think getting into the "deal book" for this week's investment summit in Toronto would come with an invitation to the summit. It did not. Here's how Alberta's JR Cox hustled to take advantage of late word that his proposal for an explosives plant had made the cut. thelogic.co/news/alberta...
What it was like to pitch a project in the hurly-burly of the Canada Investment Summit - The Logic
Getting into Canada’s deal book led to many meetings for Alberta defence entrepreneur JR Cox—even if he was excluded from the main event
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Whoever the Prime Minister’s Office hired to plan the Canada Investment Summit in Toronto, they’re pretty good.
We analyzed the 167 projects in the official summit prospectus by sector, province and capital expenditure, then boiled them down into a handful of charts. thelogic.co/news/investm...
Draft provincial deal books The Logic obtained reveal projects and financing details that don’t appear in Ottawa’s federal investment prospectus for the Canada Investment Summit. thelogic.co/news/exclusi...
What's up with all this talk about a deeper relationship between Canada and the European Union? Read my interview the EU's top envoy to Ottawa in @thelogic.co thelogic.co/news/canada-... More to come at the Canada-EU summit (Oct. 29-30) #TradeSky
Major partnership between Canada and EU on track for October reveal, says envoy - The Logic
With Trump ratcheting up tensions, Canada and the EU are working on a new strategic arrangement to strengthen trade and security
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I have received news of a perfectly named cafe located on the waterfront of Nova Scotia's capital, if you know what I mean
Surely one thing the Google AI can do is find a train for a specific date in the afternoon from Grand Central to a stop in Connecticut, she thought, more than a year after her viral ChatGPT debacle... Yeah, no. cc: @garymarcus.bsky.social
One-year change in institutional revenue, by institution, Ontario colleges, 2025-26 (note: Humber and Loyalist have yet to publish financials).
Ottawa taps Patrick Pichette to lead new digital transformation agency, a new office that takes over running and buying technology for the federal government. thelogic.co/news/patrick...
The sculpture Donald Trump is having removed from the Kennedy Center grounds— thehill.com/blogs/in-the... — is by the same artist, Joel Shapiro, as created the very prominent sculpture outside the U.S. Embassy in Ottawa: www.canada.ca/en/canadian-...
Kennedy Center removing landmark sculpture from grounds
The Kennedy Center is set to take down a towering sculpture from the center’s grounds on Wednesday. The artwork’s removal comes amid a wave of changes at the renowned Washington performing arts cen…
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In Canada, it’s still Lake Ontario, but the placements of the labels tell a story, too.
Mark Jacob@markjacob.bsky.social · 4w agoApple has bowed to the dictator and changed Lake Ontario to “Lake America” on its maps. It’s clear that Big Tech will sell out every one of us if it means another nickel in their bank account.
A lot more Americans probably ought to view Canada as unfriendly, tbh. Why that is—ah, now we’re getting to the nut of it.
YouGov America@today.yougov.com · 4w agoNEW Economist/YouGov Aug 28-31: Canada 38% of Republicans view Canada as unfriendly or an enemy of the U.S., by far the highest level in the past decade yougov.com/en-us/articl...
Shared Services Canada is going to go through some things tomorrow
Thomas Seal@twseal.bsky.social · 4w agoIt appears that maps that rely on Google show this. Here's one from the government of Canada's own website:
I think you mean “43-kilometre canal.”
Jon Cooper@joncooper-us.bsky.social · 4w agoShips traveling between the upper Great Lakes and the Atlantic must pass through Canada’s Welland Canal. The 27-mile canal and all eight of its locks are entirely in Ontario, meaning a strategically important portion of U.S. Great Lakes maritime trade depends on Canadian-controlled infrastructure.
I saw a version of this graph for Greece as its economy nearly collapsed and the EU sent boatloads of money to save it and Greeks almost rebelled. WTF? was the question. Outsiders see the whole graph, while Greeks (or, here, Albertans) had the most vivid experience of just the last bit.
Robson Fletcher@robsonfletcher.com · last mo.This chart got a lot of response when I posted it a couple of months ago, so I kept digging beyond just Calgary. Turns out the Alberta-wide data tells much the same story, which I think helps explain the province’s recent mood. I fleshed out my thoughts here. Would be interested in yours!
Not to mention the oppressed Iranians and the Canadians.
Pete Buttigieg@petebuttigieg.bsky.social · last mo.Whether it's a trade war with Canada or an actual war with Iran, the pattern is the same: Americans are paying the price for the President's choices.
About to publish an investigation into stolen art that is the greatest possible demonstration of this core research principle:
Data centres are vital to a modern economy, their opponents are usually hypocrites or misinformed or both, we can either have them or just send all our data to Donald Trump, and FOLKS, we’re going to make their developers pay big time to build them. So says Doug Ford. thelogic.co/news/ontario...
Ontario to charge new data centres more for power and make them invest in communities - The Logic
Doug Ford says data centres are vital to the modern economy but insists the province will make their backers “pay a pretty penny”
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General Dynamics appears to have made a total hash of cranking up production of 155mm artillery shells in the United States, after a hurried procurement meant to supply Ukraine. www.propublica.org/article/gene...
Fiasco in the Factory: Taxpayers Funded a $533 Million Artillery Plant That Made Nothing
General Dynamics opened a Texas factory to churn out artillery shells for Ukraine, but the machines kept breaking. Robot arms smashed into things. Hunks of metal crashed to the floor. There was even a...
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The federal Department of Fisheries and Oceans does an enormous amount of maritime science in all kinds of waters, and it can offer unique access to Canadian innovators. It's given up much of its capacity to actually do so, it warned its DM in May. thelogic.co/news/dfo-oce...
The Fisheries Department is losing its ability to back maritime innovations, documents warn - The Logic
It has ships, the Arctic and the deep sea. Internal documents obtained by The Logic show it no longer has dedicated funding to test inventions.
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It’s not clear to me whether the “certain hours” would be when it’s busiest (that is, most dangerous) or less busy (that is, least needed).
Strong Towns Ottawa@strongtownsottawa.ca · 2mo agoHey councillor Tierney, please focus on actual improvements to transportation in our city rather than suggesting we should be endangering pedestrians so you don't have to wait a couple more seconds at a red. Those right turn on red bans are there for a reason. www.ctvnews.ca/ottawa/artic...
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/...
