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Cathryne Milburn for Beacon Hill-Cyrville
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I run a map website of Ottawa's future cycling infrastructure: Obike.ca
Today, LRV1117 made the first trip from Kichi Zibi, all the way to Algonquin Station. This marks a major milestone and achievement on the West extension. This LRV will next begin testing all systems and components on the alignment. Congratulations to all the teams involved today. @octranspo.com
I have made it clear that I don’t believe it’s acceptable to welcome an organization that is 1) clearly homophobic and 2) has on multiple occasions rejected volunteers who don’t share their statement of faith. It would not be safe for my own family to accept help from this organization.
Why are we bringing a known anti-LGBTQ+ organization into our city at a time when we are faced with growing homophobia and transphobia? This is the same group that turned away queer volunteers during COVID www.nydailynews.com/2020/04/14/c... We can help residents without making many feel unsafe
Christian charity takes heat for anti-gay work requirements at COVID-19 field hospital
The Christian charity group that erected a 68-bed field hospital in Central Park to care for coronavirus patients is under fire for requiring volunteers to sign a “statement of faith” that disqualifie...
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Sean Devine@seandevine9.bsky.social · 3w agoToday I got to meet Tammy Suitor, Disaster Relief Manager for Samaritan's Purse Canada. When I called her on Saturday, she was in Calgary. Within a few hours, she was making plans to set up emergency operations in Ottawa, and I'm forever grateful. She's here to help, and she's a professional. 1/
Seeing streets on a local road ruined with this asphalt where there was previously grass is a bit disappointing. This is on Cartier which is meant to be a local road, yet tons of cut through traffic drives on the sidewalks as they speed along here. Residents deserve safe streets, not speeding.
OC Transpo weekend service is about to be decimated starting this Sunday in the upcoming summer schedule. Check out our new tool at bettertransitottawa.ca to see the extent of the cuts and if a trip you rely on will be affected. (1/2)
The Auditor General has now confirmed those concerns: this ill-fated "redesign" was primarily driven by cost-cutting, cutting 70,000 service hours to save $10 million. That decision, and the lack of proper planning behind it, happened under Mayor Sutcliffe’s watch, and with his clear support. 4/
I thought removing some asphalt on my driveway to expand my patio would be a quick job... 80 years of asphalt layers!
A group of handsome individuals have partially fixed this bench at Pimisi which has been neglected for about 2 years
@jleiper.bsky.social @arieltroster.com So the City ignored this broken bench at Pimisi for almost two years after a salter knocked it over. We lifted it back into place and replaced the missing slats. Is this the "efficiencies" Ive been hearing so much from the Mayor about?
Today at City Hall, council votes on the Long Range Financial Plan To Kick The Can Down The Road So The Next Council Needs To Make The Hard Decisions To Raise Taxes Or Sell Off Facilities And Not Us (LRFPTKTCDTRSTNCNTMTHDTRTOSOFANU).
Long-range financial plan could burden future Ottawa councils, critics say
The finance and corporate services committee voted 9-2 to approve a plan to address a multi-million gap in funding for infrastructure.
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They added some flex posts, but haven't touched the corner they made unsafe. Will they be adding more concrete protection to the south east corner to replace the one they removed? @shawnmenard.bsky.social #ottbike
#ottbike @shawnmenard.bsky.social Can you explain the choice to remove the protected part of this protected intersection? You have created a huge sideswipe risk for anyone cycling here taking a right turn from Main.
In this issue of our Ward 9 Newsletter, I put my cards on the able on the City's Long Range Financial Plan, which, in my opinion, is short-sighted. It's one of the more important messages I've issued during this Term of Council. www.seandevine.ca/june_2_2026_...
June 2, 2026, Newsletter
Ward 9, Knoxdale-Merivale
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Im on the "tax me what is needed to pay for the services I expect" train, personally. I dont understand the crowd that think artificially low taxes dont have a cost.
“The time we spend travelling right now, is time we lose.” Thank you to CTV Ottawa for covering GO ALTO and the case for high-speed rail in Canada. The support is real. The next step is making it visible. www.ctvnews.ca/ottawa/artic...
Go Alto: The public campaign backing Canada’s high-speed rail project
Go Alto launched its public campaign on Monday, backing the proposed high-speed rail line that would connect Toronto to Ottawa and Quebec City.
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Hello Canada. We are GO ALTO. Canada has waited long enough for high-speed rail in the Québec–Toronto corridor. We’re here to make support visible and build momentum. Explore the campaign and add your name: go-alto.ca/en/updates/n...
GO ALTO launches national campaign for high-speed rail | GO ALTO
An independent public campaign working to make support for high-speed rail visible, public, and sustained.
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Hey, councillor @timtierney.ca Reminder that democratic participation doesn't rely on which ward someone comes from. They bring genuine concerns. @bettertransitottawa.ca has done something you haven't done: ask questions and identify what can be done to improve service. Not just slogans.
The City of Ottawa released a report regarding compensation for transit users. One of the main ways they identified to make the service better in the short term was transit priority measures, one of the cheapest ones identified was continuous bus lanes! This is cheap and easy, do it now!
For reference this is what the "data collection" motion did to the hours of the bus lanes. Certainly doesn't just seem like "collecting data" to us...
Describing gutting the hours that the bus lanes will be in effect by 33% (2 of the 6 hours) as "cleaning up a few things around data collection in particular" is certainly a very interesting way to tell the public/other councillors what you're trying to do... Please contact your local councillor.
The language about "existing peak hours" was absolutely meant to prevent debate. If it said "reduce from three hours to two hours" then it would have garnered attention. When the language is about maintaining the status quo, it raises less red flags.
Question to the mover of the motion. @shawnmenard.bsky.social
Strong Towns Ottawa@strongtownsottawa.ca · 4mo agoDisappointment at council today. Council just passed a motion from Councillor Menard for the Bank Street bus lane study which will restrict bus lanes even further from staff's proposed 3 hours to 2 hours. This means we will get no data about how parking affects bus flow in the area.
Note that the reason this got passed is because it doesn't explicitly say it reduces the bus lanes from 3 to 2 hours. Clause 3 includes the word "existing", which modifies the staff recommendation. This moved fast because @shawnmenard.bsky.social hid the modifier in unclear language.
Strong Towns Ottawa@strongtownsottawa.ca · 4mo agoDisappointment at council today. Council just passed a motion from Councillor Menard for the Bank Street bus lane study which will restrict bus lanes even further from staff's proposed 3 hours to 2 hours. This means we will get no data about how parking affects bus flow in the area.
After 30+ people showed up to the Public Works commission last week in support of expanding bus lanes on Bank Street, City Council has now passed a motion to reduce the scope of the bus lanes even further This motion was passed with absolutely no debate Passed without a single question
Strong Towns Ottawa@strongtownsottawa.ca · 4mo agoDisappointment at council today. Council just passed a motion from Councillor Menard for the Bank Street bus lane study which will restrict bus lanes even further from staff's proposed 3 hours to 2 hours. This means we will get no data about how parking affects bus flow in the area.
Disappointment at council today. Council just passed a motion from Councillor Menard for the Bank Street bus lane study which will restrict bus lanes even further from staff's proposed 3 hours to 2 hours. This means we will get no data about how parking affects bus flow in the area.
