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What’s the Hold Up Pod Dan @jacketdan.bsky.social · 1d

He did it again for the 5 year anniversary

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It's me @justmeinottawa.bsky.social · 20h

At this point in 2025 given the 10 months we’ve seen of what “end DEI” in the US has really been about, you’re just a racist if you want “merit” restored

Clare Blackwood @clareblackwood.bsky.social · 1d

"Restore the merit principle," I scream, having apparently developed selective amnesia about losing my job based on a complete and total lack of merit

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Zohran Kwame Mamdani @zohrankmamdani.bsky.social · 3d

UNTIL IT’S DONE, Ep. 4: Sylvia Rivera

In the 1970s, queer New Yorkers had been pushed to the margins of NYC. Our trans neighbors faced immense cruelty. But in Sylvia Rivera, they found a champion.

As we combat Trump’s politics of darkness, her legacy can light the path forward.

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🇨🇦Joe Vipond🇨🇦 @jvipondmd.bsky.social · 2d

"Alberta, and Canada, should be well ahead in the geothermal race," she said. "We have the technology and the talent. We just need to get drilling."
www.nationalobserver.com/2025/10/09/a...

Can new tech finally wake Canada’s sleeping geothermal giant?

Canada’s geothermal resources could meet the nation’s power demand “one million times over”, but not a single commercial well has been drilled. That’s about to change as new technologies bolster the b...

www.nationalobserver.com

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Miranda Gray @mirgray.bsky.social · 4d

"Canadians put a lot more emphasis on service frequency. The US is still playing around with 15- and 30-minute frequencies for a lot of bus routes and even some rail service. ... We have a ton of routes where buses are running every three or four minutes. You’d find the same in Toronto or Montreal."

Colin W. 🇨🇦 🇦🇺🇩🇪🌻 @grapemanca.bsky.social · 5d

The Secret to Vancouver’s Public Transit Ridership Recovery: Vancouver's #transit system, TransLink, bounced back from Covid even as other North American systems have struggled. Its leader explains why Vancouver has one of the best transit systems in North America.
www.bloomberg.com/news/article...

The Secret to Vancouver’s Public Transit Ridership Recovery

The Canadian city’s transit agency, TransLink, bounced back from Covid even as other North American systems have struggled. Its leader explains why riders returned.

www.bloomberg.com

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gotu @gotu.bsky.social · 4d

Guess what? Key to Vancouver's transit recovery was not raising fares and cutting the service.

"I would emphasize frequency. Running the bus every 30 minutes isn’t going to cut it if you want to grow ridership. With 30-minute service, if one bus doesn’t show up it’s now 60-minute service."

Ken Gray (Ottawa's Bulldog Website) @kengray20.bsky.social · 4d

Vancouver Transit Comes Back After Covid bulldogottawa.com/vancouver-tr... #ottawa #ottawanews #ottpoli #ottawawatch #ottawacity #ottawalrt

Vancouver Transit Comes Back After Covid - THE BULLDOG

Why has Vancouver been so successful in attracting transit passengers post-Covid and why has Ottawa not?

bulldogottawa.com

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Bright Saver plug-in solar @brightsaver.bsky.social · 6d

"The sun delivers its energy for free & that's why solar is exciting in a political sense...think about how the geopolitics of Earth would have been over the past 100 yrs if oil had been of trivial value." - @billmckibben.bsky.social 💛☀️ #solar #listen:
www.theguardian.com/news/audio/2...

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Michael Adair @madair336.bsky.social · 6d

And the even bigger problem with a pipeline is the emissions that it will enable and create.
It would be a massive waste of money. #strandedAssests

The Breakdown AB @thebreakdownab.bsky.social · 7d

B.C. Premier David Eby is clearly beyond frustrated with Danielle Smith's pipeline dreams threatening the B.C. economy.

In a fiery statement, he called her out directly stating...

"This is not the Danielle Smith show!"

#abpoli #ableg #cdnpoli #bcpoli

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Brandon Friedman @brandonfriedman.bsky.social · 7d

The government is shooting priests in the head with pepper balls. I feel like this is a kitchen table issue.

Kurt @flglchicago.bsky.social · 7d

Here’s video of the incident

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Canadian Resistance 🇨🇦 @cdnresistance.bsky.social · 7d

Tamara Lich and Chris Barber are to be sentenced today for their illegal activities with the Freedom Convoy. That Pierre Poilievre and some Conservative MPs support these lawless assholes speaks volumes.

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Canadian Paintings @canadianpaintings.bsky.social · 7d

Petawawa Gorges
Tom Thomson
1916

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Dr Kat Day (she/her) @chronicleflask.katday.com · 8d

Daughter of Robin Williams, Zelda Williams 💔

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Please, just stop sending me AI videos of Dad. Stop believing I wanna see it or that I'll understand, I don't and I won't. If you're just trying to troll me, I've seen way worse, i'll restrict and move on. But please, if you've got any decency, just stop doing this to him and to me, to everyone even, full stop. It's dumb, it's a waste of time and energy, and believe me, it's NOT what he'd want.
To watch the legacies of real people be condensed down to 'this vaguely looks and sounds like them so that's enough,
, just so
other people can churn out horrible TikTok slop puppeteering them is maddening. You're not making art, you're making disgusting, over-processed hotdogs out of the lives of human beings, out of the history of art and music, and then shoving them down someone else's throat hoping they'll give you a little thumbs up and like it.
Gross.

And for the love of EVERYTHING, stop calling it 'the future. Al is just badly recycling and regurgitating the past to be reconsumed. You are taking in the Human Centipede of content, and from the very very end of the line, all while the folks at the front laugh and laugh, consume and consume.

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Toon Dreessen @toondreessen.bsky.social · 9d

Pledged to plant a million trees, but that’s not in the budget either.

As aspirational as the goal is, if it’s not in the budget it’s not there. www.cbc.ca/news/canada/...

@brenttoderian.bsky.social @toderianuw.bsky.social for the image

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George Takei @georgetakei.bsky.social · 9d

What’s Trump on the Reich-ter scale?

A mock newspaper headline reads "BREAKING NEWS" from "ReallyGreatSite.com," dated Sunday, December 20, 2055. The main headline states "PRESIDENT TRUMP EXPECTED TO RENAME SAN ANDREAS FAULT TO JOE BIDENS FAULT." Below the headline is an image of a visible fault line in a landscape, showing a rugged, cracked terrain.

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Simon Little 🍁 @simonplittle.ca · 10d

Surprised to learn there is no such thing as Alberta oil and that it is actually Canada's oil.

www.cbc.ca/news/canada/...

'There is no B.C. coast. It's Canada's coast': Sask. premier supports Alta. pipeline proposal | CBC News

Sask. Premier Scott Moe repeated his support for the proposed pipeline between Alberta and the northern B.C. coast earlier this week by Alberta Premier Danielle Smith.

www.cbc.ca

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Jim Mayer 🇨🇦 @pentastich.bsky.social · 10d

4/ Does it seen strange that the Alberta premier's goals are suddenly the "national interest" and should override the policies of the BC government, while other national priorities don't apply to Alberta. Just sayin…
www.cbc.ca/news/canada/...

Danielle Smith would never accept Ottawa's oil emissions rules, no matter how flexible | CBC News

Again and again, Alberta's premier is convinced that climate regulations from Trudeau government are not only economically devastating but illegal.

www.cbc.ca

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Canadian Paintings @canadianpaintings.bsky.social · 10d

Opeongo Ridge, Clear Lake
Charles Comfort
n.d.

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Mark Hamill @markhamillofficial.bsky.social · 10d

Who could ever have imagined when I played a fictional rebel who joined the Resistance to oppose a criminal Authoritarian & wannabe King, it would be happening in real-life?

#TwentyfiveFortyseven

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Occasional Transpo @occtranspo.bsky.social · 10d

If only we had a way to deal with this...

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Commuting in Ottawa has become a 'living nightmare' | Letters to the Editor

Saturday, Oct. 4: Citizen readers share complaints about Return to Office, kudos for an Ottawa hospital and more sidewalk talk

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🇨🇦Joe Vipond🇨🇦 @jvipondmd.bsky.social · 10d

“It’s economically perverse that the provincial government will spend public money on a project the private sector has balked at, while simultaneously sabotaging private investment in renewable energy projects the market is demanding.”
www.theenergymix.com/albertas-new...

Alberta’s New Pipeline Pitch: Bad for Business, Disastrous for Climate, Analysts Say

Climate advocates and at least one policy analyst are taking Alberta Premier Danielle Smith back to business school after she promised to pitch a new westbound oil pipeline to the federal Major Projec...

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Bill McKibben @billmckibben.bsky.social · 11d

Hmm. With solar energy, the big explosions take place 93 million miles away

The New York Times @nytimes.com · 11d

A fireball lit up the sky across the Los Angeles area on Thursday night after an explosion at a Chevron refinery in El Segundo, alarming nearby residents who said it felt like an earthquake. The cause of the explosion was not clear. No injuries were reported. nyti.ms/42pPCaW

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Horizon Ottawa @horizonottawa.bsky.social · 11d

🧵- Councillor Brown is suggesting a switch to private transit in rural areas, saying that they aren't getting enough in return for their tax dollars.

Rural residents absolutely deserve better transit, but his arguments are pretty misleading when you look at the facts. ⤵️

www.cbc.ca/news/canada/...

This councillor says OC Transpo is failing his rural ward. Could private buses be the answer? | CBC News

Rural residents of Ottawa aren't adequately served by OC Transpo, and privatized transit may be the way to bridge the gap, according to Rideau-Jock Coun. David Brown.

www.cbc.ca

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Michael Adair @madair336.bsky.social · 11d

How is that cross around her neck not going up in flames?

Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 11d

Leavitt: "President Trump will end the radical left's reign of terror in Portland once and for all. The president has directed Secretary Hegseth to provide all necessary troops to protect war-ravaged Portland."

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Michael Adair @madair336.bsky.social · 11d

Our planet has been powered by a nuclear fusion reactor from the beginning, bathing Earth with an abundance of energy. All we need to do is collect it efficiently.

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Seth Klein @sethdklein.bsky.social · 11d

Up to 66 per cent of future capital investment in Canadian oil and gas projects (2025–2040) is at risk of becoming stranded, writes Nichole Dusyk www.nationalobserver.com/2025/10/03/o...

Canada’s climate contradictions come with economic risks

Overinvesting in oil and gas is not just a problem for the climate — it also poses serious risks to the Canadian economy.

www.nationalobserver.com

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