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Sarah Gelbard @gelbard.ca · Jul 31

Intro update!

My postdoc is wrapping up and I'm pleased to share that I will be staying on in Criminology at the University of Ottawa as an Adjunct Professor, continuing research on housing and criminalization.

I'll also be teaching courses at Carleton in architecture and sociology 2025/2026.

Sarah Gelbard @gelbard.ca · Nov 21

Intro post:

I'm a SSHRC Postdoctoral Fellow in the Department of Criminology at the University of Ottawa working on the bi-directional relationship between criminalization and housing insecurity from an abolitionist and feminist perspective.

gelbard.ca/just-home/

Just home

Mapping Collective Housing Journeys of Gender and Criminalization SSHRC Postdoctoral Fellowship (2023-2025)Department of Criminology, University of OttawaCo-supervisors: Jennifer Kilty & Justin…

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Sarah Gelbard @gelbard.ca · 4h

NY Times Strands puzzle today is very apt.

(No spoilers)

Sarah Gelbard @gelbard.ca · 4h

Tonight!

We're up first at 9:30! You can do it.

Sarah Gelbard @gelbard.ca · 8d

Been a while since my band has played a public show. Come out next Wednesday October 8 at House of Targ.

SkyLab '73
Run With Us (album release)
Bad Missionary (that's us!)

Show poster with neon guitar pedals.

Wednesday October 8, 9pm at House of Targ.
SkyLab '73
Run With Us (album release)
Bad Missionary (that's us!)

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Sarah Gelbard @gelbard.ca · 5d

Another disappointing visit to the optometrist. Still don't need glasses.

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Candace @candycane13.bsky.social · 6d

Tune in for #Candyshop Fridays 4-5pm on @ckcu931 📻 on the web cod.ckcufm.com/programs/481... 📻 @bedanderz from @run_with_us_613 guest co-hosts; check out their EP release show with Skylab '73 and Bad Missionary Wednesday, October 8th at @houseoftarg 🎵 #friday #CandyandAndiDish #rocknrollradio 🍭🍬

CKCU: Candyshop

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Sarah Gelbard @gelbard.ca · 8d

Been a while since my band has played a public show. Come out next Wednesday October 8 at House of Targ.

SkyLab '73
Run With Us (album release)
Bad Missionary (that's us!)

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Peter Coffinman @petercoffman.bsky.social · May 23

It's hard even to believe today much less remember, but there was a time when the Post Office building was a symbol of pride and unity. It was central to the project of nation-building.

👇 Dawson City, Smiths Falls, St. Boniface, Renfrew.

#CanadaPost

A simple but handsome wooden building at the intersection of two dirt streets in a rustic town. The corner of the building has a bulky tower above a pedimented door.

A very imposing, bulky red sandstone building on a street corner, with a highly visible clock tower above picturesque, irregular, rough ashlar walls.

A dignified Classical building of red brick with yellow limestone trim sits on an urban street corner. The ground floor windows are arched.

An imposing white limestone building faced in rough, hammer-dressed stone with irregular wall surfaces and a high clock tower above the central gable.

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Peter Coffinman @petercoffman.bsky.social · 9d

It’s tonight, at 7:00!!

Join us at the Carleton Dominion-Chalmers Centre for an evening of violin music, featuring Anne Lindsay and the ghost of a lost architectural masterpiece.

Short talks by Brian Foss, James Wright, and me.

Admission is free, all are welcome! 🎻 🎶
carleton.ca/aah/cu-event...

Gathering Under the Dome: A Musical Evening at the Carleton Dominion-Chalmers Centre - Art and Architectural History

Anne Lindsay performs Soloworks 2, with short introductory presentations on architecture, art and acoustics by Carleton professors Peter Coffman, Brian Foss and James Wright. Toronto’s beautiful, hist...

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Sarah Gelbard @gelbard.ca · 12d

If I recall correctly from model I've seen elsewhere, carshare company pays the city for a permit similar to a residential on-steet parking permit that allows it to exceed the posted time limit (but bigger zone than normal residential permit).

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Paris Marx @parismarx.com · 13d

I know I’ve been posting a lot about this, but it’s telling of how this government looks at society that at the very moment Mark Carney can’t stop talking about nation-building projects, he’s throwing the biggest nationwide service-delivery network on the scrap heap because it doesn’t make money.

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Sarah Gelbard @gelbard.ca · 21d

Strava was really bugging out during my trip to Ireland so I want able to map most of my walks. It kept bugging out and then days later try to recover a lost walk when I started a new one.

But this takes the cake!

And I would walk 5000km!

Screenshot of Strava activity.
Haha. I would walk 5000 km. Best Strava bug so far.
Distance 5000km. Time 96h29m.
Map shows path from Dublin to Ottawa.

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Sarah Gelbard @gelbard.ca · 26d

The Canteen and Side Hustle just off the ferry on the Dartmouth side were both highlights of my trip and you get to ride the ferry.

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Patrick Shanks @shocktheshanker.bsky.social · Sep 6

Was out buying refreshments for the musicians ‘green room’ tomorrow and went into the LCBO for the first time in two years. Very strange. Also HOLY CRAP booze is expensive. Think I got out of that racket just in time. Whatever! Come to our street party tomorrow okay? All welcome. Dogs too please. 🐾

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Sarah Gelbard @gelbard.ca · Sep 6

Survived first week of classes. After a month of intense prep work for two new courses, it's very nice to be in space with students (and to actually be on the clock and getting paid).

Excited for the term ahead.

Hope y'all who are back to school (profs, students, staff) had a great first week.

Chalkboard in a classroom with writing: what is community? Shared space. Common interests and values. Support. Shared goals. Belonging...

Sarah Gelbard @gelbard.ca · Sep 3

Not cool that I'm trying to limit student AI use but then the eBook portals for their assigned readings pop-up with AI generated summaries and takeaways.

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Sarah Gelbard @gelbard.ca · Sep 2

Still true.

Sarah Gelbard @gelbard.ca · Nov 24

I can't convince my brain to not pronounce Bluesky like brewsky.

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Julie S. Lalonde @julieslalonde.bsky.social · Sep 2

Yearly unpopular reminder that you should never post photos of your kids online, but if you're going to, you should ask them for consent.

When we role model that ALL photos require consent before sharing, we actively dismantle a culture that has normalized leaking nudes.

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Sarah Gelbard @gelbard.ca · Aug 30

I would be more supportive of it if it were a sit down location BUT Tim's as an affordable option in the neighborhood isn't bad.

Folks who can't afford to spend $15 on a coffee and pastry deserve a treat and third places too.

Sarah Gelbard @gelbard.ca · Aug 30

I'll make note to share the event with my Intro to Architecture students!

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Peter Coffinman @petercoffman.bsky.social · Aug 30

Anne Lindsay created music for a beautiful, historic church. Before she could perform it there, it burned down. So she’s bringing it to another beautiful, historic church. In Ottawa. And you’re invited.

Carleton Dominion-Chalmers Centre, Sept. 29. Admission free.

carleton.ca/aah/2025/a-g...

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Sarah Gelbard @gelbard.ca · Aug 28

I'm not saying back to 5 days in the office is the solution. I'm saying WFH is not the solution you think it is.

Sarah Gelbard @gelbard.ca · Aug 28

Depending on parents working from home is not a solution to the lack of available, affordable day care.

Reducing demand on public transit will not make it better.

Work from home is a bad bandaid to these problems and increases burden on others.

Sarah Gelbard @gelbard.ca · Nov 24

I worry about reversing progress made in socialized forms of collective care including public transportation and child care rather than using this moment to recognize we still have so much to do to improve and expand them to make everyone's life better not just privileged workers.

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Sarah Gelbard @gelbard.ca · Aug 28

Also good news because the re-routed #11 bus now tips the ride to and from Massine's from long to ridiculously long.

Nice when you can travel out and back on 1 transfer and not have it take 2-3 hours to get groceries.

Sarah Gelbard @gelbard.ca · Aug 28

Grocery store on the LRT. That's what I'm here for!

I bike to the Kirkwood location most of the year but it's too far to walk and ridiculous to bus to in the winter.

I hope the "urban format" store still carries their great selection of international foods.

CTV News Ottawa @ctvnewsottawa.bsky.social · Aug 28

New grocery store opening in Ottawa’s Centretown neighbourhood

Shoppers in Ottawa’s Centretown neighbourhood have a new option for grocery shopping, as Food Basics opens its first urban concept store in the capital.

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Sarah Gelbard @gelbard.ca · Aug 28

I'm cramming hard getting ready for first week of classes next week. Two new to me courses to prep. I worked 11 hour days both Monday and Tuesday. Today I wrapped up a little early to stop for an afternoon treat with Kris before band practice.

Lobster tail at Dolci Sapori, highly recommended.

Lobster tail. The Italian pastry, not the seafood.

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Sarah Gelbard @gelbard.ca · Nov 24

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