Reds 🇨🇦
@kellyred.bsky.social
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Hi 👋🏻 I'm here now.
Ottawa native here to complain about transit and the weather. Will likely annoy you with basketball reskeets. Otherwise charming.
Hi 👋🏻 I'm here now.
Ottawa native here to complain about transit and the weather. Will likely annoy you with basketball reskeets. Otherwise charming.
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I’d be interested in learning more about how the Ottawa Charge is going to be accommodated and getting a better understanding of the cognitive dissonance between announcing funding to support festivals while at the same time making it possible for city folk to continue at this location.
Interested in learning more about the redevelopment and construction of Lansdowne 2.0? Join us this Wednesday, December 17 between 6 and 8 pm at TD Place Arena for a drop-in information session about all things Lansdowne 2.0. For more details, visit: https://bit.ly/3lwWtgC
December 17, 2025 at 12:45 AM
I’d be interested in learning more about how the Ottawa Charge is going to be accommodated and getting a better understanding of the cognitive dissonance between announcing funding to support festivals while at the same time making it possible for city folk to continue at this location.
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The cultural impact of Rob Reiner cannot be understated. Legend isn't big enough a word. It goes to 11. You can't handle the truth. As you wish. I'll have what she's having. I'm your number one fan. You guys wanna see a dead body? The very idea of a bucket list. The West Wing.
All from his movies.
All from his movies.
December 15, 2025 at 3:51 AM
The cultural impact of Rob Reiner cannot be understated. Legend isn't big enough a word. It goes to 11. You can't handle the truth. As you wish. I'll have what she's having. I'm your number one fan. You guys wanna see a dead body? The very idea of a bucket list. The West Wing.
All from his movies.
All from his movies.
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Councillor Tim Tierney is wrong about ‘Chronic No-Voters’ in his Ottawa Citizen Op/Ed on Saturday.
His opinion would be easier to take seriously if the comments weren’t coming from someone with a 15-year track record of being a reliable yes-man for every budget. 1/21
His opinion would be easier to take seriously if the comments weren’t coming from someone with a 15-year track record of being a reliable yes-man for every budget. 1/21
December 9, 2025 at 2:07 PM
Councillor Tim Tierney is wrong about ‘Chronic No-Voters’ in his Ottawa Citizen Op/Ed on Saturday.
His opinion would be easier to take seriously if the comments weren’t coming from someone with a 15-year track record of being a reliable yes-man for every budget. 1/21
His opinion would be easier to take seriously if the comments weren’t coming from someone with a 15-year track record of being a reliable yes-man for every budget. 1/21
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This was a scurrilous ad hominem attack on the integrity of City Council colleagues by @timtierney.ca. During a Term of Council when we've all sought to avoid the petty divisiveness of the last term, Councillor Tierney sadly brought us all lower yesterday. 1/ ottawacitizen.com/opinion/budg...
Is your councillor a chronic no-voter on city budgets? | Opinion
Tim Tierney: Ottawa has traded safety and security for policing alternatives – experiments that have repeatedly failed. | Opinion
ottawacitizen.com
December 7, 2025 at 3:44 PM
This was a scurrilous ad hominem attack on the integrity of City Council colleagues by @timtierney.ca. During a Term of Council when we've all sought to avoid the petty divisiveness of the last term, Councillor Tierney sadly brought us all lower yesterday. 1/ ottawacitizen.com/opinion/budg...
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Don't fall for the Marksplaining
Neil Saravanamuttoo (@neilsara)
Mayor Mark Sutcliffe says he has found a quarter billion dollars of savings and efficiencies in the 2026 Ottawa city budget. Are these really savings, or just the ravings of a guy trying to get re-ele...
substack.com
December 6, 2025 at 12:13 PM
Don't fall for the Marksplaining
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"But to call the crime femicide — a sex- or gender-specific term — is in fact a radical rethink in a climate of neutrality that too often masks the disproportionate burden women and girls bear for some forms of male violence."
Why Canada needs to recognize the crime of femicide — on Dec. 6 and beyond
More than 1,100 Canadian women and girls have been killed by men since 2018. So why is the federal government dragging its heels in adding femicide to the Criminal Code?
theconversation.com
December 5, 2025 at 8:24 PM
"But to call the crime femicide — a sex- or gender-specific term — is in fact a radical rethink in a climate of neutrality that too often masks the disproportionate burden women and girls bear for some forms of male violence."
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Giving $1 million of city money to pay for private security in the Byward Market is outrageous. All it will do is displace more unwell people into Centretown and surrounding communities. And announcing this at a press conference before consulting council? Not cool.
www.cbc.ca/news/canada/...
www.cbc.ca/news/canada/...
Action plan or 'PR stunt'? Mayor's public safety event gets mixed reviews | CBC News
Mark Sutcliffe says public safety has been a key priority since he ran for election three years ago, but his challenger for mayor says his latest announcement looks like a political event for the next...
www.cbc.ca
December 5, 2025 at 12:52 PM
Giving $1 million of city money to pay for private security in the Byward Market is outrageous. All it will do is displace more unwell people into Centretown and surrounding communities. And announcing this at a press conference before consulting council? Not cool.
www.cbc.ca/news/canada/...
www.cbc.ca/news/canada/...
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The contempt the city has shown for this expensive and genuinely impressive piece of art it bought and proudly installed is just perfectly symbolic of how it treats both the public realm and its own investments.
ottawacitizen.com/news/artist-...
ottawacitizen.com/news/artist-...
Artist fears Lansdowne installation may become '$2 million of scrap metal'
The final Lansdowne 2.0 report recommends decommissioning the art installation Moving Surfaces because there's no budget to restore it.
ottawacitizen.com
November 2, 2025 at 1:36 PM
The contempt the city has shown for this expensive and genuinely impressive piece of art it bought and proudly installed is just perfectly symbolic of how it treats both the public realm and its own investments.
ottawacitizen.com/news/artist-...
ottawacitizen.com/news/artist-...
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As a violence prevention educator, when parents ask me "What can I do to protect my kids from sexual abuse?", my advice is teach them the correct names for their body parts.
If a child is being abused and tells a teacher "My bird hurts", they're not gonna be able to clock that they don't mean a pet
If a child is being abused and tells a teacher "My bird hurts", they're not gonna be able to clock that they don't mean a pet
Hi. I transcribe child forensic interviews
You know who doesn’t want kids to know the correct names for body parts? The predators that put those kids in a position to need child forensic interviews.
Those kids NEVER know the right words for their body parts and it is always a hinderance.
You know who doesn’t want kids to know the correct names for body parts? The predators that put those kids in a position to need child forensic interviews.
Those kids NEVER know the right words for their body parts and it is always a hinderance.
It’s okay to name butts. It's okay to laugh about them. It is developmentally appropriate and healthy for toddlers (let alone fifth graders) to name body parts. We all have bums. What is the fear here? 5/
December 3, 2025 at 6:42 PM
As a violence prevention educator, when parents ask me "What can I do to protect my kids from sexual abuse?", my advice is teach them the correct names for their body parts.
If a child is being abused and tells a teacher "My bird hurts", they're not gonna be able to clock that they don't mean a pet
If a child is being abused and tells a teacher "My bird hurts", they're not gonna be able to clock that they don't mean a pet
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"To disavow the label [feminist] while pursuing the substance creates a strategic inconsistency — one that weakens Canada’s credibility with partners who are doubling down on feminist approaches, including the EU, Germany, and most Nordic states."
Does Canada have a feminist foreign policy? Actually, we do. And we are proof it works - Equality Fund Fonds Égalité
Jess TomlinCEO of the Equality Fund Canada’s Prime Minister Mark Carney, since leading a new government formed earlier this year, has been focusing on investment, financial growth and diversifying tra...
equalityfund.ca
November 28, 2025 at 8:21 PM
"To disavow the label [feminist] while pursuing the substance creates a strategic inconsistency — one that weakens Canada’s credibility with partners who are doubling down on feminist approaches, including the EU, Germany, and most Nordic states."
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I look at things like this and I think "how can anyone defend this system?"
When police themselves are like "This dude is dangerous to women and girls, but he's off leash so like... heads up? I guess?"
The way we look at violence prevention in this country is wildly off base.
When police themselves are like "This dude is dangerous to women and girls, but he's off leash so like... heads up? I guess?"
The way we look at violence prevention in this country is wildly off base.
Public safety warning: High-Risk Offender now living in the Rideau-Vanier area
www.ottawapolice.ca
November 27, 2025 at 6:43 PM
I look at things like this and I think "how can anyone defend this system?"
When police themselves are like "This dude is dangerous to women and girls, but he's off leash so like... heads up? I guess?"
The way we look at violence prevention in this country is wildly off base.
When police themselves are like "This dude is dangerous to women and girls, but he's off leash so like... heads up? I guess?"
The way we look at violence prevention in this country is wildly off base.
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It really is
It's a strange way to go about building national unity—agreeing with Alberta what should be built in BC without talking to BC about it.
Can't imagine the federal government taking this approach to a project that went through Ontario or Quebec.
www.theglobeandmail.com/politics/art...
Can't imagine the federal government taking this approach to a project that went through Ontario or Quebec.
www.theglobeandmail.com/politics/art...
Carney briefs cabinet on Alberta energy deal to be unveiled Thursday
Agreement could open the door for a new heavy oil pipeline to the B.C. coast
www.theglobeandmail.com
November 27, 2025 at 2:58 PM
It really is
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In which an authoritarian premier, who shuns an energy transition and uses the notwithstanding clause to trample rights, is rewarded with the pledge for a pipeline she greedily seeks.
Thanks, I hate it.
Thanks, I hate it.
November 27, 2025 at 5:17 PM
In which an authoritarian premier, who shuns an energy transition and uses the notwithstanding clause to trample rights, is rewarded with the pledge for a pipeline she greedily seeks.
Thanks, I hate it.
Thanks, I hate it.
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Here's today's dose of "This is why women don't trust police."
Charge withdrawn against Ottawa police officer who had sex while on duty | CBC News
Crown prosecutors have withdrawn a criminal charge against Const. Richard Lemay, who was demoted in September for picking up a woman and having sex with her while on duty 17 years ago.
www.cbc.ca
November 27, 2025 at 7:15 PM
Here's today's dose of "This is why women don't trust police."
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Among all the problems with substance and process identified in this story on Quebec's constitution bill, not mentioned is the blatantly unconstitutional element of purporting to amend the Constitution Act, 1867, which I remind you all, a province can't do.
www.cbc.ca/news/canada/...
www.cbc.ca/news/canada/...
Why Quebec’s proposed constitution has legal experts, civil rights groups sounding the alarm | CBC News
The legislation tabled last month has been the subject of growing consternation among legal experts and civil liberties groups, who warn it would centralize power, weaken judicial oversight and infrin...
www.cbc.ca
November 24, 2025 at 7:49 PM
Among all the problems with substance and process identified in this story on Quebec's constitution bill, not mentioned is the blatantly unconstitutional element of purporting to amend the Constitution Act, 1867, which I remind you all, a province can't do.
www.cbc.ca/news/canada/...
www.cbc.ca/news/canada/...
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“The long-nose trucks are designed for hauling freight on the open road, not for cities, and have been adapted for the construction industry. The driver has terrible visibility because of the long, high hood, but drivers prefer them to “cab-over” designs”
Great post on how our unsafe trucks (they’d never be allowed in Europe) kill so many pedestrians, and how our governments and companies do almost nothing about it despite endless safety theatre.
open.substack.com/pub/lloydalt...
open.substack.com/pub/lloydalt...
A crossing guard dies in Hamilton, Ontario, due to regulatory failure and bad design
Meanwhile, in London, the government says, "safe vehicles save lives."
open.substack.com
November 24, 2025 at 6:27 PM
“The long-nose trucks are designed for hauling freight on the open road, not for cities, and have been adapted for the construction industry. The driver has terrible visibility because of the long, high hood, but drivers prefer them to “cab-over” designs”
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Green Party of Canada 🇨🇦 -
Fact check: No, U.S. oil tankers do not pass through the Hecate Strait. Elizabeth May shows exactly why the tanker ban exists, and why protecting it matters. #cdnpoli
Fact check: No, U.S. oil tankers do not pass through the Hecate Strait. Elizabeth May shows exactly why the tanker ban exists, and why protecting it matters. #cdnpoli
November 22, 2025 at 10:00 AM
Green Party of Canada 🇨🇦 -
Fact check: No, U.S. oil tankers do not pass through the Hecate Strait. Elizabeth May shows exactly why the tanker ban exists, and why protecting it matters. #cdnpoli
Fact check: No, U.S. oil tankers do not pass through the Hecate Strait. Elizabeth May shows exactly why the tanker ban exists, and why protecting it matters. #cdnpoli
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“[Our] community is being actively targeted on an ongoing basis by a foreign government ... and our government ignores all of that and says, ‘Ah well, we’re going to start rebuilding ties.’”
November 18, 2025 at 6:41 PM
“[Our] community is being actively targeted on an ongoing basis by a foreign government ... and our government ignores all of that and says, ‘Ah well, we’re going to start rebuilding ties.’”
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Ford has no business interfering in cities. He has zero idea or understanding of transportation or land use policy, nor the policy levers it takes to make cities work.
If u care about better cities for people in Ontario Canada, please pay attention to what Premier Ford is doing. Not only would his new bill block cities from building bike-lanes if they touch car lanes, he’s talking about imposing his own street standards & standardized official plans in EVERY city.
November 15, 2025 at 11:36 AM
Ford has no business interfering in cities. He has zero idea or understanding of transportation or land use policy, nor the policy levers it takes to make cities work.
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I've filtered Ottawa's traffic collision data to show only collisions with injuries for each year, and then added the speed camera locations present in those years.
It looks like speed cameras have made the roads much safer.
It looks like speed cameras have made the roads much safer.
November 15, 2025 at 1:34 AM
I've filtered Ottawa's traffic collision data to show only collisions with injuries for each year, and then added the speed camera locations present in those years.
It looks like speed cameras have made the roads much safer.
It looks like speed cameras have made the roads much safer.
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There is no material difference in the rates of loneliness for men and women. We are all suffering!
The difference is that men make their loneliness everyone else's goddamn problem and that includes turning it into anger and violence.
But the solution isn't "stop talking about toxic masculinity"
The difference is that men make their loneliness everyone else's goddamn problem and that includes turning it into anger and violence.
But the solution isn't "stop talking about toxic masculinity"
Half of young Canadian men are at risk of ‘problem anger,’ survey finds
Half of young Canadian men risk letting their anger interfere with their daily life, relationships and work, new research suggests.
www.ctvnews.ca
November 13, 2025 at 5:22 PM
There is no material difference in the rates of loneliness for men and women. We are all suffering!
The difference is that men make their loneliness everyone else's goddamn problem and that includes turning it into anger and violence.
But the solution isn't "stop talking about toxic masculinity"
The difference is that men make their loneliness everyone else's goddamn problem and that includes turning it into anger and violence.
But the solution isn't "stop talking about toxic masculinity"
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🧵 There’s been some attention on the City’s new “donation button”. It’s an idea we talked about last year and that we were supposed to get a report on before proceeding. Maybe I missed it...
But here we are. And I have thoughts.
But here we are. And I have thoughts.
November 13, 2025 at 4:56 PM
🧵 There’s been some attention on the City’s new “donation button”. It’s an idea we talked about last year and that we were supposed to get a report on before proceeding. Maybe I missed it...
But here we are. And I have thoughts.
But here we are. And I have thoughts.
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at this point it would be easier to list who wasn’t involved with this subhuman trash (epstein or bannon, dealer’s choice)
Jeffrey Epstein advised Steve Bannon that the lawyers representing Brett Kavanaugh in his confirmation hearing should accuse Christine Blasey Ford of being on medications that cause false memories or memory loss.
November 12, 2025 at 11:53 PM
at this point it would be easier to list who wasn’t involved with this subhuman trash (epstein or bannon, dealer’s choice)
Me 10 (ish) years ago: I don't really get the hype but to each their own, I don't think we need to constantly trash these people.
Me today: Where does one submit a petition to sequester an entire gene pool on an island cut off from society?
Me today: Where does one submit a petition to sequester an entire gene pool on an island cut off from society?
“They all collectively, maybe four of them, have told me I was gonna pass the bar, so they’re all full pathological liars — don’t believe anything they say.”
Psychics Told Kim Kardashian She Would Pass the Bar Exam. She Didn't
bit.ly
November 11, 2025 at 6:06 PM
Me 10 (ish) years ago: I don't really get the hype but to each their own, I don't think we need to constantly trash these people.
Me today: Where does one submit a petition to sequester an entire gene pool on an island cut off from society?
Me today: Where does one submit a petition to sequester an entire gene pool on an island cut off from society?