Michael D'Costa
mdcosta.bsky.social
Michael D'Costa
@mdcosta.bsky.social
Ottawa, usually.
Didn't mean to imply _you_ should provide this. Was just hoping there was an existing source I could use that someone could point to.
January 22, 2026 at 2:14 PM
Is there any live info on how crowded stations are? Like webcams, or even just qualitative descriptions ("busy" "packed" "empty" etc)?
January 22, 2026 at 1:09 PM
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But here's the thing: when he gets to the part about Ottawa having Canada's lowest property taxes, the response is typically...nothing. And I've been present for several of these speeches. Occasionally, there's mild applause. I wouldn't call it enthusiastic. Tepid, maybe? 4/
January 22, 2026 at 1:53 AM
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As the Mayor boasts, he's kept our tax increases lower than any major city in Canada. Okay. So, how's our transit ridership doing? How are your roads looking? Pools staying open long enough for you? The City of Ottawa "garbage can" in my neighborhood is a discarded oil barrel from Turkey. 8/
January 22, 2026 at 1:53 AM
With, generally. Maybe some specific use cases where without is clearer. (But I can't think of an example.)
January 22, 2026 at 12:43 AM
No? I think his speech outlines a variation of Freeland's option 2, except without assuming the US is involved... or is that alone different enough to be a 3rd option?
January 21, 2026 at 3:39 AM
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3) Emergency bus lane and transit priority measures need to be enacted on key corridors to ensure our working buses are used as efficiently as possible. We can't have our limited bus fleet standing still in traffic.
January 20, 2026 at 8:45 PM
Medium term, the IC plants are gone anyway, though. We either retool for EV, or for something else altogether.
January 16, 2026 at 8:55 PM
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Doug Ford decided that pedestrian lives — including kids who ride bikes and walk to school — were less important than drivers who get irritated about being required to obey the law.
January 16, 2026 at 2:11 PM
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With “Wikimedia Enterprise”, AI companies have to use (and pay for) dedicated APIs to scrape data, which helps to limit the strain on Wikimedia servers. (See eg arstechnica.com/information-...) This is a good thing for Wikimedia and for its readers.
AI bots strain Wikimedia as bandwidth surges 50%
Automated AI bots seeking training data threaten Wikipedia project stability, foundation says.
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January 15, 2026 at 6:52 PM
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