Richard * nasty Canadian 🇨🇦*
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Nerd/geek, musician, interested in Ottawa topics, science news, and (out of necessity) world news and culture.
It'd be more impressive without the half billion subsidy of a private sports facility.
December 11, 2025 at 1:39 PM
It'd be more impressive without the half billion subsidy of a private sports facility.
Not if Lansdowne 2.0 can help it. He won't be able to avoid confronting the fact that people just don't think that kind of money for that sort of thing should have been the city's top priority these last 3 years.
December 11, 2025 at 12:26 PM
Not if Lansdowne 2.0 can help it. He won't be able to avoid confronting the fact that people just don't think that kind of money for that sort of thing should have been the city's top priority these last 3 years.
Our betters believe the scraps they serve us must be taken unquestioned, like Oliver Twist.
December 11, 2025 at 12:23 PM
Our betters believe the scraps they serve us must be taken unquestioned, like Oliver Twist.
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Also:
- Continued fare freeze for Equipass (low-income riders) and Community Pass (ODSP recipients)
- Overall operating budget $938-million (up 11% over 2025)
- $11.2-million for transit priority measures
- $295-million for Baseline-Heron Transitway
- Continued fare freeze for Equipass (low-income riders) and Community Pass (ODSP recipients)
- Overall operating budget $938-million (up 11% over 2025)
- $11.2-million for transit priority measures
- $295-million for Baseline-Heron Transitway
December 10, 2025 at 10:05 PM
Also:
- Continued fare freeze for Equipass (low-income riders) and Community Pass (ODSP recipients)
- Overall operating budget $938-million (up 11% over 2025)
- $11.2-million for transit priority measures
- $295-million for Baseline-Heron Transitway
- Continued fare freeze for Equipass (low-income riders) and Community Pass (ODSP recipients)
- Overall operating budget $938-million (up 11% over 2025)
- $11.2-million for transit priority measures
- $295-million for Baseline-Heron Transitway
A lot of people in this administration should not make any plans to ever step outside US borders.
December 10, 2025 at 9:04 PM
A lot of people in this administration should not make any plans to ever step outside US borders.
What is the basis at law for this seizure?
December 10, 2025 at 8:59 PM
What is the basis at law for this seizure?
@timtierney.ca penny wise and pound foolish is always a very bad idea. Unfunded services cause more serious problems that don’t always stay in someone else’s ward.
December 9, 2025 at 1:20 PM
@timtierney.ca penny wise and pound foolish is always a very bad idea. Unfunded services cause more serious problems that don’t always stay in someone else’s ward.
She will resign to spend more time with her dog cemetery.
December 9, 2025 at 1:13 PM
She will resign to spend more time with her dog cemetery.
Nobody you purport to be “thinking about” (ie trading on the name of innocents to get people to feel sorry for you) legalizes war crimes.
December 9, 2025 at 1:09 PM
Nobody you purport to be “thinking about” (ie trading on the name of innocents to get people to feel sorry for you) legalizes war crimes.
Indoctrination camps conveying the government’s official viewpoint and ensuring the citizenry adopt it from youth.
December 9, 2025 at 1:07 PM
Indoctrination camps conveying the government’s official viewpoint and ensuring the citizenry adopt it from youth.
The good thing, is that they lack the capability to bring it about. With doge having gutted the state department, there aren’t enough experts on other countries left in their government to assert the dominance they imagine themselves to have.
December 8, 2025 at 12:15 PM
The good thing, is that they lack the capability to bring it about. With doge having gutted the state department, there aren’t enough experts on other countries left in their government to assert the dominance they imagine themselves to have.
Indeed. Some Maslow's hierarchy was certainly in play here. Especially as they weren't "fighting" to begin with.
December 4, 2025 at 6:12 PM
Indeed. Some Maslow's hierarchy was certainly in play here. Especially as they weren't "fighting" to begin with.
It is also a bit of a suspect scoring chart. We know our own armed forces badly want their toy, and no doubt have weighted scoring priorities such that this aircraft will win.
But if they're ever severed from resupply of parts and software by ITAR, they'll deeply regret their myopia here.
But if they're ever severed from resupply of parts and software by ITAR, they'll deeply regret their myopia here.
December 4, 2025 at 5:07 PM
It is also a bit of a suspect scoring chart. We know our own armed forces badly want their toy, and no doubt have weighted scoring priorities such that this aircraft will win.
But if they're ever severed from resupply of parts and software by ITAR, they'll deeply regret their myopia here.
But if they're ever severed from resupply of parts and software by ITAR, they'll deeply regret their myopia here.
He does not have the authority. Only congress can actually end the treaty.
December 4, 2025 at 1:19 PM
He does not have the authority. Only congress can actually end the treaty.
One of my favourite spots. I think I may even prefer the amateur rock sculptures just north of the official ones.
December 4, 2025 at 1:04 PM
One of my favourite spots. I think I may even prefer the amateur rock sculptures just north of the official ones.
They're pimping up a war even less expertly than Bush did.
December 3, 2025 at 2:33 AM
They're pimping up a war even less expertly than Bush did.
I heartily approve.
December 2, 2025 at 11:59 PM
I heartily approve.
Why would she take on Jeff Leiper? He's a good counsellor, I thought.
November 29, 2025 at 5:16 PM
Why would she take on Jeff Leiper? He's a good counsellor, I thought.
It is appropriate for mendacity to come with some consequence.
November 26, 2025 at 3:30 PM
It is appropriate for mendacity to come with some consequence.
They can investigate and interview all they want. Article 94 is clear, and there's not a court in the land that would give Trump or Hegseth the authoritarian conviction they'd like.
November 26, 2025 at 2:06 PM
They can investigate and interview all they want. Article 94 is clear, and there's not a court in the land that would give Trump or Hegseth the authoritarian conviction they'd like.
The problem is that one of the countries we need to have a defense against is the US itself: and if they cut off software updates under ITAR, the F35 is a grounded brick within months.
They can't do that to the Gripen.
They can't do that to the Gripen.
November 26, 2025 at 1:31 PM
The problem is that one of the countries we need to have a defense against is the US itself: and if they cut off software updates under ITAR, the F35 is a grounded brick within months.
They can't do that to the Gripen.
They can't do that to the Gripen.