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Chris Taggart 🏡 ⚡️ 🔌 @christaggart.com · 02/10/2026

Looks like the Sutcliffe campaign has started texting people that have never ever signed up for anything Sutcliffe related.

Mark Sutcliffe will keep taxes low while investing in priorities like fixing our roads.
Reply YES, if Mark can count on your vote for Mayor.
Stop to stop

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Chris Taggart 🏡 ⚡️ 🔌 @christaggart.com · 20/09/2026

We should take another crack at cleaning up the Centenial Flame and let kids design it for their future in a cross-country RAIC-juried design contest

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Chris Taggart 🏡 ⚡️ 🔌 @christaggart.com · 20/09/2026

We did it. The @seandevine9.bsky.social “sorry, what?” gif is now handily available in the Bluesky / Klippy gif picker

Klippy gif selection with Sean Devine gif

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Chris Taggart 🏡 ⚡️ 🔌 @christaggart.com · 11/09/2026

Are these locates painted on the Scott st bike lane new? 🤔

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Chris Taggart 🏡 ⚡️ 🔌 @christaggart.com · 09/09/2026

I’m pretty sure they turned most of the open area into smaller offices the last time I walked by there. I do not miss those drafty heritage windows.

Interior of part of the building circa 2022

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Chris Taggart 🏡 ⚡️ 🔌 @christaggart.com · 06/09/2026

How does CBC carry a whole panel on the Sunday Magazine about fossil fuel prices and growth with someone from the McDonald Laurier Institute without at least mentioning that they receive major backing from fossil fuel interests?

The Macdonald-Laurier Institute (MLI) is an official partner organization and affiliate of the U.S.-based, conservative and libertarian Atlas
Network. ®
About the Connection
• Affiliation: MLI joined the global network of free-market think tanks after its founding in Ottawa in 2010. ®
• Funding and Support: MLI receives support and membership connection through the Atlas Network, which receives backing from major fossil fuel and corporate interests. @
• Shared Goals: Both groups promote market-oriented public policies, often opposing heavy government regulation on environmental and energy issues. V Desmog +1

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Chris Taggart 🏡 ⚡️ 🔌 @christaggart.com · 04/09/2026

He’s just cribbing sound bites from his last campaign at this point, only last time it was about aggressively funding climate

"If I have a mandate from the people of Ottawa to move forward on these
priorities, it will be clear to the police service and the police board that that's what the people of Ottawa want," he said.

"And so it will be clear to the senior staff at city hall that there's an expectation that we have to act on all of this, and that we have to start making decisions differently."

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Chris Taggart 🏡 ⚡️ 🔌 @christaggart.com · 01/09/2026

Next up, renewed calls to move the Rideau Canal and Dow’s Lake into an aqueduct

Ottawa citizen screenshot of piece titled “car drives into waters of dow’s lake” with a photo of Dows lake

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Chris Taggart 🏡 ⚡️ 🔌 @christaggart.com · 30/08/2026

Parking minimums bad, dedicated bike ramp minimums.. good.

Dedicated bike lane ramp at the Sen̓áḵw buildings in Vancouver

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Chris Taggart 🏡 ⚡️ 🔌 @christaggart.com · 28/08/2026

We’ll know it’s being seriously considered when we replace the gas flare on the front lawn of parliament.

Centennial flame (gas flare) burning in front of parliament

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Chris Taggart 🏡 ⚡️ 🔌 @christaggart.com · 18/08/2026

Sutcliffe delivered on literally none of this during his first term as mayor, nobody should trust anything he campaigns on.

Asked how he would operationalize that, "It starts at the top ... so that's why this is an ambitious plan," Sutcliffe said. "City staff will know if I'm elected that I was elected on an aggressive,
ambitious plan to address climate change. And they will know that these are the priorities of the people of Ottawa because they voted for me and they voted for this platform.
"And so it will be clear to the senior staff at city hall that there's an expectation that we have to act on all of this, and that we have to start making decisions differently."
完

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Chris Taggart 🏡 ⚡️ 🔌 @christaggart.com · 05/08/2026

Reminds me I *almost* started a campaign to get these made for realsies, but my last custom plush project resulted in several hundreds of stuffed robots in my garage that I still haven’t fully gotten rid of yet

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Chris Taggart 🏡 ⚡️ 🔌 @christaggart.com · 20/07/2026

“Your kids will totally understand if you skip school pickup and grab a pint downtown with the people from your day full of Teams calls”

Screenshot from Ottawa citizen - OTTAWA CITIZEN
New transit ads will encourage
RTO workers to linger downtown

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Chris Taggart 🏡 ⚡️ 🔌 @christaggart.com · 16/07/2026

Serious Urban Arrow spawn point over here

Three urban arrow bikes parked in front of a coffee shop

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Chris Taggart 🏡 ⚡️ 🔌 @christaggart.com · 10/07/2026

Confirmed the flooding at Centrepointe library and Carlingwood impacted the children’s collections. Only seems fair we move the children’s collections to higher ground and put the boomers collections in the basement for the next flood.

The Nepean Centrepointe
and Carlingwood branches remain closed until further notice due to water infiltration caused by the storm.
Our teams continue to assess the damage and develop restoration plans. We can confirm that both branches sustained damage to flooring, furnishings, fixtures, equipment, and other building materials and systems. Initial assessments indicate that the damage was limited to the basement at Nepean Centrepointe dto
the first floor of the Carlingwood branches. In both branches, the impacted areas are where the children's collections are located

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Chris Taggart 🏡 ⚡️ 🔌 @christaggart.com · 08/07/2026

The Merivale Road North Functional Design study documents are up. Due to Ford’s meddling, no bike lanes but option 2 leaves room for their future addition. You know what to do #ottbike engage.ottawa.ca/merivale-roa...

Conceptual Renderings / Rendus conceptuels
Merivale Road, Looking North at Viscount Avenue Chemin Merivale, en direction nord à l'avenue Viscount
Merivale Road, South of Thames Street, Looking North Chemin Merivale, au sud de la rue Thames, vue vers le nord
Merivale Road. Looking North at Laperriere Avenue / Anna Avenue Chemin Merivale, en direction nord à l'avenue Laperriere / avenue Anna

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Chris Taggart 🏡 ⚡️ 🔌 @christaggart.com · 03/07/2026

One of the biggest misconceptions people have about backup/supplemental heat is thinking they need a wholly secondary heating system. When we do full cold climate installs in Ottawa, the backup heat is literally this heat kit that is the size of a couple pizza boxes installed inside the air handler

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Chris Taggart 🏡 ⚡️ 🔌 @christaggart.com · 01/07/2026

Due to sewer and water replacement on our street, all our storm drains are covered with geotextile fabric which evidently does not allow water to drain as quickly as it usually does.

Flooded Ottawa street one day after the government announces they are abandoning Canada’s previous climate targets.

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Chris Taggart 🏡 ⚡️ 🔌 @christaggart.com · 27/06/2026

👀 I know it’s nowhere near the same scale, but similarly, whenever I walk by parliament hill, the amount of incomplete combustion from the centennial flame is really really bad.

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Chris Taggart 🏡 ⚡️ 🔌 @christaggart.com · 27/06/2026

If you’re wondering why the City of Ottawa decided to focus on the tinniest slice of owned emissions

City of Ottawa
Emissions by Source
Bus electrification vs. cars vs. home heating
Home + Building
2,280.00
residential heating a half of this
- 2,400,000
2,000,000
Entire OC Transpo bus fleet =106,000 t CO, e/yr - all diesel
Electrifying every bus cuts under 2% of city emissions.
2027 target (~350 e-buses)
saves ~25,000 t/yr — a sliver.
1,600,000
Cars
1,260,000 CO, e
Waste + agriculture
600,000 CO,0
Diesel: trucks & freight
610,000(O0
800,000
Electricity (buildings)
450,000 CO,0
- 400,000
- 0
Bus fleet
Electricity
Waste
Diesel freight
Cars
Gas heat
Emissions Source
Approximate - reconstructed from City of Ottawa community & corporate GHG inventories (2020 baseline) and OC Transpo figures.
Bars show annual emissions by source. Splitting gas heat into residential vs. commercial would put each roughly level with Cars.

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Chris Taggart 🏡 ⚡️ 🔌 @christaggart.com · 21/06/2026

Anybody know what the deal is with the Fisher Park delay construction is? Been like this for a while. The slide is also now boarded up.

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Chris Taggart 🏡 ⚡️ 🔌 @christaggart.com · 17/06/2026

name a tv show you’re positive no one remembers but you

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Chris Taggart 🏡 ⚡️ 🔌 @christaggart.com · 04/06/2026

Schools that are between two streets can already do this (e.g Elmdale), but schools that are only accessible from one street (e.g. W.E. Gowling) could be altered to be one-way for bus drop off and a separated mobility lane for students to be able to bike to/from school safely.

Map of proposed one way + bike lane in green and blue detour for northbound vehicles down Marshall.

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Chris Taggart 🏡 ⚡️ 🔌 @christaggart.com · 03/06/2026

Almost makes you not notice the Auttowa Duct Tape…almost

Cement sidewalk with low quality asphalt patches. The tell tale sign you’ve arrived in Ottawa.

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Chris Taggart 🏡 ⚡️ 🔌 @christaggart.com · 28/05/2026

If you haven’t put this on your calendar yet, plan to attend the family friendly Green Fair Ottawa on June 13th at the Coventry Rd Conference Centre (baseball stadium adjacent). We’ll be demo’ing thermal batteries and talking heatpumps and maybe balcony solar ☀️ cafesottawa.ca/green-fair-o...

CAFES Ottawa
Community Action for
Environmental Sustainability
Green Fair
Ottawa
INNOVATION + EV SHOWCASE
SAT 13 JUN 2026
10 AM - 4 PM
200 COVENTRY RD
• FREE public event
• EV test-drives
• Chef-led cooking demonstrations
• Local sustainability innovators
• Indoor and outdoor vendors
• Family-friendly fun
• Educational workshops
• Easy access: Short walk from O-Train and 400+ free parking spots
Let's build ottawa's green future together

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Chris Taggart 🏡 ⚡️ 🔌 @christaggart.com · 26/05/2026

Something something sightlines But I’m sure there’s some amount of we’d just have to dig them up when the roots interfere with utilities and someone gets hit because a driver claims they couldn’t see the cyclist due to the trees.

Picture of Scott st bike lane where a vehicle drove over the grass median

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Chris Taggart 🏡 ⚡️ 🔌 @christaggart.com · 18/05/2026

Another diesel generator use case that the city of Ottawa should be working to help move small businesses away from. Gathering hundreds of kids to bounce adjacent to 4 stinky emission generators when these could be totally silent non-emitting batteries. @forourkidsog.bsky.social

Diesel generators powering bouncy castles at fisher park day

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Chris Taggart 🏡 ⚡️ 🔌 @christaggart.com · 15/05/2026

@pwhlfanapp.bsky.social intermission is so good. We need multiplayer Zamboni races next.

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Chris Taggart 🏡 ⚡️ 🔌 @christaggart.com · 01/05/2026

This is practically the NCC’s Scenic Driveway through the Central Experimental Farm

Street view photo of NCC’s Scenic Driveway through the Central Experimental Farm.

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Chris Taggart 🏡 ⚡️ 🔌 @christaggart.com · 29/04/2026

Bayview station has a whole giant parking lot, but nobody can carry a ladder 10ft or bring a dolly. Tow those vehicles straight into the river.

Google Maps screenshot of Bayview station parking lot

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Chris Taggart 🏡 ⚡️ 🔌 @christaggart.com · 18/04/2026

The Icon ones just feel so out of scale with the building itself. It should have some tall things there; not low growing flowers.

Planters in front of Carling Icon building with shrubs

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Chris Taggart 🏡 ⚡️ 🔌 @christaggart.com · 15/04/2026

Moto-normativity is having to opt out of needing a school bus vs. opting in to need a bus. Those opting out (and saving the board money on buses) have to spend their time filling out a form and looking up numbers while everyone that needs a school bus seat doesn't have to do anything.

Ottawa Student Transportation (OSTA) is launching its annual opt-out process to enhance bus routing and transportation planning for the 2026-2027 school year.

If your child(ren) will not require school bus transportation next school year, please complete the electronic opt-out form to inform OSTA that a seat is not needed. This will help optimize services and minimize disruptions. Requests for reinstated service can be made anytime through OSTA’s Transportation Issues Form, and is subject to availability and eligibility.

The opt-out form is now available on OSTA’s website. The deadline to apply is June 1, 2026.

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Chris Taggart 🏡 ⚡️ 🔌 @christaggart.com · 12/04/2026

We found that with one 20” bike and one 24” bike it was a bit of a squeeze and we spent more time getting the bikes tied in; so opened for the trailer. Also tried bolting on an actual bike trailer to speed up the long bikes on, but the drag is a bit much. .