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Warm Up The Guillotine @fiverdrive.bsky.social · 2h

Good story, but jayzuz does it make the City look stupid… and we all know there's no shortage of instances of the City doing things to make itself look stupid.

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Warm Up The Guillotine @fiverdrive.bsky.social · 3h

I get a kick out of the incompetence of City staff as much as the next guy, but this seems extreme to me 😉

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Warm Up The Guillotine @fiverdrive.bsky.social · 3h

One of your favourite stories is about how the City of Ottawa didn't do its research properly and put up big badminton racquets to honour a world champion badminton player named Jack Purcell from Guelph despite the fact that the park wasn't named after that particular Jack Purcell?

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Warm Up The Guillotine @fiverdrive.bsky.social · 5h

How many times have you said "it's never going to happen" since 2016, only for those things to end up happening? There is little off the table for these people, and crazy, desperate people will do crazy, desperate things.

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Warm Up The Guillotine @fiverdrive.bsky.social · 5h

The fact that Sutcliffe's campaign in the last couple of weeks has no cohesion whatsoever and is totally scattershot should be easy for any opposing campaign to make hay with if they have any agility whatsoever. I'm not holding my breath.

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Warm Up The Guillotine @fiverdrive.bsky.social · 6h

Lawson and that whole situation is one big exercise in bad faith. No wonder the convoy crowd get so worked up and 😍 about him.

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Warm Up The Guillotine @fiverdrive.bsky.social · 6h

His last 6 weeks of campaign announcements all evoke "So why didn't you do that in the last four years?" from me.

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Warm Up The Guillotine @fiverdrive.bsky.social · 6h

If I was a bag of shit Trumper, trying to rile up anti-ICE protests in a deep blue city with the hopes of the protests getting so big that you have to declare martial law and end up making the ability to vote in midterms extremely difficult, this would be the sort of thing I'd be contemplating.

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Warm Up The Guillotine @fiverdrive.bsky.social · 6h

FYI: Emrys Graefe is Alex Lawson's half-brother and is running Lawson's campaign to become mayor.

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Warm Up The Guillotine @fiverdrive.bsky.social · 6h

Not a great look, but then add his bundesadler tattoo, a haircut he had for a while, a weird thing for Roman imperialism (drives a Jeep Rubicon, license plate evokes a roman legion), and the whole worked-for-Maxime-Bernier thing, some associations become less a stretch and more a legit concern.

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Warm Up The Guillotine @fiverdrive.bsky.social · 6h

Graefe has a whole mess of red flags on him. Apparently when he was a parking bylaw officer in the mid-late 2000's he liked to make jokes about LGBTQ folks, Jewish folks and people with mental health issues.

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Warm Up The Guillotine @fiverdrive.bsky.social · 7h

A fantastic example of City staff incompetence.

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Warm Up The Guillotine @fiverdrive.bsky.social · 8h

Ottawa needs a borough system, stat. The core needs a degree of autonomy from the suburbs.

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Warm Up The Guillotine @fiverdrive.bsky.social · 15h

FYI: someone filed a freedom of information request about the proposed LRT upload to Metrolinx. It seems there’s been no discussion between Sutcliffe and the province on this topic since at least March of this year. Remember this any time he makes a promise related to the LRT upload. #ottpoli

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PEIPolitical 🇨🇦 @peipolitical.bsky.social · 18h

Doug Ford blocked a court order to release his cell records by removing all gov FOI requests. Ford's Chief of Staff Patrick Sackville traded in a personal cell phone containing gov records, the phone was "reset" and the gov records were missing. #cdnpoli

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Warm Up The Guillotine @fiverdrive.bsky.social · 08/10/2026

How many wrong-way driving cars I forced to turn around on Centretown streets today: 3 How many of them had fares in the back seat that thanked me: 1 #autowa

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Warm Up The Guillotine @fiverdrive.bsky.social · 07/10/2026

The fact that we bulldozed an entire neighbourhood in the 60s and it sat mostly empty for the next 60 years… and it continues to be mostly empty.

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Warm Up The Guillotine @fiverdrive.bsky.social · 06/10/2026

Wholly unsurprising. She's an awful choice for Ward 9, especially with her slandering opponents. Would be a toxic influence on City Council, much in the vein of Jan Harder (who endorsed her, which should be the kiss of death for anyone with common sense and an ounce of civility).

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Warm Up The Guillotine @fiverdrive.bsky.social · 06/10/2026

First-past-the-post is an absolute joke and should be outlawed in any country that purports to be democratic.

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Warm Up The Guillotine @fiverdrive.bsky.social · 06/10/2026

She's got a ton of integrity, too. She went in deep on the revenue streams for both ASE and red-light cameras and brought to light the fact that the money wasn't originally going where the City was telling us it was, despite her being a staunch supporter for those programs.

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Warm Up The Guillotine @fiverdrive.bsky.social · 06/10/2026

Should probably delete the BIA itself as well. The only thing they seem do be any good at is embarrassing itself and its membership.

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Warm Up The Guillotine @fiverdrive.bsky.social · 06/10/2026

At what point do we stop calling it a tweak and start calling it an injury?

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Warm Up The Guillotine @fiverdrive.bsky.social · 06/10/2026

So when will OPS show a similar interest in a blitz to protect Centretowners from red-light runners, speeders and motorists that cut off pedestrians and close-pass cyclists? 🤔 www.ctvnews.ca/ottawa/artic...

ctvnews.ca

Ottawa police arrest 23 people in Centretown safety blitz in September

The Ottawa Police Service says nearly two dozen people were arrested at the end of September following a week-long safety blitz in the Centretown and Chinatown areas.

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Warm Up The Guillotine @fiverdrive.bsky.social · 06/10/2026

TIL the max number of coins you can use to load $5 onto your Presto card at LRT stations is 36. If you’re trying to dump as much coin weight as possible (and get weird looks from people walking past you as you dump said weight), that’s 30×5¢ + 2×25¢ + 1×1$ + 1×2$ You’re welcome!

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Warm Up The Guillotine @fiverdrive.bsky.social · 05/10/2026

Was unaware of this 600m limit. Stoked to call 311 the next time someone parks in the new field next to my apartment building.

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Warm Up The Guillotine @fiverdrive.bsky.social · 05/10/2026

…as did Jim Watson & the City doing zero consultations with local First Nations and leaving us open to a major lawsuit and constitutional challenge, despite Watson’s near legendary espoused position on never wanting the City to be on the receiving end of a lawsuit.

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Warm Up The Guillotine @fiverdrive.bsky.social · 05/10/2026

Ottawa’s then Mayor crowing over how Tewin was a great way to forward reconciliation while simultaneously brushing aside concerns about the legitimacy of Algonquins of Ontario brought about by other Algonquin First Nations really did it for me.

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Warm Up The Guillotine @fiverdrive.bsky.social · 05/10/2026

This was always the endgame. Taggart (& Jim Watson) used reconciliation & First Nations as a smokescreen to get Tewin across the finish line, and now the City is going to be billions out of pocket for a project in the middle of nowhere that the City never wanted. www.cbc.ca/news/canada/...

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Tewin development takes next steps with Taggart family at helm of Algonquins of Ontario Realty Corp. | CBC News

A new community in southeast Ottawa was sold as a unique chance for reconciliation with Algonquin people, but it turns out the Algonquin corporation partnering with Taggart Group is now led by the Tag...

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Warm Up The Guillotine @fiverdrive.bsky.social · 05/10/2026

We've seen these mouthbreathers do demos twice here in Ottawa already. And yes, all these groups are affiliated with one another, either loosely or closely.

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Warm Up The Guillotine @fiverdrive.bsky.social · 04/10/2026

After 8 home games, the (0–15) RedBlacks' attendance is down 15.6% percent from last year. The irresponsibly optimistic Lansdowne 2.0 deal was predicated on 5.9% annual revenue increases from OSEG from 2023-24 to 2028-29. www.oagottawa.ca/media/1yhp51... Why would anyone vote for Sutcliffe?

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Warm Up The Guillotine @fiverdrive.bsky.social · 04/10/2026

Sometimes in the olde days a king would dig up the corpse of their decapitated secret wife and have the court kiss the hem of her garments in fealty. en.wikipedia.org/wiki/In%C3%A...

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Inês de Castro - Wikipedia

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Warm Up The Guillotine @fiverdrive.bsky.social · 04/10/2026

I don't know about you, but 75.5% on-time rate sounds abysmal to me.

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Warm Up The Guillotine @fiverdrive.bsky.social · 04/10/2026

It should be noted that Making Time's first event in Montreal was NYE 2023, well before Grondin became Ottawa's night mayor in June of '24.

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Warm Up The Guillotine @fiverdrive.bsky.social · 04/10/2026

Anyone that thought Grondin coming to town was going to turn Ottawa into a rave mecca was nuts, especially given how historically hostile the City of Ottawa has been to that scene and its infrastructure. Grondin's making slow progress and has some W's under his belt.

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Warm Up The Guillotine @fiverdrive.bsky.social · 03/10/2026

Unsurprising. Also: Sutcliffe has done two city budgets where savings from an assumed LRT upload were factored in… and since the upload never happened, this left a large hole in the budget that had to be plugged with other funding. It's wild that he's still in the lead… and again, unsurprising.

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Warm Up The Guillotine @fiverdrive.bsky.social · 01/10/2026

I think we can both agree she’s a horrible person that probably deserves to be fired directly into the sun.

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Warm Up The Guillotine @fiverdrive.bsky.social · 01/10/2026

I’m not really sure how calling someone an “absolute parasite” is a charitable thing to say about someone, but if calling that out gives you some sort of satisfaction, fill your boots I guess…?

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Warm Up The Guillotine @fiverdrive.bsky.social · 30/09/2026

Don’t tell them about King Edward…

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Warm Up The Guillotine @fiverdrive.bsky.social · 30/09/2026

Fantastic news, and a victory for both Canada's drug users and its harm reduction movement.

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Warm Up The Guillotine @fiverdrive.bsky.social · 30/09/2026

That's a damning comparison. Caryma Sa'd is an absolute parasite, a horrible person.

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Warm Up The Guillotine @fiverdrive.bsky.social · 30/09/2026

I hadn’t seem Adams’ stuff until the other day but i’m quickly turned off by his part of the exchange you two have had. Blocked.

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Warm Up The Guillotine @fiverdrive.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

I don't think I know that version. This is the one that still kills me like it was the first time I heard it. www.youtube.com/watch?v=sOYD...

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DJ Ron - Mo Musik (African Chant Mix) (1994)

YouTube video by Faint.Static

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Warm Up The Guillotine @fiverdrive.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

LOL, as if Lansdowne 2.0 is going to only cost the City of Ottawa $500M.

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Warm Up The Guillotine @fiverdrive.bsky.social · 27/09/2026

You're the Death Spiral candidate and nothing more.

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Warm Up The Guillotine @fiverdrive.bsky.social · 27/09/2026

That 10,303 set a new record for a Frontier League playoff game. It helps that Ottawa's stadium capacity is 2k more than the next team in the league, but still.

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Warm Up The Guillotine @fiverdrive.bsky.social · 27/09/2026

Don't worry, at the rate the team is going (0-14 this season, 0-20 over the last 20 games, year-over-year attendance down ~15%), those columns of Redblacks coverage will be freed up for other teams soon when the CFL team folds.

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Warm Up The Guillotine @fiverdrive.bsky.social · 27/09/2026

Nearly 9 ㎞ away. Sound logic by the Postmedia braintrust.

Map showing the distance (8.73km) between the location of the accident beong reported on and the location pictured in the photo the Ottawa Citizen used to illustrate the story.

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