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Submitting JWST proposals is up there with trying to book swimming lessons in Ottawa. If you're a parent who has won the Ottawa hunger games, there's an astronomer that needs your help.

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Brent Toderian @brenttoderian.bsky.social · 30/09/2026

Paris has been praised in recent years for their visionary, progressive city-building, but they don’t get enough credit for just being really pragmatic! Everything they’ve been doing is common sense. They’re moving a lot more people with less space while cleaning the air and cooling the city.

People riding bikes in a full separated bike-lane in Central Paris.

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The Tennessee Holler @thetnholler.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

🔥JACK SMITH: "Trump engaged in serious crimes against 🇺🇸- a criminal scheme to prevent a lawful transfer of power... the rule of law faces challenges unlike any we've experienced. I won't be silenced by threats of prosecution. While fear may be contagious, courage is as well."

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Frosted Poptart @toastertrollop.bsky.social · 25/09/2026

114 children all with single sniper shots to the head. Some as young as 5 years old. Read that again. They're "hunting" children for fun.

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secretman11.bsky.social @secretman11.bsky.social · 28/09/2026

That's just displacing costs from high-income property owners onto the poorest people in the city.

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Paul Eric @pauleric70.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

Sometimes you just have to stop what you’re doing and listen. Unfortunately selective deafness from governments that should know better, has led to what history WILL record as genocide. Even since the ceasefire, which is in this situation a cruel sick joke, more Palestinians have been murdered

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Michael Warburton @michaelwarburton.bsky.social · 28/09/2026

“I don’t think being good at things is the point of doing them.” How an Archeologist changed KURT VONNEGUT’s life.

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Glen Gower @glengower.ca · 28/09/2026

Saturday night in Ottawa: Took the LRT home from the Titans game, full of happy fans. Along the way, people all dressed up for Nuit Blanche boarding the train. Then through downtown, families coming home from Ottawa 200 celebrations. Quite a fun night. More like this please!

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Scott Clement @scottyclement.bsky.social · 27/09/2026

You're the only mayoral candidate committing to hamstring the City's finances for generations to come. Why pay the money to fix my leaking roof when I can just not and then pay more down the road to fix the damage the leaking roof caused, too?

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Rachel Gilmore @rachelgilmore.bsky.social · 24/09/2026

Canada continues to be shameful on this issue.

Screenshot shows the man in Canada's seat looking around at the other countries leaving the room all while staying seated. The country names are a bit hard to make out, but I cross-referenced this against the seating chart that's been published.

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Tom Flood @tomflood.bsky.social · 24/09/2026

You take the lanes, we take the road.

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gotu @gotu.bsky.social · 24/09/2026

"Since the adoption of the City of Ottawa’s 10-year plan to end homelessness in 2014, the number of people living in shelters has risen from just over 6,700 that year to almost 9,500 in 2024, the report says." Suttcliffe was 6 years into a 10 year plan to end homelessness when he took over.

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gotu @gotu.bsky.social · 23/09/2026

My councilor finally got a reply from OCTranspo re the @mark-sutcliffe.bsky.social $4 billion deal to upload the LRT: "We are in the preliminary exploratory stages of this potential transfer. No terms have been agreed to at this point." ....

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Keith Stewart @climatekeith.bsky.social · 22/09/2026

Do not go gentle into that good night, Old age should burn and rave at close of day; Rage, rage against the dying of the light.

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The Serfs (youtube.com/theserfstv) @theserfstv.bsky.social · 22/09/2026

Seniors are being arrested protesting Mark Carney's complete capitulation to the oil and gas industry. They're wearing pictures of their grandchildren

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Guardian US @us.theguardian.com · 21/09/2026

The “jaw-dropping” El Niño currently heating up the planet has burst through the highest temperature ever recorded for the phenomenon, several months before its expected peak.

A line chart showing temperature anomalies in the Niño 3.4 region of the Pacific Ocean, compared to a 30-year rolling base period since 1982.

A gold line shows temperatures in 1997, a teal line in 2025, and a red line in 2026. The red line surpasses all others reaching 3.07ºC, and at an earlier point (September) than the previous El Niño that reached a comparable range in November 2015.

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Robert "The Bobby Yaga" McNees @mcnees.bsky.social · 21/09/2026

Happy 118th birthday, spacetime. 🧪 🔭 ⚛️ Hermann Minkowski addressed the 80th Assembly of German Natural Scientists and Physicians #OTD in 1908, offering a radical four-dimensional reformulation of Einstein's theory of special relativity. Here is how he opened his address.

"The views of space and time which I wish to lay before you have sprung from the soil of experimental physics, and therein lies their strength. They are radical. Henceforth space by itself, and time by itself, are doomed to fade away into mere shadows, and only a kind of union of the two will preserve an independent reality."
- Hermann Minkowski, 1908

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gotu @gotu.bsky.social · 20/09/2026

Can we have this in Ottawa? Embrace the snow, Ottawa could be so much fun in winter.

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andrew.ottawa 🇨🇦 @ottawandrew.bsky.social · 18/09/2026

39 days to go … for the love of Christ this *needs* to be a core campaign message that at every opportunity gets repeated over and over and over and over and over and over and over and over and over and over and over again (IMHO).

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Meidas Charise Lee 💙🌊🌴🥥🫘 @chariselee.bsky.social · 16/09/2026

What real world leaders do … Build relationships

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gotu @gotu.bsky.social · 16/09/2026

We could do with this in Ottawa.

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Brigitte Pellerin @brigittepellerin.bsky.social · 16/09/2026

We keep coming up with convoluted programs that we don't follow up on. What the Market needs is a simple vision. Start with having stores that are open. randomactsofurbanism.substack.com/p/a-simple-v...

randomactsofurbanism.substack.com

A simple vision for the ByWard Market

Start with the basics, like having stores that are open.

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Keith Stewart @climatekeith.bsky.social · 15/09/2026

This is climate vandalism: Twenty years further into the climate crisis, Mark Carney is picking up the "Energy Superpower" torch from Stephen Harper Carney: The climate can't wait www.pm.gc.ca/en/news/spee...

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Veronica 🇨🇦 @veronicaw.bsky.social · 05/09/2026

He’s a human wrecking ball. Science Center. Ontario place. Bike lanes. Destroy destroy.

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David Hamer @davidhamer1951.bsky.social · 05/09/2026

It’s official: Big Dumb Doug Ford is Ontario’s very own King of Stupid. 🤷🏼🙄🤷🏼 🚴🚴🚴

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Charlie Angus @charlieangus104.bsky.social · 04/09/2026

We had the opportunity to limit catastrophic damage to a 1.5 degree increase but that meant calling on the oil giants to do their part. Canada is now predicting a 3.5 to 5 degrees increase. That will spell the end of civilization. And we are still going all in on a $100 billion pipeline?

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🍁🇨🇦Team Canada Forever🇨🇦🍁 @teamcanadaforever.bsky.social · 03/09/2026

Prime Minister Carney on how he's personally doing while facing all the hostility from the US "You focus on what you can control...We have the support of Canadians, we have the positive attitude of Canadians, it's a country that takes care of one another...I'm doing just fine" 🎥 Credit CPAC Live

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gotu @gotu.bsky.social · 01/09/2026

Those flashing signs that frown when you speed should trigger the next traffic light to add a penalty in the form of a pedestrian and bike advance light. Number of seconds time out based on the speed. No right turn on red and Doug hasn't banned red light cameras yet, so no jumping the light.

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gotu @gotu.bsky.social · 31/08/2026

Here is what I could find on the upload of the LRT. Last October, council instructed the Mayor and the City Manager to enter into negotiations with the Province to upload the LRT: pub-ottawa.escribemeetings.com/Meeting.aspx...

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Upload of LRT by the Government of Ontario - City Council - October 08, 2025

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gotu @gotu.bsky.social · 30/08/2026

I'm at the bit where the multi-day run dies printing results because a matrix has gone singular... and it is a good sign, things are working point ... #python pickle appreciation tweet, with special reference to bilby: arxiv.org/abs/1811.02042 Thanks for the pickles!

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Bilby: A user-friendly Bayesian inference library for gravitational-wave astronomy

Bayesian parameter estimation is fast becoming the language of gravitational-wave astronomy. It is the method by which gravitational-wave data is used to infer the sources' astrophysical properties. W...

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Mark Hamill @markhamillofficial.bsky.social · 30/08/2026

SHOUT-OUT to Political Cartoonist extraordinaire & Member of the Order of Canada Michael de Adder, who routinely does a far better job of holding this administration accountable than the corporate media. Thank you for your attention to his brilliant satirical wit! 🙏 (also: 🤣)

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gotu @gotu.bsky.social · 28/08/2026

2 days ago I sent @mark-sutcliffe.bsky.social a message asking for information on the $4 billion LRT upload deal that he is claiming as one of his achievements this term. So far no answer. Also asked my councillor and was told they know nothing about the deal. There is no $ 4 billion deal.

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Keith Stewart @climatekeith.bsky.social · 26/08/2026

You know the AI-boosting O&G bros are nervous when Energy United, a fossil fuel front group set up by former CAPP President Tim McMillan, comes to the defence of AI data centres. I'd love to see the evidence for the claim that in Canada, cold air provides "nearly all the actual cooling they need."

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gotu @gotu.bsky.social · 26/08/2026

Canada is doing renos to our Parliament buildings. No tacky ballroom, just preserving a beautiful old building. Canada has taste.

The eternal flame burning in front of Canada's peace tower, with a construction crane and buildings covered in scaffolds.

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Ramin Nasibov @nasibov.me · 26/08/2026

How old were you when you saw the 8 between the diamonds?

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Meidas Charise Lee 💙🌊🌴🥥🫘 @chariselee.bsky.social · 26/08/2026

Canada 🇨🇦 means business ….

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gotu @gotu.bsky.social · 25/08/2026

Spirals are everywhere. How do they grow? Astrophysics says galaxies grow by mergers, but have you ever seen two ammonites merge into a bigger one? Two category 1 hurricanes to form a cat 2? That's not how spirals grow and it is not how galaxies grow.

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gotu @gotu.bsky.social · 25/08/2026

If you are running for council in Ottawa and want a cheap way to improve transit, here you go:

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It's Jamie @sjamieit.bsky.social · 25/08/2026

$50 million for rural roads (over 4 years) on top of existing funding levels. Where does this money come from? A reminder that LRT frequency was cut from 5 to 10 minutes to save $1.6 million/yr. 70,000 bus service hours were cut in New Ways to Bus to save $10 million/yr.

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Melissa & Chris Bruntlett @modacitylife.com · 19/08/2026

In Montréal, what started as an emergency pandemic response has evolved into the continent’s most ambitious car-free scheme. Across 9.3 kilometres of 11 commercial arteries in seven boroughs, entire corridors have been handed back to pedestrians, helping some 2,100 businesses thrive in the process.🧵

People of all ages and abilities walk, sit, and dine along a pedestrianised street in Montreal. It is lined with trees, planter boxes, terraces, and benches.

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Michael Warburton @michaelwarburton.bsky.social · 22/08/2026

Nearly all the extras in this iconic scene were French expatriates. Their tears during the stirring rendition of La Marseillaise were genuine— filmed at a time when the fate of France was still uncertain. CASABLANCA (1942) #MichaelCurtiz

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