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bikeview.ca @bikeviewca.bsky.social · 28/09/2026

You can pretty much dump any sign you want into a bike lane provided it’s to let drivers know some information. This is Alta Vista North of Smyth. Both sides of the street. #ottBike #autowa #VisionSomethingSomething

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Tom Flood @tomflood.bsky.social · 27/09/2026

You take our bike lanes, we take the road. Toronto showed up Friday night. 📸 @geoffreybercarich via Instagram

Cyclists taking the lane stretching kms of a city street

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jd 🔆 @longasicansee.bsky.social · 12/09/2026

The Irish. Greeting Trump today.

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kɛbɹah zmɪeʒd @sesquiotic.bsky.social · 02/09/2026

Hi from Lake Ontario

View from Hanlan’s Point beach; low clouds obscure the Etobicoke lakeshore buildings in the distance, various small crafts dot the water near the horizon, a sailboat mast sticks up centre, and the sun above it peaks through a gap in the clouds that seems to raise a finger

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jd 🔆 @longasicansee.bsky.social · 29/08/2026

In an era when political rivals barely talk to each other unless hurling insults, it’s refreshing, inspiring even, to see two old political enemies coming together and cooperating to solve a problem that needs to be solved. That’s how it’s done. calgaryherald.com/news/politic...

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Jason Kenney and Rachel Notley join forces in campaign opposing Alberta separatism

Former Alberta premiers Jason Kenney and Rachel Notley are setting aside political differences in an effort to stop Alberta separatists.

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John Michael McGrath @jm-mcgrath.bsky.social · 29/08/2026

Good morning. Ipsos has restricting energy exports to the US with 2:1 support; an oil & gas export tax at nearly 3:1 support. *In Alberta.* (Table 2.) www.ipsos.com/en-ca/canadi...

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Canadians Support A Robust Response To U.S. Tariffs

Canadians Support COVID-Style Program To Protect Workers

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Canadian History Ehx @cdnhistoryehx.bsky.social · 25/08/2026

Before Europeans arrived, these were some of the names for The Great Lakes: Superior: gichi-gami (great sea) Erie: erielhonan (long tail) Michigan: michigami (long body of water) Ontario: Ontarí'io\kanadario (great lake\beautiful water) Huron: karegnondi (fresh water sea)

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Marc 🍁 @marc55.bsky.social · 23/08/2026

Someone should post an ad on Craigslist: Canada: Now accepting applications for Provincial status. Apply within. #cdnpoli

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jd 🔆 @longasicansee.bsky.social · 23/08/2026

As long as we’re on a roll, why don’t we close our side of the Ambassador Bridge for a few weeks. For repairs.

Photo: View of the ambassador bridge linking Windsor and Detroit taken from above.

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Ariel Troster @arieltroster.bsky.social · 15/08/2026

With a week till nominations close for the Oct 26 municipal election, there are several wards where the candidate is unopposed. I think this speaks to 1) the toxic political climate, 2) the inadequate compensation for hours worked, and 3) general burnout. Still, this is bad for democracy.

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Toon Dreessen @toondreessen.bsky.social · 04/08/2026

There’s a lot of history in small suburban strip malls that make them important parts of communities. Here’s a blog post that COO Miranda wrote a few few years back about the suburban strip mall and @architectsdca.bsky.social history www.architectsdca.com/news/the-nei...

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The neighbourhood fabric • Architects DCA Inc.

In Layman’s Terms (A Non-Architect’s Point of View) A Blog by Miranda Paquette Flashback to my teen years – I lived briefly in Orléans, went...

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jd 🔆 @longasicansee.bsky.social · 02/08/2026

My letter to Prime Minister Carney this morning. I’ll let you guys know if I get a reply.

Text of letter:
Your climate change leadership
To: The Right Honourable Mark Carney
August 2 2026
Dear Mr. Carney,
You are a year plus into your mandate, and you have accomplished much.
But with respect, you are failing in your greatest challenge: climate change. There are few left among us now unaware that reversing the ravages of hothouse earth is the defining task of our time. And with your power, your networks, and your influence, you are in a unique position to be a world leader here. For one is urgently needed.
Instead, you have abandoned many of the already tepid climate mitigation measures Canada had put in place. You are aggressively promoting the continued burning of fossil fuels with new pipelines and subsidies to the oil sector. And what's with this carbon capture? You and I both know this is a useless technology, one that doesn't work at anywhere remotely near the scale necessary to make a whit of difference.
You can be a champion, sir. You can reverse course. Or you can continue to fail us.
Please choose wisely. Time is running out.

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Susan🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿🇨🇦🥊🐶 @bellwhitworth.bsky.social · 27/07/2026

Went for long walksies as when I’m angry or upset, I walk 🐾 This explains why I don’t consume US news. I’d be in Timbuktu by now 😣

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jd 🔆 @longasicansee.bsky.social · 24/07/2026

The latest ‘excuse’ for raising tariffs against Canada is that Canada isn’t doing enough to crack down on goods produced by forced labour. But prison (forced) labour in the U.S. generates services valued at $9 billion annually and produce over $2 billion in goods. en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Penal_l...

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Penal labor in the United States - Wikipedia

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jd 🔆 @longasicansee.bsky.social · 16/07/2026

Just for fun, what if we juxtaposed a map of current wildfires with the route of Canada’s proposed eastern pipeline from Alberta to Sarnia?

Map of canada showing current wildfires and proposed eastern pipeline.

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jd 🔆 @longasicansee.bsky.social · 07/07/2026

From the Oxford English Dictionary: dork, n, 1 North American English (informal, derogatory), a contemptible, socially inept person. “they're all dressed like complete dorks.” In an unrelated item, Pierre Poilievre is pictured speaking at the Calgary Stampede.

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Susan🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿🇨🇦🥊🐶 @bellwhitworth.bsky.social · 06/07/2026

Yeah, good luck with that.. and eff you 😡 (I wish there was a FU emoji) archive.ph/cndIr

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Lindy Williams @ljdubcan.bsky.social · 04/07/2026

Today’s Canadian painting is “Saint-Simeon” painted by Marc-Aurele Fortin” in around 1938.

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jd 🔆 @longasicansee.bsky.social · 01/07/2026

Canada Day Q: So how’s it goin’, eh? A: Glorious. And free.

A bright Canadian flag rippling in the wind against a deep blue sky.

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jd 🔆 @longasicansee.bsky.social · 29/06/2026

How to tell what year it is . . .

A two-panel meme. First panel, labelled 2022 shows a car with a Canadian flag on it snd beside , a crowd of people booing.
Second panel, labelled 2026 shows the same car with the same flag but this time beside it is a crowd of people cheering

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Marc 🍁 @marc55.bsky.social · 26/06/2026

To save money on 24 Sussex Dr. Simply sell Stornoway, the proceeds and the salaries of the staff, to the PM. Who is the only one who needs an official residence. As no other opposition party gets one. Anywhere. Ever. Problem solved. Watch PP cry...that part is the bonus. Free of charge. #cdnpoli

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Disembodied Head Lynch @goatburgler.bsky.social · 22/06/2026

Soccer was invented to trick Americans into learning where other countries are.

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Tom Flood @tomflood.bsky.social · 21/06/2026

This is a group you do not fuck with.

A bunch of Canada geese on a path near water

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Jon Cooper @joncooper-us.bsky.social · 21/06/2026

I hear it’s a literary triumph. #Algae 🦠

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Toon Dreessen @toondreessen.bsky.social · 17/06/2026

The transformation of Vancouver into a great #PlacesForPeople is driven by clear vision, design leadership and a commitment to excellence; marrying vitality as a place w/economic resilience, Vancouver shows what’s possible when design is focused on people.

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Brent Toderian @brenttoderian.bsky.social · 17/06/2026

“In Toderian’s view, the dividing line between cities that succeed and those that stagnate isn’t geography, wealth or even size—it’s mindset. Some places embrace experimentation, risk…Others default to caution, delay, and a reflexive belief that change is impossible.” momentummag.com/urban-truth-...

Photo by Brent Toderian of a transformed Mount Royal Avenue in Montreal, one of over a dozen transformed pedestrian streets in that city. Text over the photo says “We could never do THAT in OUR city.” Text at the bottom says “Leadership doesn’t make excuses” quoting Brent Toderian. Via the Urban Truth Collective.

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Toon Dreessen @toondreessen.bsky.social · 17/06/2026

This is Lansdowne; heritage public assets that were allowed to crumble into ruin; no $ from L1.0 to restore; none from 2.0; city rfp for restoration ludicrously under budgeted; yet we have half a billion $ for sportsball.

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Toon Dreessen @toondreessen.bsky.social · 13/06/2026

This is something that the upcoming #OttCity election could focus on: if we’re talking about affordability and quality of life, let’s look at how decades of leadership at City Hall has pushed an automotive dependent population @jleiper.bsky.social

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jd 🔆 @longasicansee.bsky.social · 11/06/2026

It’s not the heat. It’s the stupidity.

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Toon Dreessen @toondreessen.bsky.social · 09/06/2026

It was once one of the best around; internationally studied and valued, and used as a model in other places; decades of austerity budgets, undermining of maintenance and watering down of effectiveness is where we are today; election promises haven’t been kept. We need a city that works.

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Daniel Munro @dkmunro.bsky.social · 09/06/2026

It would be hard to come up with a public service shittier than OCTranspo. And nearly impossible to design a city council that gives fewer fucks about it than Ottawa’s.

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Toon Dreessen @toondreessen.bsky.social · 08/06/2026

I don’t get it. I really don’t. Who looks at this says “yup, job well done” and walks away happy with the result? Who supervises this work and decides that this is the best way to fix busted sidewalks and tripping hazards? Is this the best that a G7 capital city can do?

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jd 🔆 @longasicansee.bsky.social · 03/06/2026

I hear CBS News is looking for a new 60 Minutes anchor. I thought I should help them out by drafting the job description.

CBS News
Now hiring:
Journalist, Anchor: 60 Minutes.
Job description :
Background: We are looking for a candidate with at least 10 years bootlicking experience. Must regularly set aside journalistic principles and cave in to senior management whims. The candidate will be expected to lie convincingly on camera on a regular basis.
Resourcefulness: The candidate will be expected to find new and creative ways to heap praise upon our dear leader. Note that there will be zero tolerance for any criticism of him, but regular loud, brass takedowns of the dear leader's opponents will be mandatory.
Required skills: The candidate will be required to demonstrate exceptional skills in prostration, bowing down, genuflecting, doing obeisance, kneeling before, salaaming, throwing himself at his superior's feet, curtsying, bowing and scraping; paying homage, showing reverence, showing deference, and humbling himself daily.
Basic Requirements: White, male, heterosexuals only. Journalism experience or integrity not required. Experience at Fox News will be viewed positively.
Bonus points for mentioning Joseph Goebbels in the interview.
Please apply at CBS Human Resources before June 18 2026.

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Toon Dreessen @toondreessen.bsky.social · 03/06/2026

This new article in @calgaryherald.com brings attention to the politicization of design procurement and raises good questions about the role of the national advocacy body for architecture in Canada and the commercialization of their relationship with federal gov 1/ calgaryherald.com/opinion/colu...

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Opinion: New Banff park visitor centre should not be politicized

Renowned Japanese architect's plan are welcome but the federal process of choosing a competition winner is flawed.

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Toon Dreessen @toondreessen.bsky.social · 26/05/2026

Meanwhile businesses on Richmond for same LRT face years of disruption; traffic disruptions in east end have been equally/more disruptive. But I guess that’s balance.

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Toon Dreessen @toondreessen.bsky.social · 18/05/2026

The #OttCity OP frequently references the #MissingMiddle as a policy goal but then erects barriers to achieving it; making it unattractive to pursue and create the affordability it could be. Coherent policy, linkages between depts and leadership in design needed to create what we spire to

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Susan🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿🇨🇦🥊🐶 @bellwhitworth.bsky.social · 03/05/2026

The forest floor was just covered in Trillums ❤️

White tri-petal Trillium flowers cover a forest floor

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