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Michael D'Costa

@mdcosta.bsky.social
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Ottawa, usually.

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Cameron MacLeod @c-9.mstdn.ca.ap.brid.gy · 6h
Voting is a bus. Might not go how fast you want or to your door, but if it gets closer to your goal, you take it. A bus going farther away, or that suddenly changes directions? Probably not your bus. Here's my bus picks. www.cameronmacleod.ca/vote #TOPoli #VoteTO
The word vote against an ocean and green grass landscape, from my old family cottage in PEI.
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Mike Schreiner @mikeschreiner.bsky.social · 14h
According to a sworn statement to the OPP, Doug Ford was using taxpayer funding as leverage to get media coverage. Taxpayer money isn't Ford's personal bank account. He needs to answer to these serious allegations.
thetrillium.ca
Postmedia ex-CEO alleges Doug Ford’s office used ‘leverage’ over son’s company to get newspaper chain to publish pre-election letter
Premier Ford’s office calls the claims ‘categorically untrue and completely disconnected from reality’
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Emmett Macfarlane 🇨🇦 @emmettmacfarlane.com · 07/10/2026
When the anti-EDI folk complain about inclusion and diversity, this is what they're opposing: more perspectives, richer debate, more wisdom, better understandings and - overall, messily - inevitably better outcomes.
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Shannon Proudfoot @sproudfoot.bsky.social · 07/10/2026
We have one car, both by choice and for budgetary reasons. But boy, it sure feels like OC Transpo and the city of Ottawa actively discourage anyone from relying on their system, with constant kicks in the shins like this. It is enraging.
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Michael D'Costa @mdcosta.bsky.social · 07/10/2026
Seriously, @helps.octranspo.com, how am I supposed to know which official message is correct? (Same with the "this platform is closed" announcement that can be heard from at least 3 of the 4 platforms, which I mentioned some time ago).
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Michael D'Costa @mdcosta.bsky.social · 07/10/2026
Um... i guess the electronic sign doesnt photograph well. It says limebank - (platform) 1 - 8 min / limebank - (platform) 2 - 8 min
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Rishi Maharaj @rsmaharaj.bsky.social · 06/10/2026
I earn enough money to be in BC's highest tax bracket so I'll just mention that I don't mind paying more taxes. I do mind paying more taxes for corporate handouts and car-centric sprawl while healthcare, education and public transport continue to deteriorate.
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Michael D'Costa @mdcosta.bsky.social · 06/10/2026
Why does the bayview line 2 train display say a train is coming to platform 1 when it's closed? @helps.octranspo.com
Bayview station, lower level showing sandwich board saying platform 1 is closed and electronic display saying trains are leaving from platforms 1 and 2 in 8 minutes.
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It's Jamie @sjamieit.bsky.social · 06/10/2026
"I'm not gonna jack up people's water bills to cover new infrastructure spending. We have a plan for what we're doing with the rates over the next few years, and I'm gonna stick the that plan." - @mark-sutcliffe.bsky.social His plan increases water rates 62% by 2035 www.iheart.com/podcast/962-...
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Kanata South Ward 23 @kanatasouth.bsky.social · 06/10/2026
When you find out one of your favourite chefs lives in your ward and he wants a lawn sign!
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kevinodotnet @kevinodotnet.bsky.social · 06/10/2026
I call bias in photo selection here.
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Phil @philmarfisi.bsky.social · 04/10/2026
A lot of Americans think we're just having an unnecessary trade dispute with a president occasionally making unfunny jokes, while the reality is there are elements in the US conservative movement actively trying to tear our country apart. www.theglobeandmail.com/canada/artic...
theglobeandmail.com
The elephant in the room
Alberta separatists have gone to D.C. offering fresh water and oil in exchange for American support – and Republican operatives have provided tactical assistance inside the province
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Daniel Munro @dkmunro.bsky.social · 03/10/2026
Mount Count Binface
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Michael D'Costa @mdcosta.bsky.social · 02/10/2026
@helps.octranspo.com @octranspo.com is there a schedule for work on the dows lake station stairs, which pond with water and are rapidly deteriorating? Is it at least in a work queue? #ottawa
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Max Fawcett @maxfawcett.bsky.social · 02/10/2026
Behold, a column by the @theglobeandmail.com's Tony Keller that cries out for a debunking. Allow me. 🧵 www.theglobeandmail.com/business/com...
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Opinion: This was the week Canada stopped shooting its oil patch in the foot
We’re finally witnessing our country act with some sense of its own self-interest
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Michael D'Costa @mdcosta.bsky.social · 02/10/2026
You would think, a year into it, more mayors and governors would get this.
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David Reevely @davidreevely.bsky.social · 02/10/2026
I know you know this, but: Only some of it is a boycott in protest of U.S. policies. Some of it is just fear of what U.S. authorities have done to any number of non-citizens. Why risk it?
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Catelli @catelli.bsky.social · 02/10/2026
"What I see from Poland is not a dozen separate crises. It is one design flaw, viewed from a place with less slack than most: for thirty years we swapped buffers for dependencies, and called the saving efficiency." tomwojcik.com/posts/2026-0...
tomwojcik.com
September 2026: the world today, as seen by one Polish guy
How a Pole sees the world in September 2026: a scrolling essay that follows one closed strait into fuel, food, bonds, defence and demography.
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Joshua Hind @joshuahind.bsky.social · 02/10/2026
IDGAF. BUILD IT!
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Michael D'Costa @mdcosta.bsky.social · 01/10/2026
Do you have a construction-industry focused presentation about this initiative? I may be able to give hydro an opportunity to talk about it.
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Toon Dreessen @toondreessen.bsky.social · 30/09/2026
We could do things like this if we wanted to. We just don’t bother to care.
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Legal Affairs Canada @lawscribes.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
Some pictures of the new Supreme Court Canada courthouse in West Memorial Building #Ottawa. The #SCC home while the original court building undergoes extensive renovations. [Source linkedin].
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Tammy Schirle 🇨🇦 @tammyschirle.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
Transitions are tough, especially in this industry. Perhaps time for a conversation about wage insurance for long-tenured workers again? There are jobs out there, but hard to find the pay and benefits they were receiving before. Big picture matters, but so does the steelworkers POV. They had plans
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Hannah Vardit @hannahvardit.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
you will encounter more opportunities in life to change the batteries on a smoke alarm than you will to run into a burning building and no one gives a shit you changed those batteries but it is still very important and why are you waiting on a burning building, know what i’m saying, it’s a metaphor
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Mike Schreiner @mikeschreiner.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
Removing bike lanes is not going to help congestion. This government is spending millions of dollars making roads less safe and removing infrastructure, rather than building for the future.
spacing.ca
EXCLUSIVE: Inside the contract to rip out Toronto's bike lanes - Spacing Toronto
After the Ontario Court of Appeal (ONCA) shot down CycleTO’s legally innovative charter challenge that sought to stop Doug Ford’s attack on the city’s bike lanes, Queen’s Park wasted little time befor...
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kevinodotnet @kevinodotnet.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
"Serve and Protect" turns out that means PARK IN BIKE LANES
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derek guy @dieworkwear.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
The Pope reminds me of a version of Catholicism I knew growing up as a young man attending anti-war and anti-death penalty protests, where I met elderly Catholics who shared their version of faith with me. I learned that Catholicism was about love and mercy for the weak, the condemned, and the poor.
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Trapdinawrpool @trapdinawrpool.bsky.social · 26/09/2026
Whistleblower alleges millions of Driscoll’s berries sent to Canada with excess chemical levels Lawsuit claims about 50% of shipments from 2022-24 had fruit exceeding Canadian safety levels www.cbc.ca/news/canada/...
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Whistleblower alleges millions of Driscoll’s berries sent to Canada with excess chemical levels | CBC News
A whistleblower lawsuit in California is alleging millions of pounds of Driscoll's fruit containing non-compliant levels of pesticides and chemicals crossed the border into Canada, and the company tri...
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Dinosaur Comics! @qwantz.com · 25/09/2026
you can't spell "crisis" without misspelling "cry" www.qwantz.com/index.php?co...
T-Rex: Ah yes, the perfect activity for a lazy afternoon: take the demographic data for people born when and where I was...

T-Rex: ...and use it to calculate my life expectancy!Narrator: BUT THEN:
T-Rex: Wait wait wait. It says here... I'm more than HALFWAY through my life ALREADY?
Dromiceiomimus: I mean, in all likelihood - yes, absolutely. T-Rex, we're all not gonna be around FOREVER.
T-Rex: But - but - I DIDN'T KNOW! Nobody told me there was more behind than ahead now!!
Utahraptor: What would you have done if you'd known?
T-Rex: I dunno, have a party? Have a CRISIS? BOTH??

T-Rex: Man, I had SUCH PLANS for my midlife crisis too. I was gonna buy a motorcycle, then marry the motorcycle, and then try to convince my ex-spouse from before the motorcycle to be in a poly relationship with the motorcycle.
Utahraptor: It's never too late!T-Rex: It IS: I missed the middle of my life, so now any crisis I have must be a POST-MIDLIFE crisis!
Off panel: I've never heard of those.
T-Rex: NOBODY HAS, because they're not a thing!!
T-Rex: I MISSED OUT ON MY ONE CHANCE TO HAVE A SOCIALLY-ACCEPTABLE CRISIS!!
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KGE hockey fan 🇨🇦🍁 @kbyrd.bsky.social · 24/09/2026
Considering that he didn’t tell Canadians that he planned to roll back environmental protections and stomp on Indigenous rights while cozying up to oil and gas executives, I don’t think he DOES have a mandate. www.cbc.ca/news/politic...
cbc.ca
Facing criticism, Carney says he has a 'very clear mandate' to push through major economic changes | CBC News
Prime Minister Mark Carney says his government received a clear mandate from voters in the last general election — and in subsequent byelections — to "build Canada strong," and he's pressing ahead wit...
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Rail Fans Canada @railfans.ca · 22/09/2026
Why does O-Train Line 2 run every 12 minutes — and what would it take to make it faster? www.youtube.com/watch?v=0iV9...
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O-Train Line 2: Why Is It Stuck at 12 Minutes?
YouTube video by Rail Fans Canada
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Toon Dreessen @toondreessen.bsky.social · 18/09/2026
That’s a disconnect that we need to resolve. I don’t really care if it’s two separate parts of money because it’s all coming out of my wallet. That’s the myth of Sutcliffe planned to upload LRT: might save the city money, but I’m still paying for it through provincial taxes. There is one taxpayer 
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Kendra "Gloom is My Beat" Pierre-Louis @kendrawrites.com · 18/09/2026
Every so often I think about the fact that before the advent of recorded music it was impossible to listen to music alone.
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Dale Smith @journodale.bsky.social · 17/09/2026
The CTF is an astroturf organization that refuses to be transparent about their own financing or control, and why legacy media in this country continues to treat them seriously is a problem. (It's because they are reliable quote generators, which is an indictment of media sourcing).
Taxpayer group calls for Carney to cut the cord on CBC, Senate, past GGs
In its pre-budget recommendations to the federal government, the Canadian Taxpayers Federation also includes cutting the government’s planned high-speed rail project

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Photo of Mark Carney and François-Philippe Champagne in the House of Commons on budget day
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Avi Lewis @avilewis.ca · 15/09/2026
Private equity moguls and fund managers love it! Once they’re in, they own a piece of a natural monopoly, and they print money for decades. This is a mistake we do not need to make. The alternative to privatizing our airports is to NOT DO IT.
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David Ho @davidho.bsky.social · 12/09/2026
I wrote this quickly at a bus stop and didn't realize it would go viral, or else I would have worded it better. But the point is that the media is too credulous about AI killing everyone in 10 years (how?) when climate change is killing people now and will only get worse (we know exactly how).
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Jordan @cappaj.bsky.social · 12/09/2026
@octranspo.com - why does Presto not automatically switch a Child pass to a Youth pass?
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Michael D'Costa @mdcosta.bsky.social · 12/09/2026
Fair. TBH locking the front wheel to the frame is such an ingrained habit that for me that it never occured to me one wouldn't do it.
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Michael D'Costa @mdcosta.bsky.social · 12/09/2026
OTOH, it still prevents grab-and-go opportunity crimes. You need to have a plan to steal such a bike, including how to manage not being able to roll it away.
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Michael D'Costa @mdcosta.bsky.social · 12/09/2026
That sucks. Hope the city hears you and fixes it.
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Toon Dreessen @toondreessen.bsky.social · 12/09/2026
These buses were ordered in the previous administration so not exactly right to take credit for “the new” leadership for bringing this out. These buses have a design flaw: watch how ppl get on: often very crowded at front and empty at back; something in arrangement inhibits ppl going to back 1/
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Michael D'Costa @mdcosta.bsky.social · 12/09/2026
Um, but I see now this ramp has bolts on the side. That doesn't help at all...
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Michael D'Costa @mdcosta.bsky.social · 12/09/2026
I think you're supposed to tip your bike 30-45 degrees. Haven't been on this stair but have used others that seem similarly close to edge.
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SMBC Comics @smbccomics.bsky.social · 12/09/2026
Kelly thought this was stupid, so please make sure to share it. COMIC ◆ www.smbc-comics.com/comic/time-8 PATREON ◆ www.patreon.com/ZachWeinersm... STORE ◆ smbc-store.myshopify.com
4-panel SMBC comic update. A scientist laughs, satisfied that the time machine she invented works. When a college asks her where she will be going first, she replies : "to the days the canonical bible translation was established, so I can insert phrases that people have to justify later!" The next panel cuts to another location, where a priests speaks to a kid, saying "ah, mark 17:2. That refers to the hypostatic union of Christ, having both a divine and human nature." The kid then asks "so when jesus says 'bofa DEEZ NUTS' he–" leading to the priests interrupting him yelling "METAPHOR! METAPHOR!"
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andrew.ottawa 🇨🇦 @ottawandrew.bsky.social · 11/09/2026
Heinous. Doubly heinous because it’s Loblaw.
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Andrew Kurjata @akurjata.ca · 12/09/2026
This was a national travesty
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Michael D'Costa @mdcosta.bsky.social · 10/09/2026
Ontario peaches used to be fantastic. I bet they still are, if you get them via the right supply chain (which I haven't found, sadly)
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Noah Berlatsky @nberlat.bsky.social · 09/09/2026
argument from authority is often presented as a fallacy, but the truth is the much more dangerous fallacy right now is the, "all the authorities are morons and I can refute them based on vibes" fallacy
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Paul Fairie @paulisci.bsky.social · 09/09/2026
I'm glad we can finally outsource the creation of low quality art to robots in order to free ourselves up to continue developing a technology that has a 10% chance of killing us all in the next decade.
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Tom Flood @tomflood.bsky.social · 09/09/2026
Stay connected. Stay Informed. Stay ready. @thebikinglawyer.bsky.social
Doug ford next to a bike lane

one of these is a tool that saves cyclists lives, the other is a tool that will kill them
Direct Action Coming. Stay Tuned To:
@thebikinglawyer and @cycleto
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