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Jeff Leiper @jleiper.bsky.social · 18/05/2026

Chaaaaaaarrrrrrrrrggge!

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Jeff Leiper @jleiper.bsky.social · 12/04/2026

Today I finally had the chance to meet and share briefly with Mélanie Joly the role she played in my first election win. I came back from a trip to Montreal and showed my photographer her sign. "This is what I want!" I couldn't pull off her poise and power, but the influence is clear :)

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Ariel Troster @arieltroster.bsky.social · 11/02/2026

Trans beloveds: maybe take a break from the internet today. Absolute ghouls are exploiting a horrendous tragedy to spread hate and transphobia. Love and grief to everyone in Tumbler Ridge today. Love and solidarity with the trans community.

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Jeff Leiper @jleiper.bsky.social · 11/02/2026

News from Tumbler Ridge and, this morning, from Kitigan Zibi, is horrifying. Our city's relationship with Kitigan Zibi is a close one. Gun violence involving children has resulted in overwhelming tragedy in the past 24 hours. There's immediate help available for those who want to talk (1/2).

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Jeff Leiper @jleiper.bsky.social · 28/01/2026

There's no longer any question: it's time to compensate transit riders for what they're going through. These pictures are heartbreaking - people going to evening shifts, home and family, class.

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From the ottawa community on Reddit: Train Evacuation

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Jeff Leiper @jleiper.bsky.social · 03/01/2026

Nat and I are on our way to see our @pwhlcharge.bsky.social take on the Frost! Another OTW, maybe?!

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Jeff Leiper @jleiper.bsky.social · 08/12/2025

Some say that voting against a budget makes you part of the problem. I disagree. Healthy disagreement is part of responsible decision making. Residents expect us to test assumptions, debate ideas and make sure the budget reflects the realities they live with every single day.

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Is your councillor a chronic no-voter on city budgets? | Opinion

Tim Tierney: Ottawa has traded safety and security for policing alternatives – experiments that have repeatedly failed. | Opinion

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Jeff Leiper @jleiper.bsky.social · 30/09/2025

Across Ottawa, from fairs and markets to townhalls and meetings, I’ve been hearing the same thing: people are frustrated and want a new direction for our city. We need a city that works, with reliable transit, strong services, repaired roads and community centres.

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Nat🇨🇦 @natsbrain.bsky.social · 27/05/2025

Been one hell of a great season @pwhlcharge.bsky.social ! You should be proud. Me, well, it turns out I might like hockey when women are playing. See you next season.

A man in an Ottawa Charge Toque blows into a kazoo. A freshly zambonied rink in the background.

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Jeff Leiper @jleiper.bsky.social · 23/05/2025

Let’s go CCCCCCHHHHHHHHHAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAARRRRRRRRRRRGGGGGGGGGEEE

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Nat🇨🇦 @natsbrain.bsky.social · 21/05/2025

I love Emily Clark. C’est tout.

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David Moscrop @davidmoscrop.com · 17/05/2025

The City of Ottawa would be something worse than incompetent if they shrink the Lansdowne arena. The Ottawa Charge need a bigger space, not a smaller one. The team is a force. It’s a community. Keep the game accessible, Ottawa. Don’t blow Lansdowne, again.

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Nat🇨🇦 @natsbrain.bsky.social · 17/05/2025

Well would you look at that! The Charge is going to the finals. Well deserved. (Also we need to give Philips a raise.) Une dernière défaite pour La Victoire. They chose this. Bring on the Frost. #pwhl @pwhlcharge.bsky.social

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Jeff Leiper @jleiper.bsky.social · 16/05/2025

Let’s go CHAAAAAAAAAARRRRRRRRRRGGGGGGGGGGGE!!!

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Nat🇨🇦 @natsbrain.bsky.social · 14/05/2025

La Victoire défaite! Two down, one to go.

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Nat🇨🇦 @natsbrain.bsky.social · 10/05/2025

In my defense, I was bored and left unattended. I blame @jleiper.bsky.social Sort of. Some people buy shoes, I buy books. @thespanielstale.bsky.social needs to stop buying cool stuff. Or whatever the opposite of that is.

A bicycle basket with a reasonable amount of books.

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Nat🇨🇦 @natsbrain.bsky.social · 30/04/2025

Did you know, that you can be PM without a seat in Parliament, but you can’t be Leader of the Opposition? A propos de rien du tout.

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Nat🇨🇦 @natsbrain.bsky.social · 29/04/2025

Pretty sure it was worth being this tired.

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Nat🇨🇦 @natsbrain.bsky.social · 29/04/2025

So how sleepy will I be tomorrow? Gotta know if Poilievre loses his seat.

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Jeff Leiper @jleiper.bsky.social · 29/04/2025

How do you like them apples?

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Nat🇨🇦 @natsbrain.bsky.social · 26/04/2025

Found the not-so secret women’s restroom at TD Place.

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Jeff Leiper @jleiper.bsky.social · 19/04/2025

The HCA has opened registration for the 2025 Hintonburg 5k and 1k races on July 13! The 1k kids race is still free, and youth 12-and-under are half-price for the 5k. Register today! raceroster.com/events/2025/...

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2025 — 2025 Hintonburg 5K and 1K —

2025 Hintonburg 5K and 1K Parkdale Park, Ottawa, ON, Canada - 17th annual Hintonburg 5K and 1K Kids Run!Sunday, July 13,… - July 13, 2025

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Jeff Leiper @jleiper.bsky.social · 19/04/2025

Nat and I were in and out to vote at Hintonburg - poll 604 didn’t have a line! Probably 20 minutes wait for the other poll. Ran into some our favourite fellow voters. Always good to see @catmckenney.bsky.social and Catherine!

A yellow Elections Canada “vote” sign in front of a teal “Shop Canadian” sign.

From left to right, Catherine McKenney, Catherine Vanderlinde and Nat Hanson pose with their voter cards in the lobby of a community centre.

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Nat🇨🇦 @natsbrain.bsky.social · 19/04/2025

Did a vote, then hit up @thespanielstale.bsky.social for our Saturday book haul. Li Charmaine Anne was there for a book signing. Pretty good Saturday morning date with @jleiper.bsky.social

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Nat🇨🇦 @natsbrain.bsky.social · 27/02/2025

I swear these kids are the best part of the game. 😂🤣

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Nat🇨🇦 @natsbrain.bsky.social · 22/02/2025

But also, I did a #vote. Picked up my books and got a new library card.

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Nat🇨🇦 @natsbrain.bsky.social · 22/02/2025

Wellington street West is still very narrow. It’s a bit of a mess. Buses are stuck. Why we don’t ban parking until everything is cleared is beyond me. #ottawa (Also if you are using the even-narrower side streets maybe be mindful that people live there.)

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Nat🇨🇦 @natsbrain.bsky.social · 16/02/2025

One sentence(ish) Book Review: Let This Radicalize You Kelly Hayes and Mariame Kaba 5/5 In spite of it all, a hopeful look at how we can all play a part in the revolution. A must read. www.haymarketbooks.org/books/1922-l... #books #booksky #nonfiction #bookreview

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Let This Radicalize You

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Jeff Leiper @jleiper.bsky.social · 02/02/2025

Ottawa has long abided by international trade agreements in its procurement, often to the frustration of local businesses. Trump's capriciousness has created an opportunity to prioritize local buying and business development. Working with other levels of government, we should go further.

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Auschwitz Memorial @auschwitzmemorial.bsky.social · 27/01/2025

Auschwitz was at the end of a long process. It did not start from gas chambers. This hatred was gradually developed by humans. From ideas, words, stereotypes & prejudice through legal exclusion, dehumanization & escalating violence... to systematic and industrial murder. Auschwitz took time.

A bird's-eye view of a former Auschwitz II-Birkenau camp showing a wide dirt pathway flanked by parallel rows of barbed-wire fences. Groups of visitors walk along the path, surrounded by the remnants of brick structures and barracks, now reduced to foundations. Green grass contrasts with the somber history of the site, as the path leads toward a guard tower in the distance.

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Nat🇨🇦 @natsbrain.bsky.social · 27/01/2025

So. If you are skating backwards on the Canal and it’s crowded and busy, you will bump into someone. (Probably me. Who has apparently forgotten how to skate.) And yes, I do think you’re an asshole. But it’s fine really. I decided to give up skating entirely.

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Nat🇨🇦 @natsbrain.bsky.social · 26/01/2025

One-sentence book review Between Friends and Lovers Shirlene Obuobi (3.5/5) A woman that supposedly smart would not stay friends with a man who was that awful, even if she was in love with him. (Very readable though.) #books #booksky #bookreview www.goodreads.com/book/show/19...

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Between Friends & Lovers

Talia Hibbert meets Carley Fortune in this swoon-worthy…

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Nat🇨🇦 @natsbrain.bsky.social · 24/01/2025

One sentence book review: A Year of Last Things - Poems Michael Ondaatje 4.5/5 We all agree that some of this was absolutely remarkably beautiful, some of it just was —we just don’t agree on which bits. (I suppose that’s the magic of it.) #books #booksky #breakingthe1sentencerule

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Nat🇨🇦 @natsbrain.bsky.social · 24/01/2025

One sentence(ish) book review Jimi Hendrix Live in Lviv, Andrey Kurkov 4/5 I am 95% sure I am missing the cultural and political context to fully understand this, but kind of loved it anyway. www.harpercollins.ca/978006335454... #books #booksky

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Jimi Hendrix Live in Lviv - Andrey Kurkov - Paperback

“A bittersweet relic of a sunnier age . . . . A joyous caper . . . playful and ebullient, shot through with magical twists and supernatural turns.”—Obs...

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Nat🇨🇦 @natsbrain.bsky.social · 21/01/2025

“Your flag flyin' over the courthouse Means certain things are set in stone. Who we are, what we'll do and what we won't" … until a fascist salute appears at inauguration… smh music.youtube.com/watch?v=YOb5...

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Long Walk Home

YouTube video by Bruce Springsteen - Topic

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Nat🇨🇦 @natsbrain.bsky.social · 20/01/2025

Welcome to the new world order Families sleepin’ in their cars in the southwest No home, no job, no peace, no rest Going to be a long long long four years. music.youtube.com/watch?v=CumZ...

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The Ghost of Tom Joad

YouTube video by Bruce Springsteen - Topic

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Nat🇨🇦 @natsbrain.bsky.social · 05/01/2025

Tomorrow resumes without the midday nap. Alas.

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Nat🇨🇦 @natsbrain.bsky.social · 05/01/2025

A Haunting in the Arctic, CJ Cook (-1/5) The more I think about this book the more racist, it seems. The dumber the plot is, just a whole lot of ick to this. So yeah, rerating this to one star. #books #bookreviews #booksky

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Nat🇨🇦 @natsbrain.bsky.social · 04/01/2025

One Sentence Book Reviews: The Black Cat Tail Assassins, P. Djéli Clark (3.75/5) It was a solid four until the goddesses showed up, then some questionable choices were made. #books #bookreviews #booksky

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Nat🇨🇦 @natsbrain.bsky.social · 30/12/2024

One sentence book review Death Comes at Christmas, anthology (3/5) I feel like every single story lacked ooomph. #booksky #book #bookreview

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Nat🇨🇦 @natsbrain.bsky.social · 26/12/2024

One sentence boom reviews The Dead of Winter: Beware the Krampus and Other Wicked Christmas Creatures, Sarah Clegg (4/5) And here we were worried about Santa when there are so many cooler things that cause such a clatter. www.goodreads.com/book/show/21... #books #booksky #bookreviews

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The Dead of Winter: Beware the Krampus and Other Wicked…

Enter the dark side of discover the monsters, witches,…

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Nat🇨🇦 @natsbrain.bsky.social · 25/12/2024

Possibly my favorite night of the year. Nick and Ashna are making dinner, @jleiper.bsky.social and I are chilling listen to Christmas tunes, and I’m sipping on blood orange marg. Lots to be grateful for… La vie est belle. Merry Christmas! Joyeux Noël!

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