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Warm Up The Guillotine
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Any "magazine" that allows its advertisers to buy their annual awards is an absolute rag. FACES has been a joke since Day 1 and that hasn't changed over the years.
Everything that's great about attending Charge games will be lost (esp the atmosphere) if arena capacity is cut in half. Less seats + a popular team = much more expensive tickets, which will squeeze out families and folks with less disposable income.

Lansdowne 2.0 will kill the Ottawa Charge.
After Lich and Barber were sentenced, Pierre Poilievre said that they had been protesting the use of the Emergencies Act, and that's what the Crown went after them for.
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Excellent reporting by ⁦‪Arthur White-Crummy‬⁩ … I am deeply disturbed that #ottcity has not released the wording for the Lansdowne 2.0 RFP. They seemed to have learned nothing from the LRT2 predicament debacle. Where is the transparency?
Lansdowne 2.0 cost stays put at $419M as city reveals builder | CBC News
The City of Ottawa has named EBC Inc. as the successful bidder to build Lansdowne 2.0, as the project moves toward a final decision at council with a total cost that has barely budged in two years.
www.cbc.ca
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The CBC Ottawa Morning Lansdowne interview with the Mayor is wild. He just compared the way we don't require library buildings to turn a profit so we should not expect Lansdowne to make money.

Dude, the whole agreement of the waterfall agreement is to lower risk and increase revenue.
#OttPoli
"We did such a great job on Lansdowne 1.0 that we're refreshing it with Lansdowne 2.0, barely 10 years later!"
Council being deliberately kept in the dark on a major project that will cost Ottawans hundreds of millions of dollars?

If this doesn’t sound familiar to you, you don’t really follow municipal politics.

Lansdowne 2.0™: Brought to you by Watson 2.0.
Looks like @mayormarksutcliffe.bsky.social will be providing an update on Lansdowne 2.0 tomorrow (Monday) at 11:00am. Media will be present to ask questions. But Council itself hasn't had an opportunity to see this update or learn the contents yet. 1/
"yeah well obviously the NYPD is full of Antifa!"

~ Leavitt, Bessent, Johnson et al, grasping at straws… as always
An OPS cruiser drove right past these two bike lane blockers, because of course it did.
He can be, but is he? What proof do we have that he suffers from mental health issues?
Nary an elbow to be seen these days.
He's not "unhinged", he's amoral.
Why wouldn’t he keep his job in January? Do you think large chunks of the CPC aren’t also infected with the same far-right brain rot that he’s exhibiting?
Apparently PP thinks this is what some Canadian cities look like:
Yes, because cyclists regularly come out on top against truck drivers angry enough to pull alongside someone just trying and yapping at them for a couple of blocks.

Are you actually this dense? Get a grip.
TIL the U.S. Secretary of Health and Human Services doesn't know what a parent is.
Do you think everyone with mental health issues are scumbags, or just the ones you see on the street?
You say "bonkers", I say "about what I'd expect, given what we've seen over the years".
Anyone that says kids don't paying attention to politics and the effects leaders can have needs to be sent a copy of this game.

The game board being shaped like the Pentagon is a smart touch.
Went for a walk from Bowesville Station back to Centretown. It’s wild how in-the-middle-of-nowhere that station is. Would have walked from Linebank but I don’t relish walking on the shoulder for 2-3 kms next to 80+km/h traffic.
As always, Ottawa is so far behind that we aren’t seriously trying to catch up… and we’ll continue to fall
behind with the sort of leadership we’ve been experiencing on both sides of the aisle at Council.

#ottbike
Bike share revenue is up over 30% compared to last year, and now has close to 300k unique customers. That is 10% of the population of Toronto! I also think that their internal forecasts are a little pessimistic pinning 2025 rides at 8.1 million. I forecast closer to 8.3M when the year is over.
Gotta wonder how much she’s made from donations by other far-right nutjobs. I imagine the $ she’s been given makes her councillor salary look like peanuts.
The moment LRT gets uploaded to Metrolinx we can kiss Phase 3 goodbye.