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Jim M

@hockeyinottawa.bsky.social

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I keep running from the bird app and have to rebuild my networks, and I hate it. I'm not a very patriotic person. But I am vindictive. Buy Canadian. He/him

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Jim M @hockeyinottawa.bsky.social · 8h

Worse: he 100% doubled-down on it.

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Mark Lazerus @marklazerus.bsky.social · 8h

Ivan Demidov... pretty, pretty good.

Jim M @hockeyinottawa.bsky.social · 8h

He provides the kind of analysis I expect from someone who thinks a sink is a urinal trough.

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shauna @goldengateblond.bsky.social · 9h

marriage is just watching 'house hunters' together and agreeing which people should be yeeted into the sun

Jim M @hockeyinottawa.bsky.social · 9h

Common engineering considerations people may not know about, weird construction techniques, famous construction fuck ups (though I think you may have a podcast about this).

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It's Jamie @sjamieit.bsky.social · 9h

The city is taking on $331 million in new debt for this project, which if things don't pan out as projected (again), taxpayers are on the hook to repay.

Taxpayers are also on the hook for any cost overruns on the construction of the northside stands and the arena/event centre.

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It's Jamie @sjamieit.bsky.social · 9h

Another $15.6 million from city reserves - cash collected from taxpayers that the city hasn't spent on city services for residents like fixing roads and sidewalks, maintaining city parks and other facilities. This was likely saved up by letting everything else in the city fall apart.

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It's Jamie @sjamieit.bsky.social · 9h

$65 million for "air rights", but the city is spending $19.2 million to build the parking garage that the towers sit upon. We're also giving the developer $6.7 million from those funds to offset the cost of the towers.

What it boils down to is just selling off city parkland to a private developer.

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It's Jamie @sjamieit.bsky.social · 9h

The $118.4 million waterfall deal only pays out if OSEG makes a profit, which they never have. We're left making payments on the debt, even if OSEG never pays us a penny.

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It's Jamie @sjamieit.bsky.social · 9h

They project $69 million in future property taxes from the two towers.

Property taxes are general revenue for city-wide services. If we didn't build those towers, the city would still collect taxes from whatever new housing those same residents choose to live in instead.

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It's Jamie @sjamieit.bsky.social · 9h

The math on Lansdowne 2.0 is all lies and gimmicks.

Like, $6 million from raising the hotel tax. That doesn't actually have anything to do with Lansdowne.

Say we raised property taxes 2% and just said it all goes to Lansdowne 2.0, is that Lansdowne 2.0 paying for itself? Of course not. 🧵

Hitting go on Lansdowne 2.0: Key details from the city's final report | CBC News

The final reports about updating Ottawa's Lansdowne Park have been made public. Here's what they say about the cost, the financing, the contractors and more.

Jim M @hockeyinottawa.bsky.social · 10h

That's one of my issues with him comparing it to Adisoke. I can walk into Adisoke with my kids and get some books and walk out without any additional fees. I'll have to pay $100's to go to 67's game. More for the Redblacks. It's also the reason his stupid "$418,000 house for $130,000" falls apart.

Jim M @hockeyinottawa.bsky.social · 11h

Kate Porter doing an excellent job punching holes in @mayormarksutcliffe.bsky.social entire argument in favour of Lansdowne 2.0. It's questionable at best, and foolish at worst. www.cbc.ca/listen/live-...

© CBC/Radio-Canada 2025. All rights reserved.

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Strong Towns Ottawa @strongtownsottawa.ca · 12h

The final graph that couldn't fit on the first post. Even more data showing that these overwhelmingly work.

A graph showing the average speed in sections where speed cameras have been put in place, the x-axis being months of the year, starting from July 2020, and going to February 2025, incrementing one month at a time. The y-axis is speeds, starting at 20km/h and going up at 10km/h intervals to the top which is 70km/h.

As time goes on, the segments of roads where the speed cameras were put in place show average speed dropping.

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Strong Towns Ottawa @strongtownsottawa.ca · 12h

We have sent out a letter to the premier of Ontario, Doug Ford, opposing his plan to remove speed cameras, which have been shown to overwhelmingly increase safety on our roads.

Thanks @hansonthebike.bsky.social for putting the letter together, and @pbickerton.bsky.social for the great graphics!

Letter sent to the premier of Ontario opposing the removal of speed cameras. Text follows :

To:
Premier of Ontario
Legislative Building
Queen’s Park
Toronto, ON, M7A 1A1
(by email)
Ottawa, October 22, 2025
Re: Automatic Speed Enforcement Cameras
Premier Ford,
We are extremely concerned about your directive to remove automatic speed enforcement (ACE)
cameras in Ontario. Along with the Association of Municipalities, the CAA and the Ontario Association
of Chiefs of Police as well as many municipal leaders, we believe in the evidence that previously
collected data show: fining people who don’t comply with speed limits helps: it leads to drastic safety
improvements.
This makes a good case for continuing the use of cameras to maintain speed compliance. The
ultimate goal of speed enforcement is obviously that people adhere to posted speed limits. Existing
data shows that speed compliance quickly improves and is maintained after cameras are installed.
Fewer and fewer tickets are being issued by each camera every year.
This trend is already happening: in Ottawa, as the enclosed graphs show, speeds have considerably
dropped at road segments where cameras have been placed. Speed cameras work! Cameras in
Ottawa are overwhelmingly placed in areas near schools. Removing cameras would recreate
dangerous situations for children in those school zones. And let's not forget people with disabilities
and our aging population, who may take longer to cross roads.
Many safety experts strongly support the use of automatic speed cameras as does the majority of
Ontario drivers (73%). In Ottawa, speed compliance went up from 16% to 81% in speed camera
zones; the instances of high end speeding in those zones went down from 14% to less than 1%.
Those are impressive results.

Second page of the letter to the premier of Ontario opposing removal of speed cameras, text follows :

Therefore we ask you to reconsider an end to speed enforcement with cameras and allow technology
to do its work to protect the lives of Ontarians. Using cameras allows police officers to do other
important work. This is about safety for every Ontario resident, not a cash grab.
Respectfully,
Strong Towns Ottawa
Encl: three graphs
About Strong Towns Ottawa
Strong Towns Ottawa is a local chapter of Strong Towns. We advocate for a more financially resilient and livable
Ottawa. We aim to build a safer city that enables all of us to choose the way we want to live. This includes
investing in various transportation options, housing types, safer streets, mixed-use neighbourhoods, local
businesses, and more.

A graph of data showing the speed limit compliance in areas where the speed cameras have been put in place in Ottawa. The x axis reads : "Age of ASE Camera (days)" and the y axis reads : "Speed Limit Compliance (%)".

The lines on the graph are all of the different road segments where the cameras have been put in place. As the graph moves further to the right, the compliance goes up, reaching close to 100% for many of the cameras

Graph of public data with the x-axis reading : "Age of ASE Camera (days)", y-axis : "High end Speeders (%)". As the graph moves further to the right, the amount of high-end speeders drops off substantially for all of the segments of the roads where speed cameras have been put in place.

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Luke LeBrun @lukelebrun.ca · 13h

Tanille Johnston says she wants to abolish membership fees for the NDP leadership race

Says the party needs to broaden its support and shouldn’t put up a “paywall”

Tanille Johnston with Bea Bruske

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Luke LeBrun @lukelebrun.ca · 13h

Lewis is reading an email he got from someone named “Blake,” whom he describes as a conservative who supports his idea of a public option for grocery stores

Lewis says he wants to push for a greater role for public ownership

Avi Lewis

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Luke LeBrun @lukelebrun.ca · 13h

Avi Lewis says he is “laser focused” on the “everyday emergency” facing working-class people

Says the NDP needs to give people “straight talk,” not a “message box”

Avi Lewis with Bea Bruske

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Luke LeBrun @lukelebrun.ca · 14h

I’m at the Canadian Labour Congress’ NDP leadership forum focused on workers’ issues

Follow along for live highlights:

NDP leadership contestants at CLC’s leadership forum

Jim M @hockeyinottawa.bsky.social · 15h

Did you kill him quickly or slowly?

Jim M @hockeyinottawa.bsky.social · 20h

Oh well, I guess we just accidentally did a good thing. Be cool if we just kept doing it.

Toronto Star @thestar.com · 20h

Canadian Dental Care Plan error leads to about 77,000 being mistakenly eligible, given wrong coverage level

Canadian Dental Care Plan error leads to about 77,000 being mistakenly eligible, given wrong coverage level

Health Canada said approximately 28,000 people impacted by the error received dental care as of Oct. 3.

www.thestar.com

Jim M @hockeyinottawa.bsky.social · 20h

The Excalibur is beautiful and I need it.

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Bill Krause @admiralbuck.bsky.social · 20h

I've had it with the trolls. I rarely get comments anymore but if you have to say something, please be courteous. Thank you.

Jim M @hockeyinottawa.bsky.social · 1d

If that happens, maybe the party could reflect on running on one set of promises, and then prioritizing a whole bunch of stuff no one was told about, and actively hates?

Toronto Star @thestar.com · 1d

Carney government ‘worried’ its budget won’t pass, triggering a federal election

Carney government ‘worried’ its budget won’t pass, triggering a federal election

Liberal House leader Steven MacKinnon said Tuesday, as he acknowledged there is a chance Canadians could return to the polls just six months after the election.

www.thestar.com

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Dave Lee @davelee.me · 1d

WELL HOW ABOUT THAT

"A millionaire levy in Massachusetts has generated $3 billion more in revenue than expected without forcing significant high-profile departures from the state."

www.bloomberg.com/news/article...

Millionaire Tax That Inspired Mamdani Fuels $5.7 Billion Haul in Massachusetts

A millionaire levy in Massachusetts that New York City mayoral frontrunner Zohran Mamdani holds up as a model for taxing the rich has generated $3 billion more in revenue than expected without forcing...

www.bloomberg.com