Jim M
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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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Oh well, I guess we just accidentally did a good thing. Be cool if we just kept doing it.
The Excalibur is beautiful and I need it.
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I've had it with the trolls. I rarely get comments anymore but if you have to say something, please be courteous. Thank you.
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?
Of course, that's why there's so little time to analyze it! All the best deals should be hidden behind a shroud of secrecy and shady political maneuvering.
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Apparently opposites can be true if one needs it to be so within one’s confusing narrative.
“Do you think the construction costs will go down? It never does”

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“Good news, 2 years ago we estimated costs would be more, but it’s going to cost even less”
Can you ask the Mayor why he doesn't have this type of passion and energy for properly funding transit?
This is "Michael Scott declaring bankruptcy" levels of oblivious.
Very excited to watch @mayormarksutcliffe.bsky.social twist himself into a pretzel arguing why the vote for this shouldnt be delayed until later in November as Jeff Leiper has proposed. A large deal like this demands scrutiny.
An entire day has gone by and still no release of the Lansdowne 2.0 report. Meanwhile, Mayor Sutcliffe has had time to brief the press, frame the story, and produce a feel-good video. As for those who oppose the project? Well, they're just "spreading misinformation". www.youtube.com/watch?v=4x-T...
Lansdowne: More for less
YouTube video by Mayor Mark Sutcliffe
www.youtube.com
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Lansdowne 2.0 risks giving residents less for more: higher ticket prices, a smaller arena, and higher debt. Similar promises in Lansdowne 1.0 fell short. This round is off to a bad start, and I’m calling on the Mayor to delay the vote until later in November.
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Big changes need real scrutiny. Staff now estimate $65M from selling air rights for residential and hotel development, up from $39M. That’s a massive, unexplained jump. Councillors and the public have just eight days to review the details before a key committee meeting. That’s not enough.
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The Mayor also dismissed community analysis of Lansdowne 2.0 as “misinformation.” That language disrespects residents who’ve worked hard to study this project’s finances. Their analysis raises real questions that deserve answers, not insults.
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I’m deeply disappointed in how this process has unfolded, and in the disregard shown for Council by revealing staff recommendations early. This isn’t how collaborative government works, and it undermines trust in both City staff and the democratic process.
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This morning, Mayor Sutcliffe held a press conference outlining the modified Lansdowne 2.0 recommendations before city councillors or the public had access to them. That’s unacceptable. Transparency and respect for Council should come before media rollouts.
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Given its basic lack of proven utility, its persistent lack of actual reliability, its fascist-tinged aesthetic, its co-opting of cognition, and the underlying risk of a cataclysmic stock market crash if and when the bubble pops, it's at least possible that AI is the worst invention of all time
"But when the team looked at the employees’ actual work output, they found that the developers had completed tasks 20% slower when using AI than when working without it. Researchers were stunned. “No one expected that outcome. We didn’t even really consider a slowdown as a possibility.”

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Genuinely can't get over them launching live artillery rounds a) towards the public, and b) towards the VPs fucking motorcade.
Yeah, there's a whole lot of not-good with this project.
Mayor of Ottawa wants to ram through a $500M (or more) project where the City holds all the financial risk, without letting Council perform adequate due diligence. I wonder if there is some kind of precedent in Ottawa for why this might be a bad idea? www.archives.gov.on.ca/en/e_records...
Of course the Mayor needs to get ahead of what very well may be an absolutely damning report so that OSEG can have their hand held. I'm not sure why we're supposed to be trusting a group who couldn't make Lansdowne 1.0 work when they held all the risk to make Lansdowne 2.0 work when the City is.
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@helps.octranspo.com @somersetward.bsky.social Some very attractive and muscular men came and lifted this bench behind Pimisi back into place today, but there are still a few boards missing from the benches themselves
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"...I could have not-written a letter of recommendation so the predator could go get another job in a position of power."
“I could have been more forceful and asked more questions and gotten more involved in the details of what happened."

Joel Quenneville spoke prior to his first game coaching in Chicago since being reinstated by the NHL. Reporting with @marklazerus.bsky.social:
www.nytimes.com/athletic/673...
Joel Quenneville returns to Chicago for first time since reinstatement: ‘I could have been more forceful’
Quenneville was reinstated by NHL commissioner Gary Bettman in July 2024 but did not return to coaching until this season.
www.nytimes.com