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For Our Kids: Ottawa-Gatineau @forourkidsog.bsky.social · 14h

🚨Join us in the fight for safer school zones in Ottawa 🚨

🚸Fund and build sidewalks and protected bike lanes in our neighbourhoods
🏫Make school streets possible
💪Stand strong against Ford and fight to save our automated speed cameras!

✅Sign here schoolstreetsottawa.ca/get-involved...

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Demand Safe School Zones in Ottawa!

Le francais suit It’s a common scene at schools for morning drop off and afternoon pick up times, speeding, distracted driving, close calls and tension on the streets . Many school zones lack…

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karen ward @kwardvancouver.bsky.social · 12h

the number of unsold condos in metro Vancouver is approximately the same as the metro Vancouver homeless population

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Metro Vancouver's glut of empty condos: What's unsold and why?

No amount of incentives seems to be able to reverse the glut. How did we get here? And how bad could it get? Read more.

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KGE hockey fan 🇨🇦🍁 @kbyrd.bsky.social · 9h

This isn't a mistake, the billionaire who bought it wanted to destroy it. We need a new model for trustworthy media.

KGE hockey fan 🇨🇦🍁 @kbyrd.bsky.social · 9h

Take your time don’t worry about answering the Qs accurately) use lots of buzzy terms like “AI promotes misinformation” and “we need universal basic income”.

KGE hockey fan 🇨🇦🍁 @kbyrd.bsky.social · 9h

I worried about the poor analysts trying to make sense of this survey, but then I realized that they probably outsource to AI. ised-isde.canada.ca/site/ised/en...

Help define the next chapter of Canada's AI leadership

Current status: Open from October 1 to October 31, 2025 Canada helped invent modern AI. To stay a leader—and protect our digital sovereignty—we're running a 30-day national sprint to shape a renew...

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KGE hockey fan 🇨🇦🍁 @kbyrd.bsky.social · 9h

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New $25M housing bond campaign in Ottawa turns neighbours into investors - Capital Current

A new bond will allow residents to invest in two local non-profits to preserve affordable housing.

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KGE hockey fan 🇨🇦🍁 @kbyrd.bsky.social · 9h

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Ottawa students raced to beat the bus — and won - The Charlatan, Carleton's independent newspaper

Carleton University and University of Ottawa students raced to beat the bus to highlight OC Transpo issues.

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KGE hockey fan 🇨🇦🍁 @kbyrd.bsky.social · 9h

I am sad that I had to step away from the @otttransitriders.bsky.social but oh so very excited at the new projects being advanced by new board members1 Looking forward to better transit for students. charlatan.ca/carletons-ne...

‘You can’t ignore us anymore’: Meet Carleton’s new transit advocacy club - The Charlatan, Carleton's independent newspaper

Carleton University's new Carleton Transit Riders club hopes to get more students involved in advocacy for more reliable transit in Ottawa.

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Covering Climate Now @coveringclimatenow.org · 1d

15 kids have filed a petition against the US, arguing that the “U.S. government’s unrelenting perpetuation of a fossil fuel energy system despite knowing for over 50 years that the emission of fossil fuels was catastrophic for human rights.”

By @ahofschneider.bsky.social for @grist.org...

The kids who sued America over climate change aren’t done yet

They want an international human rights body to hold the U.S. accountable — and are spotlighting Indigenous communities on the frontlines.

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Bike Ottawa @bikeottawa.bsky.social · 1d

Are you a member eligible to vote at our AGM? Attend our AGM on October 26. Run the chance of winning a FREE Bike Ottawa t-shirt.

Register now!

bikeottawa2025agm.eventbrite.ca

One adult and two kids bike on a wide bike path on the side of a street. Some trees in the background on the left and house in the background on the right.

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Larry Neufeld @larryneufeldsk.bsky.social · 1d

Petition to Minister Champagne: No Austerity in this budget. Sign here: actionnetwork.org/petitions/pe...

Petition to Minister Champagne: No Austerity in this budget

$25 billion per year less for public services. 57,000 jobs eliminated. The “worst cuts in modern history,” according to economists. Is this what Canadians voted for on April 28? The deep cuts to pu...

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KGE hockey fan 🇨🇦🍁 @kbyrd.bsky.social · 1d

Good! Americans have to resist wherever they can - grit in the gears!

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BeijingPalmer @beijingpalmer.bsky.social · 1d

I don't understand why U.S. reporters so regularly seem to let politicians get away with 'I haven't seen that' about stuff a) they obviously know and b) is directly relevant to their job. Did they sign some kind of agreement never to ask a follow-up question?

Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 1d

REPORTER: We know the president moved forward with mass layoffs. We're also learning there were significant cuts to staff at special education services. Are you comfortable with those cuts?

MIKE JOHNSON: I haven't seen the specifics of that and I don't know

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NY Times Pitchbot @nytpitchbot.bsky.social · 1d

Elon Musk is doing Enron the right way.

by Ezra Klein

electrek.co/2025/10/13/e...

Elon Musk's SpaceX and xAI are buying Tesla's unsold Cybertrucks

Hundreds of Tesla Cybertrucks have been spotted being delivered Elon Musk’s private companies, SpaceX and xAI, as Tesla is having...

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KGE hockey fan 🇨🇦🍁 @kbyrd.bsky.social · 1d

Oh come on! Oslo and Copenhagen are pretty far north, pretty cold in winter and they both have amazing non-car infrastructure.

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KGE hockey fan 🇨🇦🍁 @kbyrd.bsky.social · 1d

Did CNN mention that Canadians are innocent in this situation? *We* didn't ask for this.

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CNN @cnn.com · 1d

Rescuers in western Alaska are working to find missing residents and help those displaced after ferocious, hurricane-force wind gusts from what once was Typhoon Halong tore through remote, coastal communities, unleashed record-breaking storm surge and shoved homes completely off their foundations.

Dozens rescued, several still missing after monster storm brings violent wind gusts and record storm surge to western Alaska | CNN

Rescuers in western Alaska are working to find missing residents and help those displaced after what once was Typhoon Halong tore through coastal communities, unleashing record-breaking storm surge an...

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Eugenie Waters @eugeniewaters.bsky.social · 2d

Exactly! Signs and flashing lights are completely insufficient. Sign and share: schoolstreetsottawa.ca/get-involved...

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KGE hockey fan 🇨🇦🍁 @kbyrd.bsky.social · 1d

He's in power because progressive voters turned away from our preferred parties to take a chance on him. He doesn't act like he understands that. Once burned, twice shy. Progressives won't vote for him again.

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CM Janeese Lewis George @cmlewisgeorgew4.bsky.social · 3d

Every sign in DC marks the loss of someone’s neighbor, someone’s loved one, someone’s friend.

Every sign marks yet another step in the march toward authoritarianism.

Signs popping up around D.C. note: ‘ICE kidnapping happened here’

The signs range in style and mark numerous locations where people have been taken by federal agents.

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Bike Ottawa @bikeottawa.bsky.social · 1d

Want to win a free Bike Ottawa t-shirt? Become a member. Attend our AGM on October 26. It’s that easy.

Join now! #ottbike

bikeottawa.ca/join-bike-ot...

Poster of enticing people to become members of Bike Ottawa and run the chance of winning a free t-shirt. A person on a bike is smiling and seemingly going weeeee!

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KGE hockey fan 🇨🇦🍁 @kbyrd.bsky.social · 1d

EXCELLENT idea!

KGE hockey fan 🇨🇦🍁 @kbyrd.bsky.social · 1d

OK ... so will "blue" states step up to cover the gap? Will Dem politicians point to this as un-American? This is the perfect opportunity for non-GOP people to highlight the difference between MAGA (willing to harm others) and other Americans (wanting to support others).

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CUIMC Stands Up @cuimcstandsup.bsky.social · 5d

🎙️ Last week, a group of Columbia professors — most of them Jewish — took a stand. Risking reprisal, they publicly rejected the university’s recent incorporation of a controversial definition of antisemitism. Their statements, excerpted here, can be read in full at cu-standsup.org/events/free-....

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KGE hockey fan 🇨🇦🍁 @kbyrd.bsky.social · 1d

Please don't spread such myths ... Hitler had a dog.