Sean Devine
@seandevine9.bsky.social
Ottawa Deputy Mayor and City Councillor for Ward 9 (Knoxdale-Merivale). Proud husband and father of 4. Singer in a garage band.
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Today one of our Sector Chiefs encountered an 11-year-old skating on unsafe ice at Mahogany Landing in Manotick and asked him to leave due to open water.
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December 9, 2025 at 2:48 PM
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Grateful to Catherine Boucher (@bearswim.bsky.social) and the Dalhousie Community Association for standing up for evidence-based policy when it comes to addiction, homelessness and crime rates — in Chinatown and across Ottawa.
December 9, 2025 at 11:48 AM
Grateful to Catherine Boucher (@bearswim.bsky.social) and the Dalhousie Community Association for standing up for evidence-based policy when it comes to addiction, homelessness and crime rates — in Chinatown and across Ottawa.
More info on the Habitat for Humanity project coming to Ward 9 that I helped make happen. 33 new townhomes might be a drop in the bucket when it comes to our housing needs, but for 33 qualifying families soon to own their first home, that drop is as deep as an ocean! www.ctvnews.ca/ottawa/artic...
Ontario government, City of Ottawa partner with Habitat for Humanity on new modular homes
The City of Ottawa and the Ontario government are contributing nearly $10 million toward a Habitat for Humanity project to build 33 modular, affordable townhomes in Nepean.
www.ctvnews.ca
December 9, 2025 at 12:43 AM
More info on the Habitat for Humanity project coming to Ward 9 that I helped make happen. 33 new townhomes might be a drop in the bucket when it comes to our housing needs, but for 33 qualifying families soon to own their first home, that drop is as deep as an ocean! www.ctvnews.ca/ottawa/artic...
UPDATE ON LAST NIGHT'S POWER OUTAGE: I wrote to Hydro Ottawa with several questions about last night's significant power outage. They've written me back with a quick explanation of what happened last night and have promised to share more details soon. 1/
December 9, 2025 at 12:30 AM
UPDATE ON LAST NIGHT'S POWER OUTAGE: I wrote to Hydro Ottawa with several questions about last night's significant power outage. They've written me back with a quick explanation of what happened last night and have promised to share more details soon. 1/
I’m in a virtual public meeting with several of my rural Council colleagues on dry well conditions resulting from drought. I know that municipalities aren’t responsible for private wells, but responsible governments need to prepare for future trends and how to respond to them. 1/
December 8, 2025 at 11:28 PM
I’m in a virtual public meeting with several of my rural Council colleagues on dry well conditions resulting from drought. I know that municipalities aren’t responsible for private wells, but responsible governments need to prepare for future trends and how to respond to them. 1/
Two pieces of excellent news for housing affordability in Ottawa today, one of which I was integrally involved in. First, it was great to have a front-row (third-row) seat at this morning's meeting between Mayor Sutcliffe and PM Carney. 1/ ottawacitizen.com/news/ottawa-...
City of Ottawa and feds partner to build 3,000 new affordable housing units
Prime Minister Mark Carney announced the partnership at the Mayor's Breakfast Series early Monday morning.
ottawacitizen.com
December 8, 2025 at 7:10 PM
Two pieces of excellent news for housing affordability in Ottawa today, one of which I was integrally involved in. First, it was great to have a front-row (third-row) seat at this morning's meeting between Mayor Sutcliffe and PM Carney. 1/ ottawacitizen.com/news/ottawa-...
Mayor Sutcliffe and PM Carney are genuinely hilarious together. We’re about to hear of a funding announcement, but the jokes are flying. In reference to PM’s recent visit to DC for the FIFA Cup draw: “It was the first time I haven’t danced to YMCA.” 1/
December 8, 2025 at 1:45 PM
Mayor Sutcliffe and PM Carney are genuinely hilarious together. We’re about to hear of a funding announcement, but the jokes are flying. In reference to PM’s recent visit to DC for the FIFA Cup draw: “It was the first time I haven’t danced to YMCA.” 1/
I’m at the Mayor’s Breakfast Series, with PM Carney as the special guest. I’m very glad to hear our Mayor speak excitedly about the potential for significant investment in Canada’s defence sector, where Ward 9’s Area X.O can be the centre of a new Canada Defence Innovation Hub.
December 8, 2025 at 1:20 PM
I’m at the Mayor’s Breakfast Series, with PM Carney as the special guest. I’m very glad to hear our Mayor speak excitedly about the potential for significant investment in Canada’s defence sector, where Ward 9’s Area X.O can be the centre of a new Canada Defence Innovation Hub.
Well, that was both fulfilling, and far too filling. I just left the Christmas Dinner for ABLE2, a local org that empowers individuals with disabilities. Great event! I’m here with Exec Director Heather Lacey, John Bishop of Sequence Marketing, and… 1/
December 8, 2025 at 12:35 AM
Well, that was both fulfilling, and far too filling. I just left the Christmas Dinner for ABLE2, a local org that empowers individuals with disabilities. Great event! I’m here with Exec Director Heather Lacey, John Bishop of Sequence Marketing, and… 1/
My daughters and I went to the annual Ottawa Humane Society Open House. We gladly brought a contribution to their pet food drive. But now I’m the bad guy because I didn’t adopt a dog today. But I’ve got 4 kids and 1 dog already!!! My hands are full, kids.
December 8, 2025 at 12:12 AM
My daughters and I went to the annual Ottawa Humane Society Open House. We gladly brought a contribution to their pet food drive. But now I’m the bad guy because I didn’t adopt a dog today. But I’ve got 4 kids and 1 dog already!!! My hands are full, kids.
This AI rendition of me doesn’t look like me much at all, but it makes me look like a badass, so I’ll take it. But why would AI give @arieltroster.com two boxing gloves and me just one?!
This weekend's op-ed by @timtierney.ca kicks off what's obvious. The political gloves off at #ottawa Council. Here are imperfect renderings of @seandevine9.bsky.social and @arieltroster.com
@jleiper.bsky.social cannot be a bystander.
@shawnmenard.bsky.social @lainejohnson.bsky.social
@jleiper.bsky.social cannot be a bystander.
@shawnmenard.bsky.social @lainejohnson.bsky.social
December 7, 2025 at 10:06 PM
This AI rendition of me doesn’t look like me much at all, but it makes me look like a badass, so I’ll take it. But why would AI give @arieltroster.com two boxing gloves and me just one?!
It’s quite impressive that my colleague @lainejohnson.bsky.social assembles this many senior staff for these community engagement sessions.
My final Townhall was this week and #collegeward showed how we can discuss our city priorities kindly and thoughtfully. Thank you to our 12 senior staff panelists (and chair of PWIC Tierney, thank you!) for offering expert insight but also some personal reflections.
December 7, 2025 at 9:46 PM
It’s quite impressive that my colleague @lainejohnson.bsky.social assembles this many senior staff for these community engagement sessions.
@glengower.ca I look forward to telling you how it went!
It was great to bring some good news to Ward 9’s Sadaqa Food Bank, one of Ottawa’s five emergency food banks, that will make a huge impact for their customers. I look forward to sharing this news on December 16, and continuing to work with Sadaqa’s Salim Jam on sector improvements.
December 7, 2025 at 7:59 PM
@glengower.ca I look forward to telling you how it went!
It was great to bring some good news to Ward 9’s Sadaqa Food Bank, one of Ottawa’s five emergency food banks, that will make a huge impact for their customers. I look forward to sharing this news on December 16, and continuing to work with Sadaqa’s Salim Jam on sector improvements.
December 7, 2025 at 7:48 PM
It was great to bring some good news to Ward 9’s Sadaqa Food Bank, one of Ottawa’s five emergency food banks, that will make a huge impact for their customers. I look forward to sharing this news on December 16, and continuing to work with Sadaqa’s Salim Jam on sector improvements.
This was a scurrilous ad hominem attack on the integrity of City Council colleagues by @timtierney.ca. During a Term of Council when we've all sought to avoid the petty divisiveness of the last term, Councillor Tierney sadly brought us all lower yesterday. 1/ ottawacitizen.com/opinion/budg...
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
ottawacitizen.com
December 7, 2025 at 3:44 PM
This was a scurrilous ad hominem attack on the integrity of City Council colleagues by @timtierney.ca. During a Term of Council when we've all sought to avoid the petty divisiveness of the last term, Councillor Tierney sadly brought us all lower yesterday. 1/ ottawacitizen.com/opinion/budg...
I hadn't been to see a theatre production in years, and boy, was I lucky to have seen Kid Koala's The Storyville Mosquito, a multi-media live puppet show that drew the longest standing ovation I've ever seen. It's playing at the NAC until Dec 13th. Go check it out! www.cbc.ca/player/play/...
Canadian multimedia puppetry production comes to the NAC
From the boundless imagination of Kid Koala, the show involves 75 puppets of every size and colour, and a team of 15 performers working behind the scenes.
www.cbc.ca
December 7, 2025 at 12:40 PM
I hadn't been to see a theatre production in years, and boy, was I lucky to have seen Kid Koala's The Storyville Mosquito, a multi-media live puppet show that drew the longest standing ovation I've ever seen. It's playing at the NAC until Dec 13th. Go check it out! www.cbc.ca/player/play/...
As of 10:38pm the @hydroottawa.bsky.social Outage Map is clear, but that doesn't mean that all power is restored. As I've said before, outages are only put on the map if 10 or more "customers" are affected. But one apartment building = one customer. Let me know if your power is still out.
December 7, 2025 at 3:40 AM
As of 10:38pm the @hydroottawa.bsky.social Outage Map is clear, but that doesn't mean that all power is restored. As I've said before, outages are only put on the map if 10 or more "customers" are affected. But one apartment building = one customer. Let me know if your power is still out.
There's finally been an update on the @hydroottawa.bsky.social Outage Map. The outage is now down to the areas north/south of Meadowlands Drive, which means much of Parkwood Hills. This is a common occurrence, including a lot of lower-income multi-unit housing. Let me know if your power is out.
December 7, 2025 at 3:11 AM
There's finally been an update on the @hydroottawa.bsky.social Outage Map. The outage is now down to the areas north/south of Meadowlands Drive, which means much of Parkwood Hills. This is a common occurrence, including a lot of lower-income multi-unit housing. Let me know if your power is out.
@heatherbadenoch.bsky.social is your part of Manordale back on yet? As I drove through I could see most of Tanglewood back on, but it looked like Manordale / Craig Henry were half-on / half-off.
December 7, 2025 at 2:51 AM
@heatherbadenoch.bsky.social is your part of Manordale back on yet? As I drove through I could see most of Tanglewood back on, but it looked like Manordale / Craig Henry were half-on / half-off.
I’m driving through the areas marked out by the outage map. Power seems to be on in much of Tanglewood. Avoid the intersection of Woodroffe and West Hunt Club as there are no traffic lights. I just spoke to OPS to send traffic control officers.
December 7, 2025 at 2:22 AM
I’m driving through the areas marked out by the outage map. Power seems to be on in much of Tanglewood. Avoid the intersection of Woodroffe and West Hunt Club as there are no traffic lights. I just spoke to OPS to send traffic control officers.
This is a large outage across much of Wards 8 and 9, affecting Manordale, Tanglewood, Crestview, Merivale Gardens, The Glens, General Burns, Carleton Heights, Parkwood Hills, and Fisher Heights. No info on the cause. Estimated restoration time 2:30am. I’ll try to get more info.
December 7, 2025 at 1:45 AM
This is a large outage across much of Wards 8 and 9, affecting Manordale, Tanglewood, Crestview, Merivale Gardens, The Glens, General Burns, Carleton Heights, Parkwood Hills, and Fisher Heights. No info on the cause. Estimated restoration time 2:30am. I’ll try to get more info.
I’m just getting reports now on a wide power outage affecting several parts of Ward 9, from Parkwood Hills to Manordale. I’m trying to get info from @hydroottawa.bsky.social.
December 7, 2025 at 1:37 AM
I’m just getting reports now on a wide power outage affecting several parts of Ward 9, from Parkwood Hills to Manordale. I’m trying to get info from @hydroottawa.bsky.social.
It's always a good time to send people over to Thrive on Merivale Road. A great thrift store where the proceeds go to an even greater cause. And my predecessor @kegli.bsky.social is not only a strong supporter of Thrive, but also one of their most committed volunteers!
Is now a good time to say that all videos are only a dollar at Thrive on Merivale Road? The proceeds go towards supporting the work of Big Brothers Big Sisters Ottawa . Really a win/win situation.
December 6, 2025 at 11:28 PM
It's always a good time to send people over to Thrive on Merivale Road. A great thrift store where the proceeds go to an even greater cause. And my predecessor @kegli.bsky.social is not only a strong supporter of Thrive, but also one of their most committed volunteers!
I didn't know that people would get such a kick out of this post. For anyone curious, here's one of the saucier reviews about my performance in this film: "The only downside was that one of the lead guys has a lisp, which tends to get annoying." That wathh thho embaratthing.
A friend found a DVD copy of a movie I did way back in 1999. I was one of the leads - a group of misfits who kidnap Tori Spelling. Now it’s lining the shelves at a used movie/bookstore.
December 6, 2025 at 11:25 PM
I didn't know that people would get such a kick out of this post. For anyone curious, here's one of the saucier reviews about my performance in this film: "The only downside was that one of the lead guys has a lisp, which tends to get annoying." That wathh thho embaratthing.
I was living in Montreal on Dec 6, 1989, as news broke of the murders of 14 female students at l'École Polytechnique de Montréal. Today we mark the National Day of Remembrance and Action on Violence against Women in Canada, to remember these women, and the ongoing issue of gender-based violence.
December 6, 2025 at 11:17 PM
I was living in Montreal on Dec 6, 1989, as news broke of the murders of 14 female students at l'École Polytechnique de Montréal. Today we mark the National Day of Remembrance and Action on Violence against Women in Canada, to remember these women, and the ongoing issue of gender-based violence.