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Ted Raymond
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Local news reporter for CTV News Ottawa. Award-adjacent. Wrote a good headline in 2022. Opinions expressed are those of your employer. I speak French and early Simpsons.
Pinned
Should we lose our way
Tire of all of this pain
We won't be afraid
To forge ahead
CHUO at the University of Ottawa is facing a serious budget crunch.
CHUO radio station faces massive fundraising challenge
The University of Ottawa’s radio station is under threat. As Kimberley Fowler reports, CHUO faces a nearly impossible fundraising challenge.
www.ctvnews.ca
November 29, 2025 at 12:20 AM
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To heal our divided nation I propose splitting Game of the Year awards into two categories:

- Game of the Year That’s 3D and You Use a Sword and/or Gun to Explode a Guy
- Game of the Year That’s Some Gay Bullshit Indie Meditation on Grief or Whatever
November 28, 2025 at 1:49 PM
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Huge Black Friday lineup turns out to just be for Food Bank
Huge Black Friday lineup turns out to just be for Food Bank
HAMILTON, ON - Local residents this morning report driving past an excitingly long lineup and assuming it was for a blowout Black Friday sale, before realizing that it was just a regular queue for a b...
www.thebeaverton.com
November 28, 2025 at 6:13 PM
We line up for BOXING DAY, dagnabbit!
It's a bit weird that Canadians are all like 'elbows up, screw the US' but Canadian retailers are still hitching their wagons to a US holiday that has no relevance to Canada
November 28, 2025 at 4:43 PM
They called it "Zootopia 2" and not "2topia?"

Or would it be "2ootopia"?

Maybe that's why they called it Zootopia 2.
November 28, 2025 at 2:50 PM
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they are removing a big australian beach christmas artwork from redfern station (a huge train station) because it's ai garbage. kangaroos have koala heads and some animals have missing limbs and one of them is WEARING A BRA
November 28, 2025 at 4:43 AM
No, I will take the happy and fulfilled, please.
November 28, 2025 at 1:49 AM
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😬
When your ambassador is SO deranged that Time Magazine says, "Yeah, that quote sounds real".
November 27, 2025 at 9:17 PM
This is great TV
Ashamed to say I'd never had sweet potato pie before today.

Tried three today: the well-known Patti LaBelle pie from Wal-Mart, a recipe that viewers suggested I make at home, and a slice from Denver's famous Welton Street Cafe.

(You're dismissed now, pumpkin pie. We're done.)
November 27, 2025 at 5:51 PM
I have to believe that this cannot be real. This is a shitpost. I am going to keep telling myself that.
November 26, 2025 at 11:17 PM
Make Canada Weird Again
I think if Canada wants to have a strong cultural identity we need to go back to doing what we're best at, making the weirdest fucking TV shows you've ever seen
November 26, 2025 at 8:49 PM
November 26, 2025 at 3:55 AM
More like Ross Don't Douthat
Oh please just fuck off
November 26, 2025 at 3:22 AM
Well, I was born in the wagon of a travelling show

Mama used to dance for the money they’d throw

Papa would do whatever he could
November 26, 2025 at 2:19 AM
This post was made for Bluesky
Report: It Pretty Incredible That Americans Entrusted With Driving Cars https://theonion.com/report-it-pretty-incredible-that-americans-entrusted-w-1819574734/
November 25, 2025 at 10:33 PM
Can we unplug the Earth and plug it back in?
can’t fucking catch a breath

make it stop
November 25, 2025 at 8:58 PM
Curling Canada says champion curler Colleen Jones has died.
Colleen Jones, curling legend and trailblazer, passes away at 65 - Curling Canada
Share: TwitterFacebookShare-emailCopy URL to clipboard Sports fans love their stars. Perhaps that is why, when a nation loses one of them through death, the impact is felt so deeply. So…
www.curling.ca
November 25, 2025 at 6:42 PM
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It looks like Western has five lots of these. There are 4,400 masks per lot, so 22,000 N95s that they apparently don't need.

"Reason for being auctioned - No longer required"
@westernu.ca @westernualumni.bsky.social

Can you pls find a way to make these available to students? We’re in the era of frequent illness now and Western parent FB groups are FULL of reports of student sickness.

Many of the viruses we know are airborne & can be stopped in their tracks with these:
November 25, 2025 at 2:56 AM
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maybe i am going insane
November 24, 2025 at 6:49 PM
OTTAWA POLICE used ARREST!

It was super-effective!
Police arrest 2 after brawl over Pokémon cards at Ottawa Costco
The Ottawa Police Service says two people have been arrested following a brawl over Pokémon cards.
www.ctvnews.ca
November 24, 2025 at 9:11 PM