Kevin Dorse
@kdorse.bsky.social
citizen • pedestrian • husband • cat butler • Saultite residing in 🇨🇦's capital • middle-distance visionary • high-functioning introvert • may contain🍕
Okay. It’s time once again. The threads that form an X on the back of your new coat are called a tacking stitch. You’re meant to remove them so the vent opens properly. Please share this for the benefit of our society. 🙏
December 1, 2025 at 7:59 PM
Okay. It’s time once again. The threads that form an X on the back of your new coat are called a tacking stitch. You’re meant to remove them so the vent opens properly. Please share this for the benefit of our society. 🙏
Over the last 5 years huge corporations have been pushing prices for necessities to absurd heights. It hurts families. It also hurts small and medium-sized businesses who sell things people are just having to do without. We should all be angry.
December 1, 2025 at 6:16 PM
Over the last 5 years huge corporations have been pushing prices for necessities to absurd heights. It hurts families. It also hurts small and medium-sized businesses who sell things people are just having to do without. We should all be angry.
We're getting to learn the surprising, and frankly weird lengths Conservative MPs went to to make sure the Liberal government wasn't defeated last night. #cdnpoli
November 19, 2025 at 12:10 AM
We're getting to learn the surprising, and frankly weird lengths Conservative MPs went to to make sure the Liberal government wasn't defeated last night. #cdnpoli
Astute parl-nerds will recall the time 20 years ago when the entire Conservative caucus - all 98 of them, including a first term MP from Nepean—Carleton - abstained to let the minority Liberal government's budget pass. #cdnpoli #parlnerds
November 17, 2025 at 6:34 PM
Astute parl-nerds will recall the time 20 years ago when the entire Conservative caucus - all 98 of them, including a first term MP from Nepean—Carleton - abstained to let the minority Liberal government's budget pass. #cdnpoli #parlnerds
The intro to Councillor @shawnmenard.bsky.social's weekly newsletter offers a nice summation of the frustrations a lot of us are feeling right now. Leadership at city hall should be focused on Ottawa's mounting challenges, instead it is creating very expensive new problems. #ottawa #ottcity
November 15, 2025 at 3:43 PM
The intro to Councillor @shawnmenard.bsky.social's weekly newsletter offers a nice summation of the frustrations a lot of us are feeling right now. Leadership at city hall should be focused on Ottawa's mounting challenges, instead it is creating very expensive new problems. #ottawa #ottcity
This passage by Star reporter Dave Groff describing the recovery efforts and wreckage being pulled ashore in that same edition is chilling. Even the day after the wreck, there was little hope of finding sailors alive. #edmundfitzgerald
November 11, 2025 at 2:15 PM
This passage by Star reporter Dave Groff describing the recovery efforts and wreckage being pulled ashore in that same edition is chilling. Even the day after the wreck, there was little hope of finding sailors alive. #edmundfitzgerald
November 11, 1975: My father is a photographer for the Sault Star. He gets an early call from his editor saying the storm that felled trees and barns in the city wrecked an ore carrier on Lake Superior. He drives up to Pancake Bay to capture images of wreckage and search efforts #edmundfitzgerald
November 11, 2025 at 1:45 PM
November 11, 1975: My father is a photographer for the Sault Star. He gets an early call from his editor saying the storm that felled trees and barns in the city wrecked an ore carrier on Lake Superior. He drives up to Pancake Bay to capture images of wreckage and search efforts #edmundfitzgerald
No notes. North American car-brained planning has completely failed us. So let’s at least be comfortable.
November 11, 2025 at 12:00 AM
No notes. North American car-brained planning has completely failed us. So let’s at least be comfortable.
November 10, 1975: Fifty years ago today The Sault Star weather report for the evening predicts "Occasional rain, wind gusts up 50 [miles/hr] possible." In actual fact, winds would reach 76 miles/hr at the airport - anything above 73 is considered hurricane force. #EdmundFitzgerald
November 10, 2025 at 6:02 PM
November 10, 1975: Fifty years ago today The Sault Star weather report for the evening predicts "Occasional rain, wind gusts up 50 [miles/hr] possible." In actual fact, winds would reach 76 miles/hr at the airport - anything above 73 is considered hurricane force. #EdmundFitzgerald
America: A democratic socialist running New York City? Could you imagine?! [clutches pearls]
Copenhagen: Hold my øl.
Copenhagen: Hold my øl.
November 9, 2025 at 6:25 PM
America: A democratic socialist running New York City? Could you imagine?! [clutches pearls]
Copenhagen: Hold my øl.
Copenhagen: Hold my øl.
Exhibit #377 for the case that the Saturday Globe and Mail is written by a fundamentally different group of people than every other day of the week.
November 8, 2025 at 12:48 PM
Exhibit #377 for the case that the Saturday Globe and Mail is written by a fundamentally different group of people than every other day of the week.
Well that's it. Council has passed the Lansdowne 2.0 plan by a 15 to 10 vote.
At this point Ottawa feels less like a city and more like a taxpayer-funded vending machine for comfortable private interests.
#Ottawa #ottcity #Lansdowne
At this point Ottawa feels less like a city and more like a taxpayer-funded vending machine for comfortable private interests.
#Ottawa #ottcity #Lansdowne
November 7, 2025 at 9:29 PM
Well that's it. Council has passed the Lansdowne 2.0 plan by a 15 to 10 vote.
At this point Ottawa feels less like a city and more like a taxpayer-funded vending machine for comfortable private interests.
#Ottawa #ottcity #Lansdowne
At this point Ottawa feels less like a city and more like a taxpayer-funded vending machine for comfortable private interests.
#Ottawa #ottcity #Lansdowne
Remember when oil companies used to tell drivers to slow the hell down? Me neither.
November 7, 2025 at 8:27 PM
Remember when oil companies used to tell drivers to slow the hell down? Me neither.
"Trick or treat!"
An article in the November 1, 1917 issue of The Sault Daily Star about Halloween celebrations in the city is considered the first use of the salutation in print. It appeared 10 years earlier than the 1927 example the Oxford English Dictionary cites as its earliest use. #Halloween
An article in the November 1, 1917 issue of The Sault Daily Star about Halloween celebrations in the city is considered the first use of the salutation in print. It appeared 10 years earlier than the 1927 example the Oxford English Dictionary cites as its earliest use. #Halloween
October 31, 2025 at 1:59 PM
"Trick or treat!"
An article in the November 1, 1917 issue of The Sault Daily Star about Halloween celebrations in the city is considered the first use of the salutation in print. It appeared 10 years earlier than the 1927 example the Oxford English Dictionary cites as its earliest use. #Halloween
An article in the November 1, 1917 issue of The Sault Daily Star about Halloween celebrations in the city is considered the first use of the salutation in print. It appeared 10 years earlier than the 1927 example the Oxford English Dictionary cites as its earliest use. #Halloween
The Globe’s halloween driver safety editorial should run the other 364. 🎃 #autowa #pedestrians
October 31, 2025 at 11:34 AM
The Globe’s halloween driver safety editorial should run the other 364. 🎃 #autowa #pedestrians
Designer: where’s Windsor?
Someone: across from Michigan
Designer: kay. how ‘bout … here.
Someone: across from Michigan
Designer: kay. how ‘bout … here.
October 23, 2025 at 11:27 PM
Designer: where’s Windsor?
Someone: across from Michigan
Designer: kay. how ‘bout … here.
Someone: across from Michigan
Designer: kay. how ‘bout … here.
The Sault's current MP, Terry Sheehan gave a very nice statement in the House yesterday marking his Steve's passing. #theSoo #SaultSteMarie #cdnpoli
October 22, 2025 at 4:41 PM
The Sault's current MP, Terry Sheehan gave a very nice statement in the House yesterday marking his Steve's passing. #theSoo #SaultSteMarie #cdnpoli
Say what you want Miriam Webster, this will never not be a typo.
October 18, 2025 at 7:48 PM
Say what you want Miriam Webster, this will never not be a typo.
It's been 25 years since One-Big-Ottawa was imposed on us. The world has finally taken note: this thing doesn't really work for urban or rural residents. I wrote about why and what's next.
glebereport.ca/articles/ott... #ottawa #ottcity #deamalgamateottawa
glebereport.ca/articles/ott... #ottawa #ottcity #deamalgamateottawa
October 17, 2025 at 12:32 PM
It's been 25 years since One-Big-Ottawa was imposed on us. The world has finally taken note: this thing doesn't really work for urban or rural residents. I wrote about why and what's next.
glebereport.ca/articles/ott... #ottawa #ottcity #deamalgamateottawa
glebereport.ca/articles/ott... #ottawa #ottcity #deamalgamateottawa
