They are playing Bluesfest. As with any Canadian tour in the summer, if you see Ottawa “skipped” on a date list it’s usually because the Bluesfest lineup hasn’t been announced yet.

That doesn’t change other points about Lansdowne, obviously.

It’s pretty strange to try to vote electronically while sitting in the opposition lobby, no?

We really just need more carousels.

(I do think the ban on hinged garbage cans is stupid and caught even me by surprise.)

We spend so much time comparing it to the NFL that we sometimes fail to appreciate that it's one of the very few forms of homegrown mass cultural entertainment that brings Canadians together, which is something you might want to lean into right now.

It used to be the city would book a hall
or something and let people come and talk to the experts that planned this to understand it. You’d see the usual suspects, and maybe even meet some new people.

I guess a website you have to log into does some of the same stuff.

For any casuals heading to one of these shows, spend some time with Definitely Maybe and Morning Glory, and you’ll be ready for the bulk of the setlist. Plus you’ll be better acquainted with two of the great rock records of all time.

At least this *got* built, unlike the Albert portion east of City Centre that was "to be completed by RTG after the train opened"

I forgot about bottom writing!

Alt weeklies were a basically perfect medium, and it’s too bad nothing really replicates that.

Finding a copy of the coast outside a Green Gables c. 1996 is probably a defining moment in my teens.

It has a good run. Bless the Halifax Examiner for existing still.

Well StatsCan pegged the cost of the additional regulations at about 1.7 points of GDP per year, so I think we can say there's an effect.

There is a cost to all things. You can't increase regulatory comexity and think it'll have zero effect.

I did those Harper tours of the North. We once did a Churchill to Resolute flight. In a Hercules. Longest flight of my life!