Chris H.

🎃🎃🎃 Happy Halloween! 🎃🎃🎃 We thought perhaps the opening lines of Terry's Wyrd Sisters will help set the mood... "The wind howled 💨. Lightning stabbed at the earth erratically⚡, like an inefficient assassin. Thunder rolled back and forth across the dark, rain-lashed hills ⛈. The night was as black as the inside of a cat. It was the kind of night, you could believe, on which gods moved men as though they were pawns on the chessboard of fate. In the middle of this elemental storm a fire gleamed among the dripping furze bushes like the madness in a weasel’s eye 🔥. It illuminated three hunched figures. As the cauldron bubbled an eldritch voice shrieked: “When shall we three meet again?” There was a pause. Finally another voice said, in far more ordinary tones: “Well, I can do next Tuesday.” — Wyrd Sister, Terry Pratchett #HappyHalloween #Halloween #TerryPratchett #sirterrypratchett #TerryPratchettQuote

@David_Moscrop @Asskickerleague A referendum on the different options, none of which include FPTP. Sell it as we are strengthening our democratic systems; you choose how.

@Asskickerleague I absolutely think it should require some mechanism beyond Parliament.

You’re just trolling us now, right?

@BravoKiloActual @ArmandDoma No you take up way too much land

@ArmandDoma This is not a win. Solar takes up way too much land.

CALIFORNIA: we looove solar, can you just put together a 30,000 page report on the cultural impact that contemplating a solar panel may have on a marginalized community (retired rich homeowners)? 🥰 TEXAS: you want to put up a solar panel? sounds pretty gay, brother. but ok 👍

Ontario's threatening to do the opposite and block bike lanes if they remove a car lane, but it doesn't have to be that way. Small shoots of hope elsewhere.

@Laskinator2 @ottawacity @OC_Transpo I used to bike to Tunneys for the LRT but now I won't risk leaving it at the station, so I'm one fewer data point. Conversely, if I could exit an LRT station and jump on a bike share I'd be right back.

@AuthorJCybulski @christaggart Public health, emergency services, library services, community services, paratranspo, septic sludge processing, repairs on the roads to which the private roads connect... the tax dollars also go to the rurals and the burbs.

@christaggart Many people in the burbs pay north of $6K a year in property taxes and only get garbage pickup. They live on a private road, private sewer, private well, all paid for by them. No transit, no parks nearby, nothing. They get trash pickup, that’s it. The tax dollars go elsewhere.

@Toon_Dreessen God I hate it here. Almost 20 years and shit never gets better, just another set of clowns actively making it worse. Wish I were still in Copenhagen.

Fast food chains in Canada never have to try things like this to "find efficiencies" because we have temporary foreign workers :) #blessed ca.finance.yahoo.com/news/chipotle-…

@MichaelLeoM @DerrickSimpson_ A broader point here is that complaining about poor LRT service misses the mark - it's actually pretty good - and fails to put heat on the city where they are really failing - lack of buses, cutting the LRT headways off-peak, crowded trains, bus delays, etc.

@DerrickSimpson_ Scheduled km delivery vs. Actual. It's always been reported that way. The criteria for that isn't changed at all.

@ctvottawa Ottawa's going to be THE case study for transit death spirals.

Ottawa taxpayers are facing a 2.9 per cent property tax hike in 2025, but that doesn't cover the $140 million shortfall in the transit budget. #ottnews ottawa.ctvnews.ca/ottawa-s-mayor…

Ten minute LRT headways absolutely suck balls, wtf

@MPAVictoria The Ford Capri somehow got resurrected as an SUV, but this is a revival done right

📣UPDATE: We expect the ~1 m asteroid discovered this morning to strike Earth's atmosphere over the Philippines near Luzon Island at 16:46 UTC today. However the nearby tropical storm Yagi/Enteng will make fireball observations difficult. Stay safe everyone!

Yeah good, lmao

I can think of several architects and builders that will enjoy and agree with this thread about planning controls around upper-level setbacks, i.e. apartment buildings that resemble wedding cakes.

@DevineSean Isn't this in our new zoning bylaw? Ottawa's going to officially look stupid for decades to come

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@ctvottawa Love this for Stittsville! Hope it's the first of many large developments.

Controversial Stittsville high-rise to come before planning committee with shorter cap ottawa.ctvnews.ca/controversial-…

@sfyro @OttawaBylaw I assume that after receiving a complaint from a Very Concerned Citizen, Bylaw would go and see if a notice letter is warranted. But one should never assume, and maybe the notice just got sent automatically after the complaint was received? How does this all work?

Soooo...@OttawaBylaw has served me with a complaint that I need to cut my grass by Sunday 02 September 2024. Slight Problem: ✨I don't have any grass (see 📸s)✨ I left a message and made multiple calls...nothing. Is someone pranking me? Does my garden suck? What am I missing?