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My letter to the Citizen regarding Russ Mills' claim that light rail along the Parkway would have "walled off" the Ottawa River were it not for the @NCC_CCN demanding it be put in a tunnel. #OttLRT
Today's letters: On the NCC's record with Ottawa's light rail ottawacitizen.com/opinion/to…
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Implying that before 1760, Quebec had elected officials or they swore allegiance to the people LMFAO
Pour la première fois depuis la conquête de 1760, les élus du Québec ont prêté serment au peuple québécois sans le prêter à la Couronne britannique.
Un moment historique de décolonisation, une étape vers notre pleine liberté. ⚜️
Fierté! @BlocQuebecois @partiquebecois
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Relatively normal and likeable dude replaces deeply unpleasant and polarizing political animal as leader of conservative party and wins massively, in what is surely a fluke one-off with no broader meaning or significance that anyone should pay attention to or ponder in any way.
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BREAKING:
The town hall of Limoges, built in 1873, didn’t survive today’s riots.
The building’s spire has now collapsed
The next thing for the petrobsessive @CPC_HQ to get upset about.
Electric trucks meet hydro power at one of Canada's busiest ports electrek.co/2026/10/12/elect… by @volvojo1
Ethiopia has electrified railways and military heavy lift capacity.
Meanwhile Canada is running into opposition to build an HSR line.
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Day in the life of Canadian journalist:
- Send request to Canadian official yesterday. Receive no reply.
- Send request for foreign official. Receive immediate reply, and in the affirmative.
Sigh.
Quite like this. I'm not a fan of Poilievre but this is definitely the part of his persona he needs to expose more.
It's possible to imagine Carney making a similar speech; it's impossible to imagine Trudeau doing so. That we have two leaders who now could is a welcome change.
I've long suspected that the Canadian Republican movement was largely motivated by unhinged anti-British hatred.
Canada needs mass remigration of all the British colonial settlers including Ben
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Could HSR be built down the median of 401? No.
Could HSR be built alongside CN? Not reasonably.
Those ideas are not novel. They've been considered and ruled out by professional engineers over the past decade.
Do we need to keep HSR costs down? Absolutely.
thewhig.com/news/changes-to-…
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BREAKING:
Senior Israeli official to Reuters:
“Khamenei is dead, his body has been found”
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Wow. Surprisingly good statement from Prime Minister @MarkJCarney.
“Canada supports the United States acting to prevent Iran from obtaining a nuclear weapon and to prevent its regime from further threatening international peace and security.”
I say surprisingly because it’s a real departure from the usual moral equivalence tropes typical of the past decade in Canadian foreign policy.
Full credit where it’s due.
Every time Sean Fraser or Marc Miller open their mouths, I roll my eyes and question Carney's judgement in recruiting them.
Just... why? Why would you promote these two hyper-partisan shrills? They do nothing for you.
#canpoli
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For all of those losing their minds over Canadian Conservatives calling for the prompt deportation of convicted foreign criminals: it’s the policy of the Swedish socialist government, for goodness sake.
Sometimes I’m astonished by how much of the Canadian commentariat can ramp itself into a moral panic over completely sensible, broadly supported ideas.
Like the idea that foreign nationals who have abused our generosity and broken our laws should be promptly removed.
Sweden to increase deportations of convicted immigrants ctvnews.ca/world/article/swe…
The relationships in this family are so confusing. Is this a full or half brother? The 11y old boy who was killed, was that the shooter's step brother or half brother? Same Q re: the traumatized 8y old boy found in the front yard.
Brother of Tumbler Ridge shooter arrested on Canada-wide warrant: RCMP ctvnews.ca/vancouver/article…
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After the Belarusian dictator Lukashenko was slammed onto the ice during a hockey match, no one now gets closer than a meter to him during the game.
By the way, check out Lukashenko’s “hurricane play” (jersey 01) and the fierce resistance from opponents in the latest match.
You know you're losing an argument when you resort to the 'reply-and-block' tactic so that you can squeeze out one last absurdity and then prevent a reply. @KeithEremko
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Two images taken moments apart on Feb 14, 2026 at about 7:18 pm MST showing the Kp4-5 level electron aurora to the north and a brief appearance of what looks like a proton aurora overhead, and an example of a RAGDA - Red Arc with Green Diffuse Aurora. It was very short lived.
ALT An aurora across the northern sky on February 14, 2026 showing a classic green arc to the north and red rays aqnd pillars, with a touch of blue as well. But at top is a green arc of proton aurora, captured in the other photo in the series with the camera turned to the south. This may be a RAGDA, a Red Arc with Green Diffuse Aurora. Taken from home in southern Alberta. Technical: A single 30-second exposure with the 7Artisans 10mm full-frame fish-eye lens at f/2.8 on the Nikon Z8 at ISO 800.
ALT An aurora across the southern sky on February 14, 2026 showing a strange green arc of proton aurora, with a small bit of red. This may be an example of a RAGDA, a Red Arc with Green Diffuse Aurora. This complements a photo captured in the series with the camera turned to the north moments earlier. Taken from home in southern Alberta. Technical: A single 30-second exposure with the 7Artisans 10mm full-frame fish-eye lens at f/2.8 on the Nikon Z8 at ISO 800.
So here's something truly peculiar: the recently forecast annual popl'n growth to 2051 - 19.6k/y - is EXACTLY THE SAME as @ottawacity forecast in the early 2000s for the 20y 2001-2021 period [(1,192k-800k)/20 = 19.6k/y] - and we still haven't hit that 1.192M, btw.
Number of Ottawa households to grow by 257,000 over next 25 years ctvnews.ca/ottawa/article/nu…
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Nice to see Secretary Rubio channeling Prime Ministers Carney and Harper here!
.@SecRubio: "The world is changing very fast right in front of us. The old world is gone ... We live in a new era in geopolitics, and it's going to require all of us to sort of re-examine what that looks like and what our role is going to be."
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How many mass shootings could have been averted if people just didn't make guns available to mentally unstable family members?
#BREAKING - RCMP say deceased suspect in Tumbler Ridge mass shooting is 18-yr-old Jesse Van Rootselaar. Who "identified as female". Police say two of the victims are her mother and stepbrother. Jesse dropped out of school years ago and police say they attended the residence on multiple occasions over the past several years due to mental health concerns. "Firearms were seized from the residence in the past. The lawful owner of those firearms petitions for them to be returned and they were."