David Hicks
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He/him. Digital marketing & developer. Dad. Political malcontent. Gadgeteer. Photographer. [Not necessarily in that order]
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Reminder: the convoy isn't protesting for freedom, they're protesting for freedom from the consequences of their choices. Nobody has been vaxed against their will, nobody stiched masks to their faces, nobody stopped them from driving across country & honking downtown for days.
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Conservative MPs seem to know an awful lot of people who have their bank accounts frozen.
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Without vax passport I'm way less likely to eat in a restaurant. Considering a vast majority of population *are* vaccinated and support vax passports this seems like a net loss for bars and restos. Are the 10-15% of population who are vaxholes really worth it?
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I can't imagine any other protest where the police allow large amounts of diesel fuel to be freely moved into the protest and distributed. It boggles the mind.
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The Children's Aid Society of Ontario says that while there are children remaining in the protest, Pierre Poilievre has been removed safely and will be placed with foster parents pending an investigation.
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Hearing talk that trucker convoy fundraiser has gone AWOL with roughly $9M in the balance. Considering this whole operation seems like a scam and significant conduit for dark money to flow into various alt-right causes in Canada I'm amazed there isn't more focus on this.
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Seizing banks accounts, losing insurance…suddenly things are a lot less fun.
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Reminder that Poilievre supports this convoy. While his riding is outside the Ottawa downtown core he's still close enough to get hit by backlash. Would love to see him lose his seat as leader in next election.
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I can't help but think Poilievre's sudden love for crypto is about skirting campaign finance rules and opening the taps to alt-right dark money from the US.
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When the occupation is over, and the convoy is gone, can we close Elgin St, temporarily rename it Ram Ranch Mile after the resistance heroes (and gay cowboys, of course), and have an outdoor celebration?
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Security robot drowns itself.
Our D.C. office building got a security robot. It drowned itself.
We were promised flying cars, instead we got suicidal robots.
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Winterlude cancelled because canal never froze.
Ironman cancelled because of air quality from forest fires.
Dragonboat Festival cancelled because of air quality.
Perhaps we should reframe the climate emergency as a *tourism emergency* to get Sutcliffe to take some action.
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When a client in California is asking about your city hall meeting in Ottawa, Canada, your city done fucked up.
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Hey,
@vancityreynolds
, could you do Ottawa a solid & suggest that our Mayor,
@jimwatsonottawa
, take action against the truck convoy currently holding our downtown hostage. See, he's a huge a huge fan of yours, but not a big fan of the downtown community. It would mean a lot. xox
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The last time Ontario got this much international press it was because Rob Ford was smoking crack and being an assclown as Mayor of Toronto. I see a trend in Ford 'leadership' here.
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Important to note that Sloly can fail as a police chief, be sabotaged by his rank and file, sandbagged by police union, and be the victim of institutional racism inherent in policing and politics. None of these things are mutually exclusive.
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I love that Ottawa does nothing for 51 weeks of the year, the decides to do everything on a single weekend in May.
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I don't understand: cops managed to find alcohol hidden in all sorts of creative places when I was a kid on Canada Day. Inside my backpack, hidden inside a water bottle, in my McDonald's cup, rolled up inside a hoodie. I don't see why this jerrycan situation is such a stumper.
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For 13 years
@jimwatsonottawa
occupied himself puffing his chest, patting his back, and mugging for cameras while attempting to build a 'legacy' that fit his ego. Instead he'll forever be known as the Mayor that surrendered Ottawa to a mob that drinks out of diesel containers.
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Attn
@JimWatsonOttawa
: I have heard through the trucker channels that they’re planning to perform Shakespeare in the back yard of a home in the Glebe.
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Once this occupation is done (whether through attrition, Watson surrendering, Feds, Army etc) we should declare downtown vehicle free for a few months to allow people who live there time to recover. Then slowly open limited routes, reduce parking, & massively increase calming.
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Gardening is a great if you want no food, then 400 tomatoes, then nothing, then 120 cucumbers, then nothing, then 3 carrots that weren’t eaten by the rabbit that lives in the hedge next door, then 40 weird looking zucchinis but only 3 are edible.
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It’s amazing to me that businesses would trip over themselves to align with convoy (and supporters) and burn any and all goodwill in community. Doubly so for businesses in/near red-zone. They can do as they wish with their business…as 1000s of customers can with their wallets.
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"My car was stolen, but here's the location from an AirTag."
Cops: "Yeah…nothing we can do about that. Call your insurance company *yawn*"
*later*
Cops: "We're getting a roflcopter…because cars thefts, lol"
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So trucks like this are fine…but Cargo e-bikes are the real threat on the roads.
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I don’t think anybody is asking for draconian new police powers here, just for Ottawa Police (and Bylaw) to enforce existing laws. And we know they can do that because Bylaw is still ticketing residents.
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I thought that the end of COVID mandates would finally bring silence from the aggrieved maskholes, but now realize their identity is so strongly tied to not wearing masks that even in the absence of personal requirements they're still carping about other people wearing them.
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Take. Their. Trucks. The rigs can be hung up with MTO inspections and impound (esp for fuel transport).
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A true Canadian Heritage Moment.
i don’t know how to describe this .gif of a mcdonald’s fight on rideau street except to say that at one point, someone pulls out a raccoon
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The city needs to get a grip on this. Otherwise they’re just clearing a template for future convoys.
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Whoa. CBC took a break from its parade of retired, white, police chiefs and is interviewing Zexi Li.
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Ah, so the city/OPS *can* block access to downtown streets when it's important to them.
À quelques heures de la visite de
#JoeBiden
à Ottawa.
La rue Wellington barricadée.
@tvanouvelles
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Why are we not doing a national boycott of All Thing Galen Weston? A solid month of not purchasing anything from Loblaws, Superstore, Shoppers etc should be a good kick to his dick and maybe slow down the craven capitalism. What do we need to do to organize this for May?
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It's a super cool look for Mayor Sutcliffe to photo-op Ottawa's new ~$8M police helicopter (plus roughly $3000-4000/hr in operating expenses, training, facilities etc) the day after announcing transit cuts which halve mid-day service to save ~$1.5M.
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waitwaitwaitwaitaminnit…just hear me out…hold on…like, is there a way…just let me finish…is there a way we could trick all the trucks into driving into the Bayshore parking lot…because it would be frickin’ hilarious.
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“The people who got us here” is a pretty wild accusation coming from a 6 term politician talking about the BoC governor who was in office while Harper was in power.
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Sutcliffe’s main message is, “Everything is broken, so I’ve assembled a team of everybody who broke it, except this time will be completely different even though everything is the same. This time, we’ll fix it. For real. I swear.”
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Did takeout tonight. The restaurant was fully open for the first time in ~2 years (rather than a pickup table in the front). There were maybe 8 tables, 30 people. Nobody wearing masks (except me). Feels like too much, too soon.
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Climate emergency in Ottawa…so we’re cutting down 750 trees to build a 2400 car parking garage directly adjacent to LRT transit.
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You gotta know Cadillac-Fairview (which owns Rideau Centre) or their insurance company, is going to slap the city with a massive lawsuit. And unlike the slip-and-fall stuff, the city probably won't be able to sweat out a phalanx of Bay St. lawyers with a cheap settlement.
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Jim Watson is having a live interview with CBC and just tried to drop a surprise motion to replace the host with Jan Harder!
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@VeryBadLlama
Explaining to Americans that we have a fourth party that refuses to speak English and acts like a house cat, then watching their heads explode.
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When Sloly says he needs 1800 cops, I wonder how many of those are needed because OPS cops are effectively in open revolt and can’t be trusted during crunch time?
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“It’s not fair at all,” says the guy who is giving $500M to his campaign donors while threatening to raise transit fares 75%.
'It's not fair at all': City facing tough choices to shore up transit budget
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Everything wrong with Ottawa politics in a nutshell: downtown/Vanier/Overbrook is inundated with bikers, massive road closures, people being harassed, and Watson, Hubley, El-Chantiry et al are literally eating cake.
Very pleased to join many colleagues and friends of
@Eli_ElChantiry
as we celebrate his 65th birthday in Carp. Nice touch to have the volunteer firefighters drop by to sing happy birthday between their training sessions today! Eli is one of the most dedicated persons I’ve met
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*interviewing Night Mayor*
“So, we’re bringing back Babylon?”
“Baba-what?”
“How about Zaphod’s? The carpets, amirite?”
“Huh?”
“Raccoon fights at 99 Rideau!”
“Uhhh…”
“Then we all go to Maroush and he yells at us!”
“WTF?”
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Sutcliffe and Watson Club 2 are going to destroy transit to save $1.6M and turn around and hand almost half a billion to OSEG and throw almost the same amount at the cops. That’s their priority. Enjoy rotting in traffic watching corn grow on Greenbank.
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If only Watson had the same energy for protecting Centretown as he does for getting his hands on the seized vehicles.
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Can we agree that the current police action, while now necessary (or at least the last false option), could have been avoided if they'd handled this better at any other point throughout the last 22 days? Cheering for police violence just perpetuates the problem which led to this.
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@David_Moscrop
You put a fake plant in a vase up there and then in 5 years you're amazed at how dusty it has gotten.
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I'm not a Deans fan, but she's right: Watson collecting political capital in the middle of a crisis does nothing to solve the crisis.
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@groin_pains
@helen
It spins counter-clockwise in the northern hemisphere; clockwise in the southern hemisphere. It's called the Horiolis Effect.
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Could CBC not find a few people *from* Ottawa to discuss what’s going on and familiar with the geography of the city to provide proper context? Sussex isn’t a ‘side street’.
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The idyllic, car-free, NCC landscapes in Sutcliffe’s daily
#LiveLaughMayor
pictures are completely at odds with city full of the crumbling infrastructure and endless vehicle gridlock that he is creating.
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BREAKING: Watson appoints himself, Pat King, and Dean French as a triumvirate to lead Police Services Board. The rest of the board is replaced with Navigator interns. Ottawa renamed United Territory of Jimlandia.
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Sweet lord, there's a truck on a tow hook. I never thought I'd see the day.
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@JamesDBowie
In Lich’s defense: being broke and spending $87K on vehicles is pretty much mandatory in Alberta.
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As everybody is complaining their court off a crescent off another crescent off another crescent hasn't been plowed yet, just a reminder that Ottawa is a sprawling shitshow of urban planning failure. It's bigger than the next 5 largest cities in Canada *combined*.
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This Council meeting is insane even by recent Ottawa standards.
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Trudeau makes a surprise visit to Kyiv. All the people complaining Trudeau didn’t visit Ukraine can now switch to complaining that Trudeau wasted a bunch of money for visiting Ukraine.
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I've seen more care and compassion from the city in one day towards people who came here with the stated goal of causing chaos than I've seen in years from the same government for the less fortunate in the city.
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Sutcliffe comes running in when tourism is under assault. Transit system collapse…*crickets*
This is exactly what a ‘business’ mayor looks like.
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Sloly had to go, whether because of strategic failure or loss of operational control (likely both), his departure is just the beginning: once this has settled we need to tear the entire OPS organization down and start over.
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*14 city councillors immediately say they also have COVID-19*
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@CarAdrianH
He's just a regular, hard-working Joe with regular hardworking guy problems like deciding what to do with his multiple properties. He feels your pain!
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Are they talking about Galen Weston?
Keep your purse, bag or wallet close to you and closed while you're out shopping. People leave their carts unattended or turn their back for a moment, and thieves will use this quick opportunity to grab your wallet or phone.
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@EricNewcomer
Everybody loves a low-tax, lax regulatory regime until it's their their shit going up in flames and the fire department is on furlough. Then suddenly there's lots of discussion about 'responsibility' and 'jurisdiction'.
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When people show you who they are, believe them the first time.
Or second.
Or third.
Or fourth…
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FINTRAC is largely an anti-terorrism tool…so that sets the stage for the flavour of engagement people involved can expect when they come calling.
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Keeping in mind that with Sloly gone, we are left with a police force that has resisted change and accountability back with one of their own in charge. While Sloly needed to resign, it's a Pyrrhic victory because we end up with a worse police force in the long term.
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"I don't believe in playing political games or negotiating through the media"
*plays political game and negotiates through the media*
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Will today be the day we get any official statement from any level of government? It’s a bad look for everybody to have the capital and 4th largest city in Canada occupied and nobody denouncing it.
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This weekend I’m taking the brakes off my car. They’re expensive and add a lot of complexity to the vehicle, and clearly not needed since I have not hit anything as long as they’ve been mandated by so-called experts.
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The biggest, gayest blizzard of this winter is coming!
A major winter storm is on its way for tonight and Monday across much of Southern Ontario. You should consider changing travel plans accordingly. Please refer to latest alerts at
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I have to wonder what Ottawa looks like to people elsewhere.
<extreme BBC voice>”in Canada’s capital Ottawa, protests enter their 8th day and the anti-vaccination truckers set up saunas and bouncy castles…”
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On the other hand: Ford scrapping registration fees makes it way easier for the next government to introduce a new registration system based on vehicle weight, mileage, and emissions which better reflects the external/social costs of vehicles people choose.
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Announcing the Night Mayor at 9:30am on a Tuesday is peak Ottawa.
Ottawa's new NIGHT MAYOR will be introduced at 9:30 a.m. Tuesday.
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I wish I was so oppressed that I could take a week long drive across Canada.
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Look, we can all skip the rest of the Ottawa Council meeting: it'll be 15-9 down the board. Can one of the rebels at least slip in a motion to rename Wellington St to Ram Ranch Street and Bank to Eighteen Cowboys Way in the hopes it accidentally passes.
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Night Mayor to get Night Council.
Night Council immediately votes 16:9 against any improvements to the Night Downtown, opting instead for Night Transit Cuts and building more Night Roads in the Night Suburbs in order to keep Night Taxes artificially low.
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Loblaws building new Super-Max grocery stores.
Hard to see the plexiglass but the rails at Loblaws are now hockey rink high. How we’re all supposed to get out in a fire is beyond me.
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It’s just a mild convoy. We need to learn to live with the convoy. Everybody will get the convoy eventually, it’s inevitable.
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I'd like to personally thank Jim Watson for ensuring that beaches are unsupervised and unsafe on the Labour day weekend. The good news is we saved 11¢ on property taxes.
We hope you enjoyed the
#Ottawa
beaches this summer! The swimming season is winding down and yesterday was the last day for lifeguard supervision at
@ottawacity
beaches. This also means an end to daily water quality testing.
Don't worry; we will be back with updates next year!
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Reminder that all the LRT problems could be minimized by bringing back the mighty 95 - the hero we deserve.
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