I’m not an urbanist but I play one on the internets. What makes a city good for its people? I find amusing and joyful examples wherever I roam.
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Brigitte’s Blow-Up Scenario
The real campaign starts now. Evan lays out the four scenarios that could each explain how this election ends (fragmentation, sleepwalking, consolidation, and the Lawson shock) and reaches an uncomfortable conclusion: of the four candidates...
Raise your hand if you’re running
The video about Neil Saravanamuttoo’s position on Gaza is here.
If you want to consult the complete and final list of candidates for the October 26 election, you can find the list for council here, and the list of mayoral candidates here.
Can’t anybody here play this game?
The latest transit plan.
You know you hit a sore spot when trolls and bots come at you on Twitter with inane accusations and half-baked (but misspelled!) insults. Evidently Mark Sutcliffe has activated his online army, what with the number...
An insult to residents
Evan’s piece on the communications problems at the city of Ottawa is here.
Carolyn Mackenzie’s piece on half truths and infrastructure deficit is here.
My viral moment of the week, on the Nightmayor on Wellington St., is here.
Night mayoring our way to comical blandness
Photo by Alan Ko on Unsplash
A few days ago I had a column in the Ottawa Citizen about Mathieu Grondin, the night mayor of Ottawa, to celebrate, if that’s the word, his second anniversary on the cushy and pointless job. And you want to kno...
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