
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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I knew it was a good idea to team up with an academic to analyze and dissect the 2026 municipal campaign. Evan brings the data and I provide the sass and the occasional swear word.
As of the time of recording (Friday afternoon), there wer...
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Ottawa mayoral candidate Alex Lawson released a video recently showing him inexplicably (to me, anyway) holding a banana while talking about the need to tighten lobbying rules. He calls this the Influence F...
The campaign officially began on May 1. Evan writes the popular City of Ottawa Politics Substack and whenever we meet we seem to have a lot of things to talk about so I asked him to join me on a semi-regular video series dissecting the Otta...
You absolutely must visit the Legacy Museum.
They say football is a religion in Alabama and they are not lying. I showed up in Montgomery on a Saturday afternoon just after Thanksgiving. The Saturday after Thanksgiving is the day of the I...
Big props to the always awesome CBC reporter Arthur White-Crummey for breaking this doozy of a story on Ādisōke being even more delayed and always more expensive. According to a report presented to the Finance and Corporate Services Committ...
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