We did it- 18 and Under Youth Pass is coming to #Ottawa as of July 1st, 2026. It will bring free transit for youth on weekends, holidays, after 5pm on weekdays and all day every day in the summer (July and August)!
A pink, orange and red heart built out of Leg sits in front of a pile of assorted Lego pieces
I stopped in the Lego store at Rideau Centre last week, where the wonderful staff mentioned the #buildtogive program. For every social media post, Lego will provide a set to a kid who needs it 🩷🩷🩷
Traffic impacts due to the event
Tomorrow, their Majesties King Charles III and Queen Camilla are visiting #OttCity!
Expect traffic and transit delays in certain parts of Ottawa. Check out our interactive traffic map for live updates: traffic.ottawa.ca/map
Planned impacts: bit.ly/4ka1QLG
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Alliance Canada Hong Kong ACHK's archive was updated- linktr.ee/alliancecana...
All of our past reports, issue briefs, training materials and other submissions were uploaded for public access. I hope you find these resources helpful 💛 in solidarity
Back to back dingers from Robert Deniro and Liev Schreiber in the area of Hollywood tough guys shrugging their shoulders going “yeah why wouldn’t I love my child?”
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This memorandum drives home how the "censorship" narrative has ALWAYS been a project to "prove" Trump's Big Lie in 2020. For researchers, platforms, and gov folks caught up in censorship accusations, no amount of ducking & covering was ever going to stop them. www.whitehouse.gov/fact-sheets/...
A librarian is seated near a fireplace with a number of children sitting on the floor in front of her
Librarians changed my life. So I’m so glad we can honour them.
Here’s Toronto librarian Frances Trotter leading story time at a branch in 1935.
U.S. tariffs could utterly destroy the terms Canada thought it was getting when it agreed to buy 88 F-35 fighter jets.
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New: The 19-year-old technologist who has become one of the best known members of Elon Musk’s US DOGE Service was providing digital infrastructure to a cybercrime ring as recently as two years ago.
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This OCDSB session feels like the worst kind of theatre
We can send feedback through their website and our trustee too, but I am not hearing any of Centretown’s concerns reflected. And again, no way to provide feedback at today’s virtual sessions with closed chats
Ottawa’s English-language public school board is holding a virtual consultation tonight on a major change to elementary schools, except without any capacity for parents to provide feedback. So calling a Q&A a consultation. And have referred a couple of times to amendments coming Friday.
"why does the American public not understand what's happening in their own country" I shout over the hedge fund dessicated corpse of local journalism
The U.S. Army and Defense Department removed a mention of the Navajo code talkers from its website.
They are a group of Navajo U.S. marines who were essential during the Second World War for developing a code using their native language.
Health officials highlight accelerated #MMR vaccine guidance in response to #measles outbreak areas of Ontario, by @kkirkup.bsky.social www.theglobeandmail.com/canada/artic... via @theglobeandmail.com #pediatrics #vaccination
The Prime Minister and the President highlighted the launch of a new bilateral partnership on intelligence and security. The partnership will focus on enhancing cybersecurity and intelligence sharing on significant threats.
LES DEUX YEUX 👀
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“If she wants to know something specific, but doesn’t want people to notice her asking questions, she should simply make incorrect statements while in the company of experts. Her companions will correct her, especially if they're men.”
- Advice for female agents in WW2, provided during SOE training
Canada's cyber intelligence agency is warning that countries including China, Russia and Iran will "very likely" lean on artificial intelligence to try and interfere in the upcoming federal election and mislead voters.
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Ah, yes, here is our daily ritual of my son telling me he has no clean underwear and me telling him to check the pile of clean laundry that we still haven’t folded
Governments of the United States’ chief adversaries in cyberspace, especially Russia, have increasingly been relying on cybercriminals and their tools to advance their goals, according to a Google report published Tuesday. via @timstarks.bsky.social cyberscoop.com/u-s-adversar...
Camp registrations, constant news-related stress and 40cm of snow coming as of tomorrow night. That primal scream you hear in Ottawa is all the parents realizing that they now have to add swimming registration tonight, on top of everything else
A Brief History of Kids Today Are Too Rude
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SCOOP: Shopify support staff were told to give “no comment” and to end online chats if customers asked about the company’s technology being used by the musician Kanye West to sell a T-shirt bearing a Nazi swastika.
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i want to be a bookstore cat in my next life
This is super interesting. I wonder a lot about the resistance to c-sections when I hear about people labouring for a day or more
THREAD: How to check if the screenshot of a social media post is real or fake?
Fake screnshots of online posts regularly mislead people. So, here's a simple guide on how you can quickly check if a screenshot of a post attributed to an account is genuine or fake before falling for or sharing it.
