Fuck no. There should be well-paid career trajectories for this type of work and it should be incorporated into a Climate Corp structure . It’s highly skilled work, dangerous and there’s huge value in expertise retention. It’s great that university students feel drawn to this but 12 hr days for up to 14 days in a row is brutal, regardless of what Alpha Male chumps whine about #cdnpoli#canada#alberta#climatechange
I’m definitely of the belief that having a public broadcaster is important, but then there are moments when… when that public broadcaster isn’t funded to do real journalism but must chase click bait bullshit like everywhere else and I internally debate the benefit. I bet the editor gets a fucking bonus for the dek of this article too #ottawa#canada#cdnpolihttps://www.cbc.ca/news/politics/plastic-pollution-lids-straws-culture-war-1.7207579
I think a lot about how in 2024 if “democracy” is supposed to continue/succeed in its current shitty structure, majority governments are going to have to be a thing of the past. “Compromise” mostly doesn’t exist anymore. Nothing “really” has been done for good on aggregate with majority governments in a while. All that exists as a bulwark is the court system unless the general public grows a spine but that isn’t a reliable counter measure #onpoli#cdnpoli#canada#ottawa
The kid ate shit twice on a bike ride of less than 2 km because this city gives zero shits about wildly large curb cuts (and everything else). The fact that Britannia intersection by Beachconers is as horrid as it is being, I’d argue one of the most busy intersection for folks not in a car is proof enough. And the entrance to the kids school is soooooo bad and busted up that its almost impossible to enter on a bike and the kid ate it right in front of his own school #ottawa#ottbike#biketooter
I don’t know if we’re prepared for how many people do not and will not give a fuck about serious transmissible infectious disease outbreaks and future pandemics. Considering #covid is already over according to every government and no one is seriously grappling with what happened over the past four years, I’m not hopeful on a large scale #cdnpoli#onpoli#ontario
I look forward to the all out campaign against “woke” insurance companies #florida is going to mount now that they have brought in a law erasing #climatechange from all materials produced by the state. Property prices sure to surge when no one can get coverage 🥸
I followed Diane Deans pretty closely from 2019-2023 and say what you will about her but she gave no fucks about Jim Watson. And today not a single councillor who blindly followed Jim’s shadow had a damn thing to say about her. Just deep seated, pathetic cynicism #ottawa#ottpoli#onpoli
@grivettcarnac on a four lane divided highway (baseline). Facing a parking lot. Next to a two story house that looks exactly like the proposed building. On a huuuge lot. Near a university. People have lost their fucking minds about shitty suburbs and the reality of what they’re going to look like in 30 years.
I’m no stan that government is our lord & saviour but people who dump on government can do anything blah blah never have shit to say about stuff like this. I just don’t understand how it’s hard to wrap your head around that profit. is. all. that. matters. That’s it. Profit will always win. Governments mostly assist in this and sometimes “have” to step in when an airplane company is out here just killing people #cdnpolihttps://www.npr.org/2024/05/14/1251477809/boeing-justice-department-charges
Step-daughter of a friend of ours saw the 11-yr old kid get killed in Rockland, by someone driving a school bus, while they were riding their bike. What the fuck…
I’ve said it a bunch of times but I completely changed the route we take to the kids school which is only 1.2 kms away. We take a ~ 2 km route to avoid the utter mayhem that takes over people during drop offs and pick ups, esp school bus and transport vans #ottawa#ottbike#biketooter#onpoli
@grivettcarnac It is so infuriating that the people who drive students to school will tell you they have to because cycling is "too dangerous" as they simultaneously drive recklessly and illegallly.
"We've traced the call. It's coming from INSIDE THE HOUSE"
I wanted to know more about this crash, so googled "Rockland bus accident child killed". Google returned a story from February from Rockland County, NY noting the SECOND local death of a child hit by a school bus this year.