grivettcarnac

grivettcarnac, 3 days ago to ontario

The solution is to raise speed limits on highways, because data is stupid and definitely should NOT be used to help inform policy ever #ontario #onpoli https://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/toronto/opp-number-fatalities-last-year-deadly-year-1.7204528

grivettcarnac, 23 hours ago to ontario

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

https://apple.news/AUeBgc2hJSsO0j0QsJdT1sg

grivettcarnac, 4 days ago to Autism

Our 4-yr old dropping tonight that some of his friends at school have autism wasn’t near the top of my list of things he would randomly drop. It’s clear his teachers have approached this with a lot of care and empathy and he’s really intrigued and excited that he has friends whose brains, well may or may not work the same as his and that he’s lucky to have friends with autism… I was probably 25 the first time I heard the term at all #autism #ottawa #kids

grivettcarnac, 3 days ago to random

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 #cdnpoli https://www.npr.org/2024/05/14/1251477809/boeing-justice-department-charges

grivettcarnac, 6 days ago to Ottawa

This business felt a bit stretchy on the parkway today but… it’s at least something that’s not flexi-posts?!! Also the whole idea that the parkway couldn’t be single lane is bullshit. The problem at island park is one of public transit, not a lack of lanes for car traffic #ottawa #ottbike #biketooter

grivettcarnac, 10 days ago to Alberta

The absolute fuckery of carbon capture both in what is basically wealth transfer from 🇨🇦s to an oil and gas company and… 9 million tonnes of CO2 supposedly sequestered since 2015? Over 100 million tonnes of carbon produced by 🇨🇦 oil and gas in 2022 alone? Get the fuck out of here with this tech and “subsidy” bullshit #cdnpoli #alberta https://www.cbc.ca/news/climate/shell-greenpeace-quest-1.7196792

grivettcarnac, 3 days ago to climate

This is not cheering for the pay workers get at Chinese EV manufacturing companies or the supply chains etc but the fact that North American car companies have made zero moves to make simple, low cost EVs is pathetic. “Flood the market” blah blah blah. There’s no free market anyway just protectionism, government subsidies and the gatekeeping to keep EVs at $50,000 a piece. Say nothing of the #climatechange song and dance about getting folks into EVs #canada #cdnpoli #ev

grivettcarnac, 22 hours ago to 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

grivettcarnac, 8 days ago to Ottawa

The chicken and egg game of all this is pretty fucking tiresome… don’t raise fees because it’s an affordability crisis, but let’s continue sprawl of single family homes that cities can’t afford to maintain the infrastructure for. All the games to protect profit margin because we don’t “really” believe housing is a basic right for people. Profit is for sure tho at least for some #ottawa #onpoli #cdnpoli

grivettcarnac, 6 days ago to Ottawa

My world for a uni-directional eastbound lane on the parkway and a permanent westbound lane for active use so this could be a permanent loop #ottawa #ottbike #biketooter

grivettcarnac, 2 days ago to Ottawa

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, 16 hours ago to Canada

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

grivettcarnac, 10 days ago to Ottawa

So @geekingirl is on a 🇨🇦 stamp and a prepaid postcard, front left, on the Nahanni River

📸: Colin Field
You can grab some here! https://store.canadapost-postescanada.ca/store-boutique/en/411247144/p/from-far-and-wide-part-4-souvenir-sheet-official-first-day-cover
#ottawa #canada #Photography #NWT

grivettcarnac, 3 days ago to Ottawa

Oh good, it’s not even mid-May and that haze at sunset is already here in #ottawa Burn, fucking burn baby #ontario

grivettcarnac, 3 days ago to Ottawa

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, 1 day ago to Ottawa

Wild to be able to watch individual storms move along the #ottawa river. Definite benefit of living high up #ontario #storm #Photography #gabesimages

grivettcarnac, 3 days ago to Ottawa

It is beyond wild to me that the city cut annual funding to the Tulip Festival. Ya’ll are baffled on how to connect Dows Lake and the Byward Market?? Seriously?? The NCC couldn’t even close all of the QED, but no shade to them when they are responsible for any livability in #ottawa The festival weekends at Dows Lake are the best weekends in this city in the entire year and props to the Feds #onpoli #cdnpoli
https://obj.ca/feds-provide-130k-canadian-tulip-festival/?no_cache=1715612135

grivettcarnac, 8 days ago to Ottawa

When other 🇨🇦 cities do things like this, it just leaves #ottawa showing its whole ass on how little it cares about people who live here #cdnpoli #onpoli https://globalnews.ca/news/10485183/edmonton-outdoor-pools-opening-date/

grivettcarnac, 3 days ago to Ottawa

I despise this whole section of highway all the way to North Bay. Good fucking thing raising speed limits will produce better outcomes in head on collisions… JK I know the speed limits aren’t being raised here and they are also not enforced. I’d be happy to never have to use this highway ever again #ottawa https://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/ottawa/highway-417-ottawa-arnprior-kinburn-1.7203959

grivettcarnac, 9 days ago (edited 9 days ago) to Ottawa

Well update on the government side of the job hunt… did a horrid 3-hr exam on Monday in which the person who wrote the job description did not talk to the person who wrote the exam. So that was a fucking amazing stressful waste of time (probably).

Next Monday I get another 2-day exam at 8;30AM and… a 2-hr exam at 9 AM from a difference department the same day. So will get the 2-hr exam out of the way and do the 2-day exam after 😩 #ottawa #jobs

grivettcarnac, 11 days ago to Ottawa

This is very very funny. I'm curious if this photo radar program will ever result in a ground swell of suport for alternatives. Transit? Redesigning of streets? Because this is a tax. Don't get me wrong, lets get photo radar everywhere but this is insane #ottawa #onpoli
https://ottawa.ctvnews.ca/this-ottawa-photo-radar-camera-issued-7-500-speeding-tickets-in-its-first-month-1.6874625?cid=sm%3Atrueanthem%3Actvottawa%3Atwitterpost&taid=6638bf436a0ef300018c46dd&utm_campaign=trueAnthem%3A+Trending+Content&utm_medium=trueAnthem&utm_source=twitter

grivettcarnac, 9 days ago to Ottawa

The Yuba’s version of an oil change. Degreasing, soap, wash, scraping, more soap, wiping etc etc. gunna take it in for a one-year check up, make sure the brakes still have life and such. I’m slowly getting better at working on and taking off more parts, but don’t want to go too far #ottawa #ottbike #biketooter