Reminder that the city of #ottawa likes to unilaterally decide when summer starts and ends. Has Britannia Beach been packed for weeks already? Did a 9-yr old just die? Yes. Will this change the city’s approach to funding how the city operates in an era where it’s much warmer for longer? No probably not. The speakers mentioning no lifeguards are on duty are like speed signs. Meh, that’s enough #ontario#onpoli https://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/ottawa/britannia-beach-dead-child-june-2024-1.7222570
Biked by Britannia Beach today with 2 fire trucks, 5 cop cars and 3 paramedic vehicles all lights and sirens blaring. Apparently a neighbourhood kid is in critical condition after presumably being found unresponsive in the water. Fuck I hate this. It’s so common and yet so easy to avoid and I’ll stake my claim that the beach is one area where phones should just be banned. It takes no time for shit like this to happen with aspirated water in the lungs #ottawa#drowning#kids
This isn’t a shit on other parents / holier than thou from me. I’ve sat at the beach. I’ve watched others for a long time at the beach. And I’ve used my phone while sitting at the beach, though our kid doesn’t swim there. 30 secs isn’t that long. What’s 45 seconds right? It’s like driving and using a cellphone. I’ve done it and now I don’t. Ever. Driving or at a beach with the kid. Shit happens so fast #ottawa#kids#drowning
Update: a 9-yr old kid was pronounced deceased at hospital from Britannia Beach. Ahhhhhhhh fuck. This country needs a national education system that isn’t cops scolding people about not boating drunk. Maybe Kevin O’Leary should be the face of it. Oh wait, he’d make his wife take responsibility for it again
PSA: (and a question). #ottawa and #ontario pulled two ticks off the kid after a hike in Gatineau park. And you NEED to check all of the little ones, especially parts of genitalia you can’t just visibly check. Both of these dots are ticks but unsure what kind. Does anyone know if there is a drop off location to get these tested? Lymes disease is shit and the risk increases a LOT after 24-36 hrs attached #kids#ticks
@5ciFiGirl@AndrewHenry@futurebird fascinating and given the long term effects (have a friend who has Lymes disease) the body basically attacking itself makes sense
My fav new weekend activity is getting the 1 1/2 hr bus ride to CHEO on a Sunday only to have to wait for hours and hours, esp on nice outside Sundays. It’s great, totally fine, love this so much #ottawa#kids
I'm about 300m from the gas station and used to schlep these on my shoulder home. Now that I have a wagon, I realize I've been too old for that shit for several years now.
@jleiper 👏👏 have a collapsing grocery cart that can hold 110 lbs and I’ve used it for groceries, hauling the kid on bus trips when our destination was too far for him, bike cleaning water jugs (condo building) but want a (collapsing) wagon for winter!
I see Rockcliffe has entered the NCC’s “let’s chat about some vague updates to the waterfront” chat. What a charming area that should be bulldozed for affordable housing.
@Auxonic hahahahaha yacht club members and those who flying fucking airplanes for fun are the ones being hard done here???? You can drive right to the aviation museum 365 days a year, the bike days do nothing to hinder access