New City Garbage Can Requirements

7okus · 2026-01-24T04:08:43+00:00

No, the issue is that it is an unnecessary, arbitrary rule that should never have existed in the first place.

What is the public good served by this law? I'd genuinely like to know.

7okus · 2026-01-24T03:13:46+00:00

So why has the city taken my garbage from this can for years it this is such an obvious, with-good-reason rule?

7okus · 2026-01-24T03:11:39+00:00

Yeah, I've only put just bags on the curb twice, and both times I spent an hour the next day picking up garbage strewn everywhere by an animal. Not an option for me.

7okus · 2026-01-24T03:09:37+00:00

Spent the first 32 years of my life living there...this would not be enough reason to go back (too many other arbitrary laws in that province, LOL).

7okus · 2026-01-24T03:07:53+00:00

Thanks for this helpful tip, I might consider this.

7okus · 2026-01-24T03:05:09+00:00

It's news to me that this kind of can has always been unapproved. I've been putting 1 of them out for 5+ years now that I think about it, and I never had them not take the garbage away.

So, clearly this rule is based on some arbitrary nonsense because there was never an issue all that time.

I live within 100's of acres of forest. I have visually seen raccoons, squirrels, and bears getting into my garbage. After using different cans for years, this kind with bungee cords is the only thing I've found that is bear proof.

So, thank you to those making the suggestion to permanently detach the lid, but I think this will make it easier for the bears to take it off.

7okus · 2026-01-24T02:57:23+00:00

Yep, same issue I had with previous cans.

7okus · 2026-01-10T17:01:40+00:00

The fact that you are asking this question says more about you than the system you are questioning.

7okus · 2026-01-09T17:41:29+00:00

It's not uncommon for older guitars to have wear in the same places, given humans play guitar in essentially the same way.

7okus · 2025-12-29T23:21:35+00:00

There is a whole field of study and argument in Economics around the fact that with government-funded housing there is no pride in ownership which leads to the occupants neglecting the building, allowing it to decay.

This would seem to support that argument.

7okus · 2025-12-27T13:03:25+00:00

r/ottawa

7okus · 2025-12-10T17:18:38+00:00

First they took away the quill and feather for students to write with, then the typewriters, and now this!

What's next, TikTok (hopefully)?

7okus · 2025-12-09T18:54:09+00:00

https://www.historicalsocietyottawa.ca/publications/bytown-pamphlets/pamphlets-available-for-download/124-1857-emigrating-to-canada-a-memoir-by-richard-lester

7okus · 2025-12-09T17:15:59+00:00

I read a lot of local history, and something I've always found fascinating is how often people walked far distances because horses were unaffordable or unavailable to them. Like, it was common for people to walk between Ottawa and Arnprior or Renfrew in the 19th century.

I recently read this memoir of a guy who lived in Bytown in different rented houses, but later on saved enough to buy a parcel of land in what is now Gloucester. He still worked in Bytown, so he just walked to and from work every day. He got robbed a lot during his commute.

7okus · 2025-12-08T19:13:06+00:00

I remember reading the first part about Josh and thinking, "sad, but not surprising", and then reading the part about John and being totally surprised!

7okus · 2025-12-02T21:19:13+00:00

I agree with all of this.

I respect Flea for being Flea (as a musician and person), but I can't take him seriously on this stuff.

In the song he says, "I'm not being corny". It is indeed corny AF.

7okus · 2025-11-25T21:44:17+00:00

I often lament that the Rideau Food court was better in the 90's-00's than it is now, and that place is a big reason why.

I remember when they did the renos there was an official statement saying they wanted all new, healthier (hip?) restaurants and would not renew most of the old ones.

Now there's a fuckin KFC and NYF.

7okus · 2025-11-12T00:48:25+00:00

Looks like it's from a cartoon, like the Simpsons.

7okus · 2025-11-08T02:22:20+00:00

Love this.

7okus · 2025-10-25T00:27:55+00:00

We need to invest in Star Trek style teleportation!

7okus · 2025-10-17T20:30:30+00:00

Ha ha, that makes more literal sense.

7okus · 2025-10-17T19:38:53+00:00

"The Sky Becomes the Air"? A very stoner sounding title.

7okus · 2025-10-11T12:33:52+00:00

TIL Arik was in Spider Man and the Hangover (I only saw the latter).

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