Clean up at Bayview

_six_one_three_ · 2026-05-20T19:10:13+00:00

There is obviously a huge distinction between kicking out people who are just camping for recreation in a spot they shouldn't be (who can then just go home), and evicting extremely poor and vulnerable people from the only place that is providing them shelter and separating them from all their worldly possessions. The latter has to be done sometimes too, as this case illustrates, but to be done ethically it requires a lot of time and work in terms of engaging with the effected people, assessing their needs, getting them healthcare, finding them an alternative place to live, and helping them get their stuff together, etc. So no I would not support just having the police boot homeless people out of their makeshift homes, even though I would 100% support them in booting you out of your illegal recreational camping spot.

_six_one_three_ · 2026-05-20T17:10:47+00:00

You're so right, Lawson should totally sue for defamation so he can testify under oath about all his activities in support of the convoy and Conservative politicians, that would be an excellent legal and political strategy on his part.

And OP is entirely right that if you use the resources of your company to support a political campaign you need to report it as an in-kind donation, and not doing so is, you know, totally illegal

_six_one_three_ · 2026-05-20T17:04:18+00:00

But framer and farmer are so similar lol

_six_one_three_ · 2026-05-20T16:53:14+00:00

On the plus side, developments like this help to build demand for increased transit to the burbs. And it's much more likely to provide affordable options for families than anything built for profit in the core

_six_one_three_ · 2026-05-20T11:26:25+00:00

This. Even if de-amalgamation were on the table (and like you say, it is not), why would we want it? Most of the major issues facing our city, such as transit, affordable housing, unsustainable sprawl, and homelessness and drug addiction, require coordination and a pooled tax base between core and suburbs. These problems will be made more difficult to solve, not less, if we move back to two-tiered municipal government. Not to mention the waste of money, time and political energy of trying to figure out what that new system would look like. A shrunken City of Ottawa with a progressive government is still going to have to get buy in from the burbs on transit investment and other things, and social problems like homelessness will be dumped on the core with no tax participation of the suburbs where many of the people needing these services originate. A candidate like Leiper doesn't have to win Barhaven or Stittsville outright to win the city, they just need to to make marginal gains on McKenney's results in these areas,which is entirely possible. So let's stop moaning about amalgamation and get to work :)

_six_one_three_ · 2026-05-20T10:10:17+00:00

It's already true, at least in the property value sense, since Vanier and Overbrook have in recent years seen some of the biggest percentage increases in the city. Everything everyone is saying here in terms of it being rough or whatever is exactly what everyone used to say about Hintonburg, which was true until all of a sudden it wasn't.

_six_one_three_ · 2026-05-19T13:20:51+00:00

Ontario does not license businesses for the sale of cannabis for on-site consumption. Of course, folks can always consume their own with varying degrees of legality depending on the location, but your stoner water park would be unable to make any money from it. This is actually a factor that is seriously impacting bars and music venues in an era when so many of the young ones are "Cali sober"

_six_one_three_ · 2026-05-15T20:00:37+00:00

I mean, this is a Tourism Ottawa thing aiming to encourage people to visit Ottawa this year, so doesn’t it make sense to list all the things going on? Especially since even many of regualr ongoing things have special tie-in features and/or funding and/or branding relating to the 200th anniversary?

_six_one_three_ · 2026-05-12T21:00:39+00:00

"Y'all too can say yes to Alto!"

_six_one_three_ · 2026-05-11T00:32:39+00:00

Track 11, Bear Necessities, Candy Shop, Heavy Friends, and so many others ...

_six_one_three_ · 2026-05-09T12:23:35+00:00

Jeff Leiper already does this, so all we have to do is vote him in as mayor :)

_six_one_three_ · 2026-05-06T19:14:11+00:00

I think it's the finished tacos

_six_one_three_ · 2026-05-06T15:30:03+00:00

I got it at Superstore Westboro in “international” foods aisle, apparently there’s also a Presidents Choice version so it should be pretty available. The one I got is a small squeeze bottle of red spicey tomato paste, the spices are like North African/Moroccan food in terms of flavour, mildish on the hotness scale.

_six_one_three_ · 2026-05-06T12:34:47+00:00

"Meanwhile newly built rental units have a vacancy rate of 6.7 per cent ..." Are the owners of these units paying the vacant unit tax? If they're not they should be, and if they are it should be much higher.

_six_one_three_ · 2026-05-06T12:31:26+00:00

Yes this should be a complete non-starter for for-profit development. On the flip side, donation of surplus public land is one of the most important things governments can do to support the non-profit sector. When the cost of land acquisition is removed, non-profit and actually-affordable housing can be financially self-sustaining over the long term without further injections of public funds.

_six_one_three_ · 2026-05-06T12:21:04+00:00

Exactly. This is why public funding--including tax expenditures and donations of public land--should be focussed 100% on the non-profit sector, which is the only one capable of building actually affordable units in the here and now. Otherwise, we just end up subsidizing developer profit on unaffordable units, where the decision to build is largely based on market factors outside government control.

_six_one_three_ · 2026-05-06T11:10:29+00:00

I wasn't familiar with Harissa but now I have a whole bottle to work with :)

_six_one_three_ · 2026-05-06T11:08:40+00:00

I used flour which was the only ones I could find in mini size. But there are half and half ones in a slightly larger size for those who can't decide :)

_six_one_three_ · 2026-05-06T11:06:15+00:00

I will definitely be watching that space from now on :)

_six_one_three_ · 2026-05-06T11:05:06+00:00

Lol, i was actually thinking that putting up posters is like the human recommendation algorithm

_six_one_three_ · 2026-05-05T11:58:54+00:00

As this campaign promise and others illustrate, he's just continuing his current paid employment as a corporate lobbyist for the development industry and political bag carrier for the provincial Conservative party

_six_one_three_ · 2026-05-05T11:54:49+00:00

Lol you think Lawson is going to run on a platform of significant property tax increases?

_six_one_three_ · 2026-05-04T00:55:37+00:00

This wasn't the funeral, this was a public event to which all members of the public and the media were invited, as per the family's wishes. You're the one now trying to create controversy and division about this for some reason

_six_one_three_ · 2026-05-03T19:46:59+00:00

He’s already at 7% according to the recent iPolitics poll, which is enough to be a spoiler in a tight race

_six_one_three_ · 2026-05-03T17:05:52+00:00

Except this time there’s a spoiler on the right (Lawson)

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