Heather Badenoch 🇨🇦

TW: Racism, white supremacy.
This is happening in your ward, @timtierney.ca. At the Splash Wave Pool on Ogilvie.
Source: www.reddit.com/r/ottawa/com...

Yaaaay!

So ready for this temperature shift. Meanwhile, Dori is a burrito in her heated blanket.

I am so ready.

Plasma donation has arrived at the Carling Ave Canadian Blood Services. Maybe you've wanted to try donating plasma (a huge help to liver friends), but didn't want to drive to Orleans. And, it just so happened to be a Somerset West CHC blood drive today ❤️ Today was my 43rd donation.

She never does 🔥👑

Sounds like we should run, Alex.

🔥🔥🔥

I remember that sketch! And it’s so very true. Best we’ve got is -5C forecast for Monday.

“Yellow warning for cold ended” notification.

It’s still -30°C with the windchill, but the days ahead look way more reasonable. A balmy -6 coming up.

Oh no. I hope they will be OK.

I hear you. All those feelings are so real during these super cold days. The sun is pretty bright and kinda feels nice too.

From the ottawa community on Reddit: Train Evacuation Posted by WA472P - 136 votes and 43 comments

There's no longer any question: it's time to compensate transit riders for what they're going through. These pictures are heartbreaking - people going to evening shifts, home and family, class.

So jealous! All the cool kids are getting these.
I went to two @opl-bpo.bsky.social branches today and was too late.

Two dogs on a dog bed.

Dog o'clock!

Interesting to see Alex Lawson scrubbed from the PoliticalIntel consultants site amidst running for mayor web.archive.org/web/20251221... #ottnews

This is available when the building is open. Weekend hours are 8 a.m. - 4 p.m.
(not overnight)

And the response...

ICYMI from @jleiper.bsky.social

Of course @arieltroster.com beat me to it ❤️

Please spread the word to our neighbours about a place to get warm.
@jleiper.bsky.social @catmckenney.bsky.social @arieltroster.com @shawnmenard.bsky.social

Hootsuite CEO says ICE contract will stand as long as agency honours terms and conditions ‘We did nothing wrong here,’ head of Vancouver social media company said in internal call with employees

Hootsuite is working with ICE to support their "social listening", but it's Hootsuite that isn't reading the room. Despite the reaction to learning they are working with ICE, Hootsuite doubled down during an internal all-hands call on Thursday. Gift link: www.theglobeandmail.com/gift/0bde79a...

Vancouver social media company Hootsuite looking to work with ICE to ‘build trust’ Company has secured a project with ICE that involves ‘social listening’ after cancelling a contract in 2020 over employee backlash

Where we spend our money matters because every purchase acts as a vote for the kind of world we want to live in. Alternatives to Hootsuite include Planable, Buffer and Sprout Social. Gift link: www.theglobeandmail.com/gift/0bde79a...

We got off the plane at a gate by the Tim Hortons. So near gate 15, perhaps? Didn't pass customs and immigration, just exited, went down the escalator, and left the airport. It was so strange.

We got off the plane at a gate by the Tim Hortons. So near gate 15, perhaps? Didn't pass customs and immigration, just exited, went down the escalator, and left the airport. It was so strange.

Bizarre thing at Ottawa airport last night. We landed on an Air Canada flight from Mexico. Someone messed up, because we got off the plane, no customs or immigration, and went directly to the luggage carousel. People with carry-on-only just walked out of the airport. Nobody cleared customs.

Growing up in Convent Glen's 15-minute community YouTube video by Kitchissippi Ward

Council will soon be voting on a new zoning by-law that adds greater density and focuses on 15-minute communities across Ottawa. I've been thinking a lot about growing up in Convent Glen in that context, and offer the following: www.youtube.com/watch?v=6_0R....

In case you needed something hopeful.
(We’re in Mexico and don’t know these lovely people)

Library book.

Exciting middle-age weekend plans: picked up an embroidery book from the library. @opl-bpo.bsky.social

Dog bundled in winter gear.

My dog would like everyone to know it’s -18°C in Ottawa.