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Logic reporter, Ottawa Citizen and Canadian Press alum. I cover Ottawa, cybersecurity and defence, telecom, space, health, infrastructure and whatever else needs doing. Signal: @davidreevely.68

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There are whiffs of things vaguely like this (but not really) in paragraph 28 of this: www.pm.gc.ca/en/news/stat...

and in U of T’s account of the visit: www.utoronto.ca/news/u-t-dee...

Maybe AI-generated slop that has just been repeated and iterated?

07.03.2026 01:06 πŸ‘ 2 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 1 πŸ“Œ 0

The hyphen will haunt me. There’s so much else wrong with the typesetting, but the hyphen is a sign of a diseased mind.

07.03.2026 00:48 πŸ‘ 24 πŸ” 5 πŸ’¬ 2 πŸ“Œ 0

Also, though the importance of oil tends to drown this out, the Middle East is a major exporter of fertilizer.

06.03.2026 21:36 πŸ‘ 3 πŸ” 1 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0

That's infinitely sweet.

06.03.2026 21:32 πŸ‘ 1 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0

* The first except for Bertha Wilson, Claire L'Heureux-DubΓ©, Beverly McLachlin, Louise Arbour and Marie Deschamps.

06.03.2026 19:50 πŸ‘ 3 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 2 πŸ“Œ 0
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ANALYSIS: Why John Tory wanted his old job back β€” and why he won’t seek it | TVO Today The former mayor is sitting out the upcoming election. Who will fill the void?

This is why journalists should not be friends with the people they cover. Itβ€˜s embarrassing for all concerned.

www.tvo.org/article/anal...

05.03.2026 22:20 πŸ‘ 186 πŸ” 44 πŸ’¬ 25 πŸ“Œ 21

Would you send Bruno to shoot a public meeting or a charity dinner? Not if you could help it.

But you also wouldn’t choose your A1 art until you’d seen what Bruno had filed that day.

06.03.2026 00:58 πŸ‘ 8 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0

Many journalists are hard to work with, and they’re pretty much never good enough to justify how impossible they are. Bruno was.

06.03.2026 00:42 πŸ‘ 10 πŸ” 1 πŸ’¬ 1 πŸ“Œ 0
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A life in pictures: Remembering Bruno Schlumberger Bruno Schlumberger's six National Newspaper Awards were the most any Canadian photographer received.

A lovely obit of Bruno Schlumberger, a photographer so many of us had the pleasure of working with as reporters. Thanks, Bruce Deachman. @ottawacitizen.com #ottnews ottawacitizen.com/news/local-n...

05.03.2026 23:21 πŸ‘ 5 πŸ” 4 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 4
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Ottawa councillor found guilty of impaired driving Ottawa Coun. Matthew Luloff has been found guilty of impaired driving during the summer of 2024.

Ottawa councillor Matthew Luloff has been found guilty of impaired driving.

05.03.2026 16:15 πŸ‘ 7 πŸ” 3 πŸ’¬ 5 πŸ“Œ 0

The Ottawa Citizen building.

From an urbanism perspective, this kind of thing makes infinite sense. The property is underused and connected to the LRT by a new pedestrian bridge. Build housing!

It was my professional home for a long, long time, though, and that it'll be torn down makes me sad.

05.03.2026 16:13 πŸ‘ 18 πŸ” 3 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0
Statement by Minister Ali on the launch of public engagement for the review of the Access to Information Act - Canada.ca Launch of public engagement for the review of the Access to Information Act

JUST HIRE ENOUGH PEOPLE TO DO THE WORK. www.canada.ca/en/treasury-...

05.03.2026 15:43 πŸ‘ 16 πŸ” 6 πŸ’¬ 6 πŸ“Œ 0

The likeliest scenario for a very hypothetical Canadian involvement would be a navy task group to help protect shipping in the Gulf.

05.03.2026 04:54 πŸ‘ 22 πŸ” 8 πŸ’¬ 4 πŸ“Œ 0
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Last call for the Rideau Canal Skateway! πŸ“žβ›Έ

After an amazing 56 days on the ice and more than one million visits, the time has come to say goodbye. The Rideau Canal Skateway will close tomorrow, Wednesday, March 4, at 10 pm.

03.03.2026 21:40 πŸ‘ 25 πŸ” 6 πŸ’¬ 4 πŸ“Œ 3

Second, and seriously, it's the Centre of the Universe thing.

03.03.2026 20:39 πŸ‘ 0 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 1 πŸ“Œ 0

First, the mean joke: "Yes, that's because more people have been to Toronto."

03.03.2026 20:24 πŸ‘ 3 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 2 πŸ“Œ 0

I ask people who think about the future of work in an AI world what a junior job will look like and I have never had a satisfying answer.

Most often they say they don't know; sometimes they say yes, that part worries them.

The best response I've had yet is that mentoring will be really important.

03.03.2026 18:43 πŸ‘ 0 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 1 πŸ“Œ 0

Mixed news there.

On the one hand, no, it's way down. On the other, I guess we can have a proper Epstein investigation now.

03.03.2026 14:50 πŸ‘ 0 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0

TAX INCREASES HAVE BEEN RELATIVELY LOW, SHANNON.

03.03.2026 14:30 πŸ‘ 8 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 2 πŸ“Œ 0

Anyway, this and a thousand other things like it are why local media matters. Pushing for answers, sustaining pressure, dishing out public shame, diligently keeping a professional eye on things is how problems get fixed and people in power don’t get away with ineptitude or worse.

03.03.2026 14:28 πŸ‘ 32 πŸ” 1 πŸ’¬ 3 πŸ“Œ 1

A bit early for engagement farming.

03.03.2026 12:03 πŸ‘ 9 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 1 πŸ“Œ 0

All the provinces have to agree to let in a new one and there’s no way Quebec will tolerate this.

01.03.2026 04:51 πŸ‘ 0 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0

People keep saying that this goes against the Davis speech. It does not. Carney said the rules based international order was always hypocritical, is now dead, and we live in a time of rupture. I disagree with support but this is not against what he said. The sign is gone. GONE GONE.

28.02.2026 14:54 πŸ‘ 89 πŸ” 28 πŸ’¬ 5 πŸ“Œ 3

I'm quaking just *imagining* it.

I make style mistakes. I've made style mistakes just today. Thank goodness for copy editors. But you're supposed to at least try to minimize what they have to do.

27.02.2026 20:43 πŸ‘ 3 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0

"Asked for comment, the copy desk replied with incoherent screeching."

27.02.2026 20:33 πŸ‘ 2 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 1 πŸ“Œ 0

I had to see this pop up a few times before grasping that this was a second, different, death-laser mishap and not just a follow-up on the recent party balloon incident.

27.02.2026 19:51 πŸ‘ 30 πŸ” 7 πŸ’¬ 1 πŸ“Œ 0
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Delinquency rates for credit cards and mortgages are higher than at the start of the pandemic, a worrying sign that households are struggling financially.

thelogic.co/news/canada-...

27.02.2026 19:29 πŸ‘ 2 πŸ” 2 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0

If the assessment can only include the person's life before and during the vice-presidency then VP Teddy Roosevelt comes to mind as someone who'd pick his teeth with VP JD Vance.

27.02.2026 18:15 πŸ‘ 4 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 1 πŸ“Œ 0

Let's talk about Aaron Burr, sir.

27.02.2026 18:01 πŸ‘ 4 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 1 πŸ“Œ 0

I hear you, and I do think there’s something (a lot, really) to what you’re saying: Buddy can run faster than a streetcar, OK. In work clothes? With groceries? Two kids in tow? A bad knee?

There’s at least somewhat more to what the students are doing.

27.02.2026 02:15 πŸ‘ 2 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 1 πŸ“Œ 0