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andrew.ottawa 🇨🇦

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Graphic designer. Lapsed political scientist. Following 🇨🇦+🇺🇸+🇬🇧+Ottawa municipal politics and 🇬🇧 comedy podcasts. 🦁🦁🦁🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿⚽️ (Ottawa, Canada - not the other one in Illynoise).

You spend an hour in traffic jamming up the QED waiting in line for a parking spot you’re hoping to get but doesn’t exist, then, frustrated, aggressively drive around the neighbourhood desperately searching for *anywhere* to park and have to walk to the stadium anyway … and all of that for this. 🫠

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Now scrap Infantino. www.ctvnews.ca/sports/artic...

FIFA scraps controversial US$20 billion World Cup investment planFIFA’s proposed plan to sell private stakes in upcoming World Cup tournaments that sparked backlash from fans and soccer associations around the world has been scrapped, FIFA president Gianni Infantin...www.ctvnews.ca
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It’s one day after carmageddon and granted it’s Friday before a long weekend so volume I’m guessing would be lighter anyway, but there is still a Redblacks game tonight so parking restrictions are being enforced and would you looky here … another lane free of parked cars has magically appeared.

andrew.ottawa 🇨🇦

A lane dedicated for buses would fix this. BUT WHERE WILL WE PARK OUR CARS!!!

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There needs to be a special kind of punishment for people who send requests over Teams at 4:55 p.m. on a Friday before a long weekend.

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That, thankfully, did not last long. (Truth is there were no ‘serious people’ encouraging her and there was no ‘groundswell of support’). www.cbc.ca/news/canada/...

Former MPP Lisa MacLeod says she won't run for Ottawa mayor | CBC NewsAfter speculation about whether former cabinet minister Lisa MacLeod was planning a run for mayor of Ottawa, she announced Friday that she's sitting out the race.www.cbc.ca
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“… due to an error that gave them access to the internet.” So giving AIs access to the internet is an ‘error’? Cool, cool, cool. 😬 www.bbc.com/news/article...

Anthropic says Claude AI hacked three firms during cyber testsIt comes just days after rival OpenAI said rogue AI agents had breached other firms' networks.www.bbc.com
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Parking’s Back! Sure, a new Civic Hospital Campus is probably still decades away, but at least the loyal inconvenienced customers gagging for the meagre culinary offerings at Dows Lake Pavilion *finally* have a place to park again.

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Mayoral race turns negative as Sutcliffe campaign launches attacks that rivals call smears | CBC News www.cbc.ca/news/canada/...

Mayoral race turns negative as Sutcliffe campaign launches attacks that rivals call smears | CBC NewsMark Sutcliffe's campaign surrogates have gone on the attack against two of his leading challengers, calling them "radical activists." They're hitting back against the charges, which they view as smea...www.cbc.ca
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Good! Concacaf has also unanimously rejected the proposal - they should go further and boycott all Fifa competitions too. 🤬🖕Infantino! www.theguardian.com/football/202...

Uefa agrees to boycott Fifa competitions if World Cup sell-off plans proceedUefa nations have agreed to boycott all Fifa tournaments if the global governing body continues with its plan to sell off stakes in the World Cupwww.theguardian.com
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To anyone on a bus southbound heading towards or already in The Glebe, if your your stop isn’t far, get out and walk, it’ll honestly be faster. (Special shoutout to the dude in the Porsche who violently accelerated to advance a whole three feet - it’s getting spicy on Bank St)

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Sutcliffe’s comms are truly unhinged. www.instagram.com/p/DbY9stjppb...

Catherine McKenney on Instagram: "Who the f*ck is John Baird? And how dare he call me MODERATE"872 likes, 73 comments - cmckenneyndp on July 29, 2026: "Who the f*ck is John Baird? And how dare he call me MODERATE".www.instagram.com
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Downtown folks, if you hear lots of loud bangs tonight (assuming the weather holds) it’s Les Grands Feux du Casino Lac-Leamy, not another unused stockpile of fireworks being randomly destroyed in the middle of the night. 🧨

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Oh The Slop and Pail … ‘Ontario’ is not accusing anyone of doing anything and the ‘province’ is not pushing to allow anything either. Now Doug Ford on the other hand …

The Globe and Mail

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Sure, I *could* put new batteries in the remote, but that would require effort, so indefinitely switching around the position of the dying ones is what I’m choosing to do instead.

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Why can’t it just be a tournament about enjoying the game you greedy, money grubbing bastards.

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FIFA has a complex plan to sell chunks of its commercial rights to the World Cup to minority investors, including a firm run by Joshua Kushner, the brother of Jared Kushner. n.pr/44TyzyY

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Been checking a weather app that just randomly predicts forecasts and hopes it gets it right, apparently.

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#BanBillionaires www.cbc.ca/news/canada/...

Shopify CEO appears to endorse giving more votes to wealthy Canadians | CBC NewsThe billionaire CEO of one of Canada's largest companies has come under fire for seeming to endorse stripping voting rights from some and giving more votes to the ultra wealthy. Shopify CEO Tobi Lütke...www.cbc.ca
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