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Let’s just say the Mayor started it when he told the residents of Ottawa that homeless people were like pigeons, and if we would just stop feeding them they would go away. I’ll be at City Hall at lunchtime. I don’t have any dancing shoes, but I do have a blankie. On a related note: […] Well, my vacation’s over, so it was back to the grind for me today. No more sleeping in till 9:00, no more naps, no more…hmm. No more what exactly? I have to admit I kind of frittered away this two-week holiday. I didn’t actually do much, other than recover from Bluesfest. I played a little […] Do you hate Rogers as much as I hate Rogers? I’ve hated Rogers so long I can’t even remember why I started hating them in the first place. Even though I hate them, I still get lured into using their services every now and then. It probably has something to do with my competing hatred for […] Part Two was the Open Mic – questions and comments from people in the audience. It was actually pretty interesting, because there was a real mix of attitudes and opinions. Until this point, I got the sense this was one of those “preaching to the choir” things, since everybody seemed to agree with each other. There […] I’d estimate the turnout at about 200 or so. Even though it was held in Council Chambers, as far as I could tell there weren’t any councillors there. My note-taking skills are rusty. I’d try to write something down verbatim because it was so interesting or eloquently stated, but by the time I’d faithfully recorded […] I think Ottawa must have struck a nerve with Christina Blizzard, given that she felt it necessary to write a second column defending her right to write the first column. Apparently she got ‘countless’ e-mails from people who agreed with her. (This on the heels of having witnessed ‘countless’ people sitting around downtown Ottawa smoking crack […] Discourse of Elements is an installation on loan to the National Gallery. At first I didn’t know if it was art, or if I’d stumbled into a storage area, so I asked a guard. “It’s art,” he said, “It was created by a collective of three Quebec artists known by the initials BGL.” So art it […] Between Council’s cancellation of the Crack Kit Program and Blizzard’s condemnation of Ottawa as a crack-infested cesspool, quite a few local bloggers* have been blogging about crack lately. It could be very interesting if the local blogging community were to show up in force for this community forum on Thursday night…. (*Miss Vicky, Dr. Dawg, […] After reading Christina Blizzard’s assessment of Ottawa as a city rotting at its core, it occurred to me that perhaps I don’t get out enough. According to Blizzard, you can eat lunch on the patio of a posh downtown restaurant while watching literally dozens of drug deals and countless people sitting around smoking crack in […] When Sam died four months ago, I was left pet-less for the first time in twenty years. It was so quiet here…so empty. A strange thing happened during the first few weeks after he died. Everywhere I went, strange dogs would come up to me and just lean against me briefly. Dogs would cross the street […] |
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