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The walk to work this morning was a bit of a slog. The City seems to have an uneven approach to sidewalk snow clearing. Not only were some sidewalks not cleared, but the snow from the street appeared to have been plowed onto the sidewalks. This was the sidewalk on Carling Avenue just east of […] New legislation has just been introduced by the Harper government. It’s no surprise that Harper’s taking the “Get Tough on Crime” approach: it’s a perfect fit for his George Bush Mini-Me leadership style. These guys are tackling crime like we’re experiencing an unprecedented explosion of it and it must be stopped before the criminals seize […] I was walking to work this morning and thinking about how lucky I am to live within walking distance of work. And not only that, but I can walk the first two miles pretending I’m in the country: I walk through the Experimental Farm, cut through a piece of the Arboretum, then through a park, […] As you’ve probably already heard, the building upon which the Swap Box is mounted suffered a partial collapse yesterday! Fortunately it was an interior collapse, and the Swap Box is okay. It’s cordoned off so nobody can get at it anymore, but it’s still there and it’s still okay. The last thing I put in […] There’s nothing wrong with admitting your weaknesses. I happen to suck at driving. Don’t get me wrong, I have a valid driver’s license, and it wasn’t handed to me on a silver platter either. I earned mine the hard way. I failed that test enough times I ended up skulking around the Ottawa Valley looking for […] Sunday morning, like most Sunday mornings, the Ottawa Sun was blowing all over the neighbourhood. They’ve been giving newspapers away on Sundays by tossing them onto everybody’s stoop, where the wind immediately separates them into individual sheets and blows them into gardens and gutters. I took a picture and emailed it to the Sun. But […] The Labour Day weekend this year was a gift of ideal weather to us in Ottawa. If I were to custom-order some weather, that’s exactly what I would order. I wandered down to Fletcher’s Wildlife Garden and the Arboretum at the Experimental Farm twice on the long weekend: once on Sunday evening, again on Monday afternoon. […] 10. You won’t choke and your eyes won’t bleed when you walk through a cluster of smokers outside a bar or office building, because your body will be tough and resilient. 9. You’ll get to hang out with the cool people, because all the cool people smoke. (Except in the winter – then all the cold […] 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 […] I used to be a drug addict on the streets of Ottawa. That whole period of my life is a bit hazy, but it started in my teens and lasted a few years. Amphetamines were relatively cheap and plentiful at the time, and they were my drug of choice. I wasn’t in good shape. I […] |
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