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@erin@ottawa.place Eh. I think it's just vote buying. Rip out bike lanes, free license renewals, increase 400 series speeds because those people are the ones that will vote for Ford.
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hometown 4.5.10+hometown-1.2.1Knitter, walker, gardener, coffee lover, Mommy of 2, environmentalist
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@TrueNorthSpice@mastodon.world @ottaross@mastodon.social It's beer cans too. Considering how impactful not importing US alcohol is, beer cans must be big money. I'd rather we change gears and expand glass beer bottle use. Maybe pop can use the same reusable glass bottles. But we should be rolling our own aluminum. I don't know why the governments haven't thrown money at starting up a factory.
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@fesshole@mastodon.social you're somehow confusing brilliant with being a creep.
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@erin@ottawa.place Pretty much. They just added a bunch of sections last week or something. I'm not really sure of the point. Ottawa drivers don't go as fast as Toronto, even when it's completely open.
I just saw a gold-coloured cyber truck pulling a full-sized airstream. The most ridiculous thing I've seen in a long time.
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@stephanie@ottawa.place We're going to just outside Montreal today and Google will do the same and I'll have to tell it I want to pay the tolls and not go through Montreal. I will pay the toll to avoid Montreal at rush hour.
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@ottaross@mastodon.social I'm not seeing that much red. Mostly yellow.
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@evan@cosocial.ca Ottawa calls itself the shawarma capital of Canada, so there's that. There's also an Ottawa pizza style, which I find revolting, but it exists and is popular enough that this is what most of the local chains sell.
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@jd@ottawa.place I do or I buy from a local bakery that uses similar ingredients to what I do. Yes, the bread is going to go mouldy or stale quickly, but that's how it's supposed to be. It's things like bagels that I don't make that are more complicated.
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@jd@ottawa.place Ah L-cysteine which I avoid because it isn't vegan but they put it in so many bread products. You have to know what it is to know it's not vegan because they certainly don't point it out.
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@stephanie@ottawa.place @zazzoo@mstdn.ca Yeah, I guess the smoke sank. I wondered whether to BBQ dinner, but that made the decision for me. I also wondered about the scale compared to the US one and tried to make sense of it last year, but didn't manage. I set the app to warn me if values reach 3 because I figured if it got any worse I'd be staying inside with the windows closed. This taught me that we regularly get to 3 in the winter due to (as far as I know) people heating their homes by burning wood. Sigh. Something local politicians could enact laws about but they also don't care. Sigh.
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@zazzoo@mstdn.ca @LibraryAndTea@ottawa.place @stephanie@ottawa.place Campfire smell is better than when it's burnt plastic smell because that's even worse for your lungs as the smoke has gone through some kind of chemical reaction. All of this is bad, of course, but I think the air quality sensors are consistent. I had to walk to the dentist today and my throat felt ok, compared to Saturday when it definitely felt scratchy.
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@zazzoo@mstdn.ca @stephanie@ottawa.place It's just that the smoke is up high and the air is fairly clear down low where we are. Purple Air agrees with EC air quality. It's a reminder that we can't always see bad air. It looked better on Saturday when the numbers were much worse.
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@stephanie@ottawa.place @zazzoo@mstdn.ca You can switch purple air to the Canadian numbers. It mostly shows 3s and 2s (it was more 2s earlier), which are still blue low risk.
Out for a run yesterday and I noticed squirrels licking a wet spot on the sidewalk. Someone had spilled a little bit of water or something. One squirrel did not want to move, instead I moved to the street lol. I guess we need rain if squirrels are licking the sidewalk.
I wish they'd change the law to say people have to wear PFDs on smaller boats (including paddle boards) at all times. I don't get the theory that just having one in the boat is enough. If your canoe flips over it's not going to help you out.
I got my bread settlement money
I guess I need to start taking my rosemary plants outside to get them used to it again. This is the first time I've managed to keep them alive over the winter!
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@EdwinG@mstdn.moimeme.ca @TrueNorthSpice@mastodon.world @chris@mstdn.chrisalemany.ca Yeah, I checked. It happened to me 43 days ago. Lol. https://ottawa.place/@mariellequinton/116797331556237759 I'm so lucky. I get that we have to pay because we're not paying the UK government, but we already had ads. I thought that was how we were paying. Anyway, if anyone has good non-paywalled alternatives, let me know!
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@chris@mstdn.chrisalemany.ca You're somewhat late to the party. This kicked in for me like a month ago. They started charging the US first and then apparently that was a success and they've moved on to Canada.
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@zazzoo@mstdn.ca @LibraryAndTea@ottawa.place @stephanie@ottawa.place It does look different than this morning though. It was all red sun apocalyptic this morning. Now it's more a slightly ill looking yellow. Maybe it's a sign of sinking smoke?
Zellers is returning to Ontario this summer! https://www.ctvnews.ca/business/article/zellers-plays-with-toys-food-as-retailers-relaunch-reaches-ontario/
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@ottaross@mastodon.social @shawngettler@mastodon.social @tantramar@zeroes.ca Yeah, Rob Words has a video or two on that. There were some Americans that thought the same. Plus people who came up with new English alphabets and also didn't consider accents and how their helpful phonetic alphabet didn't make sense in other accents lol
What are you doing over there, Mr Duck?
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@ottaross@mastodon.social You know that if you choose the option to text you the ticket, you can leave and walk around the mall and they'll text you when your number comes up?
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@human3500@ottawa.place @gardencat@ottawa.place I got $49 and change
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@gardencat@ottawa.place Long weekend cash!
Sad looking bananas have been turned into carob chip banana bread. Nice start to the long weekend, hopefully. New bread pan, so hopefully it worked out ok. Looks good.
Post mother's day I now have 15 new plants to take outside everyday until it gets warm enough outside for me to plant them lol. Hopefully later this week. Rosemary plants will be joining the group later.
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@tantramar@zeroes.ca @shawngettler@mastodon.social @ottaross@mastodon.social One can add deke (non-hockey use) and "I'm done my homework" to the Canadian checklist when trying to figure out if someone is actually Canadian or just pretending lol
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@tantramar@zeroes.ca @shawngettler@mastodon.social @ottaross@mastodon.social The "with" isn't wrong in Canadian, it just changes the sentence meaning. If you say "I'm done my homework" it means you have completed the assigned work. If you say "I'm done with my homework" it means you give up doing the homework and are probably about to throw it out the window.
2026 Canadian screen awards start soon. Wait music is Augine de Poitrine.
Windy out there!
Hamilton PWHL announcement starting soon!
#pwhl
Are people still going to shop at sobey's now that they're getting rid of the maple leaves? There isn't one near me, so I almost never go there anyway. Although I do wonder what the new grocery store going up at Westgate is going to be. I haven't seen an announcement about it. https://www.cbc.ca/news/investigates/sobeys-loblaw-maple-washing-9.7196767
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@human3500@ottawa.place Yes, I agree. I've tried a few times before and I have failed. This time I dug up all 4 of them and put them in pots and they've survived. So now I have 4 giant plants instead of tiny ones. I always remember visiting Victoria and seeing their large rosemary plants (shrubs) that can winter outside.
This sounds like an interesting exhibit https://www.cbc.ca/news/world/venice-biennale-canada-entry-9.7192983
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@David@setouchi.social That is fascinating and beautiful.
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I just saw a big fancy SAAB military craft commercial. Hanwha has really started a trend. At first I thought, has hanwha come out with another new commercial? I just saw a new one Monday. But this one had jets in it too, so I thought maybe not. There were all sorts of military vehicles, so I was confused.
But we don't want hydrogen trucks https://www.ctvnews.ca/politics/article/exclusive-to-win-submarine-contract-south-koreas-project-beaver-proposes-manufacturing-hydrogen-trucks-in-canada/
It mostly sounds like they're offering us that because the US won't care, unlike an EV plant. But is it going to be like the Chinese electric bus plant? Just close it after a couple years.
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@ltning@pleroma.anduin.net @nocontexttrek@mastodon.social I see several copies on eBay, one of which says it's 1994.
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@human3500@ottawa.place haha I need to look up full grown ones
Oh good, finally the ~cheap~ expensive Chinese EVs have arrived. https://www.ctvnews.ca/politics/article/first-chinese-evs-arrive-in-canada-but-they-come-with-a-high-price-tag/ sigh
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@EdwinG@mstdn.moimeme.ca @TrueNorthSpice@mastodon.world @chris@mstdn.chrisalemany.ca The monthly cost is way too much. It's more than britbox! But the yearly is not too bad. It's possible that it's a good deal for Americans that don't have independent media anymore. But I can't see it being a success in Canada.
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@outofcontrol@phpc.social I don't think I've ever had wild black cherries.
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@nuwagaba2@mastodon.social Probably put them out after breakfast and bring them back in after dinner.
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@tod@hci.social What's with NWT?
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@ltning@pleroma.anduin.net @nocontexttrek@mastodon.social For presumably federation reasons I can't seem to load that picture, it's truly awesome you actually bought it! I can't believe you actually did it! So cool!