Lansdowne Live should be put in a medically induced coma
I just sent this letter to Ottawa city council, Larry O’Brien et al at Let’s get it right. You should send one too.
I’m voting for Clive Doucet
I think he’s wrong about getting OC Transpo declared an essential service, but he’s right to slam City Council and Mayor Larry O’Brien for letting the OC Transpo strike drag on. Stupid city council talking about sanctioning him. Sanction Larry O’Brien. Take away his car for the duration of the strike.
Ottawa police beat up woman outside Hartmans
Yeeow. Zoom at knitnut.net caught this episode of police brutality (that’s what I call it anyway) on her digital camera. Which part of ‘working together for a safer community’ is that?
Something nice to say about ATU
The first few days of the OC Transpo strike had me utterly in awe of the ATU’s communications ineptitude. But I do have something nice to say about the union.
Yay film buffs. The Mayfair is saved
A group of film buffs is pitching in to re-open the Mayfair Theatre. Yay them. Now if they could just do something to squish the Shoppers Drug Mall and bring back the fruit and veg shop.
Ottawa bribes Claridge over portrait gallery
Why isn’t Diane Holmes mayor? She should be. She had the good sense to call bullshit on Ottawa City Council’s increasingly desperate effort to keep the National Portrait Gallery in Ottawa.
It was a stupid promise anyway
Now it’s official. Larry O’Brien (cops closing in on him and all) has dropped his famous propery tax freeze promise. Good. It was a stupid promise anyway.
A tale of two budgets: the cops and the city
In a way I’m glad the Ottawa Police Services Board is completely unaccountable to the people of Ottawa and that they can demand whatever they want and expect the provincial government to make us pay for it.
I’m sure that’ll work
It seems Larry O’Brien is figuring that if he sells off enough City of Ottawa assets, he’ll be able to freeze property taxes. CBC Ottawa story says so.
Ottawa City Council should keep the ribbons off its vehicles
This has me absolutely furious. Words fail me. Glenn Brooks you are completely unclear on the concept of “public service,” a rank amateur and I hope your constituents throw you out on your ass at the first opportunity.
And shame on the rest of city council for being so cowed by the hysteria around the three cursed words: Support our troops.
CBC Ottawa news needs a new mandate: no more crime shorts
Crime crime crime crime crime and more crime.
Larry the target maker
A city manager comes up with a figure of 500 jobs to eliminate from the City of Ottawa’s workforce. Larry O’Brien one day intimates that it might not be do-able with hiring freezes and attrition alone. And the next day he says he’d like to go for 1,000. He’s a target maker, he says.
Larry O’Brien at the table: better for CUPE?
CBC Ottawa is reporting (love that headline – are they being sarcastic?) that Larry O’Brien is going to handle bargaining between the city and CUPE 503. For a minute there, I was very discouraged. But you know, it might be for the best.
Larry O’Brien: stupidity “going forward”
Some day soon one of these organizations that does an annual ritual denunciation of some bit of jargon, buzzwords or other ofuscatory language is going to add the phrase “going forward” to their list. They might choose to illustrate it with a picture of Ottawa mayor Larry O’Brien.
