Caleb in Manotick
@caleb-ottawa.bsky.social
Tradesman, hobby farmer, sens fan
Advocate for electoral reform
Advocate for electoral reform
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I made some Christmas cookies.
December 15, 2025 at 1:30 AM
I made some Christmas cookies.
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We have to share space with dumbfucks like this
tesla owners admitting without shame they don’t know how to drive anymore
December 15, 2025 at 12:59 PM
We have to share space with dumbfucks like this
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Ahmed El Ahmed is a hero, is a hero, wow. Incredible courage in such a terrifying moment
Thinking of the Jewish community after this horrific attack during such a special celebration 💔 I’m so sorry.
Thinking of the Jewish community after this horrific attack during such a special celebration 💔 I’m so sorry.
December 14, 2025 at 7:25 PM
Ahmed El Ahmed is a hero, is a hero, wow. Incredible courage in such a terrifying moment
Thinking of the Jewish community after this horrific attack during such a special celebration 💔 I’m so sorry.
Thinking of the Jewish community after this horrific attack during such a special celebration 💔 I’m so sorry.
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Their copy in ads tries to state that this is supposed to be for people to see stories that one side isn’t covering— but putting CBC in the left and Globe and Mail in the centre means that however they formulate their bias is horseshit.
Just found out about this ridiculous shit called "Ground News" that rates whether a news story is "right" or "left". Here's an example — tell me if you can spot the glaring statistical/cognitive error that forms the basis for its little system.
December 11, 2025 at 7:32 PM
Their copy in ads tries to state that this is supposed to be for people to see stories that one side isn’t covering— but putting CBC in the left and Globe and Mail in the centre means that however they formulate their bias is horseshit.
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But sure, let's change bail laws to put even more people into places like Maplehurst. That'll really solve problems, right?
He says guards assaulted him. The jail lost the footage. www.thestar.com/news/investi... via @bkstar.bsky.social
This former inmate says he was assaulted by guards. Maplehurst lost the security camera footage that could corroborate his claims
A lawyer described it as a suspicious pattern for the Ontario jail, which was recently criticized for losing footage of abusive mass strip searches.
www.thestar.com
December 11, 2025 at 2:19 PM
But sure, let's change bail laws to put even more people into places like Maplehurst. That'll really solve problems, right?
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People want a new pipeline like they want a pony. It's very different once it's in your own back yard, shitting everywhere.
I'd still like to see what these numbers look like -- particularly in BC -- if there's a specific proposal on the table and it's faced with significant opposition, but still fair to say the pipeline proponents are starting from a decent place
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Regional breakdown in new Leger poll on support for a new bitumen pipeline running from Alberta to BC coast
December 11, 2025 at 2:58 PM
People want a new pipeline like they want a pony. It's very different once it's in your own back yard, shitting everywhere.
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Bluesky...I can feel my blood pressure coming down
November 13, 2024 at 7:05 PM
Bluesky...I can feel my blood pressure coming down
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What a great day to go out and chat to transit users about their experience with the system. Thanks to the members who came out!
We're encouraging people to contact their local councillors in favour of bus lanes on bank! We have a template you can use!
strongtownsottawa.ca/bank_street_...
We're encouraging people to contact their local councillors in favour of bus lanes on bank! We have a template you can use!
strongtownsottawa.ca/bank_street_...
December 7, 2025 at 7:55 PM
What a great day to go out and chat to transit users about their experience with the system. Thanks to the members who came out!
We're encouraging people to contact their local councillors in favour of bus lanes on bank! We have a template you can use!
strongtownsottawa.ca/bank_street_...
We're encouraging people to contact their local councillors in favour of bus lanes on bank! We have a template you can use!
strongtownsottawa.ca/bank_street_...
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Capitalism’s need for constant growth is imperilling humanity’s long-term survival while concentrating wealth in the hands of an ever smaller few. Email
@MarkJCarney
to ask for Royal Commission into capitalism’s war on the earth, working class, human psyche & democracy tinyurl.com/y3zh3fpz
@MarkJCarney
to ask for Royal Commission into capitalism’s war on the earth, working class, human psyche & democracy tinyurl.com/y3zh3fpz
Demand a Royal Commission into Capitalism
Capitalism’s need for constant growth is imperiling humanity’s long-term survival while concentrating wealth in the hands of an ever smaller few. It’s time for a public inquiry into capitalism’s war o...
tinyurl.com
December 6, 2025 at 6:29 PM
Capitalism’s need for constant growth is imperilling humanity’s long-term survival while concentrating wealth in the hands of an ever smaller few. Email
@MarkJCarney
to ask for Royal Commission into capitalism’s war on the earth, working class, human psyche & democracy tinyurl.com/y3zh3fpz
@MarkJCarney
to ask for Royal Commission into capitalism’s war on the earth, working class, human psyche & democracy tinyurl.com/y3zh3fpz
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I had a chuckle at the options offered - my exaggerated version - prioritize your support with numbers 1-3: Doug ford’s tax cuts to donors, tax cuts to businesses that donate to Doug, providing financial incentives to Doug’s donors, promoting Doug’s donors, or making things easier for Doug’s donors.
November 30, 2025 at 2:08 PM
I had a chuckle at the options offered - my exaggerated version - prioritize your support with numbers 1-3: Doug ford’s tax cuts to donors, tax cuts to businesses that donate to Doug, providing financial incentives to Doug’s donors, promoting Doug’s donors, or making things easier for Doug’s donors.
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Majority governments are bullshit. Parties should drop the “we need a mandate” line that is the harbinger of more and more concentration of power in one person to do whatever they want cuz 18% of folks voted for them. They’re going to need to work together and hope they have enough sense to do that
Seriously I blame the uncoordinated mess of parties left of the Ontario Conservatives at least as much as Ford and crew. After Ontario Liberals get their new leader (that’s soon, right?), we have to force these parties to work together at least to topple the dynasty and replace the electoral system
Two ways I can think of to channel your despair at the Ford wrecking ball:
-run for municipal office and fight
-push the Ontario Liberals, NDP, and Greens from the inside and out to get over themselves and get their shit together to get these jokers out of government
-run for municipal office and fight
-push the Ontario Liberals, NDP, and Greens from the inside and out to get over themselves and get their shit together to get these jokers out of government
November 26, 2025 at 2:48 PM
Majority governments are bullshit. Parties should drop the “we need a mandate” line that is the harbinger of more and more concentration of power in one person to do whatever they want cuz 18% of folks voted for them. They’re going to need to work together and hope they have enough sense to do that
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I’ve never been more terrified in my life than I was seeing Cody Ceci have a lane to the net there
November 25, 2025 at 3:24 AM
I’ve never been more terrified in my life than I was seeing Cody Ceci have a lane to the net there
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*wouldn't even cost $1 million
Fixed that up for you, CTV.
Fixed that up for you, CTV.
Extending OC Transpo transfer window could cost nearly $1 million, staff say
Extending OC Transpo transfer window could cost nearly $1 million, staff say
Extending the OC Transpo transfer window an additional 30 minutes would cost Ottawa’s transit service nearly $1 million in lost revenue, according to staff.
bit.ly
November 24, 2025 at 12:08 PM
*wouldn't even cost $1 million
Fixed that up for you, CTV.
Fixed that up for you, CTV.
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Huge moment in this interview with @frankdomenic.bsky.social.
NDP leadership candidate @avilewis.ca puts proportional representation on the national stage and makes it the non negotiable democratic reform we need.
When leadership contenders acknowledge the core issue, the national debate shifts.
NDP leadership candidate @avilewis.ca puts proportional representation on the national stage and makes it the non negotiable democratic reform we need.
When leadership contenders acknowledge the core issue, the national debate shifts.
November 21, 2025 at 6:19 PM
Huge moment in this interview with @frankdomenic.bsky.social.
NDP leadership candidate @avilewis.ca puts proportional representation on the national stage and makes it the non negotiable democratic reform we need.
When leadership contenders acknowledge the core issue, the national debate shifts.
NDP leadership candidate @avilewis.ca puts proportional representation on the national stage and makes it the non negotiable democratic reform we need.
When leadership contenders acknowledge the core issue, the national debate shifts.
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🚨 LIVE AT 12:00PMET TODAY 🚨
The NDP leadership candidates will soon face off in a first debate.
I’m thrilled to welcome two of those candidates on the show: @votetanille.bsky.social and Tony McQuail.
I’m calling them The Underdogs.
That’s why you should listen — underdogs can come out on top.
The NDP leadership candidates will soon face off in a first debate.
I’m thrilled to welcome two of those candidates on the show: @votetanille.bsky.social and Tony McQuail.
I’m calling them The Underdogs.
That’s why you should listen — underdogs can come out on top.
November 20, 2025 at 3:06 PM
🚨 LIVE AT 12:00PMET TODAY 🚨
The NDP leadership candidates will soon face off in a first debate.
I’m thrilled to welcome two of those candidates on the show: @votetanille.bsky.social and Tony McQuail.
I’m calling them The Underdogs.
That’s why you should listen — underdogs can come out on top.
The NDP leadership candidates will soon face off in a first debate.
I’m thrilled to welcome two of those candidates on the show: @votetanille.bsky.social and Tony McQuail.
I’m calling them The Underdogs.
That’s why you should listen — underdogs can come out on top.
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🚨No loss of life or serious injury on our roads is acceptable.
📣 We want those who govern our transportation systems to fully embrace Vision Zero
👇Join the Vision Zero Ottawa project!
📅 December 2nd 6:30-8:30pm
For details on Day Zero of Vision Zero
schoolstreetsottawa.ca/day-zero-of-...
📣 We want those who govern our transportation systems to fully embrace Vision Zero
👇Join the Vision Zero Ottawa project!
📅 December 2nd 6:30-8:30pm
For details on Day Zero of Vision Zero
schoolstreetsottawa.ca/day-zero-of-...
Day Zero of Vision Zero Ottawa
We are reaching out to ask for your support in starting a Vision Zero Team for Ottawa. This will be our Day Zero—the first step toward building a safer city for everyone. What is Vision Zero?Vision…
schoolstreetsottawa.ca
November 18, 2025 at 12:05 PM
🚨No loss of life or serious injury on our roads is acceptable.
📣 We want those who govern our transportation systems to fully embrace Vision Zero
👇Join the Vision Zero Ottawa project!
📅 December 2nd 6:30-8:30pm
For details on Day Zero of Vision Zero
schoolstreetsottawa.ca/day-zero-of-...
📣 We want those who govern our transportation systems to fully embrace Vision Zero
👇Join the Vision Zero Ottawa project!
📅 December 2nd 6:30-8:30pm
For details on Day Zero of Vision Zero
schoolstreetsottawa.ca/day-zero-of-...
As a pickup truck driver. There are waaayyy too many extended cab trucks driving around for groceries.
“As pickups transitioned from farm/ranch workhorses to lifestyle vehicles, their design shifted accordingly: Cabs expanded to accommodate more passengers, while beds shrank. The first generation of F-150s were 36% cab & 64% bed by length. By 2021, the ratio had flipped.
www.axios.com/local/housto...
www.axios.com/local/housto...
November 19, 2025 at 3:58 PM
As a pickup truck driver. There are waaayyy too many extended cab trucks driving around for groceries.
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I love how Canadian provinces just have an option to go “Fuck the constitution, actually” for most things that’s constitutionally protected. Kinda makes our entire country a joke.
November 19, 2025 at 1:13 AM
I love how Canadian provinces just have an option to go “Fuck the constitution, actually” for most things that’s constitutionally protected. Kinda makes our entire country a joke.
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Western alienation is not inevitable.
It is what you get when millions of votes in the West elect almost no one and voters are told their communities do not count unless they back the winning side.
Proportional representation would take the heat out of the divide.
It is what you get when millions of votes in the West elect almost no one and voters are told their communities do not count unless they back the winning side.
Proportional representation would take the heat out of the divide.
November 17, 2025 at 11:47 PM
Western alienation is not inevitable.
It is what you get when millions of votes in the West elect almost no one and voters are told their communities do not count unless they back the winning side.
Proportional representation would take the heat out of the divide.
It is what you get when millions of votes in the West elect almost no one and voters are told their communities do not count unless they back the winning side.
Proportional representation would take the heat out of the divide.
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I've filtered Ottawa's traffic collision data to show only collisions with injuries for each year, and then added the speed camera locations present in those years.
It looks like speed cameras have made the roads much safer.
It looks like speed cameras have made the roads much safer.
November 15, 2025 at 1:34 AM
I've filtered Ottawa's traffic collision data to show only collisions with injuries for each year, and then added the speed camera locations present in those years.
It looks like speed cameras have made the roads much safer.
It looks like speed cameras have made the roads much safer.
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#OttCity keeps trying the same thing over and over expecting a different result.
We're asking upper levels of government to cover an additional $47-million for transit. We've tried this before. It's never happened, leading to funding shortfalls.
What makes us think it will be different this time?
We're asking upper levels of government to cover an additional $47-million for transit. We've tried this before. It's never happened, leading to funding shortfalls.
What makes us think it will be different this time?
November 14, 2025 at 12:12 PM
#OttCity keeps trying the same thing over and over expecting a different result.
We're asking upper levels of government to cover an additional $47-million for transit. We've tried this before. It's never happened, leading to funding shortfalls.
What makes us think it will be different this time?
We're asking upper levels of government to cover an additional $47-million for transit. We've tried this before. It's never happened, leading to funding shortfalls.
What makes us think it will be different this time?
I commute from Manotick to the market almost everyday. On Bronson today I almost got hit by someone doing well over 100. Haven’t seen a speeder in that area in years. Anything different today?
November 14, 2025 at 12:41 PM
I commute from Manotick to the market almost everyday. On Bronson today I almost got hit by someone doing well over 100. Haven’t seen a speeder in that area in years. Anything different today?
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One of the strategic failures of #OttCity Road Safety Action Plan is the lack of communications about where speed camera revenues are spent.
I got the list via #ATIP. Here are some projects that were only made possible because of these revenues. Full data at tinyurl.com/4brrmh9j
#Rideau-Jock
I got the list via #ATIP. Here are some projects that were only made possible because of these revenues. Full data at tinyurl.com/4brrmh9j
#Rideau-Jock
November 11, 2025 at 5:50 PM
One of the strategic failures of #OttCity Road Safety Action Plan is the lack of communications about where speed camera revenues are spent.
I got the list via #ATIP. Here are some projects that were only made possible because of these revenues. Full data at tinyurl.com/4brrmh9j
#Rideau-Jock
I got the list via #ATIP. Here are some projects that were only made possible because of these revenues. Full data at tinyurl.com/4brrmh9j
#Rideau-Jock