Kevin Dorse
@kdorse.bsky.social
citizen • pedestrian • husband • cat butler • Saultite residing in 🇨🇦's capital • middle-distance visionary • high-functioning introvert • may contain🍕
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Devastating news out of Hamilton. Crossing guards are on the front lines in the fight for safe streets. That job is truly terrifying. Distracted to contemptuous drivers, the full range of road violence on display all day, just so we can cross the street safely...
www.ctvnews.ca/toronto/arti...
www.ctvnews.ca/toronto/arti...
52-year-old crossing guard dead after being hit by dump truck in Hamilton
Hamilton police are investigating after a 52-year-old crossing guard was struck and killed by a truck at the intersection of Mohawk Road and Upper Wentworth Street.
www.ctvnews.ca
November 14, 2025 at 11:17 AM
Devastating news out of Hamilton. Crossing guards are on the front lines in the fight for safe streets. That job is truly terrifying. Distracted to contemptuous drivers, the full range of road violence on display all day, just so we can cross the street safely...
www.ctvnews.ca/toronto/arti...
www.ctvnews.ca/toronto/arti...
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Better designed streets, complemented by better alternatives to driving, are absolutely a better way to reduce speeding and dangerous driving, but the thing is that *we have to actually build them.*
Speed cameras are the relatively cheap response to realizing we already screwed up.
Speed cameras are the relatively cheap response to realizing we already screwed up.
New Abacus Data polling finds Ontarians prefer traffic calming infrastructure over automated speed cameras.
Half say measures like speed bumps, roundabouts and police enforcement are more effective.
Full results: abacusdata.ca/ontarians-o...
Half say measures like speed bumps, roundabouts and police enforcement are more effective.
Full results: abacusdata.ca/ontarians-o...
November 13, 2025 at 3:18 PM
Better designed streets, complemented by better alternatives to driving, are absolutely a better way to reduce speeding and dangerous driving, but the thing is that *we have to actually build them.*
Speed cameras are the relatively cheap response to realizing we already screwed up.
Speed cameras are the relatively cheap response to realizing we already screwed up.
Veterans of WWII returned determined to build a Canada better than the one they had left. Social security for the sick, elderly and unemployed. Accessible post-secondary education. Freedom to organize for better wages. It is shameful to honour them yesterday only to undermine their dreams today.
November 12, 2025 at 1:12 PM
Veterans of WWII returned determined to build a Canada better than the one they had left. Social security for the sick, elderly and unemployed. Accessible post-secondary education. Freedom to organize for better wages. It is shameful to honour them yesterday only to undermine their dreams today.
November 11, 1975: My father is a photographer for the Sault Star. He gets an early call from his editor saying the storm that felled trees and barns in the city wrecked an ore carrier on Lake Superior. He drives up to Pancake Bay to capture images of wreckage and search efforts #edmundfitzgerald
November 11, 2025 at 1:45 PM
November 11, 1975: My father is a photographer for the Sault Star. He gets an early call from his editor saying the storm that felled trees and barns in the city wrecked an ore carrier on Lake Superior. He drives up to Pancake Bay to capture images of wreckage and search efforts #edmundfitzgerald
No notes. North American car-brained planning has completely failed us. So let’s at least be comfortable.
November 11, 2025 at 12:00 AM
No notes. North American car-brained planning has completely failed us. So let’s at least be comfortable.
November 10, 1975: Fifty years ago today The Sault Star weather report for the evening predicts "Occasional rain, wind gusts up 50 [miles/hr] possible." In actual fact, winds would reach 76 miles/hr at the airport - anything above 73 is considered hurricane force. #EdmundFitzgerald
November 10, 2025 at 6:02 PM
November 10, 1975: Fifty years ago today The Sault Star weather report for the evening predicts "Occasional rain, wind gusts up 50 [miles/hr] possible." In actual fact, winds would reach 76 miles/hr at the airport - anything above 73 is considered hurricane force. #EdmundFitzgerald
Actual me: I should get [product] when i go to the store.
Internal goad: write it down
AM: I’ll remember.
IG: write it down
AM: okay, i’ll write it down. [gets paper and pen. Instantly and irrevocably forgets what i planned to get]
Internal goad: write it down
AM: I’ll remember.
IG: write it down
AM: okay, i’ll write it down. [gets paper and pen. Instantly and irrevocably forgets what i planned to get]
November 10, 2025 at 2:22 PM
Actual me: I should get [product] when i go to the store.
Internal goad: write it down
AM: I’ll remember.
IG: write it down
AM: okay, i’ll write it down. [gets paper and pen. Instantly and irrevocably forgets what i planned to get]
Internal goad: write it down
AM: I’ll remember.
IG: write it down
AM: okay, i’ll write it down. [gets paper and pen. Instantly and irrevocably forgets what i planned to get]
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November 9, 2025 at 10:25 PM
America: A democratic socialist running New York City? Could you imagine?! [clutches pearls]
Copenhagen: Hold my øl.
Copenhagen: Hold my øl.
November 9, 2025 at 6:25 PM
America: A democratic socialist running New York City? Could you imagine?! [clutches pearls]
Copenhagen: Hold my øl.
Copenhagen: Hold my øl.
Exhibit #377 for the case that the Saturday Globe and Mail is written by a fundamentally different group of people than every other day of the week.
November 8, 2025 at 12:48 PM
Exhibit #377 for the case that the Saturday Globe and Mail is written by a fundamentally different group of people than every other day of the week.
Well that's it. Council has passed the Lansdowne 2.0 plan by a 15 to 10 vote.
At this point Ottawa feels less like a city and more like a taxpayer-funded vending machine for comfortable private interests.
#Ottawa #ottcity #Lansdowne
At this point Ottawa feels less like a city and more like a taxpayer-funded vending machine for comfortable private interests.
#Ottawa #ottcity #Lansdowne
November 7, 2025 at 9:29 PM
Well that's it. Council has passed the Lansdowne 2.0 plan by a 15 to 10 vote.
At this point Ottawa feels less like a city and more like a taxpayer-funded vending machine for comfortable private interests.
#Ottawa #ottcity #Lansdowne
At this point Ottawa feels less like a city and more like a taxpayer-funded vending machine for comfortable private interests.
#Ottawa #ottcity #Lansdowne
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Tremendous to hear some veteran Ottawa city councillors argue that Lansdowne 2.0 is needed because the previous overhaul that they voted for is crap.
November 7, 2025 at 8:33 PM
Tremendous to hear some veteran Ottawa city councillors argue that Lansdowne 2.0 is needed because the previous overhaul that they voted for is crap.
Remember when oil companies used to tell drivers to slow the hell down? Me neither.
November 7, 2025 at 8:27 PM
Remember when oil companies used to tell drivers to slow the hell down? Me neither.
A fascinating piece of history. How did a priceless gem linked to the defunct Austrian crown, long thought lost to war or profiteers wind up hidden for a century in a Quebec bank vault?
The Florentine Diamond Resurfaces After 100 Years in Hiding
www.nytimes.com
November 7, 2025 at 12:41 PM
A fascinating piece of history. How did a priceless gem linked to the defunct Austrian crown, long thought lost to war or profiteers wind up hidden for a century in a Quebec bank vault?
This is exactly right. Lansdowne is only 11 years old. There are many more urgent things this city could be tackling. #ottawa #ottcity
"Every million dollars spent at Lansdowne is a million dollars not being spent elsewhere. The city likes to (favourably) compare the cost of Lansdowne 2.0 to the cost of doing nothing. What it should compare are the costs of Lansdowne 2.0 against everything else." ottawacitizen.com/news/local-n...
I used to be in favour of the Lansdowne 2.0. I've changed my mind
I used to be in favour of the Lansdowne 2.0 development. I changed my mind because I don’t trust this deal. | Opinion
ottawacitizen.com
November 6, 2025 at 12:50 PM
As a great man once said, never let them tell you it can’t be done. Congratulations to New York City’s 111th mayor, Zohran Mamdani.
November 5, 2025 at 2:39 AM
As a great man once said, never let them tell you it can’t be done. Congratulations to New York City’s 111th mayor, Zohran Mamdani.
is there any politician doing more to help Mark Carney than Pierre Poilievre?
Nova Scotia MP Chris d'Entremont is out of the Conservative caucus. Party spokesperson confirms longtime Conservative out of caucus www.cbc.ca/news/politic...
Find out more at nationalnewswatch.com
Find out more at nationalnewswatch.com
Nova Scotia MP Chris d'Entremont is out of the Conservative caucus | CBC News
Nova Scotia MP Chris d'Entremont is out of the the Conservative caucus, a party spokesperson told CBC News.
www.cbc.ca
November 4, 2025 at 10:40 PM
is there any politician doing more to help Mark Carney than Pierre Poilievre?
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Out of budget lockup. I recently wrote: "Ottawa imposes a 10 percent luxury tax on yachts... yet a family buying a semi in Scarborough pays the equivalent of 15 percent in [DCs] and land transfer taxes."
Today the gov't addressed this by eliminating the luxury tax on yachts.
Today the gov't addressed this by eliminating the luxury tax on yachts.
November 4, 2025 at 9:14 PM
Out of budget lockup. I recently wrote: "Ottawa imposes a 10 percent luxury tax on yachts... yet a family buying a semi in Scarborough pays the equivalent of 15 percent in [DCs] and land transfer taxes."
Today the gov't addressed this by eliminating the luxury tax on yachts.
Today the gov't addressed this by eliminating the luxury tax on yachts.
I'm not sure this has ever happened before. Following the results of yesterday's Yukon election, the NDP is now government or official opposition in Nova Scotia and every jurisdiction west of the Ottawa River.
November 4, 2025 at 6:17 PM
I'm not sure this has ever happened before. Following the results of yesterday's Yukon election, the NDP is now government or official opposition in Nova Scotia and every jurisdiction west of the Ottawa River.
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the onion should do the funniest thing ever and start up a subsidiary that does real news
November 4, 2025 at 12:55 AM
the onion should do the funniest thing ever and start up a subsidiary that does real news
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Worth nothing some important facts about this plan: property taxes are integral to financial numbers and depend on taxes from the towers being used to offset the costs, rather than going towards all city revenues; that’s not how property taxes work anywhere else in city 1/
Ottawa Auditor General doubles down on her risk assessment for Lansdowne 2.0: www.cbc.ca/news/canada/...
Auditor general highlights risks of latest plan to retool Lansdowne Park | CBC News
The Lansdowne 2.0 redevelopment plan faces risks including a tight construction timeline, tariffs, Redblacks attendance and the uncertainty built into a financial deal that lasts until 2075, according...
www.cbc.ca
November 4, 2025 at 1:48 PM
Worth nothing some important facts about this plan: property taxes are integral to financial numbers and depend on taxes from the towers being used to offset the costs, rather than going towards all city revenues; that’s not how property taxes work anywhere else in city 1/
The federal budget is tomorrow. The Liberals are 3 votes short of a majority to get it passed. Yet they haven't secured the support of any other party. So Carney is writing a budget he likes and just hoping others will like it too. Electoral reform would end this unnecessary brinkmanship. #cdnpoli
November 3, 2025 at 5:51 PM
The federal budget is tomorrow. The Liberals are 3 votes short of a majority to get it passed. Yet they haven't secured the support of any other party. So Carney is writing a budget he likes and just hoping others will like it too. Electoral reform would end this unnecessary brinkmanship. #cdnpoli