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Canada buys more in digitally deliverable services from the U.S. than what we sell in autos, steel, aluminum, softwood lumber, potash and electricity. Read our full analysis here: canadianshieldinstitute.ca/updates/cana...

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Ottawa’s voter turnout the lowest in 23 years

In 25 races (24 ward councillors + mayor) this is the single incumbent that was running and lost.

saw this on instagram the other day: www.youtube.com/shorts/rRk8R... skeptical, i checked my own radio logs.

The transmission of unofficial election results will begin after the polls close at 8 pm and will be posted on ottawa.ca/vote as they become available. Unofficial results will be updated frequently until all results have been tabulated. #ItStartsHere #OttVote

Happy Election Day across Ontario! 🗳️ Get yourself out to the polls. In Ottawa we’ll be lucky to hit 40% turnout, and in this 4-way race the mayor could be crowned with 30% vote share (aka 12%). It’s going to be close.

32 lives lost on Ottawa’s roads in 2026. The highest fatality numbers in a decade. “We want our city leadership to commit to zero deaths, it’s the only defensible number and anything else is planning for it.” VZO’s Chris Hircock on CBC All In A Day. www.cbc.ca/listen/live-...

Canada’s dangerous C-22 surveillance bill is now before the Senate. It will force tech companies to build surveillance into their products, threatening everyone’s security and privacy. There’s still time to speak out.

“Facing resistance from some investors”. I gotta use that line the next time someone doesn’t give me money.

New polling from @equiterre.bsky.social shows 66% of Canadians want environmental protections maintained or strengthened. 💪🌿 Only 20% agree with reducing them. From Quebec to Alberta to Ontario, Canadians support environmental safeguards — even in a trade war. 📊: buff.ly/aZq5oOD

Canadians want to prioritize clean energy over fossil fuels, Carney government told in internal report New public opinion research commissioned by federal government shows a majority of Canadians want to see Canada become a clean energy superpower

What is going on with cars hitting people in Ottawa?! Yesterday, a man in a motorized wheelchair sustained serious injuries after being hit by a driver. This comes on the heels of 4 FATALITIES in just 6 days involving vulnerable road users (pedestrians, cyclists, motorcyclists). 1/7

1/“The assumption by government officials that technology companies can find “safe ways” to weaken critical cybersecurity protections badly misreads the current threat landscape,” writes @kate-ro.bsky.social about Bill C-22 for @theglobeandmail.com. www.theglobeandmail.com/opinion/arti...

It ain’t magic. It’s math.

Why, yes there is!!

My colleagues at the University of Toronto's @citizenlab.ca and I spent more than a year on it. Ad security firm Confiant published a parallel report: blog.confiant.com/p/adint-weap... And check out the excellent media reports on our research including Reuters, NBC News, FT, Wired, Forbes & more.

Can they make the Xbox OS (home screens and menus) suck less while they’re at it?

Looks like www.geely.ca will be the next Chinese automaker to sell cars in Canada.

Starts a 1 year countdown to find a new host for a bunch of my personal websites… They’re shutting down Deno Deploy (and it’s generous free tier).

⚠️ Confirmed: Metrics show a second collapse in the networks of Russian tech giant Yandex after a new Ukrainian drone attack on data centers in Vladimir this morning. The campaign comes not long after Russia's threat to give Ukraine a "digital detox."

Another watermain break and sink hole. You can explore the age of our city's pipes using this interactive map. bickertonpa.github.io/Ottawa-Water... The pipes in question appear to be from 1967, making them 59 years old. 1/

Misinformation: false information spread without intent to harm. Disinformation: false information intentionally spread to manipulate truth and facts to bring about a particular outcome. Bisinformation: information about 1990s Scottish indie rock band Bis.

Noteworthy. In recent years, this adtech/data group named Infillion acquired the ruins of adint supplier UberMedia, assets from DrawBridge, MediaMath, retail data broker Catalina and location data brokers Fysical, Gimbal, Foursquare, including Placed, Factual. www.adexchanger.com/marketers/in...

And Doug Ford next year. Let’s Go!!!!

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Frontier League champions! Join the Ottawa Titans at Marion Dewar Plaza outside Ottawa City Hall on Monday, September 28 at 4 pm, as #OttCity celebrates the team's championship victory. Bring your Titans pride and help recognize this memorable moment for baseball in our city.

Free banana and butter tarts after the @ottawaalliance.bsky.social 10K this morning. Fun well-organized event. Looking forward to 2027.

Wow. 🇨🇦 CIRA board election results just came out and both the members slate and the NomCom slate were decided by a single vote. That’s intense!!! 🌶️

Sutcliffe is pushing a string here as the City is not the builder of homes. And affordable homes require federal & provincial assistance as the City is not able to subsidize these. Currently the feds & province have no plans here. #emptypromise #ottcity

The thing about 2027 is it’s when a lot of OG smartphone patents start to expire.

At the annual CIRA AGM. Comment during the appointment of the auditor motion about their website being .com and not .ca. Today’s Internet points go to that guy.

We're investing $1.25M in 15 community-led projects through our 2026 Net Good Grants. These initiatives will support 130,000+ people across Canada by strengthening connectivity, online safety, cybersecurity skills, AI literacy and digital sovereignty. Learn more: www.cira.ca/en/resources...

A good tech future won't be built by a billionaire 🤑 For over a decade, we've backed 200+ technologists, researchers, and advocates who believe a better tech future is well within our reach. Meet the Mozilla Fellows🤝 https://bit.ly/4zXFXY7

And folks in Ottawa think having another party involved in the O-Train will be a positive move…

lol antitrust training anyone?

The sad beige baby is back!

The race to the bottom never ends well. But at least we’re in the race I guess.

Google researchers have joined the party, AI panic is spreading across frontier AI labs like measles. Unfortunately there are no adults in the room in either the government or at these companies who can act responsibly and address everyone’s fears.

Been waiting for the point where they spend less compute training the next generation and focus on inference. It will be a very profitable move for both OpenAi and Anthropic for the next year or two. But cost them long term.

Artisan SakeMaker on Granville Island didn’t even ship its product out of Vancouver, last time I checked. That leaves YK3 in Richmond, B.C. and Ontario Spring Water Sake in Toronto’s Distillery District. I may be wrong, but I think all three have trouble meeting local demand.

I’d bet it’s almost entirely due to that new “Tragically Chip” ice cream flavour from Kawartha Dairy. One scoop of that magic will make anyone happier.

So more than 24 hours after we scooped the news that OpenAI’s agents had hijacked a small German wiki site and commandeered it as a comms platform, OpenAI acknowledges what it calls a “wiki incident.” www.reuters.com/business/med...

Do love how 70mm IMAX is all the rage right now and Ottawa/Gatineau’s theatre is just sitting there shuttered inside the incompetent museum of history.