Ottawa
News, events, discussions, and what not from Ottawa, Ontario.
Municipal website: https://ottawa.ca/
Rules
- Be polite and respectful.
- Please only post content relevant to the City of Ottawa or to its residents.
Ottawa on the Fediverse:
empty
Ottawa chatrooms:
-
XMPP: empty
-
Telegram: https://t.me/chatottawa
-
Discord: https://discord.gg/TrCHrucmqJ
Please note the following:
* All chatrooms are linked together. If you join one room your messages will be copied to the other platforms.
* Matrix is an open source and potentially distributed chat protocol. The matrix room listed is hosted on matrix.org, a somewhat centralized hub for a lot of currently public rooms. Though the protocol itself is free, libre and open source, the deployment of the protocol resembles a centralized service. This may be fixed in the future with the deployment of independent servers.
* Be aware that both Telegram and Discord are centralized proprietary platforms and do not necessarily protect your rights nor privacy while simultaneously giving power to corporations.
view the rest of the comments
It's wild that this city (read: the suburbs and rural communities that shouldn't be a part of the city of Ottawa) decided the dude with ZERO political experience and ZERO urban planning interest was the right choice for mayor.
It might be me being very tuned in to urban planning, but it feels like across the world, and even Canada, there's a huge wave of urban planning progress being made. People are begining to realize that we cant continue to build car dependant suburbs, but our own mayor hasn't caught up to this fact. There's huge improvements in Montreal, Toronto, even places like Calgary and Edmonton are getting proper biking infrastructure. Granted, do see it slowly progressing in Ottawa, but my god it could be done so much faster and with less of this bullshit.
Like, maybe before this he didn't know anything about cities and shit like this, but you fucking hire someone who does and have them explain it to you. You're a mayor now, you MUST be into urban planning and all it entails.
Apologies for the long rant, this bugs me to no end. Can I protest somewhere? Can I give the mayor some book recommendations? (Walkable Cities by Jeff Speck, and Strong Towns by Charles Marhon.)
Bold of you to assume he can read.
I'll get him the audiobooks then lol
No but really, he's not stupid, I'd say willfully ignorant or naive (I'm not sure of the right word.) Plus very boomer minded about cars and the way a city should be focused around them.
I'm sure his financial supporters don't help too much either.