Your Landsdowne 2.0 proponents

 

How We Fight Lansdowne 2.0 and Win

Most people in Ottawa don’t want to spend half a billion dollars on a stadium. We win by calling out the Councillors who intend to vote for this (hoping that no one notices) — and asking our neighbours, friends and family to do the same. SHARE THE FLYER below, which explains how best to call out Councillors.

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Is Your Councillor on the Naughty List?

Lansdowne will be decided at a final go/no-go vote in October this year. If your councillor voted yes for Lansdowne in 2023, then let them know you would like them to VOTE NO to Lansdowne this October. Below is a list of Councillors who did not vote to stop Lansdowne in 2023. If this is your Councillor, let them know how you feel.

Stéphanie Plante	Rideau-Vanier	Stephanie.Plante@ottawa.ca	613-580-2482
David Brown	Rideau-Jock	David.Brown@ottawa.ca	613-580-2491
Clarke Kelly	West Carleton-March	Clarke.Kelly@ottawa.ca	613-580-2475
Marty Carr	Alta Vista	Marty.Carr@ottawa.ca	613-580-2488
Wilson Lo	Barrhaven East	Wilson.Lo@ottawa.ca	613-580-2846
Catherine Kitts	Orléans South-Navan	Catherine.Kitts@ottawa.ca	613-580-2489
Isabelle Skalski*	Osgoode	Isabelle.Skalski@ottawa.ca	613-580-2490
Glen Gower	Stittsville	Glen.Gower@ottawa.ca	613-580-2476
David Hill	Barrhaven West	David.Hill@ottawa.ca	613-580-2473
Laura Dudas	Orléans West-Innes	Laura.Dudas@ottawa.ca	613-580-2472
Matt Luloff	Orléans East-Cumberland	Matt.Luloff@ottawa.ca	613-580-2471
Cathy Curry	Kanata North	Cathy.Curry@ottawa.ca	613-580-2474
Tim Tierney	Beacon Hill-Cyrville	Tim.Tierney@ottawa.ca	613-580-2481
Steve Desroches	Riverside South-Findlay Creek	Steve.Desroches@ottawa.ca	613-580-2751
Allan Hubley	Kanata South

Commercial Building Crunch time

 

Look at the commercial properties in Ottawa.

https://properties.zoomprospector.com/ottawa?page=1&s%5BSortDirection%5D=true&s%5BradiusLat%5D=0&s%5Bradius%5D=0&s%5BradiusLng%5D=0&s%5BSortBy%5D=featured&s%5BSizeUnits%5D=1

Some of you may know that occupancy in commercial business space is down, some federal governments spaces are less than 50% occupied. 

Some commercial tenants will simply not renew their leases.

What will be the consequence of this in Ottawa? Do you know? Have you asked or surveyed landlords about their business horizons?

When building owners do not have tenants, who will support their mortgage payments?
This will affect their  supporting banks adversely.

Are those buildings convertible to residential space? Do city bylaws permit the transformation?

Will you look into this or remain willfully blind about the issue of low occupancy in commercial buildings?

Money Talks, Bullshit Walks

I try to watch Ottawa City Council meetings on youtube. Its truly mind numbing.

What raises my temperature is the disconnect between what councillors stated were their priorities and what they actually spend their time and money on.

Did they say they would spend another half billion on Landsdowne? No.
Did they plan for giant tents for immigrants? No.
Did they plan on spending millions on swampland? No.

Whose interests does it serve to deviate council and its bureaucrats time, energy and money. Well it is not yours, the taxpayers.

Certainly 90% of the crap that passes for council deliberation is way off their stated priorities...hours of bafflegab and "Whereas" bullcrap.

A big part of the problem is the sheer volume of material, the briefings, the delegations, the minutes, the lengthy meetings...no mere human can ingest, digest, process and synthesize it all. They need help!

These are not stupid people but at times they really think incorrectly. For example, the recent debate on renoviction where tenants get evicted over landlord capital improvements. Its a provincial matter! Why spend two hours debating it. Send your demand note to the province.

My recommendation is to introduce artificial intelligence to assist members with their workload. No council decision or debate should proceed without AI summarues, option analysis and recommendations against stated priorities.

Canada - the 51st State

 

The notion of Canada becoming a 51st state has raised hackles.

The problem is that our economic advantage through association is great. However, the world according to the USNational interests is a very cruel place filled with war, destruction and gross inequities.

Mind you we already have inequity in Canada, lack of housing, lack of food security, lack of fresh water on indian reserves, lack of income distribution its not all roses and maple syrup.

The notion of economic union is also a non starter given the 44 Trillion  USD debt  ( thats a Gazzilion DOLLARS CAD)

It is a strange arrangement. We need so much from the USA including sunny winters.  The states need our resources.
The US has 4 lanes coming to the border. Perhaps they will just take what they need while our fractious parliamentarians dither.

New Bridge at Aviation Parkway

 

The Federal government, currently in disarray has once again announced a new interprovincial bridge.

Much to the chagrin of Overbrook residents of Manor Park this project is much needed and in my opinion will ultimately proceed.

For some, this proposal keeps coming back like a bad rash.

Residents complain of pollution transfer but people are getting killed and injured at the corner of King Edward and Rideau.

Think!

"About 3,500 trucks cross the Ottawa River on a typical weekday, according to the National Capital Commission's interprovincial truck survey released this year. About 72 per cent use the Macdonald-Cartier Bridge, which dumps traffic into Lowertown."

Get those semis out of downtown, support the bridge and find a way to make this project work for Ottawa by getting ahead of the design issues especially at the Montreal Road, Aviation Parkway intersection.

STEPHANIE Plante, councillor has said, ""We know that it is unacceptable to have truck traffic going down one of the most low-income and racialized communities of Ottawa's downtown core" 

Read my previous article from 2019

https://peterkarwacki.blogspot.com/2019/03/tunnels-and-bridges-pas-de-problem.html?m=0

Kettle Island bridge

Related Links

https://www.cbc.ca/amp/1.7412912

https://www.reddit.com/r/ottawa/comments/1ebmsl/ncc_suggests_kettle_island_for_new_bridge/

https://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/ottawa/kettle-island-seen-as-best-interprovincial-bridge-option-1.1358318

Kettle Island is the third-largest island in the Ottawa River, after Île aux Allumettes and Grand-Calumet. NCC acquired 98 per cent of the island's surface"

Cop 24 - committee of the parties

  Much is discussed and lamented about climate change.

The claim is that fossil fuels are the source of CO2 that is heating the planet.

Little is mentioned, or if mentioned derided, of the suppression of technolgy that would obviate the use of fossil fuels. 

Why? $$$$.  If you were invested in oil, XON, CHX you would want every drop of oil to be extracted, drill baby drill, before publicizing other sources of power.

The recent congressional hearing in the US confirmed the existance of unexplained aerial phenomena uap's.

This got little coverage in the media but with youtube, x, meta and other social media it is easily found.

Most are more concerned about daily life, hockey or Taylor Swift.

Still it is no longer possible to ignore the fact that uap exist and that these use an energy source that makes these cop discussions irrelevant.

What is the sigificance to municipal politics?

Our current leaders are simply not up to the challenge of dealing with the existence of such technology.

In effect they are stuck in old ideas and old ways...they do not know what a real emergency looks like. 

There is more evidence as to the exixtence of uaps and their universal energy source than there is evidence of human induced climate change.

The biggest impact on the city of Ottawa will be the ultimate reveal, possibly in the next few years, of the new reality that we are not alone in the universe and that our fixation on power and money has been made irrelevant.

How to be a politician

 

You have to be able see... what can be!

Unburdened by what has been!

Of course you also have to thank a union memba!

In the upcoming municipal election one of the big issues is probably unimportant because the incumbents, all of them, who usually win, no matter how bad they are, will focus on issues that are not even discussed at the time of the election.

People will look at the lawn signs and say "oh yeah, they did well enough".

Finally when the taxes go up and people really start feeling the effects of taxation, stagnation, inflation and humiliation will finally make a change. That time is not now.