Setting views aside, here's my top ten posts based on how effectively they demonstrate the case for me as a candidate: structural rigor, clear differentiation from the incumbent, and evidence-backed claims a voter can actually verify.
1. The Bridge: The King and I (#487) — My single clearest point of differentiation. The East End Crossing is the one major issue where me and King take opposite positions, and I've got a 2019-to-present paper trail plus a rebuttal to his own 2021-study rationale. This is the post that answers "why vote for Karwacki over King" most directly.
2. Ottawa Police Services – My Greatest Hits (#488) — A consolidated case for my OPS oversight work: the Det. Grus unauthorized-access case, the OPS Board chair's own "not robust" admission, and King's 2022 resignation-statement-vs-later-failures contrast. Institutional accountability is my strongest lane, and this rolls it up.
3. "This is not a popularity contest" + sequel —#250 My most-read post for a reason: it's the cleanest statement of my actual pitch (structural outsider vs. incumbent) without requiring background knowledge.
4. The St-Laurent tunnel/"Two Warnings One Playbook" series — #353 An unaddressed 2020 "urgent" engineering finding, paired with the Elliot Lake precedent. This is my best example of finding a genuinely alarming, underreported municipal risk through document work rather than opinion.
5. Third Party news / the 123,000-ticket 311 bulk-closure finding (#345) — My best piece of original data journalism. It's concrete, verifiable, and shows I can find something the city itself hadn't surfaced.
6. AI Governance Issues (#361) — My most substantive policy proposal (disclosure inventory, human appeal, AG annual review) rather than just critique — shows I can build, not just audit.
7. One River, Two Parks, No Equity (Bathgate vs. Riverain) — Concrete, hyperlocal, visual, and easy for a Ward 13 voter to feel personally — a basketball court removed with no replacement versus a neighbouring ward's full modernization.
8. The Field Didn't Shrink. The Barrier Did. (#479, "The last two standing") — My incumbency-structure argument (17 candidates in 2019 vs. 2 in 2026) is one of the more original analytical framings on the blog, and it's core to my "why does this race matter regardless of outcome" case.
9. Positions Ledger (#495) — Not a persuasive essay, but functionally my platform document — 14 topics, 493 source posts, organized and searchable. Worth including precisely because it's the single best entry point for an undecided voter or reporter who wants the whole picture fast.
10. Whistleblower protection piece ("The People We Need Most Are the Ones We Protect Least") #416 — Ties my OPS, 311, and St-Laurent findings together into a single institutional argument (someone inside likely knew first, every time) — makes the throughline explicit rather than leaving readers to connect it themselves.
One thing worth flagging: several of my strongest pieces (tunnel, OPS, 311) are really one long-running case each, told across multiple posts. A "top ten" for YOUR consumption.
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