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Wallack's got back to me with an answer about the options they have either in stock or available to order:

Holbein (Japan)
Colleen Pencils (Thailand)
Bruynzeel (Holland)
Faber-Castell (Germany)
Caran d'Ache (Switzerland)
Derwent (UK)
Lyra (Germany)
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Not my neighbourhood. Friends live there, so I've been worrying a bit for them.

https://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/ottawa/tornado-ottawa-barrhaven-july-13-1.6905782
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And switching from listening to The Current on CBC Radio One to watching Ottawa City Hall's Environment and Climate Change Committee meeting scheduled for this morning!

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dYHOotGLeso

Yes, my job search continues as I watch this. I consider watching city council meetings part of my job search intel-gathering process.

About the provincial "Blue Box" programme in Ontario?

https://pub-ottawa.escribemeetings.com/filestream.ashx?DocumentId=128210
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And we've lost another one: Comerford's Cigar Store.

https://ottawacitizen.com/news/local-news/deachman-a-victim-of-covid-and-changing-times-comerfords-closes-after-75-years

I used to visit for the newspapers, the magazines and the snacks.

Public health matters on public transit and this is another part of why.
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Question for those who renew their #OCTranspo bus passes montly *in person*: have you been getting charged extra fees by #ShoppersDrugMart for doing so?

#publictransit #Ottawa #OttawaGatineau
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Watching Hour 5, Day 5, of the Public Order Emergency Commission hearings into the invocation of the Emergencies Act against the Convoy Crowd's actions back in February 2022. Diane Deans, who was on Ottawa City Council and chairing the local Police Services Board up until the halfway point of the Ottawa Siege - just after Peter Sloly stepped down as chief of police - is in mid-testimony as I watch.

It's been Interesting to watch and listen to. Several ways, and I'm not sure how to even begin to describe the hows and whys of that.
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If you're interested in (a) moving to Ottawa and (b) working for a community-owned ISP, you might want to keep an eye on this page belonging to my ISP:

https://www.ncf.ca/en/get-involved/careers/

If you see anything that looks like a good fit for you, please let them know!
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There's a thing that bugs me about Randstad: when I look for jobs they're trying to get people matched to and type in "Ottawa" in the location box, I keep getting entries for Hamilton, North York, Concord and so on.

Most people living in Ontario will, I expect, understand why this is an issue for me.

By way of explanation, with the note that North York is part of metropolitan Toronto. Source of map is Wikimedia Commons...

Ontario regions map.png
By <a href="//commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/User:Peterfitzgerald" title="User:Peterfitzgerald">Peter Fitzgerald</a> - <span class="int-own-work" lang="en">Own work</span> based on the <a href="//commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Ontario-timiskamingshores.png" title="File:Ontario-timiskamingshores.png">outline map of Ontario</a>, CC BY-SA 3.0, Link

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I'm watching the Day 2 testimony of Catherine McKenney and Mathieu Fleury at the Public Order Emergency Commission's hearings into the Convoy Siege of Ottawa as I type this. Playing catch-up is what I'm doing.

Chilled anew at the dysfunction - accidental in places, intentional in others - that enabled this three-week siege of Centretown and Lowertown. Fleury and McKenney describe a horror and a threat that was both loud and quietly creeping. Friends of mine who live and/or work in those neighbourhoods, strangers as well, affected in an ongoing series of not-so-micro-aggressions. The theft of so many national symbols in service to a crime against the residents and workers, and a worse crime being demanded of the Senate and the Governor-General via that "Memorandum of Understanding".

We are not done with this, because the people who organized it are not done making plans to harm the rest of us. These hearings are needed, in part, for that reason.
dewline: "Truth is still real" (anti-fascism)
For anyone interested in watching:

https://publicorderemergencycommission.ca/public-hearings/

You can watch in real time when hearings are in progress, or review the recordings after the fact, as you prefer...
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Not my chart design, FYI.

Tracking the links of the Ottawa Siege:

https://twitter.com/cindian1/status/1580685604136030209

Does that flowchart/mind-map/??? make sense to you?
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I'll get to the point: I am not sure if you're aware that Chanel Pfahl has earned the attention of the Canadian Anti-Hate Network by her conduct before declaring her candidacy for the Zone 8 seat on the Ottawa-Carleton District School Board.

I emphasize my choice of verb here: "earned". I say that based on their profile of her activities and conduct:

https://www.antihate.ca/anti_transgender_candidates_enter_school_board_elections_ottawa

She is a person dedicated - so far as I can see - to restoring the protection of law to specific forms of bigotry, against transgender people for openers. We dare not expect her to stop there given the information provided by antihate.ca in the link included above - for example, we see references to "critical race theory", a pet target of Trumpists in the United States - and that's horrific enough. With that in mind, I'm alarmed to see her self-advertisement on page 2 of this half-month's edition of The Orléans Star. Such promotion of hatred is clear evidence that she is unfit to serve on any school board.

I will vote against all organized bigotry, including organized transphobia. I therefore look forward to information on Pfahl's competitors for the Zone 8 seat with great interest.
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Okay, I've been cleared to share the resources we were shown in the CAWI workshop! This is, of course, tailored specifically to Ottawa. I'm hoping to be able to look at some ACORN Ottawa stuff too in the next little while.

Videos:
  • Municipalities: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=21V8tZjFYnU
  • Why Voting Matters: https://youtu.be/Q8RisdKgAqY
  • Who does What: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AVE3OsR5W-0
  • What does a Mayor do (according to kids)? - https://youtu.be/EcEJNu3NnYk
  • Getting ready for a Vote Pop-Up - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gNVFOZFUcs0
  • Running a Vote Pop-Up - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=k0VmlQrJgUk

Elections resources:
  • Voter look up: https://www.voterlookup.ca/index.aspx
  • Who's running my ward? - https://elections.ottawa.ca/UI/CandidateList/CandidateList
  • Changes in wards and other resources: https://ottawa.ca/en/city-hall/elections/learn-more-about-municipal-elections#section-6aa9d6ce-068a-4f71-9427-e706cb6770e2
Hoping this is all useful...
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Okay. So I participated in this workshop last week on the art of getting out the vote...in general, for all the candidates. In my previous entry here, I made it clear once again that I still do have Standards as to what sorts of people ought to be winning these elections. I want a city that's safer for everyone living here, save for maybe out-and-out fascist-bigot people. (If they're looking to put such mindsets permanently aside, good. Welcome (back) to the club!)

Anyway. Looking at this item on percentage of those eligible to vote who actually "showed up" last time around in Toronto:

http://spacing.ca/toronto/2022/09/12/election-mapping-municipal-election-voter-turnout/

I am, of course, more focused on Ottawa here, as this is where I live. So, where do I find the relevant stats for my city?

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2018_Ottawa_municipal_election

(I would like to nail down the sources for that Wikipedia article, preferably soon.)

According to which, 42.55 % of those then eligible to vote in Ottawa actually did vote. Which was an improvement over 2014's turnout of 39.92 %.

So that was good. We want to get that back up above 2010's turnout of 42 %, though, right?

There were videos I got to look at, some of which I hope to share in the next installment...
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Two anger-inducing things I encountered this morning while out for my walk:

1) the school board candidate profiled by AntiHate.ca as a Problematic person has her first campaign signs up, one of them at a prominent intersection near me.

2) At that intersection, I passed a person who greeted me with that now-infamous "white power" hand gesture along with more innocuous words.

Right here in Orléans, east of downtown Ottawa.

I know of the Convoy Crowd encampments at St. Brigid's in Lowertown and the Bikers' Church in Vanier. Where are they gathering here, unwatched, in Orléans? How do we make them understand that they've worn out their welcome?

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