On the DEWLine 2.0: Dwight Williams

A couple of resources:

https://www.ottawafestivals.ca/jobs

https://apt613.ca/ottawa-arts-and-culture-jobs-april-2025/

For our consideration:

https://www.cbc.ca/listen/cbc-podcasts/1420-this-is-ottawa/episode/16099420-is-ottawa-an-island

1. Some ways to better communicate with deaf people:

https://www.theguardian.com/shared-moments/2023/oct/06/shouting-doesnt-help-10-things-i-want-hearing-people-to-know-about-deaf-people?

2. Concerns about access to vaccines for seniors in Canada:

https://www.cbc.ca/news/health/covid-vaccine-seniors-fall-1.6988082

3. The WGA won. Here's why it matters, from at least one perspective:

https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2023/oct/07/screenwriters-won-a-historic-victory-against-ai-the-rest-of-us-should-follow

4. Cult of Didulo vs. Richmound, SK:

https://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/saskatchewan/cult-of-self-proclaimed-queen-of-canada-threaten-sask-village-with-public-executions-1.6988680

5. Landsowne 2.0 disputes:

https://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/ottawa/lansdowne-2-0-green-roof-1.6990040
https://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/ottawa/lansdowne-2-0-price-tag-jumps-to-419m-3rd-tower-dropped-1.6988602

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

Worrying about this:

https://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/ottawa/city-of-ottawa-service-reviews-2023-1.6744831

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.

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...

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

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...

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.

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...