I had a 90 minute intro to skate skiing lesson this evening at Mooney’s Bay ski centre and I think I’ve discovered my new favourite thing. Technically speaking this lesson was about free skating. No poles. The idea is to get the basics down – the stance, the weight transfer,
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Trashy's World: Bottle drive!
Wondering what to do with all of those bottles that were merrily emptied over the holidays? Think no more… at least if you’re in Ottawa. The Pleasant Park Public School Council is working hard to raise money to build a new play structure. And you can help! Let us carry
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… is Ottawa getting snow before Christmas day… no way… Trashy, Ottawa, Ontario
Continue readingTrashy's World: An example of how things can get outta hand…
… on the Interweb thingy… An innocent post by a fellow Ottawa blogger – and pretty cool person – has caused a storm of sentences! A cacophony of curses! A maelström of meanness! And an onslaught of overreactions! Seems Zoom (The Knitnut) put up an innocent post soliciting opinions about
Continue readingTrashy's World: I’m dreaming of a…
…greeeeeeen Christmas…
Continue readingTrashy's World: The anti Public Servant mood…
… That the Harperites have created is humming right along… Just read the comments posted by some readers whenever a story about the ongoing and looking cuts to the Public Service. Most are laughable, inaccurate and downright mean… especially those found in stories published by the Sun chain. Which speaks
Continue readingCanadian Progressive World: New study dispels myths about public sector pay
OTTAWA – December 14, 2011: There is no evidence the average pay of public sector workers in Canada is consistently higher than comparable occupations in the private sector, reports a new study released today by the …Read More
Continue readingTHE FIFTH COLUMN: Cyclist Fatality Waiting/Designed to Happen
If you wanted to design a storm sewer grate to catch a bicycle wheel and throw the rider into fast heavy traffic you could not do better than this. These are located along Eagleson Road between the Queensway and Hazeldean Road. They seem designed to capture bicycle wheels and kill
Continue readingTrashy's World: If you are from Ottawa…
…or from anywhere, for that matter… do a couple of clickety-clicks with your mouse and support this worthy effort. Mary Honeywell Elementary school is located in the Ottawa suburb of Barrhaven and is home to over 500 students. Mary Honeywell is also home to a specialized autism unit of 18
Continue readingTHE FIFTH COLUMN: Saving the South March Highlands: Looking to the Future
The first thing I want to say is that any discussion of saving the South March Highlands has to start by acknowledging that, indeed, some of it has been saved and placed in public ownership and that we might not even be discussing saving the rest of it if that
Continue readingTrashy's World: The nuttiness of the…
… new IKEA… Just saw this Tweet: RT @OTWNews: High traffic volumes expected for IKEA opening http://bit.ly/vueh9N #Ottawa #Ottcity PEOPLE! Are you off your rockers?? It’s just a freaking STORE fer crissakes! Grow up! The bloody thing will still be there next week! Sigh. I just don’t understand people sometimes…
Continue readingTrashy's World: OH NO! GIANT SNOW…
…HOOP SNAKES HAVE INFESTED OTTAWA! I knew that this day may come… but I did not imagine that it would be so soon… perhaps post-apocalypse… but not now! Seen from the window of my building… absolute PROOF of a deadly winter hoop snake. I’ll start watching for missing person reports…
Continue readingTrashy's World: OMFG… but sorta what I expect from…
… a separate school. And if a school in the OCDSB did this, I’d be really pissed! Yoga pants? Really? Seriously? Have we wandered into a wormhole and ended back up in 1950′s Georgia? Seriously? Man, get your head in the game! The Ottawa Catholic School Board is NOT doing
Continue readingCanadian Progressive World: Defiant Occupy Ottawa returns to Confederation Park
Occupy Ottawa’s tents are gone from Confederation Park. But the movement’s right to use the park to exercise its freedoms of assembly and expression, which are enshrined in Canada’s Charter of Rights and Freedoms, remains …Read More
Continue readingCanadian Progressive World: Occupy Ottawa evicted from tents, Attawapiskat First Nations forced into tents
The irony of it all! At around 2.am Wednesday morning, more than 150 Ottawa Police officers pounced on eight Occupy Ottawa protesters peacefully resisting eviction from Confederation Park, where they’d camped for five weeks shining …Read More
Continue readingCanadian Progressive World: Obert Madondo in the news: Metro News on November 23 2011
Metro News reports on my injuries sustained when I was dragged by Ottawa Police officers during the eviction of Occupy Ottawa protesters from Confederation Park shortly after 2.am yesterday. Quote from the paper: “”They dragged me …Read More
Continue readingTrashy's World: Some would say that this is pretty…
…I’m not one of them… Only 37 days till Barbados!! Trashy, Ottawa, Ontario
Continue readingTrashy's World: Something I just don’t “get”…
… is why OC Transpo just doesn’t “get” why it has an image problem. Put aside singing drivers, yelling drivers, drivers on phones, etc. for a sec and just consider scheduling. This should be fairly simple. After thousands of runs, you’d think that the gurus who work for Mr. Mercier
Continue readingCanadian Progressive World: Occupy Ottawa issued eviction notice, vow to resist
Occupy Ottawa is under attack! The National Capital Commission (NCC) served the movement with a notice of eviction from Confederation Park earlier today. The peaceful Occupiers are required to vacate the park by mid night. But they’re …Read More
Continue readingCanadian Progressive World: On Global Day of Action, Occupy Ottawa flexes underrated muscle
By Obert Madondo Even as the threat of eviction from Confederation Park looms larger, the Occupy Ottawa movement is getting stronger, says Arun Smith. Yesterday, the movement held simultaneous marches before four key Ottawa landmarks: …Read More
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