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https://twitter.com/CarymaRules/status/1488886838312022029
https://nationalpost.com/news/massive-restoration-project-on-parliament-hills-centre-block-remains-on-time-budget
Massive restoration project on Parliament Hill's Centre Block remains on time, budget
Work on the $4.5-$5B project is expected to be complete by 2030 or 2031, but it will be at least a year more before the permanent home of the house, senate chambers can reopen
https://www.tvo.org/article/the-loudmouths-are-losing-when-this-is-all-over-remember-the-helpers
The loudmouths are losing. When this is all over, remember the helpers
OPINION: The real mass movement in Canada right now isn’t the convoy camped out in Ottawa. It’s the millions of people who are actually trying to end this pandemic
The so-called truckers’ convoy in Ottawa this past weekend — not made up of many actual truckers, as far as anyone can see, and acting in direct opposition to the recommendations of the actual national association of truck drivers — has been loud, disruptive, and alarming for Ottawa residents. As someone born in the nation’s capital, and as a former student of Carleton University (go Ravens!), I am horrified to see streets I know well taken over by swastikas and Confederate flags.
(Oh, those are just bad apples, you say? So then let’s focus on the explicit public claim of the protest’s organizers: they want to dissolve Canada’s constitutional government and overturn federal and provincial laws through the use of an unelected junta made up of senators and the Governor General. Taken literally, this is sedition. Treated as it deserves to be, it’s merely nuts.)
If this upsets you, especially if you live in the capital, that’s okay: it’s upsetting. But in the same way that I have to tell myself not to obsess about the one guy on the subway who’s not wearing a mask (instead of focusing on the scores of people I see every day who are), we do ourselves a disservice if we let the loud minority drown out the vast majority of people who are doing the difficult work every day of getting us to the finish line in this pandemic.
Ottawa police estimate that the crowds on Parliament Hill fell somewhere between 5,000 and 18,000; you could double the higher estimate, and that would still be a fraction of the number of people who received vaccine doses on Saturday and Sunday in Ontario alone; nearly 160,000 people received vaccines over the weekend. Most of those are third doses at this point, but plenty of young children are still showing up to get their first and second doses as well. And those many thousands join millions more — more Ontarians have now had three shots than only two or one, and while the sad, deluded spectacle in Ottawa is already making a high-speed transition from tragedy to farce as numbers dwindle, the ranks of the vaccinated grow every day.
https://www.washingtontimes.com/news/2022/feb/1/john-durham-going-deep-into-russiagate/
John Durham going deep into Russiagate
A new U.S. District Court filing reveals an internal Justice Dept. tug-of-war
For the foregoing reasons, the Court should grant the Government’s request to permit the production of any residual discovery on or before March 18, 2022
https://twitter.com/sasaozz/status/1488702952713900034
The view from here … This is what’s happening at night in Centretown .. no police presence, honking & noise all night along Laurier between Kent & Bank … it’s out of control .. help us understand how we are to continue to trust that this will end peacefully & safely
what is that?
https://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/ottawa/truck-convoy-police-solution-1.6337051
Ottawa police might need military aid to end downtown occupation, chief says
Police aware of significant funding and participation in protest from U.S.
Ottawa's police chief says policing alone might not solve the ongoing, volatile occupation of the city's downtown core that has lasted for nearly a week, and military aid might be necessary.
"This is a national issue, not an Ottawa issue," Ottawa police Chief Peter Sloly said in a briefing to city councillors Wednesday afternoon.
"I am increasingly concerned there is no policing solution to this."
Sloly said options being considered include requesting military aid, negotiation, political response, a court injunction or forced removal of protesters. But all approaches come with significant concerns, including rioting, injury and death, he said.
"I don't have a singular mandate in this city, this province or this country, to negotiate the end to any demonstration. There always needs to be an element outside of the police for any truly successful end to any demonstration, particularly one of this size," he said.
People across the country, as well as from other countries, have brought their frustrations with government response to the pandemic — all levels of government — to the nation's capital.
welcome to Parliament
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old downtown Ottawa train station
https://www.canadiangeographic.ca/article/ottawa-landmark-gets-new-life-temporary-home-senate-canada
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