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Homes for the Holidays – 2016

November 2, 2016 by Claude Jobin

Get your ticket now! Visit 8 beautifully decorated homes, the Holiday PopUp Shop, and the Gingerbread Builders Bake-Off & Handmade Emporium. This is a great fundraiser for Hospice Care Ottawa. My neighbour, Ottawa artist, Mary Hardwick, will have some of her pieces at the PopUp Shop. Click here for information about where to obtain a ticket.

Bicycle Safety – Sharing the Road

October 21, 2016 by Claude Jobin

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I think this is a good idea. As a driver it would certainly get my attention!

Ottawa is shaking things up with cyclists giving them more lanes, more space, and with the number of accidents there have been things do need to change. As I read on the City of Ottawa site cyclists are allowed to ride 1 meter from the curb and according to the Province of Ontario site drivers are to give cyclists 1 meter of space so Warren is making good use of his noodle.

Rock Around – Dad and his 6 children paint 1000 Rocks in Michigan

September 28, 2016 by Claude Jobin

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What a great project. A father and his 6 children paint 1000 rocks and spread 500 in the community. It’s a bonding experience. Its lowtech. It’s art. It’s a reason to visit the museum where 500 are displayed. Its a reason for this family and the community to explore their city.

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Proposed sites for new Ottawa Hospital – Civic Campus

September 27, 2016 by Claude Jobin

The NCC has revealed a list of 12 possible sites for the new Civic hospital campus. Molly & I like the Tunney’s Pasture site – close to current site and close to public transport. My least favourite is taking away land from the Central Experimental Farm. As a Heritage keeper with Heritage Ottawa I certainly can’t support taking away land from that historical site.

According to your level of interest, keenness, and time you can also take the survey.

Oxford Street Little Library

September 13, 2016 by Claude Jobin

Love these little libraries that spring up on front lawns. The one in Hintonburg has however been getting some bad publicity, it may have been potentially saved by Kitchissippi Counsillor Jeff Lieper. If you do a drive by you might find that beyond the libraries there is more: the garden is overgrown and out of control. And so is the problem the libraries or the garden and its content?

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Lowertown Truck Tunnel

September 8, 2016 by Claude Jobin

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Something needs to be done it’s true. Is this the answer? With all the proposed traffic underground it makes me thing they’ll have to have intersections and lights underground for when the light rail comes barreling through. The cost of this solution is quite something. I hope they’ll be wary of not creating another sinkhole. Thought they say the other one was not created by the boring.

Yet Another Fatal Bicycle Accident

September 2, 2016 by Claude Jobin

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A very sad day in the Capital yesterday. The death of a young woman about to embark in her studies at Carleton University. Thoughts go out to her family and friends.

It`s always been my impression that these bicycle lane provide a false sense of security for that great security is lost at every intersection. And so… Quite tragic! What can be done? What can make this better.

Great initiative

August 31, 2016 by Claude Jobin

Wow technology at its best at the service of the disabled in Russia. Great concept. Makes me wonder what else is to come.

Interesting that this post arrived moments after during my drive to work watching 3 girls at play in a driveway made me scratch my head. In a bygone era you’d take pics with a camera onto film which you’d bring to the store to have developed. First it meant having purchased the film so you’d be careful of what you were photographing: you’d think about it. You couldn’t take 100 photographs of the Eifel Tower and later decide which ones merit keeping, which ones merit photoshoping, and which one you’d get rid off. Then the cost of printing could set you back. But what about the wait…

Watching these girls play and pose for their phone then seconds later running to see the results. Results which used to take potentially a week. Makes me think now we take the pic and receive instant gratification. A whole different appreciation!

But meanwhile the hologram of the disabled person is a great service!

Demolition by Neglect – Yet Again!

July 9, 2016 by Claude Jobin

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I find it very upsetting to see yet another building potentially fall by the wrecking ball due to neglect. Last year this was debated around Our Lady’s School at the corner of Cumberland and Murray and now the Somerset Hotel at another major intersection in town Somerset and Bank. I’m in disbelief of the City’s actions! It seems they say one thing officially and then do exactly as they wish behind closed doors. Protecting the history of the city does not seem to be a priority if it will upset one taxpayer or hinder a developers desires. A city should have plan and it should abide by it.