Ralph Quapp (⧖)

Transitioning to

[Alex Lawson @AlexLawsonOtt]

If Mark Sutcliffe is running for re-election, he should register as a candidate and stop making Ottawa taxpayers foot the bill for his campaign.

Ottawa deserves better.

[Joey Swoll @TheJoeySwoll]

This is the gym culture we LOVE to see. 🙏🏼❤️

[Mohamad Safa @mhdksafa]

There is no rise in anti-Semitism. There is a rise in the number of people who are very angry at what Israel is doing. Your inability to separate the two is equally problematic.

[Sarah Wright-Gilbert (she/her) @sarahmwgilbert]

I am happy that Erin Coffin is running again in Kanata South against Allan Hubley - let’s help her out by volunteering and sending donations so she can replace him on council! It’s time Kanata South had proper representation.

https://t.co/4DKpEe9UrD

[Manny Singh Kang @pedalsingh]

Leaders come and go….
To flourish in life you need a strong, more permanent foundation
My beliefs and my opinions that get applauded by many, are not mine. They belong to my Guru’s

Those that came in human form to liberate humans, regardless of colour, background, shape or size. They practised the art of truthful living and serving and sharing.

550 plus years later we still celebrate them!
The leaders, kings and emperors are forgotten.

I am you
You are me
We are built the same and we want the same thing. Peace and happiness.

The mission to be more human goes on ❤️

[Gandalv @Microinteracti1]

The MAGA crowd in Washington has decided that since Europeans don’t sufficiently appreciate Trump, the American bases on the continent must go. This is the strategic reasoning of a man who burns down his own kitchen.

American bases in Europe were never a favour. They are the logistical spine of every war the United States fights east of Gibraltar. Ramstein moves the cargo, Aviano launches the jets, Rota services the ships. Without them the Pentagon does not project power into the Middle East. It projects PowerPoint.

The fantasy assumes the alternative is aircraft carriers gliding majestically into the Persian Gulf. That era is ending. A modern carrier is a thirteen-billion-dollar trophy that can be reduced to scrap by a couple of hundred cheap missiles fired from the Iranian coast. China noticed.

The other fantasy is that America simply fights from home. Picture the alternative: twenty thousand transatlantic sorties shuttling spare parts, munitions, fuel bladders, mechanics and replacement pilots from Norfolk and Dover to wherever the war happens to be. A C-17 burns through roughly 35,000 dollars of fuel every hour it flies, and the round trip from the American east coast to the Gulf is the better part of a day. Multiply that by every bolt, every missile, every spare engine. The war becomes a sustained airborne traffic jam with the bill arriving by the second.

So you need land, specifically land near the war. Modern combat aircraft are not Spitfires you fuel up and send off with a wave. An F-35 demands an entire Walmart of spare parts, a small city of technicians, climate-controlled hangars and a supply chain stretching halfway round the planet. Drones need operators, networks, satellites and a steady diet of components no carrier can store. Modern war arrives by container ship and lives in a warehouse.

Close the bases, and Washington loses the warehouses. Lose the warehouses, and the next confrontation with Iran is either fought by phone or fought from Kansas with a flight schedule that bankrupts the Treasury before the first missile lands.

MAGA thinks shutting Ramstein punishes Europe. It punishes America. Europe will be inconvenienced. America will be unarmed.

And so, after a thousand insults, a thousand sneers, a thousand late-night posts about freeloading allies, Europe is quietly drafting the politest letter in diplomatic history. It thanks America for its service. It wishes the troops a safe journey home. It suggests, with great warmth, that Washington might now turn its attention to its neighbours in Latin America, where a fading superpower can busy itself with whatever a fading superpower busies itself with.

Spain had its century. Britain had its empire. The Soviets had their parades. Each ended the same way: as a shadow of itself, with the historians left to argue, volume after volume, about precisely when the rot set in and why nobody noticed in time. America is welcome to join them on the shelf.​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​

If you like what you read, please follow Gandalv on Substack:
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[Alex Cullen @Alex_S_Cullen]

This is important if you think that preserving green space in our City is important. Developers drool at the thought of building in the Greenbelt. People forget that PM McKenzie King called the Greenbelt "a living memorial to our WW2 dead" - lest we forget! #ottcity

[Paulus. @Paulus858520671]

1945.
Cornelia Bosch,19 jr,verzetstrijdster,net getrouwd, geëxecuteerd een half uur voor de bevrijding van Deventer.

2026.
Een half uur had het tuig nodig om haar Monument te bekladden.

Een half uur.

[Yukang Li @liyukang]

With a heavy heart, I attended the vigil for Peter Clark.
A message to all drivers: feel the weight and responsibility of the wheel.
Drive safely — for yourself, for your family, and for every other family on the road.

[Erin Coffin @ErinBCoffin]

Well it is official - I was the first candidate to register this morning for Councillor of Kanata South, Ward 23, in #Ottawa 2026 election!

[Bev 🇨🇦 @Garnet_2203]

So this is Jamil Jivani’s second trip to Washington. It’s still unofficial and we’re just supposed to be okay with that?

Who does he think he is?

You don’t get to appoint yourself Canada’s backchannel diplomat, fly to Washington, and start meeting with people tied to Donald Trump and JD Vance like you’re representing the country.

You’re not.

That’s not your role, and it’s not what you were elected to do.

And again same question, still no answer:

Who is paying for these trips?

Because if taxpayers are footing the bill, that’s a problem.
If donors or lobbyists are, that’s an even bigger problem.

Either way, Canadians didn’t sign up for this.

We don’t want Trump politics. We don’t want JD Vance politics. And we don’t want politicians freelancing foreign policy like it’s some personal networking tour.

Temu Charlie. https://t.co/nEjooNBQrj

Stay in your lane.

[Greg MacEachern @gmacofglebe]

School board supervisors won't be allowed to speak with media, education minister says

https://t.co/iKtmTqRqKB

[Restoring Your Faith in Humanity @HumanityChad]

Little angels 🥹

[UB1UB2 West London (Southall) @UB1UB2]

Massive respect to a proper hero of British fundraising 🧡 Manny Singh Kang, 51, walked 130 miles from Wolverhampton to London over three days with no sleep - and then ran the London Marathon today. His seventh.

The whole challenge was for Dementia UK. Manny has been fundraising for the charity for seven years and has now raised over £345,000 - much of it through “Samosa Saturdays” outside Molineux Stadium, where he and his family cook and sell home-made samosas to Wolves fans on matchdays.

In 2024 he was awarded a Pride of Britain Award for walking from Wolverhampton to Newcastle with his son. Now he’s done it again - this time on the toughest physical challenge he’s ever set himself.

“Human capabilities are stronger than we sometimes let ourselves believe.”

Send @manny.s.kang all the love today. And if you want to support, his JustGiving page is in his bio.

📍 London Marathon, 27 April 2026

[Ken Gray (Ottawa's Bulldog Website) @KenGray]

Speed Cameras About Speed, Not Cash: CULLEN https://t.co/9uEQQXegEf #ottawa #ottnews #ottcity

[Ralph Quapp (⧖) @rqode]

@Alex_S_Cullen I'm afraid people may find it too far, as walking this distance will add considerable time to the commute. On the other hand, DNDs parking lots are also not tiny.

[Ralph Quapp (⧖) @rqode]

My 2023 New Year’s resolution: Complete all Canadian parkruns! | parkrun CA Blog https://t.co/8y45xMbdZM

[CTV Ottawa @ctvottawa]

60% of drivers speeding at former Ottawa photo radar camera spots, report shows https://t.co/2hD9uy8o8E

[Siobhan Morris @siomoCTV]

The city of Ottawa has found the number of drivers speeding through school zones has been steadily increasing week by week since speed cameras were turned off and then removed https://t.co/64YTRNaJXd