Writer and Historian / community activist / co-founder @OttTransitRider
Ottawa, Canada
Joined August 2011
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In lieu of flowers, memorial contributions may be made to:
Johns Hopkins Alzheimer’s Disease Research Center Fund
alzresearch.org/giving/
Alzheimer’s Foundation of America Caregiver Resources
alzfdn.org/donate/
Photo Credit: Tommy Garcia
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Somewhere between Gen X and Millennial is a micro generation that is defined by this song.
Released in 1996 as the second single from Mellon Collie and the Infinite Sadness, “1979” became the Smashing Pumpkins' biggest American hit, reaching No. 12 on the Billboard Hot 100 and No. 1 on both the Modern Rock Tracks and Mainstream Rock Tracks charts. The album was eventually certified 10× Platinum in the United States. “1979” was almost left off the album: producer Flood gave Corgan a final deadline to complete the unfinished song or remove it from the record. Corgan went home, finished the lyrics that night, and returned the next day with a new demo that convinced Flood to keep it.
Billy Corgan wrote the track as a nostalgic reflection on adolescence and the transition into adulthood. Although the title refers specifically to the year Corgan was 12, the song is less a literal autobiography than an idealised reflection on what it felt like to be young.
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Feels like a good night to remind everyone that Tim and the Chabtain are donating another $1,872 to the kids in our community with that #Sens win!!
Show your support for our community and join the 18⚡️72 Club: ottsens.com/4B1n476
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Do not let anyone ever sell you on the idea this country is broken.
Canadians step up to give blood after fire at Alberta military base kills four. toronto.citynews.ca/2026/10/…
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A brilliant map of Nova Scotia’s lighthouses, showing each coastal light flashing in its real-world rhythm and pattern. A beautiful piece of cartography that turns navigational infrastructure into something almost hypnotic. Source: buff.ly/16Ye3IN
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Lost in translation? Let’s not do that.
Vladdy did earn his contract. He’s a young superstar who’s going to have a fantastic career and retire as a Blue Jay and HOF player like his dad. That said, as someone that has said silly things in my past 😯, this is not him at his best.
“There’s definitely some nuance in what he’s trying to say that’s not coming across there.”
@thehazelmae and @ShiDavidi break down Vladimir Guerrero Jr.’s recent comments about his contract.
📺: Blue Jays Central LIVE on Sportsnet
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BREAKING NEWS: Youppi! has signed an executive order to rename Washington Nationals as “Montreal Expos,” a change the mascot says would take effect immediately
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Imagine growing up in absolute dirt poverty in east Tennessee, daughter of a tobacco farmer, going to school wearing rags your mother stitched into a coat, and when you die the British royal family has its military band play your up-the-workers country-pop anthem in tribute.
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Two things are converging right now, and almost nobody is putting them in the same sentence:
1. First, Ottawa has committed to getting seventy per cent of defence spending into Canadian firms, and the defence budget is headed to five per cent of GDP by 2035; that's the largest industrial opportunity this country has had in generations.
2. Second, it's arriving at the exact moment tariffs have hollowed out our auto sector, which is why Canadian defence companies like Dominion are looking at that idle capacity as a chance to reindustrialize Canada.
There's no clean win available in these negotiations, and I can’t imagine either side wants these tariffs to come into effect.
What we can control, and it’s what coalitions like the Alliance of Canadian Defence Companies are doing, is focusing on rebuilding Canadian capabilities that never left.
Canadian defence companies eye idle auto plants for growth plans theglobeandmail.com/business…
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PROMISE DAVID TO BRIGHTON 🚨
#CanMNT
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We are pleased to confirm the signing of Promise David from Royale Union Saint-Gilloise on a season-long loan. 🇨🇦
The deal includes an obligation to buy should certain criteria be met. 🤝
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It was a fantastic day to make some noise and share our enthusiasm with @BlueJays fans, thanks to Mr. Mark Shapiro, Okamoto san and their excellent colleagues! #BlueJays50
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Fantastic night seeing so many great Ottawa football alumni. And then the game started. Embarrassing performance. And now it’s three straight road games. I’m sure there’s light at the end of the tunnel somewhere but it’s hard to see right now if you’re a @REDBLACKS fan.
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Here’s 18 year old @atletiOttawa defender Sergei Kozlovskiy with a picture perfect corner to help lead Canada to a 3-0 win over Panama in the CONCACAF U20 Championship.
GOAL 🇨🇦
It's an all-#CPLsoccer opener for the CanMNT U-20s as Sergei Kozlovskiy finds Emrick Fotsing for an opening header vs. Panama 🇵🇦
🔴 Watch #CanM20 on OneSoccer
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Most QBs get tight in a two-minute drill because they’re thinking about the clock.
The best ones ignore the clock entirely and focus only on what the defense is showing them right now.
That’s it. That’s the difference.