rants

Okay, not really a rant - but a fun post from David Scrimshaw, following a visit to the Adult High School to get a flu shot. Read it here… ** Related: ** Ottawa Health Guide

David Reevely writes about a song he heard over the outdoor speakers on Rideau Street: And then, after some sort of Kenny-G-ish jazzy version of a standard I can't remember because I was trying to block it out, comes a fresh horror. ...

From Knitnut.net : ** ** So now that we’ve increased the police budget and hired more cops, what are we going to do with them? ... Well, how about that fiasco at Somerset and Bank? The intersection has been closed in four directions for four weeks, ever since the interior of the old Ritz Hotel caved in. ...

Scott Feschuk rants about Ottawa’s Remembrance Day ceremony on his Maclean’s blog: If you go to the ceremony, here’s what you discover. You’ll discover it is pretty much impossible to see anything. Depending on where you end up, you’ll discover that it’s pretty much impossible to hear anything. ...

Yoni Freedhoff posted an open letter to the Heart and Stroke Foundation on his Weighty Matters blog. Here’s a snippet: ** ** ...Since starting to pay attention to the Heart and Stroke's Health Check program, I have been regularly shocked and frankly appalled by many of the products, recipes and meals that have secured Health Checks and am very concerned that the Health Check program is not only not steering Canadians to healthier choices, but rather steering Canadians to truly unhealthy ones. ...

Today’s rant comes from knitnut.net . Here’s a snippet from post titled Baby buggies on the bus bug me (awesome alliteration): Why do they have the stroller section at the very front of the bus? It just creates a bottleneck and an obstacle course for everybody else, and I can’t believe the parents with the strollers like being in everybody’s way all the time. ...

Yoni Freedhoff writes on the Weighty Matters blog: I'm frankly gob-smacked that according to the nutrition facts label there are still 1.5grams of trans-fats in 3 of these teeny weeny cookies. Girl Guides of Canada are quite aware of this. ...

Today’s rant comes courtesy of the Urban Pedestrian blog, and it’s all about Ottawa’s cab drivers. Anyway, I seriously digress; so let me say this about that. I have never encountered a more incompetent, ill-mannered, vulgar assemblage of taxi drivers anywhere in any of my travels than I have in Ottawa. ...

Here’s part of a post today on the Urban Pedestrian blog, that starts with a complaint about the cigarette butts that people leave in front of office buildings, and moves on from there: ** ** The area just in front of my workplace door is littered with a thick, tacky carpet of cigarette butts. ...

Today’s rant comes from Alison on the Party of 3 blog. It’s an open letter to people going to the Carp Fair . A sample: ** ** * Take your little ones to the bathroom before leaving the fair. ...