Writer and Historian / community activist / co-founder @OttTransitRider
Ottawa, Canada
Joined August 2011
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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.
Awesome night at TD Place with a record crowd to watch the @RugbyCanada Women’s Team defeat @EnglandRugby 31-22!
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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/…
THANK YOU @Brewers FROM ALL BLUE JAYS FANS!
ALT Milwaukee Brewers National League Champs Postseason 2026, Budweiser x MLB Five cutouts (going clockwise from the middle) of Jackson Chourio, William Contreras, Brice Turang, Abner Uribe and Christian Yelich in cream-colored Brewers uniforms in front of a dark blue and silver background with the National League Championship Trophy as well.
With these attendance issues the only recourse is to move the team to Quebec City, obviously
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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
Here at the Bytown Museum for Ottawa’s 200 birthday! This might be the best concert backdrop in the city…
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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
MapQuest topped ChatGPT as Apple's most-downloaded free app after the digital mapping company said it would keep "historical, familiar" lake names. cbsn.ws/45ZpOnq
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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.
Stuart MacKay retweeted
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
