“It failed by a vote of five yeas to seven nays, with Dudas and couns. Glen Gower, Rawlson King, Jeff Leiper, and Shawn Menard voting in favour. Mayor Mark Sutcliffe and couns. Matt Luloff, Cathy Curry, Tim Tierney, Riley Brockington, David Brown, and Catherine Kitts voted against the motion”
Is ass backwards: journalists covering the city have to be where the councillors are, or they have nothing to write about. Our councillors are kind of pathetic, really…
Councilors have established followings on Twitter. They don’t want to recreate them elsewhere.
Journalists loooooooove Twitter. Councilors want to be where the journalists are.
It’s a culture war battle.
This is less cultural and more existential IMO:
Posting on that site is straight up Anti-Canadian and I will die on this hill.
tell your city councillor
Oh I messaged them and the mayor.
Anybody have the list of which councillors voted for/against?
The article lists those who spoke for/against, but I don’t think it has the full list.
The minutes should be available online.
“It failed by a vote of five yeas to seven nays, with Dudas and couns. Glen Gower, Rawlson King, Jeff Leiper, and Shawn Menard voting in favour. Mayor Mark Sutcliffe and couns. Matt Luloff, Cathy Curry, Tim Tierney, Riley Brockington, David Brown, and Catherine Kitts voted against the motion”
https://www.ctvnews.ca/ottawa/article/committee-defeats-motion-to-get-city-of-ottawa-off-elon-musks-x/
I will be emailing my councillor, David Brown, and voicing my displeasure.
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Can watch the vote right here