Derrick Simpson
Transportation and Board Chair, Centretown Community Association | Carleton Journalism Grad | Ottawa Urbanism Book Club | Substack: Improving Ottawa
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Canadian Urbanists
An incomplete list of Canadian urbanists and people talking about cities
Ottawa Starter Pack
A list of Ottawa and municipally focused people. Feel free to make suggestions
@frogandtoadbot.bsky.social
Cozy random passages from Arnold Lobel's Frog and Toad books. Posts auto-delete.
@journodale.bsky.social
Freelance journalist. Author. Nigellavangelist. Pedant about civic literacy and Star Wars/Trek. 🇨🇦🏳️🌈
@45north.bsky.social
Human-powered go fast, indigenous dad, community, creative building
@ricochetmedia.bsky.social
Crowdfunded & independent, we practise public-interest journalism Send us tips and pitches ➡️ editor@ricochet.media Support us ➡️ https://ricochet.media/donate Subscribe to our newsletter➡️ https://shorturl.at/Pz3ez Check us out! https://ricochet.media
@kegli.bsky.social
Former Ottawa City Councillor and Chair of the Ottawa Board of Health. Current Chair of BBBSO Board . Always survivor of childhood sexual abuse.
@stephenej.bsky.social
Deputy Editor, The Hill Times. Australian-Canadian in Ottawa. Ex-Canberra Times. He/him hilltimes.com/ht_author/stephen-jeffery/ sjefferyATSYMBOLhilltimesPERIODcom
@nolore.bsky.social
Author, freelance journalist, socialist. Kryptonite to a certain type of man. http://www.noraloreto.ca
@bromptoning.bsky.social
Two Torontonians on #Brompton bicycles. We post about our unfolding adventures at home and around the world. #BikeTO Blog: https://bromptoning.com/ YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/@bromptoning
@realgershkuntzman.bsky.social
Editor of Streetsblog NYC and a New Yorker who bikes. First, Fourth and 21st Amendment absolutist.
@scottsquires.bsky.social
Vfx supe Anti-Covid Free anti-Covid images https://drive.google.com/drive/mobile/folders/1NptYhWsy4IsnfQOgWDtHnJ9CScQ5Y0ol?usp=share_link
@dieworkwear.bsky.social
Menswear writer. Editor at Put This On. Words at The New York Times, The Washington Post, The Financial Times, Esquire, and Mr. Porter. If you have a style question, search: https://dieworkwear.com/ | https://putthison.com/start-here/
@climateandtransit.bsky.social
A focus on city planning,transit planning and sustainability! “Train good and car bad!”
@chrisdornan.bsky.social
Ahora, jubilado. Formerly, School of Journalism and Communication & Arthur Kroeger College of Public Affairs, Carleton University, Ottawa, Canada. 🇨🇦 Writing on disinformation, the twilight of the news media, and politics. Click here: www.educatedguesses.ca
@jordanmoffatt.bsky.social
Writer (municipal issues and cycling in Ottawa), author (fiction) Website: https://jordanmoffatt.website/ Newsletter: https://jordobicycles.substack.com/
@naomiaklein.bsky.social
New here. Doppelganger. This Changes Everything. The Shock Doctrine. No Logo. On Fire. UBC Professor of Climate Justice. 🔗 naomiklein.org 📬 news.naomiklein.org/newsletter
@talktogabrielle.bsky.social
She/They 🇨🇦🇺🇸🇿🇦🏳️🌈 CBC Journalist 🍁 Also seen in the Globe and Mail, TechRadar, the Kitchissippi Times, MobileSyrup, TheGamer 💻 gabrielle.huston@cbc.ca 📚 Journalism & Humanities at @carleton.ca Alumna
@hockeyanalysis.com
Hockey Analyst and unofficial Keeper of the Cap at http://TheStanleyCap.com. Formerly of the Calgary Flames. Also http://Puckalytics.com http://HockeyAnalysis.com
@safehrm.bsky.social
Posts by Martyn on Mi'kma'ki, the ancestral and unceded territory of the Mi'kmaq People. Picture a grumpy squirrel with a megaphone.
@jeromebilodeau.bsky.social
Unit Head (Energy Efficiency) at International Energy Agency in Paris. NRCan executive at large. Former Senior Consultant at Dunsky. Cyclist.
@volts.wtf
I run a newsletter/podcast called Volts about clean energy & politics. Subscribe & join the community at http://volts.wtf!
@rbreich.bsky.social
Berkeley professor, former Secretary of Labor. Co-founder of @inequalitymedia.bsky.social and @imcivicaction.bsky.social. Substack: http://robertreich.substack.com Preorder my new book: https://sites.prh.com/reich Visit my website: https://rbreich.com/
@alwaysadetour.bsky.social
Just dreaming of a walkable/cyclable city with less can noise. 📍Ottawa🇨🇦
@sw20.info
South West Edinburgh 20 Minute Neighbourhoods 📍#Edinburgh Positive, sustainable changes. Live well locally. #streetsNOTroads 🚲FREE e-bike & e-cargobike hire: sw20.info 🛠️Tool Library: @sw20etl 🏃♀️Coming Soon: Kids Park Run @ Hailes Quarry Park
@cpawssab.bsky.social
Albertans dedicated to protecting our parks, public lands and waters, and vanishing wilderness 🌻🐞🪶🌱
@simply-kim.bsky.social
Owned by cat. Beats, baking, board games & beers. Grateful to my organ donor. Patient partner. Volunteer. Skeptically optimistic. Left of left. LGBTQIA2S+. Neurosparkly. C-PTSD. Resilient as fuck. Kindness matters but take no shit.🇨🇦🏳️🌈🏳️⚧️
@mikebednarski.bsky.social
I love international, Canadian, Ontario, and Toronto politics. I am also a Simpsons fan. If you love international and regional borders, I will love reading your posts. "Yes" to proportional representation!
@paulhannon.bsky.social
Gainfully retired. Former Executive Director of Mines Action Canada 1998-2023. Co-founder Cluster Munition Coalition, Ecology Ottawa, International Network on Explosive Weapons, Stop Killer Robots. Queen Elizabeth II Golden Jubilee Medal. Based in Ottawa.
@itseditoradam.bsky.social
Urbanism | Cities | Active Travel I Mass Transit | Micromobility | Traffic Management | ITS 💚 www.itsinternational.com #trafficnerds t-shirts: bennymeadows.teemill.com 💛👕 Get 🆓 #trafficnerds badges from me when you see me
@tedraymond.bsky.social
Local news reporter for CTV News Ottawa. Award-adjacent. Wrote a good headline in 2022. I do a silly YouTube thing on the side where I play video games and talk about them and/or stuff that isn't the news. I speak French and early Simpsons.
@smarquis.bsky.social
PhD in Environmental Sustainability @uOttawa | I think about food systems, data, social implications of tech, ag-tech, climate impact on agriculture | 🥬🧀🥩🌊🌚 she/her
@miajensen.bsky.social
MEE-uh not MY-uh. Reporter for the Ottawa Business Journal (obj.ca) 📰 Send me your tips! mia@obj.ca
@peggyblair.bsky.social
Retired lawyer, Ottawa-area mystery author, small publisher, level 6 boxer, doctorate in law, Have a TV watching dog. #ElbowsUp! www.reboundpress.com!
@urbanottawa.bsky.social
Reflections on Ottawa and little ways to improve its urban fabric
@ksaravanamuttoo.bsky.social
Mother, teacher, CAF TDO, bartender, athlete, and outdoor enthusiast.
@mark-carney.bsky.social
Prime Minister of Canada and Leader of the Liberal Party | Premier ministre du Canada et chef du Parti libéral markcarney.ca
@nondriver.bsky.social
Author, When Driving Isn't An Option: Steering Away from Car Dependency (Island Press, 2024). Disabled mom with #nystagmus. Launched #WeekWithoutDriving annazivarts.com
@jacktatttran.bsky.social
MASc. Candidate @CivMin researching public transport fare and service integration @TAL_UofT . Like trains and buses and trams and people. Urban Transit Planning.