Spam from Pierre

Our good friend Pierre Poilievre is spamming all and sundry:

From: info@fightingforyou.ca To: all my intertoob friends, including reburb Date: Tue, 2 Dec 2008 13:26:30 -0500 Subject: Stand Up for Canada Stand up for Canada - Let the people speak Two months ago, Canadians elected the Prime Minister with a strengthened mandate to address the global economic crisis. Now, we're about to have our shiny toys taken away! WAAAAHHHH!!! Sob. Please, please don't let this happen to us! SHRIEK!

Interestingly, this email is unsigned, though it does sound a lot like Pierre. Sorry buddy, I gotta say, suck it up. Here's reburb's response:

Dear Pierre, The people already spoke, you're not listening. The majority don't support you in this silly slap-fight. Do the right thing and stand up to a confidence vote instead of running away like shrieking little girls. Best regards, Reburb

In hindsight, the comparison is unfair to shrieking little girls. I have a couple, and they'd do a better job at running Pariliament than the current crop of clowns.

Ok, so it's been a month...

Yes, Reburb has been busy moving from Bells Corners to... Bells Corners! My advice to you, my friends, is to never ever ever move. Talk about sapping your will to live. But things are starting to settle, so I hope to get regular posts up soon.

In case the stock crash has you down...

This will definitely cheer you up:

I'll take "none of the above" please

Commenter hibou's signs of the times.

Sign Jihad Episode 1, Act 2, in which 311 forwards my email

from: 311@ottawa.ca to: reburb@gmail.com cc: Bylaw Dispatch date: Wed, Sep 10, 2008 at 10:36 AM subject: 2008-334589 FW: Temporary signs at Stafford Road / Richmond Road

Good morning,

Thank you for contacting the City of Ottawa. With regard to your inquiry, we have forwarded your email to our By-Law Services Branch. Your service request number is 2008-334589.

For further information, or should you have any other issues that need to be resolved rapidly, we invite you to call us at 3-1-1, Monday to Friday, from 7:00 a.m. to 7:00 p.m. A Call Centre Agent will be happy to take care of your request immediately.

Yours truly,

The Vox: Two Views

I'm keeping an eye on this to see if/when it's going to be re-developed.

I received this in an email from our councillor Rick Chiarelli regarding this site:

We have managed to get a pronouncement as to the suitability, from both a safety and a property standards perspective, of the Vox building. Thankfully, we have won the decision that it cannot continue to function. The physical resolution to the matter is not too far off, but there is some sluggishness due to the complex legal battle that is associated with it. Having said that, we have met with a buyer who is set to activate a firm (forced) purchase of the property as soon as we get a final decision from a judge in a relation to financial issues for which a trial that has recently concluded. Following talks with us, that buyer has agreed to demolish the building as part of any purchase/ development proposal. My goal for the property was demolition and demolition is coming. We just have a little while to wait.

The good, the bad, and the WTF

So you've built a giant, desolate parking lot, and stuck a nondescript office building at the back of it. Why not? Everyone else is doing it. But then you discover that you can't rent all the space. For some strange reason, restaurants keep failing, companies keep moving out. It's not good for business. What to do, what to do? Then it hits you, let's embark on an ambitious beautification program! Give the place a total face lift! What you need is a plant. And not any old plant, but one with flowers. Put it right out there, on that tiny strip of grass between the 5 lanes of Richmond and the vast expanse of parking lot. Perfect! And to celebrate, put up a few signs advertising the new, beautiful business site.