Notices by Marielle Quinton (mariellequinton@ottawa.place)

@WTL @mariellequinton I'm curious about the people who wear hard pants 100% of the time. Running in jeans? Weightlifting in cargo pants? Yoga in work trousers?

@evan @mayintoronto But the fabric is bamboo. I'm guessing they buy the fabric from China and cut and sew it here. Even when it's knit or woven here it's usually from imported cotton etc. We lost most of our processing plants/mills and knowledge. It's going to take a long time to get it back, but we can't grow cotton here. So, my point is just clothing is hard.

@evan It's not a fight. It's just people are weirdly emotionally connected to food. I'm not sure how we go about getting people to actively change their eating habits.

@evan Yes, trendy food, which also leads to food waste, but that's short term and also isn't about giving stuff up. Mostly people will do small changes, not large ones like cutting out meat and dairy.

@evan Clothing is hard. Or at least the fabric is. What can we grow in Canada? Wool, hemp, flax. Maybe tencel from wood pulp. But we don't really have the mills or even knowledge for any of that now, except wool and I'm not even sure we can make high quality wool fabric.

@mayintoronto What is the fabric made from?

@evan People are extremely unlikely to change the way they eat. We all know giving up meat and dairy would be a huge benefit to the environment, but what percentage of people actually does that?

I want to see tariffs on Tesla and Starlink

I walked past a car with a Quebec licence plate that had a Canadian flag and a Ukrainian flag.

@johnefrancis Yeah, I wondered about that. I had assumed he kinda changed his mind after the election, but his comment made me wonder if it was the other liberal MPs that changed their minds and he gave up fighting them.

@andrew @johnefrancis Oh, I'm not giving him a pass, I just thought they'd dropped it because he lost interest in it. If he hadn't and it was internal fighting... He'll probably write about it in his book 😝 but he really should have brought it back after a little while. Let it cool down for a bit, ok. Then go back and really work at it.

@mpjgregoire @andrew @johnefrancis We'll never get anywhere if everyone refuses any reform that isn't their preferred reform. I think we have to think about reform as a long, iterative process. It won't be perfect initially. Or ever, just (hopefully) small improvements that lead to an increasingly better system.

@evan No. However we have a birthday in the house on the sixth so I'll be baking a cake etc.

I put on a toque today for my morning walk :( some guy was running in short shorts so I guess it's not everyone 😜

Good article on the women's boxing controversy. It's just bad faith actors and media not doing their job properly, there's no actual eligibility issue https://www.cbc.ca/sports/olympics/summer/olympics-imane-khelif-angela-carini-boxing-controversy-1.7282002

Eh I'm not loving the boats. Giant boats carrying a few people seems excessive. I'd rather see the athletes walking 🤷🏼♀️ I was thinking they'd be cute row boats or something. I wasn't thinking ferries.

The Phantom of the opera seems to be running on the rooftops somewhere where the weather is better 😜

I was thinking the same thing as the commentators, you can't really see the athletes' outfits in the boats. I think the fashion part is the fun part! Without them walking you can't see much. The guard rails are blocking the bottom half. All that time designing opening ceremony outfits, and they just look like tourists on tour boats.

I feel like the male Cavan cancan dancers should be wearing short shorts

Pretty sure no one had a threesome on their opening ceremonies bingo card 😝