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Meet Ottawa's new 'night mayor' (ottawa.ctvnews.ca)

submitted 5 months ago by NotSteve_@lemmy.ca to c/ottawa@lemmy.ca

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[–] Fiivemacs@lemmy.ca 7 points 5 months ago (2 children)

Step one for downtown...have things opened past 3pm

This is going to be a failure all around.

[–] NotSteve_@lemmy.ca 4 points 5 months ago (1 children)

That'd be nice wouldn't it? I live in Centretown but even it makes me feel like I'm still living in my small hometown. Ottawa's not a huge city but things should be open later, even on Sundays damn it

[–] BreathingUnderWater@lemmy.ca 2 points 5 months ago (1 children)

What do you consider a huge city? Doesn't Ottawa have over a million people living in it now? It's kind of spread out over a large area I guess..

[–] BedSharkPal@lemmy.ca 1 points 5 months ago (1 children)

Really under-selling the sprawl here:

[–] BreathingUnderWater@lemmy.ca 1 points 4 months ago (1 children)

Sorry who is underselling the sprawl? That's a really neat image thank you for sharing

[–] BedSharkPal@lemmy.ca 2 points 4 months ago (1 children)

Just wanted to hit the point harder since it's not kind of spread out, it's super spread out. Which is super frustrating because it's causing a lot of issues.

[–] BreathingUnderWater@lemmy.ca 2 points 1 month ago

That is very true. I've shown some of my friends from smaller towns that image you shared me. They have a hard time believing Ottawa is that huge, it's nice having a visual to prove it.

[–] BedSharkPal@lemmy.ca 2 points 5 months ago* (last edited 5 months ago)

Guy should really lean into the "night mayor" moniker. Just show up at bars around town in some sort of costume just yelling at people "I AM THE NIGHT MAYOR!" in his best batman voice.

Otherwise the job just seem like a bit of a... night-mare? 😁