Weekly roundup November 12-18

Settling into life in Ottawa. Driving to work every day is a big change from walking to the university and around Toronto all the time. Even had a good dinner at a Mexican place in ByWard Market, Ahora. It was quite tasty and I ran into a friend from UofT.

Articles

So long, it has been good to know you [Ottawa Citizen]

Isn't it time to wise up to the wise guys? [Maclean’s]

The Masonic Temple is the latest heritage building to face an uncertain future. Why can't we get our (Ontario Heritage) Act together? [National Post]

The problem isn’t giving people money when they don’t work... It’s taking it away when they do [National Post]

Zurich’s tram system fits seamlessly in to city life [Urban Current]

Visualizing the way Americans value water [Fast Co.exist]

Tweets

Screenshot from Twitter. 2012-11-15T23:15:24.000Z. Brent Gilliard (@bgilliard). Just heard the federal government on CBC radio bragging about spending a whole whopping billion dollars on transit since 2006..

[tweet https://twitter.com/ruk/status/269813978040000513]

[tweet https://twitter.com/scottfeschuk/status/269921444232851456]

[tweet https://twitter.com/acoyne/status/269962128193097729]

Video

^ via Jamie

Podcast

Non-fiction book? There’s an app for that [CBC Here & Now] (Listen to the 6 minute clip)