#BikeNite A1: Posting from rainy #WaterlooRegion, #Ontario. It is not biking weather, and will remain so for almost a week...
I have a hybrid bike (commuter/groomed trails), and the only carrying capacity is a couple of panniers and whatever I can hold down with a couple of bungie cords. Good enough for a small grocery run, but I'm more likely to take a car once than the bike for three trips.
Nothing a nice cargo bike wouldn't fix...
For folks in Waterloo Region, CBC has this page of who's running in the various ridings. It will be updated as new candidates appear.
#CanPoli #CanadianElection2025 #WaterlooRegion #NeverVoteConservative
Does anyone know where in central #SouthWesternOntario (#kitchener , #waterloo, #waterlooregion @waterlooregion ) to #donate still working - just old - #cellphones, #tablets?
Sometime in the past I gave a bunch to an org that got them to women's #shelters and refugee new arrivals but I can't remember who that was.
yay! I have floated this balloon a few times, and finally got traction.
We've got a bonafide Signal group for anybody in the vaguely Guelph-ish area!
This is region-specific not mastondon-specific, btw. So if you know anyone not on fedi that would still be interested, DM me for a link to share. Open to anyone interested in building local community and connections - very #spoonie friendly, btw.
#Guelph #KWAwesome #WatReg #Waterloo #Kitchener #WaterlooRegion #CambridgeON
@waterlooregion
Five years ago, Covid kept us home while restaurants and other food businesses looked for ways to stay open. From cookies, to cooking classes to cooked meals, I spoke with three local business owners about those days.
#BikeNite A1: Posting from the north of #WaterlooRegion. A warm spell of 20C earlier this week finally melted the last of the snow in our yard, although our neighbour still has a small heap in a shaded corner.
Spring makes me itchy to get biking. But it's some doing to get it out of the basement, and it's back to freezing temperatures anyway.
*And* I seem to have put my back out lifting something last week. Just muscular, I think, and the heat pack makes it feel better.
Hey Kitchener-Waterloo, there’s a #TeslaTakedown Saturday, March 22 (tomorrow) from 10-4. The dealership is on Victoria St N. See ya there!
Happily, #GrandRiverTransit has just increased bus service, at least where I live. Longer hours, weekend service, but not more frequent service; but 30 minutes per bus in rural areas seems pretty good to me.
Now, if only we could get the LRT extended to Cambridge.
The 2025 version of Vélo Canada Bike's Pedal Poll is happening Tuesday June 3 to Sunday June 8. If you'd like to volunteer to count people walk, cycling, or driving, they have a form where you can sign up. As they put it:
"It's is a chance to evaluate the state of cycling in our communities. Together we get a “snapshot” of what cycling looks like in communities across Canada, at the same time, year over year."
Vélo Canada Bikes has published the results of their 2024 cross-Canada Pedal Poll. I helped out by counting in Waterloo, Ontario. 
Every once in a while the politicians for #WaterlooRegion make the right decisions. But that's diminished by hedging their bets (f'rinstance: Approve the LRT, but then delay bringing it to Cambridge by years, soon to be a decade).
And it's not helped by a right-wing shift in the election of muncipal politicians, who aren't going to make bold, progressive decisions in the first place.
Pi Day is one day, but pie can be had every day! My latest food column is up, along with some tasty handheld pies available in town!
As Annie and Aretha sang, Sisters Are Doin' It For Themselves. For International Women's Day, I chatted with a couple of awesome female solo founders of food production companies: Morgan Mitchell of Green Goddess and Becky Prime of Beck's Broth
#LocalFood #WaterlooRegion #WellingtonCounty #IWD2025 #Canada #Food
There is SO MUCH #CanCon music being made, and SO MUCH #KWCon music made in just #WaterlooRegion. The CRTC requirement of 35% doesn't begin to scratch the surface.
Join your local #CommunityRadio station, and you can sample the firehose of new music submitted. At @radiowaterloo.ca we get several hundred submissions a week from all over the world. But the CanCon portion of that is enough that we wouldn't have to play anything else.
My latest food column is up!
Whether they're nurturing a new generation of farmers, continuing a legacy, creating new flavours or making it easier to find tastes of home, Waterloo-Wellington's Black food entrepreneurs are helping to shape our food scene and add to the nation conversation.
#Food #Mastonom #BlackHistoryMonth #Canada #LocalFood #WaterlooRegion #WellingtonCounty
#BikeNite A1
I'm in #WaterlooRegion, as usual. The snow is melting, and the roads are finally getting clear enough for biking. Soon. Real soon.
I like the stickers, particularly the hand-drawn hashtag "Bikenite" ones. I'd probably put them on my laptop lid rather than my bike. But maybe it's time to decorate my bike with stickers too.
Definitely need to be die-cut vinyl stickers, 'cos the paper ones (even coated paper) don't last in the weather.
“‘If you really like the Green movement, send me a message, tell me I'm doing great, tell me I can earn your vote for next time, but this time, vote Catherine Fife, vote NDP.’ Esmail is running for the Green party for a second time. Fife has been MPP for the riding since 2012 when she won a byelection.”
For folks in Waterloo Region, Ontario, who are still not sure where to vote or who to vote for in the provincial election, the community-minded folks at CivicTech Waterloo Region have put together a helpful website for you. Plenty of info to answer your questions. Check it out, and then make sure you vote! There are plenty of issues that make this a high stakes election, and your vote matters.
