mikeseiler.caOwen Sound Municipal Election · October 26, 2026

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A bridge, and a confession
The bridge and the map · 2026-08-28 · full talk, 1:58

Some of what I say will make you wonder if I want the job. Here is one: where the next bridge goes.

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    A bridge, and a confession
    The bridge and the map · opening 0:45 · full talk 1:58

    Some of what I say will make you wonder if I want the job. Here is one: where the next bridge goes.

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    Where the bridge belongs: 12th Street East to 14th Street West
    The bridge and the map · opening 0:47 · full talk 2:21

    Draw it on the map: 12th Street East across to 14th Street West, the medical centre in the way, and why it can be moved.

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    Prime land, government buildings, and a floating bridge
    The bridge and the map · opening 0:50 · full talk 2:40

    The health unit on the best land in town, and a bridge that is just a bridge: floating barrels, a ramp, zero pollution.

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    The traffic picture: St Marys Hill to 16th Street
    The bridge and the map · opening 0:51 · full talk 2:28

    St Marys Hill, 16th Street, 2nd to 4th Avenue East. Downtown streets were built for this.

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    Water views and the escarpment
    The bridge and the map · opening 0:43 · full talk 1:14

    Homes along 7th Avenue East paid for a water view and lost it to a fence and a hedge. Give it back.

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    Limited options, and land that was meant to be developed
    The bridge and the map · opening 1:05 · full talk 3:26

    The grain towers stay, the air conditioners can roll over, Harbour West is going up, and the soccer complex is ours.

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    An American map that represents Canada
    The bridge and the map · opening 0:44 · full talk 3:33

    Airbnb pays Google millions for a map. A Pokemon game mapped our roads for someone else. Sit on that for a moment.

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    Our own map: OpenStreetMap, the Bruce Trail, and what stays private
    The bridge and the map · opening 0:50 · full talk 3:59

    OpenStreetMap plus Statistics Canada, the Bruce Trail walked and remapped by hand, and the places that stay blank on purpose.

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    AI without data centres
    The bridge and the map · opening 0:43 · full talk 3:49

    A quick vibe-code of the bridge on my own site, then the point: AI needs electricity and compute, not a data centre.

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    Good morning from the Salmon Spectacular
    Salmon Spectacular morning · opening 0:45 · full talk 1:36

    A sunrise photo, a nod to the early birds and the Lyman lure crowd, and what mikeseiler.ca is: map.ca's child theme.

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    Georgian Shores Marina, built on map.ca
    Salmon Spectacular morning · opening 0:59 · full talk 2:30

    Derek's marina page on map.ca: every service a tab, a slip map, and a storefront where an e-transfer keeps one hundred percent in town.

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    AI built it, and data centres were not required
    Salmon Spectacular morning · opening 0:42 · full talk 1:36

    The page took very little to build with AI, on the tools we keep and reuse. Data centres only enter when we hand our hardware to companies.

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    Suggestions, videos and French captions on mikeseiler.ca
    Salmon Spectacular morning · opening 0:42 · full talk 0:55

    The bridge suggestion you can switch off, the videos that are not on YouTube, and the Français toggle.

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    Local conversations stay local: VoteMap and the strong mayor
    Salmon Spectacular morning · opening 0:40 · full talk 1:41

    Why the hard conversations stay on map.ca, and VoteMap: a private vote among neighbours ahead of the strong-mayor power.

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    And Candid, AgriHome, and finding the map
    How map.ca came to be · opening 0:56 · full talk 1:35

    March of last year: a social enterprise to give back, a rural Canadian education idea, and the discovery that it needed a map.

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    CommunityMap, map.ca, and a free email for every Canadian
    How map.ca came to be · opening 0:54 · full talk 1:40

    The shortest domain on the planet, thank you Rob, and the plan to give map.ca back to Canadians with an email for life.

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    Where did Google put the map?
    How map.ca came to be · opening 0:39 · full talk 3:13

    A live search for a window installer in Owen Sound: sponsored results on sponsored results, and the map pushed out of sight.

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    An evening with Andrea Donaldson on addiction
    An evening with Andrea Donaldson · opening 1:03 · full talk 5:30

    Home from the Harmony Centre: compassion can exist with discipline, who is on the street now, harm reduction, and why these are our friends and families.

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    Welcome, map.ca and mikeseiler.ca
    Welcome to mikeseiler.ca and map.ca · opening 0:33 · full talk 1:08

    Two sites that look the same and are not: a Canadian sovereign platform, and a free email address for every Canadian.

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    Running for mayor in a data and privacy war
    Welcome to mikeseiler.ca and map.ca · opening 0:35 · full talk 0:59

    A trade war, and a data and privacy war. What map.ca is doing about the second one.

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    Become a member: JoinMap and the one dollar Owen Sound membership
    Welcome to mikeseiler.ca and map.ca · opening 0:44 · full talk 1:47

    Where membership happens, why you have to be Canadian, and what one dollar gets an Owen Sound voter.

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    Why one dollar, and bank to bank verification
    Welcome to mikeseiler.ca and map.ca · opening 0:38 · full talk 1:26

    Blameless on the money, and the e-transfer as a way Canadians verify each other.

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    Close the downtown core, a gathering place
    Downtown Owen Sound · opening 0:49 · full talk 3:04

    Two blocks, 10th Street to City Hall, closed to north and south traffic. What the storefront sees after that.

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    Logistics: a virtual store for every Owen Sound business
    Downtown Owen Sound · opening 0:57 · full talk 1:34

    Every business recognized, inventory optional, one online store for the town, local delivery, and a hand with your bags.

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    Police in a thriving society
    Downtown Owen Sound · opening 0:42 · full talk 1:20

    Presence without terror. As crime falls with addiction, officers in plain clothes.

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    Homelessness, addictions and the churches
    Downtown Owen Sound · opening 0:56 · full talk 5:26

    The elephant in the room, empathy, and the Good Samaritan as a city principle.

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    What I am asking of the churches
    Downtown Owen Sound · opening 0:46 · full talk 2:08

    Volunteers equipped and enabled. A mayor is not a political role, so no political agenda: take care of our own.

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