and here is an interesting development that is not at all a mystery. These photos show a new Shoppers Drug Mart location being prepared for opening in a local mall in #Ottawa. SDM is a national drug store chain here and they have an actual urban planing department (I met some of their urban planners at a meeting a few years back - very interesting people!) So this new drug store just had this long row of concrete-filled steel posts installed along the whole length of the storefront, but this is not to thwart terrorists or anything so nefarious. We had another SDM in the area that some old guy drove his car right though the plate glass window of, almost killing several staff and other customers. He said he couldn't find the brakes... So these posts seem to be a new mandatory corporate policy, as a result of the simple fact that #humans cannot be trusted to not hit the store with their #cars.