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City Councillor for #SomersetWard in Ottawa. Queer Jew. A better city is possible. Let’s build it together. 🏳️🌈
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I do not! But email the photo and exact location to my office and we will look into it: [email protected]
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I plan to be engaged in the process to ensure that the right for protestors to be seen and heard is not curtailed. Thank you to everyone who wrote to me about this issue.
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With these changes, I felt comfortable voting in favour of the motion, because it focused on the need to protect safe access to vulnerable infrastructure.
But to be clear: we did NOT vote on a bylaw; we asked staff to consult with the community to develop one.
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I worked with fellow councillors to remove what I saw as dangerous language in the motion that would have given bylaw and police officers the power to determine what constitutes a “nuisance” protest.
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I believe that the right to protest is sacrosanct, but I also have faced down transphobic agitators in front of schools, and I understand the need to protect vulnerable institutions and the people inside them.
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Staff will spend the next nine months consulting with the community, before bringing this back to council for a final vote.
As I have written to you before, I found myself very torn on this issue.
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Never forget
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If this proposal passes city council in two weeks, staff will work with councillors to choose pilot locations for this summer. Toronto tried this and it did not result in a rash of bylaw complaints or bad behaviour. I am quite confident the same will happen in Ottawa.
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In reality, park drinking is functionally decriminalized already. And in the parks where drinking alcohol is already rampant (ahem, Dundonald), bylaw and police are only ticketing for public intoxication or harassment, not simple possession. So let’s crack down on bad behaviour, not a glass of wine.
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You get an actual giant rod!
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The best. I went deep into reading about the Usher of the Black Rod’s job description and the ceremony around the Throne Speech a few years ago.
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I guess so
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Oh, the coffee happens before the ball-slamming
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This tour was sponsored by the @en.ottawa.ca Equity and Race Relations team, as part of an initiative to stop anti-Asian racism in our city.
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This is a copy of the head tax form for Don’s grandfather. A remnant of Canada’s vile anti-Asian racist past.
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His name is HARVEY
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It’s the drug coverage under OW that is the major issue with the waiting period. Either way, they are being abruptly cut off of antipsychotic meds and methadone.
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Major understaffing with OW, they are all being told 45 days wait now. I confirmed this with two major agencies today.
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Further evidence that for the Ford government, the cruelty is the point.
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It used to be that when people were released from prison, they could go to the Ontario Works office and immediately get access to emergency cash and healthcare.
Now, it is all ONLINE and the wait is 45 days. Many people have no phones or internet access. How is this supposed to work?!?
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Provincial government deciding that the cruelty is the point?!?
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People who may have stabilized on antipsychotic medications and methadone while in prison are being suddenly cut off when they are released.
Can you imagine why we are seeing an increase in violence against city employees at the OW office? Or against shelter workers and other neighbours?
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People who may have stabilized on antipsychotic medications and methadone while in prison are being suddenly cut off when they are released.
Can you imagine why we are seeing an increase in violence against city employees at the OW office? Or against shelter workers and other neighbours?
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We have such an incredible music scene in Ottawa and
Mélanie Brulée
and crew are doing the most to lift up and promote local performers.
Congrats to all of the award winners and nominees, including @orkidstra.bsky.social for Best Music Educator and Debaser for Best Music Curator.
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Ha sorry!
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We have such an incredible music scene in Ottawa and Mélanie Brulée and crew are doing the most to lift up and promote local performers.
Congrats to all of the award winners and nominees, including @orkidstra.bsky.social for Best Music Educator and Debaser for Best Music Curator.
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To give us a year to collect data to prove that evening metered parking did not in fact destroy local restaurant business … it is a compromise, but a step in the right direction
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He is on it and is a big fan of the cat colony and its guardian.
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But, but … the angular plane!