Category: Community safety
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Seniors safety event November 14
Our office will be hosting a seniors safety event at the Churchill Seniors Centre on Friday, November 14 from 1-2:30 pm. Speakers will include John Wambombo from Safer Roads Ottawa on pedestrian safety, Ottawa Police on community safety, OC Transpo on safety while riding transit, as well as by-stander safety expert Julie Lalonde on how to be…
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Candidate survey responses
On January 29, I sent a survey of Kitchissippi-related provincial election questions to each of Simon Beckett (Green), Scott Healey (PC Party of Ontario), Catherine McKenney (New Democratic), and Thomas Simpson (Liberal) with a deadline of February 14. By February 15, only Catherine McKenney and Thomas Simpson had responded. Following are Simpson and McKenney’s answers….
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Northwood Recovery and neighbour issues
Kitchissippi, like every part of Ottawa, is not immune from the effects of the opioid crisis. Public drug use and the effects of that – overdose deaths, homelessness, poverty, social disorder, discarded needles and diminished feelings of safety on residents’ part – are being experienced in every part of the city, and require an all-stakeholders…