Joel Harden MPP / Député, Ottawa Centre

I hope this message finds you well after a haunted Halloween evening. On a personal note, it was nice to return home from Queen’s Park in time to appreciate spooky decorations, costumes, and sugar-... More

It felt like the Twilight Zone at Queen’s Park this week. That reference may be lost on some readers, so I’ll explain further.  The Twilight Zone was a sci-fi television show created by Rod Serling... More

Last week I talked about helping the helpers, but I left something out.  I didn’t ask you to support efforts where frontline workers are helping each other.  That leads me to Soul Space Ottawa, an ... More

It’s Thanksgiving weekend, and a special time to celebrate many harvests. One is the obvious harvest of food, and valuing the hard-working hands — from farm to fork — that make our meals possible. ... More

How do we ensure safe streets? That’s on my mind after last week’s column, where I asked you to write Premier Ford about his pointless crusade against bike lanes. Many of you did, and I thank you f... More

Politics has been abuzz in recent days after Premier Doug Ford waded into the fake culture war of “bikes versus cars”. This pitted road users against each other, making no one safe. That was both w... More