Update #111: Let justice roll, and hate end
As I’m sure you’ve heard, a new convoy is arriving today, this time with motorcycles.
Reports suggest 400 motorcyclists and other supporters are arriving in our city. The event is called “Rolling ...
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Update #110: Earth Day
Today is Earth Day, where we remember that our actions are bound together in a dense web of connections to other living things.
Today we reject the falsehood of human mastery — that the earth exis...
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Update #109: Masking in OCDSP schools
As a politician, I try to speak directly to community concerns. My job is to assist those seeking change when orders decreed from above don’t make sense.
That’s why I supported OCDSB Trustee Mark...
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Update #108: We have the power to improve our lives
Breaking news from Staten Island, New York this week shocked the world.
Amazon workers at the JFK8 warehouse voted to unionize. They were led by immigrant workers who were tired of being treated w...
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Update #104: Honouring Yumna, with murals to combat Islamophobia
The Ottawa Convoy that gridlocked our city last month left much in its wake.
The trucks may be gone, but the impacts are still here. Workers and small businesses suffered, with estimates ranging f...
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We can't allow 750 trees to be cut down
I’d love to write a spoof column to mark the occasion of April Fool’s Day. Laughter is medicine, and we need it now more than ever.
But this week I’m focused on a joke that isn’t funny: the new Ci...
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