MPP Update #151: Ottawa is a basketball city
I hope this note finds you well.
As March Break got started last Sunday, we were treated to two of the best basketball games I’ve ever seen. The Ravens won the women’s and men’s national championsh...
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MPP Update #150: Anti-woke is pro-hate
Content warning: graphic violence
In the Legislature and online, I am sometimes accused of being “too woke”.
Socialists like me, the argument goes, have forgotten our roots in labour politics, e...
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MPP Update #149: Save the Rideau Canal, and save our planet too
Last week, you could hear the sounds of hearts breaking across Ottawa. Why?
Because we learned our beloved Rideau Canal Skateway would not open for the current winter season. The National Capital C...
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MPP Update #148: Note to Premier Ford - hubris is dangerous
Earlier this week, I demanded the Ford government apologize to Ottawa residents. Justice Paul Rouleau’s Final Report to the Public Order Emergency Commission leaves no other conclusion.
We were aba...
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MPP Update #147: Violence against women is an epidemic that requires government action
NOTE: this column contains material on intimate partner violence (IPV) and gender-based violence (GBV).
I’m proud to serve Ottawa Centre, but I wasn’t raised here.
I spent my youth in Vankleek Hill...
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MPP Update #146: Ottawa’s pride is our strength
Allan Fotheringham, a columnist for Macleans, once called Ottawa a “place that fun forgot”, “coma city”, and “ennui-on-the-Rideau”.
While I like caustic wit, I take issue with anti-Ottawa slander....
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