Email Update #75: Back to school for kids with disabilities
We’re in the full heat of summer, and most kids, parents and education staff aren’t thinking about back-to-school. If anything, they’re enjoying a welcome break.
But after countless missed weeks o...
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Email Update 74: They paved paradise, and put up a parking garage?
Our city is buzzing with debate over the site of the new Civic Hospital.
Sadly, it’s not about the quality of facility, or the way in which the hospital will position Ottawa a leader in health ca...
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Email Update #73: This July 1, let’s march for justice
This Summer is a time for learning about Canada’s colonial past and present. Many of us have committed to this work. This Thursday, we can put that work into action.
An Algonquin-led #CancelCanada...
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Email Update #72
Note: what follows is traumatic information. Those with direct or family experience with Indian Residential Schools can contact this helpline: 1-866-925-4419.
Today we are reeling from another horr...
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ARTIST CALLOUT: Community mural against Islamophobia
About the project
On June 6th, our province and country was shattered with news of an Islamophobic attack in London, ON. Three generations of a Muslim family were killed by a 20 year old white man...
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COVID Update #71: "Yumnah’s walls", a community project to stop Islamophobia
Last week we wrote about taking action to support our Muslim neighbours. Motivated by that idea, today we write about a community project to stop Islamophobia.
It is inspired by Yumnah Afzaal, the...
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The government needs to stop the blame game and finally give Ottawa its fair share of vaccines: Harden
OTTAWA – MPP Joel Harden released the following statement after the government went on the attack against the City of Ottawa instead of owning up to its own refusal to provide the city with enough ...
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COVID Update #70: Beyond thoughts and prayers
Last week we grieved a horrific discovery at the site of a residential school, and what it told us about Canada’s violent, colonial roots.
This week we are stunned by another facet of Canadian vio...
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Email Update: 215 more reasons to end Canadian colonialism
Note: what follows is traumatic information. Those with direct or family experience with Indian Residential Schools can contact this helpline: 1-866-925-4419.
Canadians are reeling after horrifying...
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MPP Harden's Statement on National AccessAbility Week
MPP Joel Harden's Statement on National AccessAbility Week
OTTAWA — Joel Harden, MPP for Ottawa Centre issued the following statement to mark National AccessAbility Week: “National AccessAbility We...
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