Ottawa residents cannot wait any longer for vaccine certificates: MPP Harden
OTTAWA — With the province of Quebec implementing vaccine certificates for non-essential services in September, Doug Ford needs to provide Ottawa residents with a vaccine passport now, said Joel Ha...
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Email Update #78: Back to school without a serious plan (yet)
This week the government claimed to offer a back to school plan for September.
I know many of us are enjoying a novel this summer, but we don’t expect governments to write fiction in their public p...
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Email Update #77: Finding stillness this summer
By the time you read this email, I will be in the glorious woods of Algonquin Park, nestled in the bucolic scenery of Achray Campground.
Every year our family tries to make it to Achray, and there...
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Email update #76: My letter to Abel Mengistab, a year after his passing
What follows is a letter from me to Abel Mengistab, an amazing young leader we lost on June 24, 2020. I will be reading this letter at a celebration of life for Abel this Saturday, where a foundati...
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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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