Joel Harden MPP / Député, Ottawa Centre

This week is Veterans’ Week, and next Monday is Remembrance Day. It’s an important time for our community, our province, and our country. We will appreciate those who serve and have served. We will... More

The government has sent Bill 212, Reducing Gridlock, Saving You Time Act, to the Ontario Standing Committee on Heritage, Infrastructure and Cultural Policy for review. Bill 212 would require munici... More

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

Tomorrow Ottawa residents will host a global climate strike, a yearly event inspired by Greta Thunberg’s “Friday’s for Future” movement. It’s a time of much reflection.  For years since August 2018... More

Thanks so much for your replies last week to my question about whether cooperation in politics is possible. Your replies were thoughtful, and I took them to heart. Today I have another question for... More