Stay-At-Home Order As of Thursday, April 8, 2021 at 12:01 a.m., under the direction of the Ontario Government, we are in a province-wide Stay-at-Home Order for the next four weeks – requiring everyone to remain at home except for essential purposes. This includes going to the grocery store or pharmacy, accessing health care services (including…
Notice of Motion Passes with Unanimous Consent As a City Councillor for Bay Ward I am very proud of our city’s reputation of having some of the highest quality and safest drinking water in the country. Most of it comes from the Ottawa River where our own Britannia Filtration Plant operates. We take for granted…
Spring has sprung! Birds are chirping. Flowers are beginning to peak through the soil, emerging from their winter slumber. Trees are starting to bud, and warmer days lie ahead. These are some of the positive things that I am focusing on as we head into the Easter Long weekend – usually a time for celebration…
Women and Gender Equity Strategy In late 2018, City Council voted in favour of creating the City’s first Women and Gender Equity Strategy. I was privileged to champion this endeavour, taking on the role of Council Liaison for Women and Gender Equity and Chair of the Council Sponsors’ Group. I am pleased to announce that…
Covid Vaccination Update This morning at 12:01 Ottawa moved into the Red-Control Level Framework as a result of worsening trends in key health indicators in the region. From March 10 to 15, 2021, Ottawa’s case rate increased by 24.8 per cent to 46.8 cases per 100,000 people, and is continuing to climb. Hospitals in our…
On March 31st at 12pm, Ecology Ottawa is hosting a virtual event on Doughnut Economics – a concept that consists of two concentric rings: a social foundation to ensure that no one is missing out on life’s essentials, and an ecological ceiling ensuring we protect the Earth. These concentric rings form the doughnut – a…
International Women’s Day March 8, 2021 #ChoosetoChallenge On Monday, March 8, we will celebrate International Women’s Day. It’s a time to reflect on progress made, to call for change and to celebrate all women who have played an extraordinary role in their countries and communities. This year’s International Women’s Day theme is Choose to Challenge.…
Motion for Chalk River referred to Standing Committee on Environmental Protection and Waste Water Management One of the most important natural resources we have in Ottawa is our drinking water supply from the Ottawa River so we need to ensure that it is protected for generations to come. The privately-owned Canadian Nuclear Laboratories is proposing…
Community and Protective Services Committee Update This past Thursday I attended, the first Community and Protective Services Committee (CPSC) meeting of 2021, as a voting member. During this meeting we received and approved a report on Ottawa’s emergency shelters and transitional housing programs These supportive agencies will soon offer improved standards of operations and service…
This week City Council voted to add 1,281 hectares of land to our city urban boundary and designated where those lands would be located. This was based on a decision made in May 2020 that Ottawa would expand its urban boundary to absorb 40% of its projected growth while 60% of its growth was to be done through intensification…