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We blocked the convoy in our neighbourhood this morning at Riverside at Bank. We started with about 25 people with hundreds more who have joined in solidarity. We made sure residents could get through but kept the convoy here.
#Ottawa
#OttawaOccupied
#Ottnews
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“Remarkably peaceful”
vs.
“We can’t ticket and tow vehicles for fear of violence”
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You know what would resolve the Jerry Can issue? Towing the trucks.
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The big question on my mind lately is:
When will residents of
#Ottawa
stop being lied to by authorities?
We are hearing over and over again that enforcement is taking place but that is clearly, and verifiably, a lie.
#OttawaOccupied
#Ottnews
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No more cars or trucks on Wellington. Permanently. Pass it on.
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Rally and March today where thousands of Ottawans expressed displeasure of the handling of this crisis and tore down the argument that this convoy is about “freedom” based on the way they have treated our residents, our schools and workers.
#OttawaOccupied
#Ottawa
#Ottnews
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There are a VERY SMALL number of actual people left in the convoy occupation. This week was the time to block off large truck access to small residential streets in the vicinity and cordon off a protest area on Wellington and the Hill. We don’t need the army, just COMPETENCE.
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First- We end this occupation and ensure people are safe.
Second - Lets organize for October 2022 so that we get a council that will fight for residents, not the status quo.
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The emails, phone calls and messages we are receiving have one over-arching theme- they are livid with the lack of leadership they have seen and they want measures put in place to immediately restore safety and trust. The public has lost confidence in more than just Chief Sloly.
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Report for yesterday - Zero vehicles (small or large) were towed as part of the occupation. Some basic enforcement would be great nearly 3 weeks in.
#Ottawa
#ottnews
#OttawaOccupied
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Damn, gas prices are high! I wonder when people will start realizing that free transit could actually save them money and be a major strategic advantage for the city.
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As disturbing reports emerge, we will meet in Centretown and walk the neighbourhood. Friday starting at 11am, and through the weekend, we will walk in the core reinforcing the importance of safety for residents and unity at this time.
#Ottawa
#ottnews
@cmckenney
@JLeiper
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The 1500 Bronson Encampment appears to be no more. All vehicles, portable toilets, tents, and debris left by the encampment have been removed from the parking lot.
#Ottawa
#OttawaOccupied
#Ottnews
@RiverWardRiley
@Carleton_U
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Shoutout to the people that made
#Ottawa
proud today at the
#BattleOfBillingsBridge
. Special mention to Old Ottawa South, the OG Moms, the 9am crew, and the people who contributed food. Let’s keep fighting for our city.
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Those who harassed residents and occupied our city for 24 days really don’t want Catherine to be Mayor. You know what to do
#Ottawa
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All people are now out safely and message sent. Tomorrow is another day to organize for our city.
We blocked the convoy in our neighbourhood this morning at Riverside at Bank. We started with about 25 people with hundreds more who have joined in solidarity. We made sure residents could get through but kept the convoy here.
#Ottawa
#OttawaOccupied
#Ottnews
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In the absence of any clear plan communicated to residents, here is what I would suggest needs to occur:
1) Every action should be geared towards protecting the residential areas of
#Ottawa
, stopping the noise, violence and harassment people are enduring
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Completely unacceptable response to students protesting a dress code at their school.
It seems as if they’re now arresting students. More to come
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Tonight the
#Ottawa
Board of Health passed our motion calling on the Province and
@fordnation
to implement permanent paid sick days in
#Ontario
.
#ottnews
#ottcity
#PaidSickDaysSaveLives
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URGENT
#Ottnews
! Watch out for the Mayor today. He and
#WatsonClub
want to force the takeover of OPSB. He has taken ZERO accountability for the total loss of control of our city and instead legitimized occupiers, and scapegoated the first Black Chief of Police.
#OttawaOccupation
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This city council couldn’t even support its core councillors while the core is occupied. We are inundated right now and needed some minor breathing room on the city agenda. I remember sandbagging for all areas of the city when the floods hit us. Next term can’t come soon enough.
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I’ve been hearing today about harassment occurring in Old Ottawa South and the Glebe with no action from authorities. This is unacceptable. I’m going to be doing a community walk tomorrow starting at Bank and Sunnyside at 10:30am, walking up Bank Street.
#Ottawa
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Today I shovelled the local rink, built a snow fort with the kids, and later today I’ll be at a celebration of life for my good friend Chris Stoney. After 23 days with every waking moment being dedicated to acting for the safety of others, it’s important to realign and exhale.
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I’m calling for the full resumption of our services (library, vaccine clinics, schools) and support of residents who should not be subjected to hatred, intimidation and constant debilitating noise in our city.
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Don’t know if anyone has realized, but the municipality has been ‘run like a business’ for a long time now. It’s resulted in some of the highest transit fares in North America, sprawl, and transfers of public funds to the private sector with debt tripling in 11 years. Enough.
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Grateful to work everyday with
@cmckenney
, who cares deeply about community and this city. Pictured here warning the occupation about the class action lawsuit and the actions coming their way if they don’t leave or move to the Hill.
#Ottawa
#ottnews
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BREAKING - international trade in Canada has been completely shut down because a 2km stretch of the over 6000 km of roads in Ottawa is open to people who walk, roll and bike.
Agree with you Walter, the NCC is unelected and unaccountable and although there is a place for them on public lands and preserving historic places, for its bureaucrats to stop the flow of trade and transport in this and other parts of Ottawa is unacceptable.
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This feels a bit shameless. Thanks for driving by at the end after 24 days of
#OttawaOccupation
. My thanks to the mutual aid community,
@cmckenney
and
@JLeiper
who have been on the ground,
#RamRanchResistance
, Ottawa residents at the
#battleofbillingsbridge
, and first responders.
Coun.
@Eli_ElChantiry
says he took a drive around downtown with Mayor
@JimWatsonOttawa
and is please to have our city back. Thanks police partners from across the country who are here.
#OttNews
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So
@suzyqdoughnuts
spoke with me today about delivering over 100 donuts to the front line
@OttawaHospital
staff at the
#covidottawa
Brewer Arena Assessment Centre. They have connected with them and delivering! Amazing people in
#Ottawa
thank you.
@ottawacity
@ottawahealth
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When our city was being occupied, and harassed, with violence, debilitating noise, and constant threats to resident safety, many politicians did nothing.
@CMcKenney
stood up and gave me hope, I joined them then as I join them now, for
#Ottawa
.
#Ottnews
#Ottcity
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A big thank you to neighbours like Zexi Li, who rightfully calls out the institutions that left residents behind and who took action with
@EmilieTaman
and
@PaulChampLaw
when the city would not. WATCH:
#Ottawa
#ottcity
#Ottnews
#OttawaOccupation
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Councillor
@cmckenney
is outside on the street fighting for their residents where
@JimWatsonOttawa
hasn’t stepped foot.
#ResignWatson
#Ottawa
#Ottnews
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The Mayor has now cancelled the meeting again. It’s now supposed to be tomorrow. Unbelievable the lack of leadership we are seeing during this crisis.
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When a call is made to a distress line about a health issue, we should be sending unarmed professionally trained mental health workers in response. It should be funded by the savings it would achieve from de-tasking the police from this work.
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The double standard is apparent in
#Ottawa
. Streets shut so trucks can park (ticketing?), porta potties provided (we have to fight every year for our kids in parks and houseless population), helping to platform this confederate flag waiving group (BLM protests chastised, got it)
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There is a highly contagious stomach bug circulating Ottawa right now. Recommend avoiding.
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Full fledged police state measures. Playgrounds shut down. No tough measures needed for congregate workplaces? No paid sick leave? What an absolute disaster.
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Wife just got back from slaying a dragon, now shovelling. Going to microwave some old coffee for her.
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The police budget has been growing faster than the others in
#Ottawa
. It has nearly tripled since 2001, outpacing inflation, population growth and tax increases. It is 5 times larger than Public Health’s. I will continue to raise these disparities.
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I’m a former federal public servant. Back then, long before the pandemic, the research about flex work from home arrangements was positive. After this unintended pandemic experiment AND knowing the benefits to employees, forcing anyone back to work FT at the office is just wrong.
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I’ll be candid. I don’t think we should be twinning the airport parkway in
#Ottawa
while trying to get people on the new $6.7 billion LRT system running in parallel, while we are in a climate emergency and also trying to pinch pennies and fix the 6000km of roads we already have.
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Negotiating with and platforming the far right leadership of this group is a mistake.
I've been sounding this horn for weeks: The rhetoric has been deranged, conspiratorial, and dangerous for awhile now. We just haven't been paying attention.
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Why did Ontario go all in on vaccines through large corporate pharmacies with very few going to primary care doctors and smaller community pharmacies? The confusion and hunger games we have seen with the pharmacy rollout in Ontario is shameful.
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After what has happened in our city and the handling of this crisis, the mayor should be the one resigning today.
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Apparently status quo
#Ottawa
is ok with subsidizing Porsche dealerships and developers, tripling the police budget over 20 years, tripling the city debt over 10 years by privatizing the LRT and Lansdowne, sprawl and road widening, but any talk of free transit fares? Unaffordable
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Vaccines should immediately be offered to teachers, school staff and other front line heroes who have taken on risk to serve others. This is even more essential now that the Province has so badly bungled
#PaidSickDays
for all.
#COVID19
#COVIDOntario
#Ottawa
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So let me get this straight - Freedom by shutting down schools, closing businesses, harassing people who wear masks, blocking and pelting emergency vehicles, setting up encampments restricting public access and creating toxic air from diesel fumes?
#FreeDumbConvoy
#Ottawa
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My thanks to
@JLeiper
who put forward a motion at the Police Services Board to request that the Ontario Civilian Police Commission investigate the conduct of
#Ottawa
police. Councillor
@cmckenney
made an inquiry and we spoke to this necessity today.
#ottnews
#OttawaOccupied
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10) Do not allow further trucks and vehicles into the occupation this weekend nor free flow of gas cans to refuel them
11) We don’t need mass arrests, that is not wise
12) Apologize to Ottawa residents for this complete mishandling
#ottnews
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The police budget has more than tripled in 20 years, outpaced population growth and inflation, grown faster than other departments in the city and has never had a reduction. Ever. It now sits at $389 MILLION PER YEAR. Annual affordable housing spend? $15 million.
#ottnews
#Ottawa
2/ My approach to improving safety for you and your family is rooted in five key principles. First, unlike other candidates, I will not defund the police. Instead, I will modernize our emergency services to ensure we are delivering a safer Ottawa for everyone.
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We don’t have 4 years to give up and hope for better next time. Our Climate, Health, and Education are on the line and suffered last night. Low voter turnout and first past the post is so destructive. People better be ready for organized resistance to this agenda.
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I’m calling for the full resumption of city services in
#Ottawa
that have been shut down by a very small number of people. The library, vaccine clinics, our schools. We should not be allowing this intimidation and harassment to continue, they should be protected.
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Whatever the truth is, this crisis demands that it starts to be told. The lack of leadership from the City of Ottawa, and all orders of government, is leading to a swift and complete erosion of trust. Start demanding the truth.
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The cancelled police services board meeting of Feb 28th had 60 public delegations registered with another 29 having made a request to speak. That is almost unheard of for most city committees. They should have allowed the public to speak.
#OttawaConvoy
#OttawaSiege
#ottnews
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One of the simple things
#Ottawa
needs to sort out next term (with a more community friendly council), is public bathroom accessibility. We close park washrooms for too much of the year, limit signage for the public washrooms we do maintain, and have to fight for porta-potties!
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Newsflash OPS - You let them occupy our streets for weeks and openly facilitated the risk to public safety during that time.
We are ensuring the safe movement of a convoy that originated in Quebec and are travelling through Ottawa en route to Vankleek Hill. Counter-protests are hindering the safe flow of traffic and putting public safety at risk.
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Todays vote in
#Ottawa
could see:
- The youngest city council elected
- The most women elected to office
- The first progressive Mayor since Marion Dewar
- International news focussed on our inclusive history-making city post convoy occupation
Go out and vote from 10am to 8pm
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Here it is folks. I’m no great fan of the police board but with
#WatsonClub
it will be 10 times worse. Other board members will resign as well if he completes the takeover. The person who should be resigning today is Jim Watson.
#ResignWatson
NEW from City Hall:
@DianeDeans
was called into Mayor
@JimWatsonOttawa
's office and asked to step down from the police services board. She said no. Mayor is looking to oust her. Board member Sandy Smallwood has tendered his resignation in protest.
#OttNews
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The most important thing you can do for
#Ottawa
this weekend is speak to family and friends about why Catherine McKenney is the best choice for Mayor. For me it’s 1) Convoy occupation hero when most other politicians sat idle, 2) Got the LRT public inquiry, 3) Affordable housing
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I’ve had people asking me to run for Mayor from all parts of
#Ottawa
this term. I love serving
@CapitalWard
while I know the potential of this city.
@cmckenney
has committed to bringing that change. We need to unite support behind them. My plan is to run again in
@CapitalWard
.
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The city of
#Ottawa
is now filing for an injunction regarding the ongoing
#OccupationOttawa
.
#Ottnews
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Letter just received from Hydro Ottawa who call the level of damage to the system beyond comprehension. Let’s keep helping eachother and huge thank you to
@hydroottawa
and
#Ottawa
public works and crews for these efforts to restore safety and power.
#OttawaOutage
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I called on Rick Chiarelli to resign his seat at the last Planning Committee meeting. The reaction? Pearl clutching, cautions about decorum and “integrity”. What a backwards place.
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2) Is it that some factions of police are supportive of this occupation and refusing to enforce, but the public is not being told this?
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Enough city of
#Ottawa
catering to road widening. They want to put a highway through the Peoples Park at Lees Towers Field in
@CapitalWard
. We can’t let that happen. Let’s fix the roads we have, not pave over greenspace in the core.
#Ottnews
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Now imagine being a non-binary candidate, the actual vile attacks that come with that, and running a positive, hopeful campaign despite your opponent putting out non-factual press releases every two days about your stated intent. The last thing we need is another thin skin mayor.
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It’s astonishing that through all of the hardship experienced we still have not sorted out paid sick leave for all, a public vaccine, basic income, or the transformation of our streets. Instead we did a lot of personal shaming. These should have all been permanently implemented.
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The Ottawa Police have a budget that has tripled in less than 20 years. It has tax and rate support of over $380 million Per Year. It is three times that of
#Ottawa
public health and has far outpaced inflation and population growth.
Sloly: The RCMP "are probably more underfunded than the Ottawa Police Service is." We have contact and co-operation with them but they're not the police of jurisdiction here. They cannot do local policing here.
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Community Safety Walks - Keep each other safe. Ours starts today at 11am in Centretown. We will be walking this route and continuing through the weekend. You may wish to plan this for your community this weekend too
#Ottawa
#ottnews
@cmckenney
@JLeiper
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We should have kept these. And look at the people on bikes too. ❤️
Ottawa - 1959 May 01 - The streetcars' final parade on Bank Street.
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2) Begin ticketing and towing existing vehicles that are part of the convoy parking illegally in our residential areas, when it is safe to do so.
3) Allow for protest on Wellington and in the Parliamentary precinct and begin cordoning off for people in that vicinity
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Community members have started a reporting tool for incidents associated with the occupation:
#Ottawa
#ottnews
@Aussiemandias
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Catherine McKenney is going to raise more money than Jim Watson did in the 2018 election. The key difference? Catherine is going to do it with grassroots donations and without the $200,000 that Mayor Watson took from individuals connected with the development industry.
#Ottawa
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If a politician comes to your door this municipal election, ask them what they did for
#Ottawa
while the city was going through the convoy occupation. It’s a simple test, were they there for our city when it mattered most?
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Ottawa is a city in desperate need of accountability. The mismanagement on the
#OttawaOccupation
, the
#OttLRT
, the massive mistakes on the
#ClimateCrisis
and developer influence will be atoned for this year.
All three provincial appointees to the
@ottawapolice
service board have resigned, according to the Solicitor-General's office. This after
@QPbriefing
reported that member Robert Swaita attended the truck protest in Ottawa. This is a mess.
#OttNews
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Thank you, from the bottom of my heart, to Capital Ward residents and Ottawa supporters who have put their trust in me to represent our ward at the City Council table. Congratulations to all candidates who put their name forward.
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I’m so sad to hear about Jenn Casey and the snowbirds crash tonight. She was such a kind hearted, smart and driven person. We spent a lot of time together years ago at Carleton University res. I’ve been going through memories and found an old poster from when we ran for RRRA.
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The reason we are here is because of a complete failure to prepare for this. Ottawa Police rolled out a welcome mat (“remarkably peaceful space to grieve”) while not intervening, or cordoning off residential areas or towing vehicles, all while being thanked by the Mayor.
#Ottnews
.
@JimWatsonOttawa
to
@CFRAOttawa
just now: SITUATION AT THIS POINT IS COMPLETELY OUT OF CONTROL BECAUSE PEOPLE WITH THE PROTEST ARE CALLING THE SHOTS. OUTNUMBERED
#ottnews
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Wow!! The Catherine McKenney contingent is unbelievable at Pride! Change is coming. Let’s gooo.
#ottawapride
@cmckenney
#Ottawa
#Ottnews
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Status quo old boys club happy for status quo old boys club.
Congratulations to
@Eli_ElChantiry
on his appointment as chair of the Ottawa Police Services Board. He has a tough road ahead of him, but I know he is up to the challenge.
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@cmckenney
@OttawaPolice
Yup. Time to ticket and tow all the vehicles instead of finding places for them to park.
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How, in this day and age, can you launch a Mayoral campaign without mentioning the words climate change or environment?
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I have some great news. The Bank Street Bridge (over the canal) will see the two outer curb lanes dedicated for pedestrians and active transportation. Should happen in less than a week. More discussions to come on other areas of Bank Street.
#Ottawa
#ottnews
#covidottawa
#ottwalk
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In some cases this is in real time, where the evidence to refute what is being said is displayed for all to see.
In some cases we are seeing active facilitation by authorities of illegal activities (such as new encampments, fuel resupply, allowing vehicles back in to occupy)
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