Joel Harden demands Ford stop withholding COVID-fighting funds for Ottawa
Joel Harden demands Ford stop withholding COVID-fighting funds for Ottawa
QUEEN’S PARK – Doug Ford needs to release the $9 billion in funds for fighting COVI...
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Email Update: Ottawa should evict Rick Chiarelli (not Alison Trowbridge)
Our weekly COVID email update is now available. It includes my thoughts on the disgraceful actions of Rick Chiarelli and how we must demand from more politics.
There are also updates and my though...
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Email Update: Fighting COVID19 means protecting people, not profits
Our weekly COVID email update is out! In it, I write about how to properly fight COVID-19, we must protect vulnerable people and the workers who care for them, not protect for-profit long-term care...
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Ontario NDP housing and home care plans empower people with disabilities
QUEEN’S PARK — The Ontario NDP’s new housing and home care policies will combine in an unprecedented way to improve the lives of millions of Ontarians with disabilities and their loved ones. Ho...
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Email Update: Everyone deserves a home they can afford
Our weekly COVID update is now in your inbox! In it, I share our new housing plan and why we desperately need this in Ottawa. There are also updates on the new provincial COVID-19 framework, COVID ...
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Email Update: Prayers for America, but let's avoid smug Canadian patriotism
Our weekly COVID update is now in your inbox, on a new Saturday morning time. It is titled "Prayers for America, but let's avoid smug Canadian patriotism". There are also updates and my thoughts on...
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Open Letter to Charles McVety
November 2, 2020
Dear Mr. McVety,
In December 2018, I received an invitation to your Christmas Celebration, and started on a response that was never finished. In light of recent events, I thought i...
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NDP responds to Extendicare Starwood being put under The Ottawa Hospital management
OTTAWA — NDP MPP Joel Harden (Ottawa Centre) issued the following statement in response to an order for Extendicare Starwood to come under the temporary management of The Ottawa Hospital as it ...
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Email Update: Renouncing hate and embracing our neighbours
Our weekly COVID update is now in your inbox! It includes my thoughts on Premier Ford rewarding his friend Charles McVety, someone who has said hateful, homophobic, transphobic and Islamophpobic th...
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Roberts votes to keep profits in long-term care after horrors at local homes
OTTAWA — With Extendicare West End Villa still in active COVID-19 outbreak, Jeremy Roberts, Conservative MPP for Ottawa West-Nepean, helped defeat an NDP motion Tuesday aimed at better ...
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