The insinuation by the @_MarkSutcliffe campaign that we have "contributed to McKenney's campaign" in any way is not based on any fact or evidence and is being used to distract from real issues that matter to #Ottawa residents like accountability and transparency at City Hall. 1/5 When it comes to our over 700 members, they are free to do as they wish and support any of the candidates we have endorsed. In fact, we encourage our members to do so and encourage residents across #ottcity to join them too. 2/5

We're happy to be out tabling at the #Kanata Mayoral debate tonight to talk to Kanata residents about our movement for a better #ottcity!

We'll also be livetweeting the Mayoral debate tonight so follow along with us in the thread below! First up with opening statements are Param Singh, former police officer at OPS; former mayor Bob Chiarelli (who still reads his statements off the sheet after all these years); and Ade Olumide, who is focused on a police complaints bill of rights.

Today we are proud to announce that after a vote of our membership, Horizon Ottawa is endorsing @cmckenney to be the next Mayor of Ottawa.

Since becoming a councillor in 2014, Catherine has been one of the most consistently progressive voices at #ottcity Hall. 1/8 They've supported initiatives to push for more affordable housing, a city budget that prioritizes people over big corporate interests, and pushing for an inquiry into our LRT and showed true leadership during the #OttawaOccupation when many other politicians left us behind. 2/8

Getting started on live tweeting the OPSB meeting which has just begun. A second delegate from the community is speaking now. Mae Margaret (They / Them) is making an impassioned statement, calling out OPS inaction.

Hi all, we're here at the @OttawaPolice Services Board. We'll try to livetweet as best as possible, but we've tried to get a critical mass of Horizon members to go in person to speak as delegates, since the public has been denied the accessibility of appearing virtually. The meeting is kicking off with some administrative business. We've learned that all new members of the board were sworn in beforehand during the in camera meeting. You can follow along here:

As we noted the other day, we will not be able to give regular updates to today's @ottawacity council meeting but you can watch below.

Discussion around #HeronGate is happening now.

@ottawacity Here is the agenda for today's meeting:

ottwatch.ca/meetings/meeti…

@sghottawa @ottawacity @MathieuFleury @JLeiper @RiverWardRiley @glengower @ShawnMenard1 @JimWatsonOttawa @rawlsonking @cmckenney For every affordable unit we built, we lost 7 says @cmckenney so you can see why we've got folks who will be in the shelter system for years.

They ask if we are doing this analysis now? @sghottawa @ottawacity @MathieuFleury @JLeiper @RiverWardRiley @glengower @ShawnMenard1 @JimWatsonOttawa @rawlsonking @cmckenney .@cmckenney says it seems like we are fighting this battle constantly where we are fighting for more affordable housing and @ottawacity is prioritizing other things.

The Planning Committee Meeting is about to begin where they will be discussing the Heron Gate "Social Framework" and the @ottawacity affordable housing plan.

You can follow us on this thread below.

You can also watch on YouTube here:
@ottawacity Find the agenda for the meeting today here: ottwatch.ca/meetings/meeti…

Find the list of public delegates below, there are 25 public delegates today speaking to Heron Gate and speaks to how controversial the decision to be made today is:

Xue Xu says pronouns and phonetic pronunciation to be added to delegations. We missed some of Xue Xu's delegation but here are some highlights:

"Myself and others heard again and again, that students, especially gender minorities, racialized and disabled people, are having stressful, even traumatic interactions because of special constables."

The #Ottawa Police Services Board is starting now.

We will be giving live updates and you can follow it in the thread below:

Member Smallwood announces that there will be more effort to take to folks earlier about the @OttawaPolice budget process. The plan will be up for approval tonight.

Today marks exactly one year since @ottawacity declared a housing emergency so let's the actions #Ottawa City Council has taken so far (a thread) 1/6: Instead of putting the necessary funding they need for housing they put 25x more money towards the @OttawaPolice 25x than building new affordable homes. 2/6

Tune in right now at the link below to watch the first #Ottawa City Council meeting of thr new year. We will be tweeting some parts of it!

First ever meeting of #Ottawa City Council that is opened up by a land acknowledgement by well-known indigenous elder, Claudette Commanda.

Our event on Ottawa's state of democracy is about to begin!

You can watch the event at the link below. We will also be livetweeting on our Twitter page!
us02web.zoom.us/j/85358138163 Moderator for the event will be Patricia Harewood, a labour lawyer and unapologetic feminist.

She is a board member for @CAWI_IVTF and has over 20 years of working on human rights issues.