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Councillor Ariel Troster Triggered by the use of the Word Vagrancy at Council Meeting
Ottawa City Council’s Tuesday, June 25 meeting began with a presentation on Hydro Ottawa’s annual report. The utilities Chair, Bernie Ash and President Byrce Conrad provided a comprehensive review of the past year, including acknowledging the challenges faced in 2023—a three-month strike, multiple extreme weather events, and a turbine failure.
Ottawa Police’s CORE Strategy for ByWard-Rideau Area Receives Delegate Support
The May 2024 meeting of the Ottawa Police Services Board (OPSB) focused primarily on reviewing the progress of implementing the new Community Outreach Response and Engagement (CORE) policing strategy in the ByWard and Lowertown areas. Unlike last month’s meeting, which saw the participation of three delegates, this month’s session drew
The OPS presents the Ottawa Police Services Board with a plan to change policing and improve community safety
Monday’s meeting of the Ottawa Police Services Board (OPSB) began with delegate Liz Venczel, a criminology PhD student at the University of Ottawa, claiming that the proposed higher police presence in the ByWard Market and the new police operations centre that is due to open at the Rideau Centre would
Neighbours Don’t Continually Steal From Neighbours — ByWard Markets Need Mayor to Act
Before Ottawa City Council recessed for their five-week summer break, they announced that the newly formed ByWard Market District Authority would replace the lacklustre performing ByWard Business Improvement Area, better known as the ByWard BIA. S The BIA had become a punching bag for the increasing dysfunction in the ByWard
Former RCMP officer calls for detailed internal autopsy of OPS
by Calvin Lawrence, Retired RCMP officer (Photo: Jean-Marc Carisse) Many Canadians believed the January 6, 2021, turmoil they saw in the U.S. could not happen here. But now, after the trucker's protest over vaccines and Covid restrictions, we know that it can. In democratic societies, including Canada, there is an orderly process in government. Imagine
To restore confidence Solicitor General must amend police services act
ABOVE: Ontario Solicitor General Syliva Jones and Zoom image of February 2022 Ottawa Police Service Board meeting. Anyone who witnessed the February 2022 total collapse of the Ottawa Police Services Board (OPSB) must have reached the ineluctable conclusion that the time has come to disband police services boards in the province of Ontario.
Solicitor General was warned but ignored police disfunction in Ottawa
ABOVE: The Hon. Sylvia Jones (Dufferin—Caledon), Solicitor General of Ontario. (PHOTO: The Peterborough Examiner) Op-Ed: Like many Canadians, I was very shocked at how easy it was for the convoy of truckers to roll into the nation’s capital and occupy the core of the city. Whether one agrees or disagrees with what
Not a penny more to the bloated and entitled Ottawa Police Service
Ottawa City Council will be doing a great disservice to this city if they do not freeze the police budget this week. Before giving the Ottawa Police Service (OPS) a penny more, the council should demand an independent forensic audit of the OPS budget going back to 2017. The OPS
Budget season is almost over.
The municipal budget has dominated the last month of Ottawa City Council committee meetings, but this chapter will be coming to a close on December 8th. There is no triumph of a balanced budget that Mayor Jim Watson was able to proclaim in years previous. This year's budget has shown that hard times
City of Ottawa housing budget should be expanded, not policing
With 12,000 people on the city waitlist for affordable housing units, Ottawa City Council declared a housing emergency in February 2020, well before anybody knew that a global pandemic would further complicate the situation. The consequences of the initial lockdown were devastating. Adding to the pressure, countless residents lost their jobs. Undoubtedly, economic
NO Chief Sloly, you don’t control the media in Ottawa
The Ottawa Police Service (OPS) currently has 18 officers who have been SUSPENDED with FULL PAY and BENEFITS despite facing allegations of serious misconduct and/or criminal charges. The charges relate to serious crimes including allegations of rape, sexual misconduct, fraud, theft, and drug charges. Many citizens in Ottawa are victims of
Ottawa Life Magazine responds to defamation suit filed by ‘private citizen’ Peter Sloly
On June 11, 2021, Ottawa Police Chief Peter Sloly filed a defamation lawsuit against Ottawa Life Magazine (OLM), me and Carleton University Criminology Professor Darryl Davies because he was offended by an article OLM published about the Ottawa Police Service in March 2021 titled Rapes and Lies — the Cancerous
Ottawa Police Service incompetence results in tragic death of Bane the puppy
Bane, a nine-month-old puppy, succumbed on 20 January to the indifference of the Ottawa Police Service (OPS). On three separate occasions neighbours frantically called the 911 operator to report the puppy’s distress and to offer recordings of the screams as supporting evidence of animal cruelty. The OPS dispatched officers to
Is it time to reinvent policing? Edmonton Chief of Police Dale McFee thinks so.
The numbers tell the story. A report published in August 2020 by the Ontario Human Rights Commission (OHRC) found that while Black people comprise 8.8 per cent of Toronto’s overall population, they represent almost 32 per cent of people charged by Toronto police. The numbers are based on the Toronto
Rapes and lies—the cancerous misconduct at the Ottawa Police Service
The Ottawa Police Service Board members are accessories to the rape culture at the OPS. Ottawa Life Magazine has been writing about the serious problems in policing in Ottawa and across Canada with police misconduct, police recruiting, police training and police oversight for over a decade. Over the past several
The rapists and their protectors in both the RCMP and Ottawa Police Service
No one is charged weeks after Supreme Court justice tells MPs the RCMP raped 130 of their own Two weeks after a scathing report on sexual harassment in the RCMP by former Supreme Court of Canada Justice Michel Bastarache was released which revealed that at least 130 women in the
“Cop Connects”— Tow truck drivers allege more Police involved in scam
ABOVE (LEFT TO RIGHT): Constable Andrew Chronopoulos, veteran Constable Hussein Assad and Constable Kevin Putinsky. On April 23, 2020 three Ottawa Police Service (OPS) officers were charged by the RCMP with breach of trust in relation to an alleged tow truck kick-back scheme in Ottawa. Constable Andrew Chronopoulos, veteran Constable Hussein
Ottawa Police Service — Sheep in sheep’s clothing
The Ottawa Police Services Board (OPSB) has received multiple complaints about harassment and misogyny against female officers and employees on the force for over a decade. On July 8, 2020 Ottawa police officer Carl Keenan was found guilty in a Gatineau court of assault causing bodily harm in relation to
Attorney General must investigate misogyny at Ottawa Police
Pictured above: Ottawa Police Chief Peter Sloly and acting Deputy Chief Joan McKenna The Attorney General of Ontario should immediately step-in and override Ottawa Police Chief Peter Sloly and the Ottawa Police Services Board (OPSB) decision to not call in an independent police agency to investigate criminal misconduct in the highest ranks
Oversight and temperament problems at Ottawa Police Service
Above: Ottawa Police Chief, Peter Sloly I am not sure which is more troubling, the ongoing failure of the Ottawa Police Services Board (OPSB) to properly adjudicate their responsibilities over the Ottawa Police Services (OPS) or the continuing systemic and structural problems at the force. These include flawed leadership, racism,
Ottawa man left destitute after faulty police investigation
If you Google ‘police misconduct in Ottawa’ it is clear that the Ottawa Police Service (OPS) has a problem. From the high-profile death of Somali-Canadian Abdirahman Abdi at the hands of two Ottawa Police Officers in July 2016, to Constable Jason Mallette who faced a dozen charges of misconduct in
The cancer that is killing police officers
By Kelly Donovan This article was originally published on February 24, 2019 Last week, I escorted my daughter out of Sick Kids at McMaster in a wheelchair after having a tumour removed from her cheek. While waiting for our ride, my phone alerted me to an email from the Superior Court
Are Ottawa taxpayers getting value for money from the OPS?
Photo credit: Michael Burns It is absolutely preposterous for the Ottawa Police Service (OPS) to be seeking an increase in their budget in excess of five percent from the taxpayers of this City. It is sheer lunacy for the City Council to even entertain such a proposal. Now don’t get me wrong. If
It’s Gotten So Bad – The Police Are Now Shooting Each Other
By: Darryl Davies The recent incident in which a Niagara Regional Police officer was shot multiple times by a fellow officer raises some very disturbing questions about people who are working as police officers in the Niagara Region and across Ontario. First and foremost, why is the injured officer (identified
Cancer Among Us
The Ottawa Police Service (OPS), Ottawa Police Association (OPA) and the Ottawa Police Services Board (OPSB) are cancers that must be treated before the affliction causes irreparable and even terminal damage to the democratic principles and the quality of life in Ottawa. Make no mistake about it, this twisted trio
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