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Brigitte Pellerin

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Pellerin: No escaping Trump obsession even in local politics

Pellerin: No escaping Trump obsession even in local politics
13.02.2025 9

Ottawa Citizen

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Pellerin: Even in Alabama, they still love Canada

Pellerin: Even in Alabama, they still love Canada
06.02.2025 3

Ottawa Citizen

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Pellerin: Ask your election candidates how they'll prevent renovictions

Pellerin: Ask your election candidates how they'll prevent renovictions
31.01.2025 20

Ottawa Citizen

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Pellerin: Make the ByWard Market a teenager-friendly destination

24.01.2025 10

Ottawa Citizen

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Pellerin: Enough, already. Let OC Transpo know every time something isn't right

17.01.2025 10

Ottawa Citizen

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Pellerin: No one should freeze to death in Ottawa

10.01.2025 10

Ottawa Citizen

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Pellerin: City of Ottawa is struggling with crises it didn't create

Imagine what we could do at the municipal level if we were allowed to tax residents properly in order to fix the problems other levels of...

03.01.2025 5

Ottawa Citizen

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Pellerin: 2025, the year to beautify Ottawa as Canada's capital?

Let's start by making Wellington Street the capital thoroughfare Ottawa deserves.

27.12.2024 3

Ottawa Citizen

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Pellerin: Compliments of the season, or how to be nice to strangers

In my experience, it takes very little to give a genuine compliment and make someone smile.

19.12.2024 3

Ottawa Citizen

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Pellerin: These wellness clinics could ease Ottawa doctor shortage

Efforts are underway in Ottawa to expand the clinics, currently aimed at seniors. Everyone without a doctor should have this sort of option.

13.12.2024 8

Ottawa Citizen

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Pellerin: Ottawa's missing OC Transpo buses are the stars of this film

'Dude, where's my bus?' has already racked up more than 110,000 viewers on YouTube. It's resonating with Ottawa residents and OC Transpo users.

06.12.2024 4

Ottawa Citizen

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Pellerin: Ottawa gets something right on crime and safety

Safety through design is a lot smarter than just sending cops to yell at people. A community outreach program in the Market and on Rideau Street is...

28.11.2024 3

Ottawa Citizen

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Pellerin: No one in Ottawa should be going hungry — particularly since we can fix it

It boggles my mind that one-quarter of the homes in Canada's capital suffer from food insecurity when there are practical solutions.

22.11.2024 10

Ottawa Citizen

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Pellerin: Surely we can find ways to keep the Rideau Canal Skateway open this season

The skateway is so closely associated with winter in Ottawa that without it we’re just not the same. What would become of us if we couldn’t open it...

15.11.2024 3

Ottawa Citizen

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Pellerin: A healing piece of nature for some Ottawa long-term care homes

An Ottawa charitable foundation is bringing a little bit of nature to health-care facilities — via planter-gardens uniquely designed for patients.

07.11.2024 2

Ottawa Citizen

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Pellerin: If Ottawa must force us to drive downtown, at least make it possible to park

Other cities make on-street parking somewhat more practical than Ottawa does. But why are we forcing people to drive downtown for work in the first...

01.11.2024 20

Ottawa Citizen

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Pellerin: Counting Ottawa's homeless must lead to real action

Ottawa is part of a nationwide effort to measure the number of people experiencing homelessness. But what happens next?

25.10.2024 3

Ottawa Citizen

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Pellerin: Ron James thinks Ottawa is funny — so it must be

Did you hear the one about the public servant's workday? Ron James swears Ottawan audiences love it. And he loves us.

18.10.2024 4

Ottawa Citizen

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Pellerin: What Ottawa really needs to tackle flooding is a few 'sponge parks'

As the name suggests, sponge parks hold on to water when it falls in unusually large quantities. They help prevent flooding by giving sewer systems...

15.10.2024 2

Ottawa Citizen

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Pellerin: Doug Ford's tunnel idea is simple, and simplistic

The challenge for every city, including Ottawa, is to move people and goods in ways that are efficient, smart, safe, reliable and environmentally...

07.10.2024 4

Ottawa Citizen

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Pellerin: An Ottawa 'Nightlife Council'? It's enough to give you insomnia

I didn’t think Ottawa could get a reputation more embarrassingly uncool than 'the town that fun forgot.' I was wrong.

26.09.2024 4

Ottawa Citizen

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Pellerin: Yes, Ottawa's housing crisis can be fixed. Read this book

Ottawa housing expert Carolyn Whitzman’s new book looks at home-building policies that work — and those that don't.

20.09.2024 4

Ottawa Citizen

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Pellerin: How on-demand public transit could help end OC Transpo's death spiral

What if I told you there is a way to stop the transit crisis, which currently sees higher fares, less service, then even higher fares and worse...

12.09.2024 2

Ottawa Citizen

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Pellerin: Ontario's school cellphone ban targets the wrong end of the problem

No teenager has ever become a better person through authoritarian rules. Start engaging with them respectfully, instead.

06.09.2024 2

Ottawa Citizen

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Pellerin: City of Ottawa has work to do – and fall is the season for it

The end of August is a good time for stock-taking: a few thoughts on ways to make Ottawa more livable.

29.08.2024 2

Ottawa Citizen

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Pellerin: Meet the three-headed taxpayer who's supposed to solve Ottawa's fiscal woes

What's really needed is a complete rethink of how we tax and spend at all levels of government.

22.08.2024 2

Ottawa Citizen

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Pellerin: Let's be allies of trans and gender-diverse youth

It's not acceptable for anyone to deny the existence or experiences of gender-diverse people, or to deny them their basic human rights.

16.08.2024 2

Ottawa Citizen

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Pellerin: In Ottawa, we have a great grassroots sports culture

The 26 Ottawans at the Paris Olympics are part of a thriving community of competitive and recreational athletes.

09.08.2024 2

Ottawa Citizen

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Pellerin: A Midsummer Night's Rant about Ottawa

Helicopters or housing? Choppers or functional public transit? The city and province are making strange choices.

02.08.2024 3

Ottawa Citizen

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