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Adam: Ottawa’s tent plan for refugee claimants deserves support

The capital city is at war with itself over asylum seekers. But Ottawa should be able to house them all.

21.11.2024 10

Ottawa Citizen

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Adam: Doug Ford needs to step up to fix Ottawa's public transit mess

Funding more 'transit constables' to crack down on fare cheats is hardly Ottawa's top priority, Premier.

14.11.2024 20

Ottawa Citizen

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Adam: Maybe Mayor Sutcliffe should be talking to Pierre Poilievre about public transit

Canada's big-city mayors want more transit help from Justin Trudeau's government. But Pierre Poilievre may soon hold the purse-strings. So what does...

07.11.2024 10

Ottawa Citizen

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Adam: Doug Ford is outsourcing his family doctor problem

By leading an 'action team' on family doctors for the premier, ex-federal health minister Jane Philpott insulates Doug Ford from criticism as he mulls...

01.11.2024 10

Ottawa Citizen

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Adam: Ottawa mayor's pitch to limit protests is an assault on rights

Anyone should be able to worship or go to school without fear of violence or intimidation — but if they are not, the answer lies in enforcing the...

24.10.2024 4

Ottawa Citizen

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Adam: Bill to protect Gatineau Park is badly needed, but also badly timed

Gatineau Park's future isn't a priority for any federal politician, be it local MPs or cabinet ministers. Thirteen unsuccessful bills to protect it...

17.10.2024 20

Ottawa Citizen

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Adam: 1,100 new housing units in Alta Vista by 2028, if federal government gets its way

The 1495 Heron Rd. project would include affordable housing — and preserve heritage buildings, the Canada Lands Company says. It's a positive step.

10.10.2024 10

Ottawa Citizen

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Adam: Why Mark Sutcliffe's 'fairness for Ottawa' campaign should target Doug Ford too

Ford, who wants to spend billions and billions on a traffic tunnel under Highway 401 in Toronto, has been badly shortchanging Ottawa on transit money,...

03.10.2024 10

Ottawa Citizen

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Adam: Stars are aligning for the Ottawa Senators' move to LeBreton Flats

This time, there are no battling egos among the ownership team to scuttle the downtown arena plan.

26.09.2024 10

Ottawa Citizen

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Adam: Is Sutcliffe's 2.9% tax hike right for Ottawa?

This should be a vigorous budget debate based on financial reality in Ottawa, not on fulfilling election promises.

19.09.2024 10

Ottawa Citizen

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Adam: How nurse practitioners are starting to fill big gaps in Ontario health care

With a family doctor shortage, nurse practitioners are gradually gaining a foothold in primary health care and demanding an even greater role.

12.09.2024 10

Ottawa Citizen

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Adam: Can nurse practitioners fill the family doctor gap in Ontario?

More than 4,000 nurse practitioners are registered in primary care in Ontario. How best to deploy them? And are clinics run by them good value for...

05.09.2024 20

Ottawa Citizen

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Adam: Cutting OC Transpo train service now makes very little sense

It would be better to wait a few months and gauge the impact of public servants' return to office so we can get a better picture of the level of...

29.08.2024 40

Ottawa Citizen

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Adam: No, the feds aren't shortchanging the City of Ottawa

Mayor Mark Sutcliffe is setting up higher levels of government to take the blame if property taxes rise significantly in the 2025 budget.

22.08.2024 10

Ottawa Citizen

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Adam: Fixing Ontario's doctor shortage isn't just about money, but about vision

THE DOCTOR DRAIN: Family physicians need more resources, yes, but what's still missing is an overarching idea of what health-care delivery should look...

08.08.2024 10

Ottawa Citizen

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Adam: OHIP pays family doctors just $37.95 a visit. No wonder so many are quitting

THE DOCTOR DRAIN: Family practice is really a small business — but with government-imposed price controls. In Ontario, it's getting harder and...

07.08.2024 9

Ottawa Citizen

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Adam: Here's what the pay of an Ontario family doctor looks like

The Doctor Drain: Family physicians in this province aren't poor, but they're not exactly getting rich — particularly, given the workload, pressure...

07.08.2024 8

Ottawa Citizen

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Adam: Canada's Olympic women soccer players are heroes. Get behind them

With all the focus on the drone spying, people forgot that there are 22 women, who had nothing to do with it, in Paris to represent their country.

29.07.2024 10

Ottawa Citizen

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Adam: Secrecy over LRT Stage 2 payments is just unacceptable

On LRT, Ottawa Council is again hiding behind 'solicitor-client privilege' — but we taxpayers are the clients and we have a right to know more than...

25.07.2024 20

Ottawa Citizen

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Adam: Ottawa's street names should celebrate heroes, ignore questionable figures

The City's new commemorative naming policy should be a genuine effort to recognize local people who have done great things for Ottawa.

18.07.2024 10

Ottawa Citizen

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Adam: Rise in political vitriol fuels rise in physical threats against politicians

Threatening a politician has become something of a rite of passage for those who dwell in the darker recesses of the internet. It could quickly become...

04.07.2024 20

Ottawa Citizen

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Ottawa's heritage policy seems to have gone haywire | Opinion

Honouring heritage is good, says Mohammed Adam. But the city would do well to remember that not everything old is worth preserving.

27.06.2024 20

Ottawa Citizen

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Politicians need prodding on better care for seniors | Opinion

Mohammed Adam warns that abuse and neglect of the elderly is only going to get worse — unless our leaders change their mindset.

20.06.2024 20

Ottawa Citizen

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Adam: Doug Ford had no business going after immigrants

Of course the premier was angry over the shooting at a Toronto Jewish school. But fanning the flames of prejudice is both offensive and dangerous.

06.06.2024 10

Ottawa Citizen

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Adam: Canada's housing minister shouldn't be fighting with cities over fees

The confrontation over development charges should be laid to rest. All levels of government want more homes built.

30.05.2024 50

Ottawa Citizen

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Adam: Ottawa's taxi fiasco will cost taxpayers millions – but the judge was absolutely right

'Rather than continuing its partnership with the taxi industry to fight against this stronger illegal bandit taxicab company known as Uber, the city...

23.05.2024 50

Ottawa Citizen

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Adam: It's ridiculous for Ontario to say it's not worried about 'diminished' supply of doctors

14.05.2024 30

Ottawa Citizen

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Adam: Treasure the organizations that help families cope with mental-health challenges

The Sashbear Foundation, one such group, offers support for people with borderline personality disorder (BPD) and their families. Its work, and that...

09.05.2024 40

Ottawa Citizen

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Adam: City takes first step to pass a long-overdue renoviction bylaw

Tenants have been thrown out under the guise of repairs and renovations, only to find their apartments rented to others for much higher rents.

02.05.2024 40

Ottawa Citizen

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Adam: Do people want more or less government spending? Depends on the poll

You have to wonder whether the Canadians telling pollsters they want more spending on housing and health care, are the same ones who say government is...

26.04.2024 10

Ottawa Citizen

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Adam: Ottawa Council must avoid NIMBYism on supportive housing

Let's admit it: Many of us don’t want social housing anywhere near us. We fear what an influx of people from shelters, and others with all manner of...

18.04.2024 10

Ottawa Citizen

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Adam: Once again, City of Ottawa shows its lack of imagination on Lansdowne

The idea of seeking the best ideas and designs possible to create the very best Lansdowne we can seems alien to city leaders.

11.04.2024 20

Ottawa Citizen

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Adam: Speed cameras in Ottawa are popping up where you might not expect them

The city maintains that public safety is the only reason for them, although fines from speed cameras brought in $9 million in 2022 and more than $11...

04.04.2024 10

Ottawa Citizen

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Adam: Despite family doctor shortage, politicians still aren't prioritizing health care

With six million across Canada lacking a family doctor, it's amazing that health care is on the back burner, and Canadians are not up in arms.

28.03.2024 20

Ottawa Citizen

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Adam: I watched Brian Mulroney take on Margaret Thatcher over apartheid

I had a ringside seat to the 1987 Vancouver Commonwealth summit in which the two leaders went toe-to-toe over the issue. Mulroney quickly became my...

21.03.2024 10

Ottawa Citizen

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Adam: Ontario's plan to increase the supply of family doctors isn't working

No one thinks of Canada as a place where hundreds of people line up for hours to try to get a physician. But that just happened in Kingston, Ont.

14.03.2024 7

Ottawa Citizen

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Adam: Do Ottawa police have a double standard about protests? It sure looks like it

The convoy-anniversary protesters got kid-glove treatment — again. But officers aren't so lenient with other demonstrators.

09.03.2024 20

Ottawa Citizen

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Adam: City of Ottawa can solve its homelessness crisis — so why doesn't it?

We don’t need to give people a right to live in tent encampments. We need to give them a right to decent housing — which we can afford to...

29.02.2024 10

Ottawa Citizen

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Adam: Canada's premiers should stop whining about federal housing plans

The Housing Accelerator Fund can be the model for federal spending: money going directly to cities that need it. No meddling middlemen.

22.02.2024 8

Ottawa Citizen

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Adam: Ontario must solve the family-doctor shortage, and quickly

A family physician is a small-business person struggling with high costs and overhead. Many find that their practice has become stressful and is no...

15.02.2024 8

Ottawa Citizen

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Adam: Ottawa Council's criticism of developer deal with Shawn Menard is utterly hypocritical

What's also baffling is why the city allowed the problem — if it even was a problem — to fester.

08.02.2024 30

Ottawa Citizen

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Adam: At last, the ByWard Market renewal will soon be underway

'We could be in a position to have shovels in the ground for these projects in 2025.'

01.02.2024 9

Ottawa Citizen

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Adam: ByWard Market is still the place to be, these business owners say

'People ... have this perception of the market as being unsafe or rough. But if you spend time here, it is not.'

25.01.2024 8

Ottawa Citizen

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Adam: Ticketing these protesters is an attempt to suppress free speech

Ottawa bylaw has zealously gone after Palestinian supporters who use megaphones at demonstrations. But that hasn't been the enforcement pattern at...

18.01.2024 6

Ottawa Citizen

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Adam: From taxes to transit, 2024 poses tough challenges for Ottawa Council

Councillors have finally learned to work co-operatively, which is good. But city government faces the true test of its efficacy this year.

11.01.2024 10

Ottawa Citizen

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Adam: Given Ottawa Council's inaction, the ByWard Market is becoming a no-go zone

As is typical, city politicians talk and talk, incapable of finding concrete solutions. Meanwhile, conditions deteriorate.

04.01.2024 50

Ottawa Citizen

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Adam: Do teenagers need to start school later each day?

Studies suggest they're not getting proper sleep, and one Eastern Ontario board is exploring different start times for morning classes. Not so fast,...

28.12.2023 10

Ottawa Citizen

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Adam: Non-Christians are fine with Christmas — so have a merry one

The human rights commission recently stirred up a needless argument over statutory holidays, and politicians got in on the action. Bah, humbug to them...

21.12.2023 9

Ottawa Citizen

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Adam: Is Mark Sutcliffe's small tax increase good or bad for Ottawa?

The 2.5 % property-tax hike is well under current inflation levels, and bucks the trend in some other cities. We may end up having to pay more in the...

14.12.2023 10

Ottawa Citizen

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Adam: So much for the promise of affordable housing near Ottawa transit stations

City policy says 20 per cent of new residential development should be affordable. There is clearly a big gap between policy and practice.

07.12.2023 10

Ottawa Citizen

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