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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...

yesterday 7

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 9

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 6

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 9

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 7

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 6

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 9

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 3

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 3

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 7

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 30

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 8

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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Adam: There's money for housing — why aren't cities like Ottawa grabbing it?

Why is the city only now preparing a report, which will be ready in the spring, in response to the federal program?

30.11.2023 3

Ottawa Citizen

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Adam: OC Transpo can't keep charging more for less

Fare increases and service cuts: That’s the usual road travelled by struggling transit companies, but its effectiveness is questionable.

23.11.2023 10

Ottawa Citizen

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Adam: Lansdowne plan's biggest failure is the lack of affordable housing

At a time of a serious housing crisis, when the City of Ottawa had a great chance to lay down a marker for affordability, it bailed.

16.11.2023 9

Ottawa Citizen

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Adam: How the Ottawa Police Services Board is shutting down free speech

The board has given its chair the power to reject speakers outright and to vet presentations in advance. It's a sharp, and needless, departure from...

09.11.2023 3

Ottawa Citizen

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Adam: Protests are a mark of 'Canadian values,' not an attack on them

Pro-Palestinian protests in this country have offended some, but free expression sometimes offends. It's part of a democratic society.

02.11.2023 8

Ottawa Citizen

Mohammed Adam

Adam: Is health care in Ontario becoming the Wild West?

The alarm bells are ringing loudly after what appears to be a proliferation of clinics in Ottawa that charge fees for primary care.

26.10.2023 8

Ottawa Citizen

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Adam: Ottawa can get millions in federal housing money if it accepts the rules

This should be a no-brainer. London, Halifax and Hamilton have already made the necessary zoning changes. The national capital should stop worrying...

19.10.2023 10

Ottawa Citizen

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Adam: For the sake of taxpayers, Ottawa should have tried harder on Lansdowne

OSEG is right to say it has helped fix an aging and dilapidated Lansdowne. But is that all we can aspire to when we have such a jewel of an asset?

12.10.2023 7

Ottawa Citizen

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Adam: Is Barrhaven's future a busway, not light rail? It won't get both

'Under the current situation, (LRT) is not going to happen.'

05.10.2023 10

Ottawa Citizen

Mohammed Adam

Adam: Scare tactics won't fix what's wrong with Ottawa's OC Transpo

Worrying about the fate of Stage 3 LRT before we repair the transit system's day-to-day problems isn't the right way to go.

28.09.2023 4

Ottawa Citizen

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Adam: On affordable housing, the provinces should stop pointing fingers and take action

One would expect them to do more on housing than just sit back and demand their federal counterparts shovel more money their way.

14.09.2023 8

Ottawa Citizen

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Adam: A 12-hour wait in a hospital emergency room isn't good enough, Ontario

Ontario needs to fix the staffing shortages that permeate the health care system.

07.09.2023 10

Ottawa Citizen

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