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Author: Nicole Feriancek
Publication Date: May 26, 2026 - 04:00
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Traffic chaos in Ottawa's west end is a safety issue | Letters to the Editor
May 26, 2026
If picking up the garbage shows pride in community, then the amount of garbage I see in my daily walks around the neighbourhood seems to indicate there are a lot of people in this city who just don’t care. Annually, just from the swale behind my house, I collect a full green garbage bag of what is mostly fast-food packaging and general litter. While daily cleaning my little part of the city is personally rewarding, there is nothing more frustrating to find that someone has decided to leave a midnight gift by dumping the contents of their car’s trash (again mostly fast-food containers) into the ditch. Read More
A much-convicted, 71-year-old schizophrenic man now free after brutally strangling a cellmate remains “a significant threat to the safety of the public,” according to a new ruling that singles out his unauthorized use of marijuana for concern. George Veerman of Hamilton, Ont., was released in 2015, seven years after being found not criminally responsible for the murder, and now lives with his brother. But Veerman “remains incapable of consenting to psychiatric treatment. He is treated with a long-acting injectable antipsychotic medication every 14 days and 350 mg of Clozapine nightly...
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