JOANNE CHIANELLO
@JCHIANELLO
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Helping municipalities solve problems. Recovering news reporter. Lover of all things local.
Ottawa, Ontario
Joined February 2009
This week, a resident in our community died and 19 others lost their homes after a fire broke out in their small apartment building. Hintonburg Community Association has launched a fund to help, if you'd like to donate: https://t.co/wrZ0mbCdtN
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Four years since bearing failures derailed LRT trains. Four years, and we still don't know the root cause. Tonight, single-car trains during rush hour. Crowded platforms. No timeline for a fix. This hits everyone. 1/4 https://t.co/19i7tW747s
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A newly identified problem with the wheel assemblies on Ottawa's Line 1 LRT vehicles is forcing OC Transpo to reduce the number of cars in service, which could exacerbate crowding on trains and...
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It has been FOUR YEARS since two LRT trains derailed due to bearing issues, and we still don't have a fix. Maybe even worse - we don't know the root cause of this problem. Where is the accountability on this huge project? And when can riders start relying on our LRT system?
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OC Transpo will be temporarily reducing the number of train cars running on the O-Train Line 1 after an issue was identified with the vehicles, and the organization’s general manager says this may...
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Our planning chair - who happens to be my councillor! - doing a great job showing how seemingly technical policies like the new comprehensive zoning bylaw have direct impacts on the quality of our daily lives. City Hall matters! #ottnews
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Were you in court? Did you read the decision? I was that man’s lawyer. He was sentenced to 5 months jail. It is ok to disagree with the sentence. It is ok to suggest policy or legislative responses to the decision. But it does us all a disservice when you lie.
A man defaces Canada’s Holocaust Monument with blood-red paint and faces no real jail time. Under the Liberals, antisemitism is tolerated, excused, and waved away for political convenience. When hatred against Jews is met with leniency instead of punishment, the message sent to
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This actually seems like a good idea …
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Ontario's Liberals are pushing Doug Ford's government to sell the province's stockpile of U.S. booze that is sitting in storage.
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The usual excellent City Hall political insight by @KatePorter613 on whether the mayor’s recent announcements are pre-campaigning. (She doesn’t say … but the answer is yes! Also, great commentary by @gmacofglebe.) #ottnews
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Ottawa Mayor Mark Sutcliffe has made many announcements this fall. He says the communications strategy is meant to inform the public about city business, but critics say it's clear city politicians...
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Okay, I’ll just say one thing: the city’s own reporting shows that the ANCHOR program - which responds to calls about folks in crisis on our streets - attended almost 4500 calls in its first year, without police assistance in 92% of the time. That’s more than 4100 calls that
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The argument from this dubiously behaving councillor that crime is higher in inner-city wards because the councillors there often vote against police budget increases is so nonsensical that it barely merits getting riled up over. #ottcity
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Getting trucks out of downtown tops list of benefits for Kettle Island bridge, NCC report finds https://t.co/lJbgZ0WUP9 via @ottawacitizen
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Weird to be on the other end of a news byline - also, I only dream of looking this young, lol! Former Ottawa Citizen journalist Joanne Chianello running for city council https://t.co/nffPTY4AIx via @ottawacitizen
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Nobody campaigned on letting #rewardpoints expire. Nobody is asking for it. It won’t protect #Ontario against tariffs. So why is @fordnation taking the protections out of the law? #consumerprotection #loyaltyprogram #loyaltyrewards #onpoli
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If you raise your hand & say you’re going net zero, you need to do the work: short-term targets, credible transition plan, real emissions going down, money going from fossil fuels to clean, no new investment in fossil fuel infrastructure. Integrity Matters
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The United Nations Secretary-General, António Guterres, on 31 March 2022, established a High-Level Expert Group on the Net-Zero Emissions Commitments of Non-State Entities to develop stronger and...
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1/8 #ottawa Election 2026: My new column explores the 11 lessons of Mamdani's winning campaign for @LeiperOttawa
@JCHIANELLO @Alex_S_Cullen What Jeff Leiper and Ottawa’s Other “Pragmatic Progressives” Can Learn from Zohran Mamdani’s Big Apple Playbook https://t.co/90kA92eRJa
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I'm baffled how Ottawa thinks it can keep a PWHL team by building a new stadium that's 30% smaller than the 25 year old facility my hometown London Knights play in.
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Yes, we called the pod “Trash Talk”, but what else CAN you call it when you’re discussing a huge dump deal for taxpayers?
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Why we should put @bdeachman in charge of #ottcity's bicentennial celebrations: https://t.co/JvauntWSFH via @ottawacitizen
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