Horizon Ottawa
@horizonottawa.bsky.social
Horizon Ottawa is a progressive, municipal-focused grassroots organization dedicated to creating a city that genuinely works for everyone.
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Lansdowne 2.0 was just approved by Council 15-10, and it's definitely worth taking note of the geographical imbalance on the vote.
The two out-of-place "yes" votes are Marty Carr (Alta Vista) and Stéphanie Plante (Rideau-Vanier):
The two out-of-place "yes" votes are Marty Carr (Alta Vista) and Stéphanie Plante (Rideau-Vanier):
November 7, 2025 at 9:54 PM
Lansdowne 2.0 was just approved by Council 15-10, and it's definitely worth taking note of the geographical imbalance on the vote.
The two out-of-place "yes" votes are Marty Carr (Alta Vista) and Stéphanie Plante (Rideau-Vanier):
The two out-of-place "yes" votes are Marty Carr (Alta Vista) and Stéphanie Plante (Rideau-Vanier):
Just now - Councillor @shawnmenard.bsky.social
is interrupted by Councillor @timtierney.ca while asking questions on Lansdowne.
Menard pushes back, then Tierney calls him an "asshole". This behaviour is unbefitting of a councillor, and demands an integrity complaint.
➡️ integrity@ottawa.ca
is interrupted by Councillor @timtierney.ca while asking questions on Lansdowne.
Menard pushes back, then Tierney calls him an "asshole". This behaviour is unbefitting of a councillor, and demands an integrity complaint.
➡️ integrity@ottawa.ca
November 4, 2025 at 6:22 PM
Just now - Councillor @shawnmenard.bsky.social
is interrupted by Councillor @timtierney.ca while asking questions on Lansdowne.
Menard pushes back, then Tierney calls him an "asshole". This behaviour is unbefitting of a councillor, and demands an integrity complaint.
➡️ integrity@ottawa.ca
is interrupted by Councillor @timtierney.ca while asking questions on Lansdowne.
Menard pushes back, then Tierney calls him an "asshole". This behaviour is unbefitting of a councillor, and demands an integrity complaint.
➡️ integrity@ottawa.ca
FINCO heard dozens of delegates express their concerns about Lansdowne 2.0 through the 2-day long meeting, yet a majority of members still approved the deal, sending it to council for final approval.
This result speaks to the lack of urban representation on this committee:
This result speaks to the lack of urban representation on this committee:
October 30, 2025 at 10:03 PM
FINCO heard dozens of delegates express their concerns about Lansdowne 2.0 through the 2-day long meeting, yet a majority of members still approved the deal, sending it to council for final approval.
This result speaks to the lack of urban representation on this committee:
This result speaks to the lack of urban representation on this committee:
At today’s Council meeting, a motion from Councillor Lo to suspend the rules to add a time-sensitive Lansdowne motion failed, so councillors did not have the opportunity to vote on it.
Here's how it went down and what Councillor @shawnmenard.bsky.social had to say:
Here's how it went down and what Councillor @shawnmenard.bsky.social had to say:
October 22, 2025 at 8:24 PM
At today’s Council meeting, a motion from Councillor Lo to suspend the rules to add a time-sensitive Lansdowne motion failed, so councillors did not have the opportunity to vote on it.
Here's how it went down and what Councillor @shawnmenard.bsky.social had to say:
Here's how it went down and what Councillor @shawnmenard.bsky.social had to say:
Rural residents in Ottawa have long faced limited public transit. The current levy reflects that. Rural households with reduced service pay significantly less than urban areas, but also receive less service:
October 3, 2025 at 5:13 PM
Rural residents in Ottawa have long faced limited public transit. The current levy reflects that. Rural households with reduced service pay significantly less than urban areas, but also receive less service:
🚨 JOINT LABOUR SOLIDARITY RALLY TODAY 🚨
🕚: 11:00 AM
📍: PMO, 80 Wellington
Join us in rallying with striking workers from CUPW, UNIFOR, and OPSEU, and other labour allies and help us take a stand for labour rights in our city and across the country!
🕚: 11:00 AM
📍: PMO, 80 Wellington
Join us in rallying with striking workers from CUPW, UNIFOR, and OPSEU, and other labour allies and help us take a stand for labour rights in our city and across the country!
October 1, 2025 at 1:30 PM
🚨 JOINT LABOUR SOLIDARITY RALLY TODAY 🚨
🕚: 11:00 AM
📍: PMO, 80 Wellington
Join us in rallying with striking workers from CUPW, UNIFOR, and OPSEU, and other labour allies and help us take a stand for labour rights in our city and across the country!
🕚: 11:00 AM
📍: PMO, 80 Wellington
Join us in rallying with striking workers from CUPW, UNIFOR, and OPSEU, and other labour allies and help us take a stand for labour rights in our city and across the country!
The federal Combatting Hate Act is further evidence that Ottawa should drop its plans for a "bubble by-law".
This is outside their jurisdiction and risks massive legal costs when the city inevitably faces a Charter challenge.
Read our full statement:
This is outside their jurisdiction and risks massive legal costs when the city inevitably faces a Charter challenge.
Read our full statement:
September 19, 2025 at 9:43 PM
The federal Combatting Hate Act is further evidence that Ottawa should drop its plans for a "bubble by-law".
This is outside their jurisdiction and risks massive legal costs when the city inevitably faces a Charter challenge.
Read our full statement:
This is outside their jurisdiction and risks massive legal costs when the city inevitably faces a Charter challenge.
Read our full statement:
📢 Show the Liberals and Air Canada that our city won't let them strip away labour rights and treat workers unfairly.
Join us at the rally in support of striking @cupescfp.bsky.social flight attendants!
📍Parliament Hill
🕘 9:00 am - 4:00 pm
Join us at the rally in support of striking @cupescfp.bsky.social flight attendants!
📍Parliament Hill
🕘 9:00 am - 4:00 pm
August 18, 2025 at 10:43 PM
📢 Show the Liberals and Air Canada that our city won't let them strip away labour rights and treat workers unfairly.
Join us at the rally in support of striking @cupescfp.bsky.social flight attendants!
📍Parliament Hill
🕘 9:00 am - 4:00 pm
Join us at the rally in support of striking @cupescfp.bsky.social flight attendants!
📍Parliament Hill
🕘 9:00 am - 4:00 pm
Come celebrate the 2SLGBTQIA+ community at West Side Pride this Saturday from 11am-4pm at Alexander Grove Park in Stittsville!
Volunteer to table with Horizon: bit.ly/46E7AJx
More information: westsidepride.ca
Volunteer to table with Horizon: bit.ly/46E7AJx
More information: westsidepride.ca
July 14, 2025 at 6:39 PM
Come celebrate the 2SLGBTQIA+ community at West Side Pride this Saturday from 11am-4pm at Alexander Grove Park in Stittsville!
Volunteer to table with Horizon: bit.ly/46E7AJx
More information: westsidepride.ca
Volunteer to table with Horizon: bit.ly/46E7AJx
More information: westsidepride.ca
Extreme heat is coming to Ottawa on Monday, with a forecasted high of 35°, feeling like 47° with the humidity.
This is a serious danger for many, particularly the unhoused.
Mayor Sutcliffe needs to ensure cooling centres are available to keep the public safe.
This is a serious danger for many, particularly the unhoused.
Mayor Sutcliffe needs to ensure cooling centres are available to keep the public safe.
June 19, 2025 at 5:15 PM
Extreme heat is coming to Ottawa on Monday, with a forecasted high of 35°, feeling like 47° with the humidity.
This is a serious danger for many, particularly the unhoused.
Mayor Sutcliffe needs to ensure cooling centres are available to keep the public safe.
This is a serious danger for many, particularly the unhoused.
Mayor Sutcliffe needs to ensure cooling centres are available to keep the public safe.
Emissions and cost for landfills are both considerably lower than incinerating waste. There is potential for energy recovery from burning waste that could bring in revenues, but some of those are uncertain until a specific plan is confirmed.
June 17, 2025 at 3:10 PM
Emissions and cost for landfills are both considerably lower than incinerating waste. There is potential for energy recovery from burning waste that could bring in revenues, but some of those are uncertain until a specific plan is confirmed.
Here's a chart of the criteria used by staff to evaluate their options:
June 17, 2025 at 3:05 PM
Here's a chart of the criteria used by staff to evaluate their options:
After weeks of knocking on doors across Osgoode Ward, we're excited that today, residents can cast their votes for a new councillor!
Here's our guide for where to vote and which candidates are prioritizing transparency by making their donations public before the election:
Here's our guide for where to vote and which candidates are prioritizing transparency by making their donations public before the election:
June 16, 2025 at 1:58 PM
After weeks of knocking on doors across Osgoode Ward, we're excited that today, residents can cast their votes for a new councillor!
Here's our guide for where to vote and which candidates are prioritizing transparency by making their donations public before the election:
Here's our guide for where to vote and which candidates are prioritizing transparency by making their donations public before the election:
Our petition calling on #OttCity to amend its advertising policy to ban misleading fossil fuel ads was on the record for this morning's City Council meeting.
We'll also be delegating at committee on Tuesday to call on Council to stand up against fossil fuel misinformation!
We'll also be delegating at committee on Tuesday to call on Council to stand up against fossil fuel misinformation!
June 11, 2025 at 7:40 PM
Our petition calling on #OttCity to amend its advertising policy to ban misleading fossil fuel ads was on the record for this morning's City Council meeting.
We'll also be delegating at committee on Tuesday to call on Council to stand up against fossil fuel misinformation!
We'll also be delegating at committee on Tuesday to call on Council to stand up against fossil fuel misinformation!
Councillor Hill reads his motion to direct staff to draft a bubble bylaw:
May 15, 2025 at 4:44 PM
Councillor Hill reads his motion to direct staff to draft a bubble bylaw:
(1/2) Mayor Sutcliffe has thrown his support behind a "bubble by-law" that would have drastic consequences for organizing in #OttCity, and represents an unconstitutional violation of our right to dissent.
This map shows what the prohibited zones could look like based on the Vaughan by-law:
This map shows what the prohibited zones could look like based on the Vaughan by-law:
May 14, 2025 at 1:31 PM
(1/2) Mayor Sutcliffe has thrown his support behind a "bubble by-law" that would have drastic consequences for organizing in #OttCity, and represents an unconstitutional violation of our right to dissent.
This map shows what the prohibited zones could look like based on the Vaughan by-law:
This map shows what the prohibited zones could look like based on the Vaughan by-law:
We’re live on Facebook streaming the Defending Dissent: Bursting the Bubble Bylaw event! Panel starting momentarily. Tune in now: fb.watch/zyddodt5Ad/
May 12, 2025 at 10:59 PM
We’re live on Facebook streaming the Defending Dissent: Bursting the Bubble Bylaw event! Panel starting momentarily. Tune in now: fb.watch/zyddodt5Ad/
Join us for Defend Dissent: Bursting the Bubble Bylaw to learn more about the proposed “bubble bylaw”, its implications for protest and labour actions, and how we can protect our right to dissent.
🔗 RSVP at HorizonOttawa.ca/events (link in bio).
🔗 RSVP at HorizonOttawa.ca/events (link in bio).
May 5, 2025 at 8:55 PM
Join us for Defend Dissent: Bursting the Bubble Bylaw to learn more about the proposed “bubble bylaw”, its implications for protest and labour actions, and how we can protect our right to dissent.
🔗 RSVP at HorizonOttawa.ca/events (link in bio).
🔗 RSVP at HorizonOttawa.ca/events (link in bio).
We had a great time marching with our friends in the labour movement at yesterday's May Day March, and our celebration of working class solidarity continues this weekend. ✊
Join us at the May Day Coalition picnic tomorrow at 11:30 AM in Major Hill Park! ⤵️
Join us at the May Day Coalition picnic tomorrow at 11:30 AM in Major Hill Park! ⤵️
May 2, 2025 at 3:29 PM
We had a great time marching with our friends in the labour movement at yesterday's May Day March, and our celebration of working class solidarity continues this weekend. ✊
Join us at the May Day Coalition picnic tomorrow at 11:30 AM in Major Hill Park! ⤵️
Join us at the May Day Coalition picnic tomorrow at 11:30 AM in Major Hill Park! ⤵️
There was also support from unions like @psacncr-afpcrcn.bsky.social, @cape-acep.bsky.social, and Ottawa Carleton ETFO.
Thank you to everyone who came out to show the community that we won’t back down against transphobic hatred!
Thank you to everyone who came out to show the community that we won’t back down against transphobic hatred!
April 26, 2025 at 6:46 PM
There was also support from unions like @psacncr-afpcrcn.bsky.social, @cape-acep.bsky.social, and Ottawa Carleton ETFO.
Thank you to everyone who came out to show the community that we won’t back down against transphobic hatred!
Thank you to everyone who came out to show the community that we won’t back down against transphobic hatred!
Local politicians came out in solidarity with the counter-protest, including: @catmckenney.bsky.social @arieltroster.com @jleiper.bsky.social @lainejohnson.bsky.social @joelharden.bsky.social @joshbizjak.bsky.social and NDP candidate Melissa Simon
April 26, 2025 at 6:46 PM
Local politicians came out in solidarity with the counter-protest, including: @catmckenney.bsky.social @arieltroster.com @jleiper.bsky.social @lainejohnson.bsky.social @joelharden.bsky.social @joshbizjak.bsky.social and NDP candidate Melissa Simon
Right-wing “media” grifters crossed the police line onto our side of the street. Instead of protecting us, the police detained two counter-protesters who were trying to block the “journalists” from agitating the crowd. The two counter-protesters were later released without charge.
April 26, 2025 at 6:46 PM
Right-wing “media” grifters crossed the police line onto our side of the street. Instead of protecting us, the police detained two counter-protesters who were trying to block the “journalists” from agitating the crowd. The two counter-protesters were later released without charge.
Yesterday, dozens of community members came together to stand up “Billboard Chris” and other right-wing agitators spewing their hateful ideology out front of two Ottawa schools. @csottawa.bsky.social organized a “Drown Out the Hate” counter-protest, and we stood our ground for almost 4 hours.
April 26, 2025 at 6:46 PM
Yesterday, dozens of community members came together to stand up “Billboard Chris” and other right-wing agitators spewing their hateful ideology out front of two Ottawa schools. @csottawa.bsky.social organized a “Drown Out the Hate” counter-protest, and we stood our ground for almost 4 hours.
🚨 URGENT ACTION:
Celebrity transphobe "Billboard Chris" is once again holding a transphobic protest outside the schools on Broadview Avenue.
Join the counterprotest organized by @csottawa.bsky.social this Friday at 12pm and stand up in solidarity with the 2SLGBTQIA+ community!
Celebrity transphobe "Billboard Chris" is once again holding a transphobic protest outside the schools on Broadview Avenue.
Join the counterprotest organized by @csottawa.bsky.social this Friday at 12pm and stand up in solidarity with the 2SLGBTQIA+ community!
April 23, 2025 at 1:11 PM
🚨 URGENT ACTION:
Celebrity transphobe "Billboard Chris" is once again holding a transphobic protest outside the schools on Broadview Avenue.
Join the counterprotest organized by @csottawa.bsky.social this Friday at 12pm and stand up in solidarity with the 2SLGBTQIA+ community!
Celebrity transphobe "Billboard Chris" is once again holding a transphobic protest outside the schools on Broadview Avenue.
Join the counterprotest organized by @csottawa.bsky.social this Friday at 12pm and stand up in solidarity with the 2SLGBTQIA+ community!
Take Action for Earth Day by signing our petition to prohibit fossil fuel advertising on City property! The fossil fuel lobby pays for these ads to mislead the public about the impacts of fossil fuels on the Earth.
📣 Sign the petition at HorizonOttawa.ca/TakeAction
📣 Sign the petition at HorizonOttawa.ca/TakeAction
April 22, 2025 at 6:01 PM
Take Action for Earth Day by signing our petition to prohibit fossil fuel advertising on City property! The fossil fuel lobby pays for these ads to mislead the public about the impacts of fossil fuels on the Earth.
📣 Sign the petition at HorizonOttawa.ca/TakeAction
📣 Sign the petition at HorizonOttawa.ca/TakeAction