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Sarah MacFarlane

Ottawa

Reporter and Web Coordinator at Ottawa Business Journal

Reporter @iPoliticsCA & @OttawaCompass

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Articles

  • Collins takes the helm at Long's office, PMO speechwriter takes on new role in Joly office

    1 week ago | ipolitics.ca | Sarah MacFarlane

    Call it an East Coast reunion. Kevin Collins has been named the chief of staff to Wayne Long, the new secretary of state for the Canadian Revenue Agency and financial institutions. Collins took the role after three and a half years with the housing minister’s office, spending the last six months as deputy chief of staff. He told iPolitics that Long is his hometown MP and gave him first job on the Hill as a constituency assistant nearly a decade ago.

  • Easter Seals Canada’s push for the ‘most inclusive economy in the G7’

    1 week ago | ipolitics.ca | Sarah MacFarlane

    NewsWith Parliament returned to their seats and Prime Minister Mark Carney’s mandate underway, iPolitics sat down with Rob Eatough, president and CEO of Easter Seals Canada (ESC), to discuss accessibility and inclusion and the importance of disability advocacy in the Chamber.

  • ‘Wacko’ or ‘symbolic’: lessons from BC’s drug decriminalization

    1 month ago | ipolitics.ca | Sarah MacFarlane

    Now a campaign slogan and House of Commons meme, British Columbia’s drug decriminalization pilot began as a response to record-breaking rates of drug-related deaths. Now that the three-year trial is nearing its end, it’s not clear whether it was successful or not — it depends on who you ask. At the request of the Government of British Columbia, Health Canada issued an exemption to the province in 2023 to the criminalization of personal possession of certain illegal drugs.

  • Canadian Red Seal workers show heightened concern for employment and wages: survey

    2 months ago | ipolitics.ca | Sarah MacFarlane

    NewsCanadian skilled trades workers have more employment concerns than other Canadians and high levels of support for lower taxes, fair wage policies, and infrastructure investment, according to a recent survey from Abacus Data and Canada’s Building Trades Union (CBTU).

  • City hall: council triggers by-election, debates racism definition and approves purchase of Ferry Road property

    2 months ago | compassnews.ca | Sarah MacFarlane

    At the city council meeting Wednesday, councillors had their hands full with a full agenda that included restrictions on salt use, approving a by-election for Osgoode ward, the purchase of a rural property, and the definition of racism and colonialism in City policy. Starting off strong, council debated whether or not the City of Ottawa would proceed with the purchase of 5689 Ferry Road for $1,950,000.

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