Ahmed Alsabaawi
Barrhaven East is one of the fastest growing communities in Ottawa. The roads, the transit and the recreation space around us have not kept up with how many of us now live here, and every family feels it in the same place: the commute, the tax bill, and the wait for a train that keeps sliding down the city’s list.
None of that is permanent. It takes a councillor who turns up before the vote and after it, who reads the budget line by line, and who treats every resident in this ward as someone worth answering. That is the job I am asking for.
I was born in Gaza and studied sociology at Birzeit University, then worked in community and family rehabilitation before a career in journalism took me to London and New York. I came to Canada for graduate school, earned a master’s degree in Saskatchewan, and worked in newcomer settlement and family support before moving to Ottawa for my PhD at Carleton. Today I am a father with children in school and university, which is how I know the hopes and the pressures the families here live with.
Your voice. Our community. Our future.
Eight commitments, grouped the way residents actually raise them at the door.
Better transit for today. Service a household can plan a workday around, at a fare it can afford.
Push LRT and rail expansion until Barrhaven is properly connected to the rest of the city.
Smart infrastructure in the places where traffic jams are already a daily fact of life.
Fix what is broken, then plan for roads that are safer and smoother to drive.
Your hard-earned money should stay in your pocket. Spending at City Hall has to be worth what it costs.
New politics at City Hall: transparent, respectful, and driven by the people who live here.
Working together for safe, welcoming communities where every family belongs.
Invest in the spaces and programs that bring people together and keep the community healthy.
Watch
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