Ottawa Byelections

[Uhuniau]

Originally Posted by acottawa

The riding has had 13 shootings this year.

http://ottawa.ctvnews.ca/community/o...tawa-shootings

I wish the media would stop ignoring the 85% of the riding that isn't vanier.

Vanier itself has not.

The politicians repeatedly referred to shootings IN VANIER.

This is at best a mistake, and at worst a lie, and whether on purpose or accidentally, continues to stigmatize a neighbourhood whose reality is FAARRRRR removed from the reputation that was cast in the 1980s.

And in the broader picture it isn't even the larger Ottawa-Vanier riding that contains the hotbed of shootings in Ottawa! Try Heron Road or out by Britannia.