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Nunatsiaq News 👤 Nortext Publishing 📍 ON Oct 23, 2026 · 3 min read Quick Score View full audit trail → C.R.E.E.D. audited

Housing, homelessness in focus in Ottawa’s Rideau-Vanier race

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26 election (From left) Julie Fiala Chartrand, Lyra Evans, Brian Paquette, Michael Karl Sewanaku and incumbent Coun.
Statistics Canada counted 1,270 Inuit in Ottawa in the 2021 census.
Paquette said he would donate at least 20 per cent of his councillor’s salary annually to food banks and homeless shelters.
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          POLITICS OCT 23, 2026 – 3:39 PM EDT Housing, homelessness in focus in Ottawa’s Rideau-Vanier race Six candidates vie to represent ‘Little Nunavut’ ahead of Oct. 26 election (From left) Julie Fiala Chartrand, Lyra Evans, Brian Paquette, Michael Karl Sewanaku and incumbent Coun. Stéphanie Plante are among the candidates running in Ottawa’s Rideau-Vanier ward in the Oct. 26 municipal election. Information was not provided for the sixth candidate, Eric Smith.…

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