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Jess Dixon Member of Provincial Parliament for Kitchener South - Hespeler

Always an honour, and a privilege, to attend the annual Canada Beyond The Blue Champions of Change Gala - their 5th!I wa...
09/18/2026

Always an honour, and a privilege, to attend the annual Canada Beyond The Blue Champions of Change Gala - their 5th!

I was pleased to see such a big showing from Waterloo Regional Police Wellness, including Deputy Chief Eugene Fenton and Deputy Chief Jen Davis, along with the WRPA, supporting both the cause and their own Sgt. Sean Swiech.

Canada Beyond The Blue is there for police and for the people who love them. Spouses, kids, parents, serving and retired, civilian members too. They keep a roster of clinicians who understand this life, so nobody has to start by explaining what the job does to a family. They connect families to each other, and they run workshops and retreats. They do all of it at arm’s length from services and associations, so whatever a family brings to them stays between them. For a lot of people, that is the only reason the door feels safe to walk through.

Thank you to their president, Dilnaz Garda, who lost her brother Darius to su***de because of the line of duty. She took the worst thing that can happen to a family and tirelessly built something that reaches other families before they get there.

Congratulations to this year’s nominees. Every one of them has, in their own way, carried police and police families through trauma and loss and worn down the stigma that keeps people from asking for help.

Det. Sgt. Adam Devost (OPP)
D/Cst. Harry Jugpall (Toronto PS)
Sgt. Chhieu Seng (OPP)
D/Cst. John Zsigmond Tibay (OPP)
D/Cst. Zachary Dagg (North Bay PS)
Comms Operator Team Leader Peter Easton (OPP)
P.C. Nicole Gorham-Elder (Ottawa PS)
P.C. Maciej Radon (Peel Regional PS)
Lauren Ryder (OPP)
P.C. Steven Stokan (ret.) (London PS)
Sgt. Dan Thompson (London PS)
Sgt. James Tremblay (OPP)
Supt. Chris Churney (London PS)
Sgt. David Collie (Guelph PS)
Insp. Brent Genereaux (OPP)
Insp. Lisa Margaret Laxton (OPP)
Sgt. Jonathan Nowak (Peel Regional PS)
Sgt. Sean Swiech (Waterloo Regional PS)
D/Insp. Corey Wayne Villeneuve (ret.) (OPP)
Heather Fisher (Ottawa Police Assoc.)
Eric Krmpotic (North Bay Police Assoc.)
Randi-Mae Stanford-Leibold (Toronto Police Assoc.)
Sahel Bellon (Mind Armour & SOS Psychotherapy)
Michelle Zare (Zare Paralegal Services)
Cst. William Davis (Peel Regional PS)

Celebrated Onam 2026 with the Grand River Malayalee Association Grand River Malayalee Association- Canada🇨🇦 on Saturday....
08/31/2026

Celebrated Onam 2026 with the Grand River Malayalee Association Grand River Malayalee Association- Canada🇨🇦 on Saturday. Always one of my favourite events of the year due to how incredibly kind and welcoming this community is. Thank you SO much for the beautiful new sari from AR handlooms kuthampully official ! Amazing choice from GRMA, Priyanka Madhukar - you always make me feel both special and spoiled 🫶🏻💛🧡

Onam is Kerala’s harvest festival, marking the start of the Malayalam month of Chingam and the homecoming of King Mahabali, a ruler remembered in Malayali tradition for a reign in which his people lived in prosperity and equality. Families mark it with the pookalam, a flower carpet laid at the entrance of the home, and a sadya feast served on a banana leaf. Taking part in the Bhadradeepam lighting alongside members of the GRMA community, which opens the celebration and welcomes Mahabali home, was an honour.

The event opened with the arrival of the King, an amazing chenda melam drumming performance and then a series of wonderful dance and music performances from children and adults alike.

Thank you again so much for inviting me and always making me feel like part of the GRMA family 🥰🥰🥰

Happy to . We share the same hairdresser, occasionally the same pillow, the same predilection to just a *tiny* bit of...
08/27/2026

Happy to . We share the same hairdresser, occasionally the same pillow, the same predilection to just a *tiny* bit of anxiety, and he is the guy who will always get my last French fry. Dogs. We don’t deserve them, and never will.
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Great sunny afternoon at the doors in with local Ontario PC Party candidate votejeffbeattie and of course my MPP bes...
08/22/2026

Great sunny afternoon at the doors in with local Ontario PC Party candidate votejeffbeattie and of course my MPP bestie and Minister of Agriculture Trevor Jones 😁💙! Super strong response across the neighbourhood. Jeff will be a great voice at Queen’s Park for and Hamilton East- Stoney Creek 👏

Notre Dame Catholic Secondary School opens in east Kitchener this September, with room for roughly 1,400 students at ful...
08/20/2026

Notre Dame Catholic Secondary School opens in east Kitchener this September, with room for roughly 1,400 students at full build-out. It is the Waterloo Catholic board’s first Grade 7 to 12 school, and one of 35 new and expanded schools opening across Ontario this fall under the government’s $30 billion plan to build and renew schools.

Locally, that plan has already delivered Willow River Public School in the south end, which opened last fall and adds its Grade 8 class in September, along with the $91 million approved in July for four more Waterloo Catholic projects, including a new elementary school and child care centre in Doon South.

Waterloo Region is one of the fastest growing communities in the country. Under previous governments, classroom space did not keep pace with that growth. Our government is building for both the present and the future.

Of course, a building is only ever half the story. The teachers, educational assistants and support staff in our schools do incredible work, and they deserve modern spaces to do it in. That is what Waterloo Region families are getting.

08/19/2026

Amazing! The violence link is such an important and poorly addressed issue, and one I covered in detail in the IPV report, with a number of associated recommendations for govt, police, and prosecutors.

The best way I can describe the Association of Municipalities of Ontario conference AMO is issues-based speed dating b...
08/19/2026

The best way I can describe the Association of Municipalities of Ontario conference AMO is issues-based speed dating between levels of government. Every ministry sets up shop and delegations cycle through in fifteen minute blocks to put their asks and concerns in front of us. When the volume is high enough, which it usually is, parliamentary assistants take delegations on behalf of ministers running their own back-to-back schedule.

Monday I sat in on the MCCSS delegations dealing with intimate partner violence. Getting the recommendations in my IPV report made real is a job with no off switch, and much of that work is listening to the people handling this on the ground. That included the delegation from the Regional Municipality of Waterloo , and my continued push for sustained funding for the Family Violence Project of Waterloo Region , which opened in 2006 as one of the first co-located, multi-agency responses to family violence in the country.

I am the Parliamentary Assistant to the Minister of Education, so Tuesday was all EDU. Some of who I met with (only the ones I got a photo with): Bruce County, City of Woodstock, District of Nipissing Social Services Administration Board, Grand Erie Public Health, Municipality of North Middlesex, Municipality of Port Hope, Region of Peel, Renfrew County, Smooth Rock Falls, Tourism Industry Association of Ontario, Town of Petawawa, Town of Whitchurch-Stouffville.

Most of those meetings were about CWELCC, the federal child care program that provinces deliver. Federal promise, federal money, provincial administration. Ontario wants what you want on spaces, and we are working on an agreement with Ottawa that is fair and runs several years rather than one.

This is economic development, not a family services line item. Child care punches above its weight on return because it creates jobs directly, and those jobs then make other people’s work possible. Every space that does not exist is a parent who cannot take the shift or the promotion, and that turns up in the labour numbers whether or not anyone traces it back. That case needs making to the government funding the program. Child care gets discussed at kitchen tables. It belongs at boardroom tables too.

We have lost officers in the line of duty, and we have lost officers because of the line of duty. Both are insurmountabl...
08/13/2026

We have lost officers in the line of duty, and we have lost officers because of the line of duty. Both are insurmountable losses. Both leave people grieving.

I have never worn the uniform and I won’t pretend to know what the job costs. But I have listened to enough people who do it to understand a few things. The hardest part sometimes isn’t even the call. It’s what comes after. You hold yourself at full alert on shift because the job and your colleagues require it, and then your body drops out from under you when you walk through your own front door. By the time you get home, there is almost nothing left in the tank, and that has nothing to do with how much you love the people waiting for you. There are clinical names for pieces of this. Hypervigilance. Compassion fatigue. Post traumatic stress disorder. They describe injuries, not character.

I also understand that reaching out can feel complicated in a way it isn’t for most people. That is real, and it is why anonymous, confidential peer support exists, and why it matters that the person on the other end of the line has done the job.

If you are struggling, please use one of these numbers, or at least let someone, somewhere, know that you are in pain. The world is better with you in it.

It was such a pleasure to spend part of my Sunday at the South Asian Family Sports Day! Southasianfamily Sportsday There...
07/28/2026

It was such a pleasure to spend part of my Sunday at the South Asian Family Sports Day! Southasianfamily Sportsday There was such a great atmosphere all day, with families, kids, and teams of all ages enjoying cricket, volleyball, soccer, throwball and more. Seeing so many people out enjoying themselves together made it a really special event.

A huge thank you to everyone who helped make the day such a success. Special thanks to event coordinator Dennis Loyola, and to our fantastic MCs, Thulasi and Shyamala, who kept the awards ceremony running so smoothly. I was also so honoured to receive a new Grand River Malayalee Association- Canada🇨🇦 jersey 🥹🧡 Thank you so much - I’ll wear it proudly, even if it can’t possibly make me any better at sports 😂

Thank you as well to the many volunteers and organizers who put in so much work behind the scenes, including Deepak Gurjar and Krishna Bhure from the Golden Triangle Marathi Mandal GTMarathi Mandal Kitchener Waterloo ; Rayees Nishad and Anoop Thaithal from the Grand River Malayalee Association Grand River Malayalee Association- Canada🇨🇦 ; Saurabh Choube and Sanjay Jain from the KWCG Rajasthan Association; Ulaganathan Mahadevan, Rajanikanth Ruthran, and Ragu Sivaramakrishnan from the Tamil Cultural Association Tamil Culture Waterloo ; Nadeem Khazi and Shivaji Rao from the Grand River Kannada Association Grand River Kannadigaru ; Sayantan Bhadra, Joy Dass, and Praloy from the Bengali Sports Group; Anil Puri and Vinesh Bhakru from the India Canada Association; and Mani Bollu, Karthik, and Rahul Santosh from the KWC Telugu Association

Thank you all for your incredible hospitality and for all the work that went into organizing such a fantastic day. I already can’t wait for next year’s event!

It was such a genuine pleasure and an honour to join Waterloo Regional Police at the badge ceremony of our Region’s newe...
07/27/2026

It was such a genuine pleasure and an honour to join Waterloo Regional Police at the badge ceremony of our Region’s newest group of constables, Class #123! 17 dedicated people have completed their training and chosen our area as where they will serve and protect. Thank you so much for your dedication, your choice, and your service. We are so incredibly grateful 💙

We had three family badge provision assists in this group, which is always so heart-warming. Two actively serving brothers, and a retired dad! So many incredibly proud families in one room.

Special shout-out and congratulations to newly minted Constable Michael Pacheco, who until recently worked with us at the Ministry of Finance and is now greatly missed by his former colleagues! So many people from Queen’s Park showed up to celebrate him, including my wonderful colleagues Zee (Zeeshan Hamid) and Michelle Cooper , a clear testament to his character. Michael has also obviously listened to some of my past rants, as he immediately told me he hadn’t forgotten about the value of crime prevention 😂 I’ve done well on that I guess 🤣🥹

Congratulations Class #123, and all the best!! (And can’t wait to attend the next one, which will feature another amazing new recruit I know!)

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