Angela Browne's Community Discussion Forum

10/24/2022

It's a beautiful day today! Time to get out and vote. If you want change in your city representation, you need to vote for it.

I am going to work for change and be your voice at city hall.

10/24/2022

I work in a profession that is obligated to enforce ethics, be an advocate for people and to fight to positive change. As managing partner of Invictus Legal LLP, I am familiar with both the legal and political issues that come to city council.

I am also a long time resident of St. Andrew's ward, where I have seen our population change over the past several years. This means policies and services at the municipal level have to change with it. We have more older people, more people with disabilities, more lower income residents, as well as more single people.

Over the past few years, housing costs have risen out of control, and rents have become unaffordable, even for full time workers. I have seen these changes through my work in law, as well as in speaking to many of you as I went on the campaign trail.

Many of you gave me many ideas for housing, including multi-generational homes, tiny homes or allowing homeowners to build smaller homes in their backyards. These are not the only answers, and we need to discuss how the city can increase supply.

We talked about jobs, increased access to transit, the city taking over plowing snow on sidewalks in the winter, as well as moving a branch of the library and perhaps a swimming pool to Western Hill to give families and kids more things to do within walking distance.

As your city councilor, I will listen to you. My door will always be open.

10/23/2022

Please VOTE tomorrow at any of the following locations for St. Andrew's Ward if you have not done so already:
St. Peter Catholic Elementary School, 7 Aberdeen Circle
St. Julia Catholic Church, 251 Glenridge Avenue
DSBN Academy, 130 Louth Street
Power Glen Public School, 34 Westland
You need to bring your Voter's Card and/or ID to the voting station you are voting at. If you show your Voter's Card as you board a bus to go to vote, you can ride for free to your voting station.

10/19/2022

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10/18/2022

https://www.facebook.com/angela.browne3/videos/1539464876524356

10/17/2022

As some of you know, I am running for council in St. Andrew's ward. I am a strong advocate that people should have the right to be able to move about the city, including getting to and from municipal services and events when they are going on.

Yet another reader of my site posed that the city's Kiwanis Aquatic Centre and Dr. Huq Library is not accessible to non-drivers in the evening and on weekends because the bus service does not go there directly, and people have to walk quite a distance to go there, and then later return to the bus stop as it travels on an hourly service. Those that drive can park in a lot right next to it anytime.

Accessibility is more than just getting into buildings. It also means being able to participate barrier free, getting there and back included. If I am elected, I will push to get this changed. Even though this is not directly in my ward, but people in my ward have raised this to me, thus the reason why many of these people do not use this service despite paying taxes to do so.

10/17/2022

I want to publicly thank Jo Blo’s Bar & Grill for hosting my event Friday evening and I was pleased to meet with plenty of you that night, as well as all day on Saturday when I did leaflet drop and informal meet and greets with people on their front porches, walking their dogs and bumping into us as we moved through different housing complexes. There are many issues shared with me: 1. The need for improved transit services in the ward particularly in the evening; 2. The need for a library, community Center or even the relocation of the closed YMCA pool to the ward; and 3. Better police presence and response in the Hill particularly.

Another issue coming from seniors and people with disabilities is to ensure the City plows the sidewalks as well as the roads. People with disability and older people often find themselves trapped in their homes in the winter when there is a snowfall as they try to make their way to the corner store, a bus stop, or other nearby destination. At best during the winter at the present, we get mixed results which does not lead to safety and confidence that one can access the sidewalks and make it to a bus stop or store without the risk of a fall.

Families in the Glenridge area would like to see slower speeds and caution by drivers entering residential streets. Lower speed limits in some areas and speed bumps are just some ideas and this should be brought to open discussion and be heard at council.

I will continue to listen to what you have to say and bring my voice to council to represent your needs.

VOTE for Angela Browne to get your voices heard.

10/12/2022

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MEET AND GREET YOUR CANDIDATE ANGELA BROWNE from St. Andrew's Ward on Friday, October 14, 2022 6:30 - 9:30 p.m. Pizza and wings available, but drinks for purchase at the Bar.
Browne's campaign team thanks Jo Blo's management and staff for reserving a place for us to enjoy engaging discussion. All REGIONAL candidates are invited, as well as any member of the public. Invite your friends and enjoy the end of the work week.

Sports Bar

10/10/2022

The Campaign for Angela Browne wishes you and yours a Happy Thanksgiving Day

10/08/2022

Blue Jays spreading their love through Niagara region. Loving it!

Niagara Falls is ready for the Jays Postseason!

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10/06/2022

If you want to choose change this year at the municipal election, but may not be available on Election Day October 24, 2022?

You can vote at any of these locations, even if they are not in the ward. On election day, however, you must only vote in polling stations within the ward.

Advance voting in 2022 will take place on the following dates at the following locations:

Oct. 6, 10 a.m. to 8 p.m., St. Catharines Kiwanis Aquatics Centre, 425 Carlton St.
Oct. 11 to 21, Monday to Friday, 9 a.m. to 4 p.m., City Hall, 50 Church St. 3rd Floor
The advance poll at City Hall will be fully accessible, with accessible voting ballot marker devices during the dates above. Every effort has been made to select barrier-free voting locations with accessibility features, however, voters who require the use of fully accessible voting features are encouraged to vote at this poll.
Oct. 13, 10 a.m. to 8 p.m., Armenian Community Centre, 156 Martindale Rd.
Oct. 15, 10 a.m. to 5 p.m., Merritton Community Centre, 7 Park Ave.
Oct. 18, 10 a.m. to 8 p.m., Grantham Optimist Club, 188 Linwell Rd.
Oct. 20, 10 a.m. to 8 p.m., Church of the Transfiguration, 320 Glenridge Ave.
Oct. 22, 10 a.m. to 5 p.m., Grantham Lions Club, 732 Niagara St.
You may vote at any of the above dates or locations regardless of what ward you live in. However, on Election Day, you must vote in the ward where you live.

10/03/2022

This weekend, I met many voters in our ward and spoke to them about the meaning of change. Change is only accomplished by not voting for the same people over and over again, and expecting things to be different, especially for the Hill. I have been hearing from many of you about how the Hill has been ignored for years and needs many things, such as a community centre, a library, a pool, better bus service, among other things. I attended a meet up organized by another candidate and met many other people running for election, particularly for Niagara Region.

Many of you shared with me your concerns about the homeless, people wandering around our neighbourhoods stealing packages left on our porches, rummaging through personal vehicles, and even attempting to sleep on people's front porches. This is a crisis, and I absolutely want to treat this as a crisis. Residents deserve to feel safe in their own neighbourhood and in their own homes.

I also spoke to a resident of the Hill whose son died of a fentanyl overdose. This has been a huge thing in the past few years. An awareness campaign had been launched on the lawn of city hall over the summer.

Each of these two problems are related. The city must do whatever it can do in its power to work with organizations that assist homeless, poor and persons with mental health and addiction issues, and form an ongoing committee that includes the region as well as individuals with lived experience as having been homeless, addicted or with mental health issues. We need to set policies, empower these organizations to act (such as setting up safe spaces, transitional housing) to help these residents.

We also need to empower neighbourhoods to respond to unusual activities in their midst, e.g. people or vehicles that appear suspicious and don't belong, or a history of small thefts of items like garden tools and bikes. In my youth, we used to see "Neighbourhood Watch" committees form. These committees would have elected liaisons with the police who would meet regularly with the group on a time to time basis. When such a committee existed, anybody in the neighbourhood would report something suspicious to one of the liaisons who would in turn speak to their contact with the police.

When these 'watch' committees work together, and catch suspicious activity before it becomes a risk to our neighbours, persons involved will move on and stay our of our neighbourhoods. This is something I feel strongly about and as part of council, I can help facilitate. This will also create a way to communicate residents concerns to council through its elected councillors.