Calamity shouldn’t be the only catalyst for political co-operation

Let’s take lessons from the weekend tornados to harness a more co-operative public service model without the need for debris to be flying around and emergency alerts bellowing from smart phones.

Hydro Ottawa crews work to turn the lights back on in the Craig Henry area in the city’s west end, one of the hardest-hit neighbourhoods when a pair of tornados blew through the Ottawa-Gatineau area on Sept. 21. Photograph courtesy of Hydro Ottawa’s Twitter

Opinion

BY TIM POWERS

September 26, 2018

OTTAWA—This past weekend, the Ottawa-Gatineau region was battered by two severe tornados. Nearly 300,000 homes were without power at the height of the storm damage and many people had their residences destroyed in the community of Dunrobin, on the outskirts of the capital. My own home was without...

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