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Post-derecho damage on Owl Drive in Ottawa on May 21. Climate change is making severe weather events more common and we need reliable infrastructure financing for communities to withstand these events that puts people and the planet first, write Bonita Zarrillo and Mark Hancock. The Hill Times photograph by Sam Garcia

Opinion

BY MARK HANCOCK, NDP MP BONITA ZARRILLO

October 5, 2022

The Greyhound bus station in Ottawa was demolished last month—the end of an era and of a lifeline for rural Canada. When Greyhound folded its Canadian operations in 2021, small communities immediately felt the impact. Imagine if the federal government had taken over Greyhound and run it as a publ...

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