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I am a candidate for Regional Council to represent St. Catharines for the 2022-2026 term.

For months, I wasn’t sure I was going to do this again.

When nominations opened, I figured I’d get my signatures and then decide if I was going to file the papers or tear them up.

As our community is well aware, on the morning of January 31, City Councillor Karrie Porter’s home was vandalized by someone who approached her home while she and her family slept and threw a large rock through the front window.

This morning, I woke just past 5:30am and planned to go back to sleep for an hour, but I picked up my phone to have a look at Twitter instead (this is nearly always a mistake).

Sadly, what I found was that not even an hour earlier, my lower-tier colleague had tweeted this:

At the Tuesday, January 11 meeting of the Public Health and Social Services Committee, we heard from a delegate who – at least based on their social media presence and previous delegations to committee/council – appears (at minimum) to be anti-vax, anti-mask, and anti-lockdown.

The delegate was on the agenda to present at the December meeting of the same committee, but the committee voted to not hear the presentation. I was not present at the meeting, having sent my regrets, and I have not watched the video, so I’m not entirely sure how this came to pass, except that there was an e-mail from the Niagara Health System that drew attention to various points of misinformation (about Niagara Health System) in the delegate’s presentation.

Last night, a small group of anti-vax, anti-mask, anti-lockdown, anti-science people doxxed Dr. Hirji, Niagara’s Medical Officer of Health, and protested in front of his home.

This morning, we woke to learn that, overnight, the home of St. Catharines City Councillor Karrie Porter had been hit with juvenile, vulgar graffiti.