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After council in Pembroke, Ont., voted to scrap its citizen advisory committee, CBC checked in with other Ottawa Valley towns and beyond to find out if they plan to forge ahead with their own committees or working groups to combat racism and bring about more inclusion.

A number of long-serving eastern Ontario mayors were replaced in Monday night's municipal election.

The event that for more than a century was known as the Arnprior Fair has been renamed the Valley Agricultural Festival and some townsfolk are hurt by what seems to be missing.

Carleton Place and Arnprior are among Canadas fastest-growing small towns

  ARNPRIOR, ONT. -- Tensions are running high at Arnprior town hall over the continued discussion of racism in the community. Councillor Lisa McGee is facing a possible reprimand after a complaint was lodged with the town’s integrity commissioner, William Hunter. The anonymous complaint is about a Facebook post McGee wrote on Dec. 18 in the group “What’s Up, Arnprior”. The post was in reaction to a local news article about Mayor Walter Stack’s alleged plan to address racism claim...

Arnpriors integrity commissioner says a Facebook post by a local councillor breached the towns code of conduct.

Dec 14, 2020 10:43 PM A four-point strategy to assess the degree or absence of systemic racism in the Town of Arnprior has been deferred by elected representatives until the New Year. Mayor Walter Stack shared his thoughts on the matter under the “Announcements” section of the municipal meeting Monday (December 14th), but councillors preferred to see the matter as an agenda item at their first meeting in January. The matter flows out of a CBC News feature on Racism in the Valley which first...