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  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 claims in the community. In her post, McGee criticized the mayor for not sharing his plan with council ah...

Arnprior's integrity commissioner says a Facebook post by a local councillor breached the town's code of conduct.

  ARNPRIOR -- Arnprior resident Gord Daniel says he has had water flowing underground into his basement on Edwards Vince Evans Court since 2014. He says it started shortly after Campanale Homes dug out and extended a swale - or drainage ditch - and rock wall behind his house in 2011. "Ever since that ditch was dug, every spring when there’s water coming down the swale or the ditch, we have water in our basement," says Daniel. He is now pleading for help from someone to stop the water coming in, and has had to install a sump pump to save his basement.

Posted: Dec 11, 2020 4:00 AM ET | Last Updated: December 11, 2020 A welcome sign in Renfrew, Ont., in December 2020. An open letter to the mayors of that Ottawa Valley town and nearby Arnprior calls on them to acknowledge and act on systemic racism in their communities.(Francis Ferland/CBC) Some mayors in the Ottawa Valley are promising to do better after residents called on them to acknowledge and act on systemic racism in their communities. This follows a CBC Ottawa series on racism in the Ottawa Valley, where five Black, Indigenous and people of colour (BIPOC) shared their experiences wit...