Madam Speaker, it is my great honour to rise today to celebrate community newspapers in all of our riding. This past week, I had the great honour of attending the 50th anniversary of the Ottawa South Community Association Review, also known as OSCAR. In this era of declining traditional media and the rise of social media, it got me thinking about the important role that community newspapers play. They are run by volunteers and tell our local stories.
In my community of Ottawa Centre, I am so grateful to have the Glebe Report, which also celebrated its 50th year last year; The Mainstreeter; Centretown Buzz; and the Kitchissippi Times. They are incredible papers that are telling stories every week about our communities and are incredibly important sources of information.
I want to take this opportunity to thank all of the volunteers at all of these community newspapers for the incredible job they do week after week, month after month.