184:, defeating six opponents. On Council she was known as "Captain Accountability" for bringing in monthly performance reports to Council, a Code of Ethics, and the independence of the City Auditor function. She instituted monthly reporting to community associations and made it her practice to attend all meetings. Howard was part of the Fiscal Five on Council, routinely holding the line on spending. She also fought to protect greenspace by serving on the Environmental Advisory Committee, protecting McCarthy Woods, the Southern Corridor of the
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cut garbage pick-up service to businesses, which she opposed because waste removal is a basic service. In terms of corporate social responsibility, Howard committed to making a donation from her fair trade business sales to a
Chinese charity and did so in 2008. The funds went to support victims of the earthquake in Sichuan, China.
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Beijing, Howard was elected to the local board of the Canada China Business Council for three years, and became chair of the Policy Committee. She was appointed as a trustee to the International School of Beijing and helped to build the new school at Shunyi, a USD74 million project. As policy
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Howard was re-elected in 1997, increasing her percentage of the vote from 35% to 62%, despite the strong challenge by respected school board trustee Kathy Ablett. During the municipal amalgamation discussions, Howard and Rideau
Township Councillor Rob Fraser, jointly organized a televised public town
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Howard announced in
September 1998 that she would join her family in Beijing, China where her husband was newly posted with the Federal Department of Foreign Affairs and International Trade (DFAIT), now Global Affairs Canada. Instead, to ensure a balanced budget was passed, Howard stayed on Council
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Upon returning to Ottawa in 2001, Howard organized a rally to support a free press after
Russell Mills, publisher, was ostensibly fired for allowing a certain editorial to be printed in the Ottawa Citizen. For three years she managed an import business in Wellington West. During this time the City
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Howard has taught many law courses and consulted on course development at
Algonquin College and at two universities. She has been active in the community as a director on the Riverside Park Community and Recreation Association, restoring the Victoria Day Fireworks to the new Mooney's Bay site,
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Howard has a special interest in the law of political accountability, the subject of her
Masters of Law studies at Queen's University. She spoke at a 2016 conference about the lack of accountability in Ontario Liberal health care reforms that had inadequate consultation with physicians.
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hall discussion on amalgamation, and issued a report on the results. Howard brought a successful motion to support amalgamation on condition that the total budget of the new city would not be greater than the sum of the budgets of the amalgamated cities.
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serving on several accessibility committees, on the Ottawa Rowing Club board, and as
President of the Somali Canadian Youth Centre dedicated to help youth and their families involved with the criminal justice system.
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area. Howard articled at Burke-Robertson, Chadwick & Ritchie, worked as a tax lawyer with Drache, Rotenberg, in government on the GST (Financial
Institutions), and operated the business Tax Research Consultants.
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178:Ottawa municipal election of 1994
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231:Environmental Advisory Committee
614:Municipal Election Results 1997
502:Municipal Election Results 1994
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