Councillor King's newsletters aren't short on content.
A single August 2025 edition covered recognizing community award winners at Flo's Seniors Gala, Overbrook Day, and a run of business drop-ins with Mayor Sutcliffe — Schoolhouse Pizza, Edinburger, the Beechwood Diner — plus an appearance at a neighbouring MPP's corn roast and vendor fair.
That's a normal newsletter for him: a steady stream of openings, tours, and community events, each one a photo standing next to someone.
Room for a seniors' gala and four separate small-business visits, and no room anywhere in the newsletter record for the fact that the City's own Accessibility Advisory Committee had, a year earlier, formally warned Council that a program on Ottawa's streets was endangering seniors and people with disabilities.
One is an event. The other is oversight.
A ward with as many seniors as Rideau-Rockcliffe deserves a councillor who treats the second one as at least as newsletter-worthy as the first.
It's a constant flow of events and a constant lack of substance
See July 2026
What the newsletter actually does
The core content is a motion directing staff to build a standardized encampment reporting framework and public dashboard, "unanimous support" from colleagues, rolling out this fall as part of the Unsheltered Homelessness Outreach Model.
That's a data/reporting-infrastructure motion — not a funding commitment, not new shelter beds, not new supportive housing units.
It's process, not capacity. Translation? All talk, no action.
Full of sound and fury, signifying nothing.
Put this on your dashboard:
This time around, inform yourselves,
vote differently, vote wisely.
Vote for Peter Karwacki for
Rideau Rockcliffe.
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