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Jess Dixon, 260 Holiday Inn Drive/Unit 11, Cambridge, ON (2026)

05/21/2026

What an honour to be part of yesterday’s announcement that Muslim Social Services and Reception House Waterloo Region are receiving a combined $390,680 through Ontario’s Civil Remedies Grant Program.

This funding takes proceeds seized from criminals through civil forfeiture and puts them directly back into communities. MSS will use their $194,840 to expand culturally and spiritually sensitive, trauma-informed counselling for newcomers who are victims of gender-based violence and human trafficking. Reception House will use their $195,840 to deliver Building Bridges, a community-based program for newcomer refugees, children, and youth focused on inclusion, mentorship, and accessibility.

So much of what makes this funding meaningful comes down to the leadership at these two organizations. Duaa Al-Aghar, Executive Director of MSS, and Babur Mawladin, CEO of Reception House, have each built organizations that combine deep cultural and linguistic competence with the operational seriousness it takes to deliver real outcomes for the people who walk through their doors. Yesterday was a chance to celebrate them and the teams they lead.

And those teams are really the heart of it. The trust these organizations have built with the communities they serve, and the partnerships they have cultivated with police, settlement agencies, and faith communities, exist because of the staff and volunteers who show up day in and day out. They are the ones taking the calls, sitting with families, running the programs, building the relationships. None of this work happens without them, and none of it gets easier. Thank you to every single one of you.

Huge thanks to Attorney General and the Ministry for this funding, and to for hosting us. A particular shout out to Yasmin Haloubi for MCing so well, and to Dr. Brice Balmer for the land acknowledgement. Thank you also to Sozan Rashid, Malik Awan, Liz Cooper, Yasmin Ali, Ibrahim Al-Haj Kassem, Manahil Khan, Samaana Anwar, and the many others I’m sure I’ve missed! Your work matters so much, and it was a real privilege to be in the room with all of you.

05/19/2026

Last month, I had the chance to attend a graduation ceremony at the Ontario Police College for the first time, thanks to a kind invitation from the Solicitor General, Minister , and accompanying

It was a valuable and moving experience. Seeing so many newly minted officers, along with their proud friends and family, was a real privilege. Police college is an intense period of life, and it was good to see these men and women so intent on going out to serve their communities. It is an interesting rite of passage, and one shared by officers across the province.

The OPC itself is of real interest to me. It is the first place we provide recruits with their baseline knowledge, and it is also where some specialized courses are delivered. That makes it an interesting place for someone who believes strongly in the value of training and in continually broadening the police experience. Several recommendations in the IPV/SV report relate directly to the OPC, particularly around additional training on domestic violence response and on the violence link, the connection between animal cruelty and violence against adults and children.

I have a lot of respect for the people who do the work of policing. As a frontline prosecutor for a decade, I know better than many the pressures of the job. Not just the stress of what officers respond to, but the expectation of near perfect, split second judgment. We ask police, in a matter of seconds, to weigh privacy and security risks, Charter rights, and the legal complexity of stops and searches, and to make decisions that lawyers will then argue over for hours or days. I recognize the weight of that, but I think that part is sometimes less apparent to the public.

Thank you to all of these new officers for your dedication to community and service.

05/10/2026

Five and a half months! Not sure how much longer I’ll be able to do this 😂😂 Better get weightlifting 😬

05/10/2026

Happy Mother’s Day to everyone celebrating and being celebrated today — and, most specifically, with bias fully acknowledged 😂🥰, to my own mum, the best of them all 🫶🏻

I’ve said this multiple times in the House, but I maintain it: I am genuinely far more work, headache, and stress to my mother now — as a technically fully-grown adult, politician, and lawyer — than I ever was as an actual child 😬 I also consume considerably more of her time now than I ever did then. We are hopelessly co-dependent and I wouldn’t change a thing.

To anyone who believes in the work I insist on doing, or appreciates the effort behind it — we both owe my mum on that one. She’s the scaffolding behind everything I do, dedicated Granny to George, Benji, and a 900-page report I refer to as her third grandchild, and honestly the reason doing this whole politician thing as a single person living alone is even possible at all. My number one fan and cheerleader.

People talk about turning into your mother like it’s a warning. In my case it would be a compliment — although I’d have to become exponentially kinder, more patient, and more optimistic before I could honestly claim it. What has transferred so far: a genetic inability to comprehend the passage of time, arrive anywhere on schedule, have an organized linen closet, or drive a car that could plausibly be described as “clean” or “fully maintained.”

But I’ll take that, for everything else. 🩷 Happy Mother’s Day, Mum! You are, of course, the best 💝💖

04/14/2026

Immensely honoured to have finally met Dr. Irvin Waller in person yesterday at Queen’s Park.

Dr. Waller is an internationally recognized criminologist, Professor Emeritus at the University of Ottawa, and a global leader in crime prevention and victims’ rights. His work has been foundational to how I think about public safety.

We’ve had a number of conversations over Zoom, and I was very quick to invite him to testify before the Standing Committee on Justice Policy during our study on intimate partner violence. This was our first time meeting in person.

One of his ideas that has stayed with me is what it really means to be “smart on crime.” It’s about focusing on what actually reduces violence over time. In simple terms: it is far less costly and far more effective to help a young person build a stable, productive life than it is to deal with the consequences after things go wrong. Creating an engineer or an electrician is just cheaper for the taxpayer than creating a car thief or a habitual violent offender.

When people fall into cycles of addiction, violence, or chronic offending, the costs show up everywhere — for victims first and foremost, but also in policing, courts, hospitals, and social services. Good prevention work reduces that pressure before it starts and saves money.

It’s fair to say that Dr. Waller’s work forms a significant part of the foundation of what has become my obsession: building on the strong work already being done across government and continuing to refine how we target resources for the greatest impact — fewer victims, safer communities, and better value for taxpayers.

Supporting prevention and early intervention doesn’t replace accountability. I spent 10 years as a prosecutor and believe strongly in consequences that are proportionate and consistently applied. Certainty of consequence is vital.

I’m grateful for Dr. Waller’s time, his generosity, and the influence he’s had on my thinking. If you’re interested in crime prevention, violence reduction, or victims’ rights, his work is well worth reading.

04/09/2026

Thank you to my colleague from Windsor, MPP Andrew Dowie , for his strong and thoughtful remarks in support of MPP Ciriello’s motion calling for reform of Ontario’s protection order system. I particularly appreciated him highlighting the IPV report, which did substantial work on protection orders and advanced a clear, practical set of recommendations, building on the Law Commission of Ontario’s foundational analysis. It means more to me than I can say to see the support from my colleagues for this work 🫶🏻🥹

Andrew was there through some tough days on the committee, and really cares about gender based violence. He brings an engineer’s mindset to these issues—focused, practical, and solutions-oriented—which always adds to our discussions. Thank you Andrew!

04/08/2026

Wanted to flag an announcement today about an expansion to WSIB.

The government will be introducing legislation in the coming weeks to extend WSIB coverage to 29,000 additional frontline care workers in privately operated residential care, retirement homes and group homes.

A shoutout to CLAC CLAC , headquartered right here in Hespeler. We’ve had a lot of conversations about this, and I’m really glad to see the results of your advocacy. Your steady work representing frontline care workers helped get this across the line, so thank you for sticking with it ❤️

This is about closing a long-standing gap that left workers caring for our most vulnerable without adequate protection if they were injured on the job. These are physically demanding roles—lifting, supporting, and caring for people every day—and that gap shouldn’t have existed. This is fixing it.

Thank you to Minister David Piccini for his leadership on this, and to the frontline workers across Ontario who do this work every day.

04/01/2026

Embarrassing things your mum makes you do when she visits you at work 🫣 I hadn’t gotten around to finding my name on the wall yet. Now I’m thinking next time I should add my middle name too, give it a bit more gravitas 😅

Anyway. Thank you eternally to Kitchener South - Hespeler for letting me be here. Putting all of your happiness, self-worth, sense of personal accomplishment and meaning etc into something over which your obsessive personality has only the most tenuous of control is admittedly not what I would conscientiously recommend doing to others….😬 but I love it 🫶🏻 Every day here is worth something! 💙

03/31/2026

Take your Mum to work day! 😂😍

Hosted my mum and her best friend Kathryn at Queen’s Park today. Now they want to decorate my office 😅 To be fair, the walls in there are pretty bare.

03/29/2026

Yesterday I had the opportunity to attend, observe, and participate in a panel on intimate partner violence and gender-based violence hosted by Southern Ontario Support for the Associated Country Women of the World (ACWW).

The event was organized by the powerhouse duo that is Nancy Birss and Anne Innes, and held at the New Dundee Community Centre. It brought together an incredible group of local experts and advocates, including:
• Pari Karem (Director - Family Violence Project of Waterloo Region )
• Jessica Almeida (Women’s Crisis Services of Waterloo Region )
• Margaret MacPherson (CREVAWC Educator, Neighbours, Friends and Families / Rural Roots Program , )

A special thank you as well to Alyson for sharing her own story so openly, and for the work she’s doing in survivor advocacy, peer support, and community engagement (also a recent engineering PhD!! 🙌🏻).

Nancy and Anne’s work through SOS, and their connection to ACWW, a global network supporting rural women and communities in over 50 countries, is a good reminder that this work is happening at every level, locally and globally. Really impressive turnout for a Saturday morning to talk about a topic like this. That doesn’t happen by accident.

There is real momentum going here - as I keep saying, this isn’t about getting governments to care…they do, and I can attest to that from all of the incredible people I work with in caucus and cabinet. This is about supporting leaders, at all levels, to make some bold changes in HOW they care - starting with working on fragmentation and funding delivery. As always, please check out the IPV Report 💜

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