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Shawn Menard is the toilet hero we all need | Opinion

Brigitte Pellerin: It’s time we stopped thinking that publicly accessible and clean bathrooms is a radical idea.

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In case you haven’t heard, Councillor Shawn Menard won the prestigious Golden Plunger Award in recognition of his work to provide publicly available bathrooms in all the parks in his ward. I don’t know how he feels about being a toilet hero, but I want to thank him.

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