Candidate for Ottawa-Carleton District School Board trustee in Zone 3 Barrhaven who says she is a retired government executive and a chartered professional accountant.
Brenda Abramson is on the City of Ottawa’s list of certified candidates for Ottawa-Carleton District School Board trustee in Zone 3, which covers City Wards 3 and 24, with a nomination dated July 6, 2026. Her campaign website says she has lived in Barrhaven for over 35 years, is a chartered professional accountant and a retired government executive, and is chair or treasurer of boards at local non-profit groups. Her four priorities are collective bargaining, school safety, special programs and strong governance. The board has been under provincial supervision since June 27, 2025, and her website says she would work with other trustees so that the minister has no grounds to suspend trustees again.
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The City of Ottawa’s list of certified candidates shows Brenda Abramson’s nomination for trustee of the Ottawa-Carleton District School Board in Zone 3 dated July 6, 2026. The City’s open data file shows no withdrawal. She gave the City a campaign website, a Facebook page and an Instagram account. CTV News Ottawa and The Leveller, which calls her a newcomer in Barrhaven, name her, and CBC News of July 23, 2026 quotes her. The other candidates in the zone are Kenneth (Kangwu) Xi and Daniel Pershick.
Her campaign website says she has lived in Barrhaven for over 35 years, is a chartered professional accountant, and is a retired government executive with roles in budgeting, cost accounting and value-for-money audits. It says she is the mother of two Barrhaven graduates of the board’s schools and a lifelong volunteer, and lists work as a financial literacy instructor for CPA Canada, a Volunteer of the Year award from a community resource centre, treasurer of the board of Nepean Housing Corporation, past chair of the board of the Sexual Assault Support Centre of Ottawa, and roles with other community groups. It also says she has over 25 years of experience in hiring and in performance reviews and experience in collective bargaining. These are her own statements, and voche.me has not checked them with the organizations.
The board’s page says that since June 27, 2025 the board has been under supervision by the Minister of Education, so that decisions normally made by trustees are made by the appointed Supervisor. Her website says the trustee role in setting policy has been reduced and that she will focus on areas where a trustee still has authority. Her four priorities are collective bargaining, where she says trustees keep a role in local bargaining matters; school safety, where she says she has heard from parents who moved their children because of bullying and that, since October 7, Jewish students do not feel safe; special programs such as French Immersion, alternative education and special education; and strong governance, where she says she will work with fellow board members so that the minister has no grounds for suspending trustees.
In the CBC News report of July 23, 2026 she is quoted saying that if candidates do not run, the province could be encouraged to keep control of the board, and that if nobody steps forward there is no possibility of transferring it back. The sources voche.me read hold no complaint or allegation about her.
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Her website says teachers’ contracts have expired and strike votes are being organized, so trustees need to focus on the local matters that the board still decides.
She says the matters that stay with the board are under review by the Ontario Labour Board.
Her website says she wants an environment that supports learning, and that she has heard of children moved out of schools because of bullying, of Jewish students who do not feel safe since October 7, and of teachers who do not feel safe.
Brenda Abramson campaign · Brenda Abramson for OCDSB Trustee, Zone 3 Barrhaven (home page)Her website says trustees decide how local offerings such as French Immersion, alternative education and special education support are delivered, and names boys leaving school early and unmet needs of students with special needs as concerns.
Brenda Abramson campaign · Brenda Abramson for OCDSB Trustee, Zone 3 Barrhaven (home page)Her website says she would work with fellow trustees on sound governance so that the Minister of Education has no grounds to suspend trustees again.
It also says she would listen to parents and educators and attend student council meetings.
Evidence reviewed on October 7, 2026: the City’s list of certified candidates for the Ottawa-Carleton District School Board (an Internet Archive copy) and its open data file of nominations, her campaign website (home page and Acknowledgements), the board’s page on supervision, CBC News of July 23 and August 24, 2026, The Leveller of July 24, 2026, and the CTV News Ottawa list of school board candidates of September 9, 2026.
Gaps. Her Facebook and Instagram accounts could not be read without logging in. Her profession, her volunteer roles, her award and her years of experience are her own statements. Searches did not find a public page from Nepean Housing Corporation or the Sexual Assault Support Centre of Ottawa that names her, so those roles are not confirmed. Her statements about what parents and Jewish students have told her are hers and were not checked. The CTV News Ottawa page lists candidates and holds no answers. The voche.me questionnaire has not been sent.
Her website says her roles covered budgeting, cost accounting and value-for-money audits, with multi-million-dollar budgets and support for billion-dollar programs. It names no employer, and voche.me has not checked it.
Brenda Abramson campaign · Brenda Abramson for OCDSB Trustee, Zone 3 Barrhaven (home page)Her website describes the corporation as a not-for-profit landlord of over 500 affordable housing units in the former City of Nepean. voche.me has not checked her role with the corporation.
Brenda Abramson campaign · Brenda Abramson for OCDSB Trustee, Zone 3 Barrhaven (home page)Her website says she chaired the board of the centre. voche.me has not checked this with the centre.
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