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Open City Hall’s Closed Doors: Ken Gray Column
College Councillor Rick Chiarelli wants a lobbyist registry to apply to city staff. College Councillor Rick Chiarelli has some real reservations about some pending legislation that’s part of Mayor Jim...
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Who Are The Weak Councillors?
Now that we have three Citizen columnists (a rare triple, maybe a first) agreeing that city staff and Mayor Jim Watson have too much power down at the Laurier Avenue Bylaw Factory, what should we do?...
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Don’t Make Another Rail Mistake: Activist
This is an open letter to Mayor Jim Watson and city council from transit activist Tim Lane: Mr. Mayor & Councillors: The mayor was quoted yesterday saying that adding another station to serve...
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The Wrong Light-Rail Project
The City of Ottawa website promoting the light-rail project. Here’s the secret that many Ottawa city councillors, particularly the veteran ones, won’t say publicly, but believe privately. They don’t...
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Don’t Cut City Council, Jim Watson
Mayor Jim Watson’s plan to cut council had too heavy a downside. Mayor Jim Watson might not get a leaner council, but he will get a meaner one. He lost a council vote yesterday on studying the idea of...
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Enough with the ‘Nepean was debt-free’ line
It’s apparently impossible, more than a decade after amalgamation, for anyone who was a Nepean politician at the time to go more than a few minutes without saying that Nepean had no debt when it was...
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New Ottawa Art Gallery to reflect Firestone house, and have more than double...
The Firestone house will rise again, in theme if not in fact, as the new Ottawa Art Gallery. When the new gallery is completed in late 2016, as part of the $34-million Arts Court redevelopment finally...
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Stalled Richmond development in receivership
OTTAWA — For more than a year, the two unfinished buildings have loomed over the fields outside the suburban Ottawa village of Richmond. More recently, fear that they could be on the financial hook...
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Man charged after attack on OC Transpo driver
OTTAWA — The head of Ottawa’s transit union is renewing calls for the passage of a private member’s bill that aims to create harsher penalties for people convicted of assaulting bus drivers after an...
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Everyone wants to save Ottawa’s Barrymore’s — but nobody can agree on how
OTTAWA — Must everything be sacred? Cannot the Barrymore’s Music Hall — the Bank Street barn where a pre-Top 40 Tina Turner smouldered, where a baby-faced Bono led an emerging band called U2 on to the...
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Mayor Jim Watson congratulates National Capital History Day
On behalf of Members of Ottawa City Council, it is my distinct pleasure to extend a warm welcome to all those participating in the first National Capital History Day. The inaugural theme,...
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Reevely: OLG’s ‘modernization’ plan promised billions that aren’t coming,...
OTTAWA — Nearly $2.8 billion that the provincial government was expecting from an overhaul of its gambling agency is at risk because of “overly optimistic assumptions” about things like cities’...
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Op-Ed: A better partnership with cities
I am glad that local opinion writer Jonathan McLeod is writing about the Ontario Progressive Conservatives’ discussion paper on the future of cities, but his unique interpretation of the document...
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Watson, Deans support stiffer penalties for violence against bus, taxi drivers
OTTAWA — Advocates from across the political spectrum are calling on the federal government to get serious about punishing people who commit acts of violence against bus and taxi drivers. Mayor Jim...
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Let the Chaudière fall – freely
Re: ‘World’s most sustainable community,’ April 23. Windmill Development Group’s plans to make the Chaudière Falls accessible to the public is commendable. Sadly, that is not the Chaudière Falls: It’s...
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Put citizen representatives on planning committees, Naqvi says
A re-elected Liberal government would try to head off urban-planning fights by adding non-politicians to city hall’s planning committee and demanding more extensive consultations with residents about...
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Council OKs one development, nixes another, agrees to close Bank Street for...
Council rejects Wellington West condo proposal A controversial luxury condo proposed for the corner of Wellington Street West and Island Park Drive was rejected by council on Wednesday, despite a...
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Ogilvie bike lane a chance to link east and west, Ottawa councillor says
The absence of a bike lane or any other cycling infrastructure along a busy one-kilometre stretch of Ogilvie Road is a “giant missing link” for cyclists travelling between the eastern and western ends...
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Orgaworld timeline: Seven years of composting and conflict
2007 Ottawa city council awards 20-year organics recycling contract to Orgaworld Canada Ltd. Slated to launch in the spring of 2009, the program is intended to increase the city’s waste diversion rate...
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Peter Clark running for re-election in Rideau-Rockcliffe
After months of uncertainty, Coun. Peter Clark has registered to run for re-election in Rideau-Rockcliffe ward. Clark filed his nomination papers on Friday, but said he decided in June that he would...
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