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Dear Council Colleagues, My office has been working with our business community stakeholders, along with Councillors Dudas, El-Chantiry and Harder as co-chairs... more
City of Ottawa
Business
freedom convoy
Ottawa
ottpoli
Jim Watson
Every year the City of Ottawa traps and kills beavers in at least a dozen locations across the city.  City officials call beavers a problem, saying that the... more
beavers
OttawaBeaverKillings
ottpoli
wetlands
Ottawa City Hall
Mayor Jim Watson’s announced departure means that his lock-grip on committees and votes comes to an end. Suddenly new future pathways and new choices are... more
City of Ottawa
Budget 2022
climate change
climate action
ottpoli
Mayor Jim Watson
Report and analysis by Daniel Buckles (Champlain Park) and Pat Turk (Mechanicsville) On 26 July 2021 Ottawa Centre MP Catherine McKenna, Chief Whiteduck from... more
NCC
City of Ottawa
Foreign Embassies
green space
Parks
ottpoli
Scott Moffat
Tobi Nussbaum
Glen Gower
Jim Watson
Catherine McKenna
The city’s draft of its new Official Plan (OP) presents an overall positive, and at times ambitious, vision for our city’s evolution over the next few... more
Official Plan
City of Ottawa
Planning
ottpoli
Shawn Menard
Ottawa is faced with a serious decision regarding housing for its urbanizing population. Having declared a “Housing and Homelessness Emergency” on Jan. 22,... more
NCC
City of Ottawa
Ottawa River
Parkway
Foreign Embassies
Tobi Naussbaum
ottpoli
cdnpoli
The City's website "engage Ottawa" (https://engage.ottawa.ca/the-new-official-plan) divides the draft Official Plan into 21 topics, each with a one pager and... more
Official Plan
City of Ottawa
Public consultation
ottpoli
Too often health, environmental, economic, and social equity goals are pitched against each other, as though we can never have one without the other. However,... more
Urban Boundary
City of Ottawa
COVID19
Housing
Homelessness
Ottcity
climate change
Presentation to the City of Ottawa Ward Boundary Review: My name is Alex Cullen. I am currently President of the Belltown Neighbours Association, in Bay Ward,... more
ward boundaries
(Ottawa) – Today, Jim Watson presented the draft 2019 City of Ottawa budget. The most notable aspect of this budget is what it did not say. In Jim Watson’s... more
Mayor Jim Watson
City of Ottawa
2019 Municipal Budget
Ecology Ottawa
climate change
Environment
Ottcity
ottpoli
Today is the first day and it's a cold one. - 20C and -30 windchill. I'm heading to the GRC on Route 62 to begin a busy day of ward meetings. I'll be meeting... more
Ottawa City Council
public transit
Stittsville
City of Ottawa
OC Transpo
Glen Gower
My opinion of the tunnel and its extensions has always been it is too expensive, (8 billion), too difficult to build (cave ins) and too long to make happen (20... more
City of Ottawa
Development
LRT Rail
Housing
ottpoli
Commuting
After eight years away from City Hall, I returned to watch the debate over the three record heights proposed for buildings close to the new transit stop in... more
City of Ottawa
Ottawa City Council
OttVote
ottpoli
Clive Doucet
Hintonburg
mayor
Ottawa Citizen
In a decision on 16 February, the Canadian Transportation Agency (part of the Federal Court system) gave the City of Ottawa two choices. It must take the steps... more
Moose Passenger Rail
City of Ottawa
Transportation
Prince of Wales Bridge
ottpoli
Mayor Jim Watson
Keith Egli
This week’s developments on the light-rail transit file have left me pondering questions about core roles and responsibilities in our democratic system. Much... more
LRT
City of Ottawa
Mayor Jim Watson
2018 Municipal Budget
ottpoli
Tobi Nussbaum
governance
democracy

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