Gatineau Park
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According to information obtained from Environment Canada, the National Capital Commission (NCC) violated the Species at Risk Act in a project involving... more
By J-P Murrayp
April 7, 2022
At his virtual town hall meeting on January 20, Hull-Aylmer MP Greg Fergus flagged construction of a house at Meech Lake to announce that he and his West... more
By J-P Murrayp
February 1, 2022
Hot off the press is a book on Gatineau Park that promises to rattle the NCC’s cage and the status quo—it may even wake up Canada’s sleeping parliamentarians... more
By J-P Murrayp
April 10, 2021
I’m glad to see that the Canadian Parks and Wilderness Society has stopped undermining its Gatineau Park campaign by bending over backwards to legitimize the... more
By J-P Murrayp
January 26, 2021
Capitulating to private interests, and violating the park’s public and ecological missions, the 2020 Draft Gatineau Park Master Plan is a confused hodgepodge... more
By J-P Murrayp
January 20, 2021
Chelsea, December 11, 2019—The Gatineau Park Protection Committee (GPPC) is urging the minister responsible for the National Capital Commission (NCC) to... more
By J-P Murrayp
December 11, 2019
The NCC’s January 24th board meeting illustrated why Gatineau Park is an ongoing administrative nightmare. A number of questionable statements were made and... more
By J-P Murrayp
February 6, 2019
As Chelsea’s municipal council weighs whether to allow construction of a two-story building only a few metres from the water at 774 Meech Lake Road, I thought... more
By J-P Murrayp
October 7, 2018
John F. Marok’s exhibition Landscapes, Lights and Shadows was a resounding success. An enthusiastic crowd attended the cocktail-vernissage on Friday, June 29,... more
By J-P Murrayp
July 3, 2018
Tomorrow morning, the NCC will “unveil” its Plan for Canada’s Capital 2017–2067, a document that attacks Gatineau Park and 80 years of park planning.
Careful... more
May 8, 2017
On Monday, May 15, scholar Michael Lait will defend his PhD thesis titled “The Rotting Heart of Gatineau Park” at Carleton University, 617, Southam Hall, 2:00 ... more
May 7, 2017
Painter John F. Marok is inviting the general public to attend the closing of his art exhibit The Lights and Shadows of Gatineau Park, which Ottawa Magazine... more
April 1, 2017
Paul Gessell pens a glowing review of Mr. Marok’s exhibition Explorations and Excavations: the Lights and Shadows of Gatineau Park, in the March 15 online ... more
March 15, 2017
For those of us who thought very highly of Pierre Trudeau, the anniversary of his death on September 28th was an opportunity to reflect on the man and his... more
October 1, 2016
NCC CEO Mark Kristmanson’s August 11 op-ed in the Ottawa Citizen is pure Orwellian claptrap, lipstick on a pig, a limp apology for NCC impotence and... more
August 12, 2016