By Ananya Vaghela, PostMedia
Seventeen city councillors are choosing to only use public transit this week, but the mayor is not one of them.
The remaining five councillors have either declined or have not
CTV: Majority of Ottawa City Councillors pledge to use only public transit this week
The majority of Ottawa City Councillors have committed to travely solely using public transit for the entire week.
The challenge comes from the rider advocacy group Free Transit Ottawa. 17 of the 23 councillors officially registered for the challenge, with one seat
1310 News: City asking for federal funding to help with emergency shelters as it deals with a housing crisis
Shelters across the city are at capacity and it's putting a strain on the budget.
By: Jenn Pritchard
In December, Ottawa's mayor sent a letter to the federal minister responsible for housing requesting funding for emergency shelters.
The letter to Jean-Yves Duclos cites the financial and capacity pressures the city of Ottawa is experiencing when it comes to emergency shelter
CTV: Ottawa shelters in "crisis"
Actualité : Une BD censurée dans les écoles catholiques à cause d'un baiser
Antoine Oury
Les écoles privées catholiques d'Ottawa, au Canada, se sont vus sommées de retirer des étagères de leurs bibliothèques la bande dessinée Drama, signée par Raina Telgemeier, parue en 2012. Des parents d'élèves se seraient plaints de la présence d'une relation amoureuse homosexuelle dans l'ouvrage, et le conseil scolaire catholique anglophone d'Ottawa aurait
CBC: Reaction swift after Catholic school board pulls book
The Ottawa Catholic School Board has quietly removed a popular book from its elementary school libraries after parents complained about its LGBT content.
Drama, a 2012 graphic novel by American author and illustrator Raina Telgemeier, is about a student who wants to be part of her middle-school theatre production.
It features a side story about two boys who are attracted to one
Le Droit : Une conseillère d’Ottawa fait don de 10 exemplaires du livre Drama
SYLVIE BRANCH, Le Droit
Choquée de la décision prise par le Conseil scolaire catholique anglophone d’Ottawa de retirer un livre qui aborde entre autres le thème de l’homosexualité, la conseillère Catherine McKenney a décidé de faire un don de dix copies du livre Drama à la Bibliothèque publique d’Ottawa pour rendre l’œuvre accessible.
« J’ai offert de donner dix copies du livre à la Bibliothèque publique
Ottawa Citizen: How an acknowledgement of "unceded Algonquin Territory" became ubiquitous
From the Ottawa Citizen January 9, 2019
“We acknowledge that we are standing on unceded Algonquin, Anishinabek territory.”
It’s a statement that seems ubiquitous at public events in Ottawa, from Parliament Hill to concert halls to school classrooms.
Ottawa Citizen: Auditor general investigating city contract to house homeless families, councillor says
Updated: January 7, 2019
The city’s auditor general is investigating a contract between the city and a Vanier hotel owner under which the city is paying the hotelier $100 per night
Our pundits predict: Who and what to watch
From the Ottawa Citizen, December 31, 2018
We asked our regular columnists (and one guest!) to gaze into 2019 and answer two questions for Citizen readers.
1). Aside from the big-party leaders, who are the potential
No vacancy: More families placed in hotels as demand for shelter surges
More homeless families are set to join the hundreds already living in hotels and motels across Ottawa as demand for appropriate shelter space continues to surge.
Between 2014 and 2017, the number of chronically homeless families seeking shelter in Ottawa leapt by 143 per cent. In the past year alone, the city has
City combs through application to see if Ottawa should apply for Bee City status
City staff are combing through an application to make Ottawa a “bee city” after a councillor heard buzz from a constituent about the plight of pollinators.
Knoxdale-Merivale Coun. Keith Egli received the environment committee’s full