Kate Porter
Ottawa city council is on track to approve the $4.66-billion expansion of its light rail system on Wednesday, despite learning just a day earlier that the project's first phase won't be ready until as late as June.
As CBC News has reported, the Confederation Line has experienced significant
It's not the kind of icebreaker you can use on a date, but the City of Ottawa is hoping it will help smooth things over with residents who are fed up with treacherously slippery sidewalks.
The city has been testing a new machine — five of them, actually — to break up the ice that builds up underfoot and makes the walkways dangerous for pedestrians.
Jenn Pritchard
Catherine McKenney wants to use the RendezVous LeBreton deal falling through with the NCC as an opportunity to start fresh.
A vision for the future of LeBreton Flats includes affordable housing beside the LRT stations, according to Somerset ward City Councillor Catherine McKenney.
The councillor shared her thoughts on the RendezVous LeBreton deal falling
Megan Gillis
It looks frankly terrifying, but could the Blue Gryb liberate pedestrians from scarily-slick sidewalks?
When Somerset ward Coun. Catherine McKenney tweeted about the city’s newly-acquired rotating ice breaker and “cutting edge” sidewalk plow blades during a meeting this week with city staff on tackling icy conditions for pedestrians, she got dozens of comments and more than 250 likes.
À Sylvie Branch
Dix-sept conseillers municipaux d’Ottawa sur vingt-quatre ont relevé le défi de prendre le transport en commun pendant une semaine, non sans embûches ou pépins. Au terme de ce défi, l’organisme Free Transit Ottawa réclame des améliorations au système actuel, dont un gel des tarifs.
La conseillère du quartier Somerset, Catherine McKenney s’est
By Jon Willing
Canada Lands Company must be doing something right when it comes to redeveloping a major federal property near Ottawa’s downtown.
The heritage protection plan for the former Natural Resources Canada complex on Booth Street received unanimous support from the city’s built-heritage subcommittee on Monday as the federal Crown corporation moves closer to
If the City of Ottawa’s heritage department and built-heritage subcommittee get their way, an old, industrial federal government office complex located just west of Ottawa’s downtown core and slated for redevelopment will be designated as a heritage site.
From missing buses to being packed like sardines, councillors experience life by bus
Robyn Miller · CBC News
With a few days left in a weeklong transit challenge, some Ottawa city councillors are expressing their frustration with a system in which getting from point A to point B isn't always easy.
Free Transit Ottawa issued the challenge to rely solely on transit for a
Advocates had asked for $12M, as well as a focus on affordable housing on new LRT
Kate Porter · CBC News
Mayor Jim Watson has announced the City of Ottawa will spend $15 million of dollars of its own funds to try to double the number of affordable housing units that get built this year.
He used the opening minutes of his speech introducing the city's 2019 draft
By Joanne Laucius, Postmedia
Two city councillors behind a one-per-cent homelessness tax levy to jump-start construction of affordable housing are hoping the idea will be in the city’s draft budget on Wednesday.
Somerset Coun. Catherine McKenney and Rideau-Vanier Coun. Mathieu Fleury say
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
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