By Peter Szperling
If you don't have a vehicle or access to one, getting tested for COVID-19 is a challenge for some people living in downtown Ottawa.
There is no COVID-19 testing facility located in Centretown, Sandy Hill, Westboro and Lowertown. The closest one is located at Brewer Arena near Carleton University.
Some Ottawa councillors are pushing health officials to open a new site
Par Paloma Martínez
Le mouvement Black Lives Matter a inspiré le lancement du Centre culturel Afro-Noir à Ottawa. Le 11 septembre, l’artiste
By Kate Porter
The City of Ottawa's planning committee has approved highrise buildings at the Blair and Westboro transit stations, as well as a separate development that will take up most of a downtown city block.
Developer Main and Main received zoning approval to build 900 rental units in three towers of 23, 29 and 35 storeys at 400 Albert St., currently
By Dani-Elle Dubé
An electric tramway connecting Ottawa and Gatineau residents could be a possibility if city council gets on board.
On Wednesday, councillors will look at several options as to where and how they can connect western Gatineau residents and commuters to the downtowns of Gatineau and Ottawa, which is being proposed by the Société de transport
By Craig Lord
Ottawa city councillors are asking for more testing capacity in their wards as the city’s coronavirus case count continues to climb.
Ottawa Public Health (OPH) reported 17 new coronavirus cases on Wednesday following a spike of 36 cases the day previous.
OPH said the number of active coronavirus cases in the city dropped to 225
By John Willing
The complicated work of encouraging home construction, shoehorning small apartment complexes into Ottawa’s oldest neighbourhoods and satisfying neighbours who will live near those buildings played out during a city council planning committee meeting Thursday.
On the table was a proposal to tweak the zoning bylaw to support, while regulating, multi-unit buildings as residential developments in inner-urban
By Taylor Blewett. Photo by Julie Oliver/Postmedia
Ottawa Community Housing has been granted a $167.9-million mortgage from the federal government to build 698 new housing units across three sites on Gladstone Avenue, rentals it plans to make available to a spectrum of tenants with low to moderate incomes.
“This is the future of affordable housing in Ottawa,” Mathieu Fleury, OCH
By Sarah Kester. Photo by Jean Delisle, CBC
The City of Ottawa is embarking on a housing blitz with the aim of finding at least 100 available units for tenants who are currently homeless, a goal it's hoping to achieve by the end of September.
The city, in partnership with the Alliance to End Homelessness Ottawa and the Eastern Ontario Landlord Organization, is asking property owners with
By Kate Porter
A 15-block stretch of Bank Street in downtown Ottawa will close to vehicles every Saturday for at least the next month, becoming the latest area to try to recover customers during the COVID-19 pandemic by making more space for pedestrians and cyclists.
Starting this weekend, Bank from Queen to Flora streets will close to
By Bruce Deachman
The city announced the opening of two additional emergency cooling centres on Wednesday, adding to the three it opened a day earlier.
The Jules Morin Park Fieldhouse, at 400 Clarence St. E., joins the Bernard
La Ville d’Ottawa a ouvert quelques centres de rafraîchissement climatisés au public, alors qu’une nouvelle canicule balaie la région
By Ted Raymond
OTTAWA -- Somerset Ward Councillor Catherine McKenney says the bars and restaurants of Somerset Village will be taking over the street on weekends.
In a tweet, McKenney said a stretch of Somerset Street West between Bank Street and O'Connor Street would be closed to vehicles on Fridays, Saturdays, and Sundays to provide more patio space.
The street will be closed from 5 p.m. to 11 p.m. on Fridays, and from 12 noon