By Tyler Fleming
OTTAWA -- An Ottawa Councillor is calling on the City of Ottawa to open a recreation facility to provide daytime respite for those struggling with homelessness during the COVID-19 pandemic.
Somerset Councillor Catherine McKenney will ask the City’s Human Needs Task Force to consider opening the Plant Recreation Centre on Somerset Street West.
By Josh Pringle
The City of Ottawa has hit the brakes on a push to deactivate beg buttons at intersections across the city during the COVID-19 pandemic.
Councillor Shawn Menard asked staff to look at the “feasibility of reprogramming automated push buttons where safe to do so, in order to reduce the need for people to physically touch these buttons to safely cross a
OTTAWA — Battles are brewing in some cities over use of increasingly limited public space, as local governments struggle with whether to give more room for pedestrians to spread out.
The Public Health Agency of Canada says on its website that taking a walk outside is a low-risk activity for healthy people — no more dangerous than online shopping or cooking at home.
By Josh Pringle
OTTAWA -- Ecology Ottawa and two Councillors would like to see pedestrians and cyclists fill empty traffic lanes on Ottawa’s roads during the COVID-19 pandemic.
The City of Ottawa tells CTV News Ottawa that there has been an approximately 50 per cent decrease in traffic across the city over the past two weeks.
Employees working at home, school cancellations and calls for physical
By Ciara Hain
A long-awaited supermarket is expected to anchor a major new housing and retail development in Ottawa’s Little Italy neighbourhood.
The new development will see the end of what Somerset Ward Coun. Catherine McKenney calls a food desert. The supermarket is to be part of a development
OTTAWA — On a chilly February morning, people scurry in and out of the lobby of the Ottawa Public Library’s main branch on Metcalfe Street while a man sleeps on a wooden bench, his face covered by the hood of his parka.
For many years, the lobby doors opened on weekdays as early as 6 a.m., four
At least eight Ottawa city councillors are calling for an investigation by the provincial ombudsman into Stage 1 LRT problems and the Stage 2 contracting.
By JON WILLING Photo by Errol McGihon/Postmedia
At least eight Ottawa city councillors are calling for an investigation by the
By Josh Pringle
OTTAWA -- Councillor Catherine McKenney says “once again the urban core is shut out” of major roles on committees at Ottawa City Hall.
McKenney made the comment after the Finance and Economic Development Committee and Nominating Committee recommended Councillors to fill vacancies on city committees and boards.
Among the changes:
Innes Ward Councillor Laura Dudas was nominated for vice-chair of the
By Taylor Blewett. Photo by Tony Caldwell/Postmedia
While city decision-makers are moving forward with a plan to direct housing money from upper levels of government to Ottawans in dire living situations, some councillors are voicing frustration with the limited scale of those resources in the face of mounting need.
The community and protective services committee voted Thursday to delegate
By Jonathan Willing
Ottawa’s inner-urban councillors are calling for more representation on the de-facto cabinet of council as Mayor Jim Watson oversees a leadership shuffle.
Capital Coun. Shawn Menard, Somerset Coun. Catherine McKenney, Kitchissippi Coun. Jeff Leiper, Rideau-Vanier Coun. Mathieu Fleury and Rideau-Rockcliffe
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An Ottawa woman who wore a large papier mâché likeness of Ottawa Mayor Jim Watson to city hall to protest the ongoing LRT problems claims she was asked by security guards to take it off.
Velvet LeClair donned the mask and a cardboard train bearing the slogan "Fix the LRT" to Watson's Family Day skating party on Monday.