Ottawa’s transit commission on Wednesday unanimously endorsed freezing OC Transpo fares for three months early next year as it deliberated and approved
CTV: Ottawa councillors left in the dark on LRT train warranties
OTTAWA - City councillors looking to get warranty information on Ottawa’s problem plagued Alstom trains are being left in the dark, literally.
Councillors have been sent blank pages with warranty information on trains blacked out, and it’s not clear why.
“I think it would seem to me people want to see the warranties, considering the problems we’re having”, said Somerset Ward councillor Catherine McKenney.
CTV: Ottawa city councillor receives hateful email from constituent targetting her sexuality
Ottawa city councillor receives hateful email from constituent targetting her sexuality
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CBC: Councillors kept in dark on transit fix
McKenney, Brockington say they've received no details of plan to bring back buses
Darren Major, CBC
Two councillors on the city's transit commission say they've been kept in
CTV: Ottawa fire victims living in "tent city"
Catherine Lathem, CTV News Ottawa
More than a dozen people left homeless after a rooming house fire are now living in a tent city in a wooded-area behind the OTrain’s Bayview Station.
“We’re a rich city and a rich country, and this shouldn’t be happening,” says Kitchissippi Ward Coun. Jeff Leiper.
The group moved into the woods about a month ago after spending the
CBC: Councillors' call for emergency transit meeting denied
Kimberley Molina · CBC News
A call by three Ottawa city councillors for an emergency meeting to deal with ongoing problems plaguing the city's transit system has been denied.
Councillors Carol Anne Meehan, Catherine McKenney and Riley Brockington demanded a special meeting of the city's transit commission ahead of its
CTV: Seniors at Good Companions worried about being 'left out in the cold' with bus changes
By Joanne Schnurr
A seniors' centre says the recent bus changes in Ottawa is hurting the health of their members.The Good Companions Centre says their elderly volunteers and visitors are being forced to wait too long for a bus now or walk too far, forcing some of them to just stay home.A bus used to pass by the centre on
CTV: Photo radar could be coming to Ottawa in December
Photo radar could be coming to the capital by the end of 2019, according to the MTO.
Pedestrians and residents in the Little Italy neighbourhood surround St. Anthony’s School want to see the city’s first photo radar system installed at the corner of Booth street and Gladstone Avenue. The school zone,
CBC: Trinity offers cash in lieu of affordable housing at tower project
Trinity Development Group has agreed to pay the city more than $6 million toward future affordable housing, but it's unlikely any of those units will be in what will become Ottawa's tallest building at 900 Albert St.
The project, which has been approved by city council, will have 1,200
Ottawa Citizen: Advocates push for 'community benefits agreement' for LeBreton Flats
By Blair Crawford. Photo by Bruno Schlumberger.
Social activists are pushing the National Capital
Commission to adopt a “community benefits agreement” for LeBreton Flats, a
form of social contract that they say will assure the benefits of the
development will be shared with the community it serves.
“We’re saying to the NCC, ‘This is a very important piece of property and
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Ottawa Citizen: National Housing Strategy not enough to stop Ottawa's housing crisis, advocates say
By Jacob Hoytema
Consensus is growing that there is a housing and homelessness crisis in Ottawa and the federal government’s National Housing Strategy is doing little to help, experts say.
The city’s 2018 report on housing and homelessness found the waiting list for affordable housing had grown by nearly 15 per cent in one year. Catherine McKenney, city council’s liaison on the file, says local homeless shelters