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Tag Archives: City of Ottawa
Group Protests City Incursion Into Stony Swamp
This is a release from the Greenspace Alliance: The City of Ottawa is proposing to turn a 2-lane road through Stony Swamp, a Provincially Significant Wetland, into a 4-lane divided highway, and the National Capital Commission is allowing it to … Continue reading
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Tagged City of Ottawa, Greenspace Alliance, National Capital Commission, NCC, Ottawa, road, Stony Swamp
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What Kirkpatrick’s Contract Tells Us
City manager Kent Kirkpatrick is a nice man heroically fighting through a major disability to perform his job. He deserves much credit for that. However during a month in which the Ontario Municipal Board tore a strip off the Ottawa … Continue reading
131 Seniors Fall Through City Cracks: Reader
This is an email from Bulldog reader Earle Rheaume: Ken, Even after City Council approved and staff implemented policy changes in 2011, 131 low income seniors fell through the cracks and continue to be without appropriate services and benefits. City solicitor/clerk … Continue reading
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Tagged benefits, City of Ottawa, Earle Rheaume, news, Ottawa, senior
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Windmill Releases Chaudiere Consultation
Windmill Developments has released the results of its Dec. 11 public consultations on its Chaudiere Islands project. The click on the hotkeyed document below:
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Tagged Chaudiere Islands, City of Ottawa, Gatineau, NCC, The Isles, Windmill Developments
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City Told To Make Transpo/Rail Crossings Safe
This is a City of Ottawa memo: Sent on behalf of M. Rick O’Connor, City Clerk and Solicitor Mayor, Chair Deans and Members of Council and the Transit Commission, I am writing to advise that, earlier today, the Employment and Social … Continue reading
Are You Happy With The City? Bulldog Poll
Here is your chance to talk back to Ottawa City Hall. — Here is your opportunity to express your feelings about the City of Ottawa’s performance. Do you think the mayor, Ottawa City Council and city staff have been doing … Continue reading
Jim Watson: More Management, Less Tweet
This is infuriating. Mayor Jim Watson is asking the review of the bridge fiasco (Which one? The Airport Parkway? Strandherd-Armstrong? Hazeldean Road?) to name names of city employees who made errors. Bulldog Ottawa will name some. Let’s start with Jim Watson. Why? … Continue reading
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Tagged Airport Parkway bridge, Bulldog Ottawa, City of Ottawa, Jim Watson, Ken Gray
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An Unresponsive City: Bulldog On CFRA
CFRA’s Rob Snow and Bulldog Ottawa’s Ken Gray discuss why the city isn’t listening to your concerns. The podcast for the Afternoon Edition Bulldog segment is below:
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Tagged Bulldog Ottawa, CFRA, City of Ottawa, consultations, Jim Watson
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City Considered Canal For ’70s Freeway
This comment perhaps reflects the depth of resentment among some residents about the lack of meaningful consultation between the city and its residents. This complaint comes from the history books. Still it is a fascinating bit of history: Hi Ken, … Continue reading
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Tagged Bulldog Ottawa, City of Ottawa, freeway, Ottawa, Rideau Canal
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Budget Stamped, Details Follow
This is a release from the City of Ottawa. Sorry for the paid-political-announcement-style lead-in to the facts: City Council has approved the Budget for 2014 that delivers a 1.9 per cent tax change – the lowest change in seven years, … Continue reading
City Hall Compensation Probed
2014_compensation_backgrounder Here is at least part of the compensation information Kanata resident Peter J. Clark has been seeking. — Bulldog reader Peter J. Clark has done his budget homework on compensation at Ottawa City Hall. Hi Ken, The City has … Continue reading
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Tagged budget, Bulldog Ottawa, City of Ottawa, city staff, compensation, Ottawa
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Internal City Memo: TMP Plans
This a letter and highlights package sent to Ottawa city councillors on Friday concerning future moves on the Transportation Master Plan:
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Tagged Bulldog Ottawa, City of Ottawa, Ottawa, Transportation Master Plan
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City Auditor General Woes: Bulldog On CFRA
CFRA’s Rob Snow talks with Bulldog Ottawa’s Ken Gray about the optics of hiring a new auditor general from within the ranks of Ottawa city staff. Recently a city panel picked deputy treasurer Ken Hughes to be the municipality’s new … Continue reading
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Tagged auditor general, Bulldog Ottawa, City of Ottawa, Ken Hughes, Ottawa
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