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Plasco Misses Financing Deadline
This is a release from the City of Ottawa. Please click on highlighted words below:
It’s Official. City Committee Heads Set
This is a release from the City of Ottawa: City Council today approved the new team of individuals who will lead and serve on Ottawa’s committees and boards, and who will serve as Deputy Mayors for the 2014-2018 Term of … Continue reading
Harder Gets Website Right: Worth Repeating
Barrhaven Councillor Jan Harder last week certainly got the City of Ottawa website correct. The website is a nightmare for search. That search engine screams futility when it comes to the most basic requests for information. Mayor Jim Watson defends … Continue reading
The Badly Flawed Governance Report
This is an email from avid Bulldog reader Andrew Zenner. Zenner has gone over the governance report with a fine-tooth comb: There are a number of issues in the massive 289-page Omnibus governance bill that is being brought to council … Continue reading
Ottawa Plays Fiscal Shell Game
This is the excellent Bulldog commenter Sheridan on the post Do Nothing: City’s Best Option: Excellent analysis regarding Mayor Jim Watson’s spin on city spending. Watson often falls back on this retort: “how are we to pay for that?,” as if … Continue reading
Municipality Updates Hacked City Site
This is a release from the City of Ottawa: Over the weekend, there were issues with the City of Ottawa’s website, ottawa.ca. The website is currently online. There were no security breaches or loss of resident or City data. City … Continue reading
City Website Returns
This is a release from the City of Ottawa: Ottawa.ca has now been restored, however, there may be delays in refresh times for some internet service providers. We are confident that no corporate or resident information was compromised as a … Continue reading
City Website Still Down
As of 7:52 a.m. Saturday morning, the City of Ottawa website (ottawa.ca) was still down. It looks as though it was hacked late Friday. No word on when it will be working again.
City Of Ottawa Site Hacked
This is how the City of Ottawa Internet homepage looked last evening after hackers got at it. — It appears the City of Ottawa site has been hacked. Friday night it was only carrying a message saying the site had … Continue reading
City Seeks Committee Members
This is a release from the City of Ottawa: Residents of Ottawa who are 18 years and over are invited to put their expertise and knowledge to work by becoming a volunteer member on one of the City’s committees or … Continue reading
Kirkpatrick On Shooting, Lockdown
This is a City of Ottawa internal memo written by city manager Kent Kirkpatrick to staff and obtained by The Bulldog: Message to employees following downtown shooting Following the events that took place yesterday in Ottawa’s downtown core, I want … Continue reading
City Releases Media Contact List
This list was released by the City of Ottawa. It appears to have been sent accidentally by the city communications department and lists the media activity with which the municipality has dealt. The list appears to be a lot of … Continue reading
City Wins Coliseum Appeal
This is a release from the City of Ottawa: — Mayor and Members of Council, I am writing to advise that, earlier today, the Ontario Superior Court issued its decision allowing the City of Ottawa’s appeal of the $2.24 million … Continue reading
Moffatt Gets Tough On Green-Bin Woes
When problems appeared at the Airport Parkway pedestrian bridge, there was much tub-thumping about how heads would roll because politicians and senior staff were so furious about what had happened. But somehow the aforementioned heads didn’t roll. Now with the … Continue reading
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Tagged City of Ottawa, green bin, Ottawa, Rideau-Goulbourn, Scott Moffatt
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Are You Happy With City Staff Performance? Vote
Now that we are finished evaluating Mayor Watson’s term in the previous post, there’s another little task below. How did you think city staff, from the top to bottom, performed? Despite the high profile of politicians, the real governing of … Continue reading
City Pleads Guilty On Environmental Charge
This is a City of Ottawa internal document obtained by The Bulldog: Mayor Watson and Members of Council, Further to my e-mail of January 8th, 2014 below, the purpose of this correspondence is to provide Council with an update … Continue reading
Downtown Moves Wins Awards
This is a release from the City of Ottawa: Downtown Moves, the plan for how people will move around Ottawa’s downtown core in the future, has won four awards from national, international and regional planning associations.
Finally, Orgaworld Audit To Be Revealed
A suspicious person might say that news of the settlement in the contract arbitration between the City of Ottawa and Orgaworld would be something the city would want to trumpet. In fact, news of the settlement became apparent on Sunday … Continue reading
City Creates Child-Care Registry
This is a release from the City of Ottawa: Finding child care within the city of Ottawa just got easier with the introduction of a new online service where parents can access a centralized registry that makes it easy to … Continue reading
Your Taxes Are Due
This is a release by the City of Ottawa: Ottawa property owners are reminded that the payment on the final property tax bill, which was mailed out in late May, is due on Thursday, June 19, 2014.
City’s Airport Parkway Bridge Suit
This is the legal paperwork surrounding the City of Ottawa’s claim against WSP Canada, formerly Genivar, in regards to the Airport Parkway Bridge problems. Just click on the highlighted type below:
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Tagged Airport Parkway bridge, City of Ottawa, Genivar, Ottawa, WSP Canada
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Watson’s $1M Party: Bulldog On CFRA
CFRA’s Ron Corbett (filling in for regular Afternoon Edition host Rob Snow) and The Bulldog’s Ken Gray discuss Mayor Jim Watson’s $1 million ideas forum for the 2017 150th anniversary celebration marking Confederation. A million bucks ain’t a million bucks … Continue reading
City Raises $519,000 For UW
This is a release from the United Way: City employees were applauded by City Council after raising $519,007 for the United Way/Centraide of Ottawa through the 2013 Employee Campaign. The money was raised through pledge form donations, as well as … Continue reading
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