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Tag Archives: City of Ottawa
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
Reader Gets Laugh Over City Light-Rail Move
Facebook Bulldog reader Lee Bourdon has a straight-forward comment on light-rail down National Capital Commission parkways:
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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You Can Debate The City Budget
This is a release from the City of Ottawa: The City of Ottawa’s 2014 draft budget was tabled on October 23. The public will have the opportunity to learn more about and comment on the proposed budget by attending one … Continue reading
