By Nael Shiab and Isabelle Bouchard, CBC, March 7, 2022
...In all, 1,700 square kilometres have been added to the country’s nine biggest metropolitan areas since 2001. It’s as if the country’s urban areas have increased by three-and-a-half times the size of the island of Montreal.
And since urban sprawl (up 34 per cent) has progressed on average faster than population growth (up 26 per cent), each Canadian occupies, on average, more space, farther away from city centres.
By Alex Black, Ottawa City News
Spring is just around the corner and that means Ottawa's 'Cleaning up the Capital Campaign' is back!
Starting on Tuesday, March 15, 2022, residents who want to help keep the capital clean and green can register for the 29th installment of the annual campaign.
Par Natalie Tremblay, Radio Canada Ottawa Gatineau, le 7 mars 2022
L’étalement urbain gagne considérablement du terrain dans les principales régions métropolitaines au pays. La région d’Ottawa-Gatineau est de loin celle qui a connu la plus forte expansion au cours des 20 dernières années.
C'est ce que révèle un reportage produit par Radio-Canada.
La zone urbanisée de la région de la capitale fédérale s’est agrandie de 49,9 % par rapport à 2001, soit l’équivalent de 189 kilomètres carrés. Cette croissance est plus forte que celle observée dans d’autres grandes métropoles canadiennes telles que Calgary, Montréal et Toronto.
By Andrew Waldron, Ottawa Citizen Op-Ed
...The intensified neighbourhoods that Ontario’s Housing Affordability Task Force wishes for would, ironically, destroy my 15-minute neighbourhood. Good recommendations are provided by the task force, but it undermines heritage conservation and sustainability goals.
Exclusionary zoning in suburban areas, post-industrial land rehabilitation, developing underused vacant properties and density around public transit — these are refreshing proposals. But the authors did not understand urban living, quality of life and how to approach the affordability of housing, specifically on heritage conservation, the one area where legislation saved many of the kinds of spaces they wish to create.
By Nicole Mortillaro, CBC News, March 5, 2022
The Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) released a report on Monday on the impacts, adaptation and vulnerability humans face with rising temperatures.
It may be difficult to get through all the facts and figures on yet another tome — it's more than 3,500 pages. But this report, much different than its predecessors, focuses on the human toll of climate change and how we may adapt.
...Among all the numbers, the report's message is clear: climate change is already taking its toll on humanity, at a grave cost.
By Trevor Dunne, CBC News
Environmentalists are warning there's no quick fix to the problem of plastic waste and they say they're worried that's exactly what the Doug Ford government is promising with its new recycling plan.
"The real solution is to reduce the amount of plastic that we're making," said Karen Wirsig, project manager for Environmental Defence, who describes the province's proposal as "magical thinking" and "dangerous."
By Jason Burggraaf, Ottawa Citizen Op-Ed, March 3, 2022
On March 10, Ottawa’s planning committee is going to consider the city’s response to the Report from Ontario’s Housing Affordability Task Force, which features 55 recommendations to increase the supply of market housing to address the housing crisis.
The headline goal of the report is the need to add 1.5 million homes across the province over the next 10 years for our growing population and to regain ground we’ve lost in homes per population.
...The task force is recommending a number of supply-oriented measures, including: significant limits to exclusionary (R1) zoning; allowing up to four units and up to four storeys on a single residential lot; allowing six to 11 storeys on streets with public transit (what we call corridors here in Ottawa); and unrestricted height and density next to transit stations if municipal zoning doesn’t meet provincial density targets. These measures are important to meet Ottawa’s housing needs.
Par Gabriel Le Marquand Perreault et Fiona Collienne, ICI Radio Canada Ottawa-Gatineau, le 3 mars 2022
Le prix de l’essence dans la région de la capitale nationale grimpe en flèche. Même si le prix moyen demeure en deçà des pires prévisions, les consommateurs ressentent les effets de la hausse et s’en plaignent.
...Disons que j’aimerais bien avoir une auto électrique dans ces temps-ci
, a lâché de son côté Ron Renaud.
...« Ce n’est jamais de gaieté de coeur, mais peut-être qu'on pourrait songer à utiliser d'autres moyens de transport. L'autobus, la marche, le vélo, etc. » Une citation de Jean-Thomas Bernard, professeur, Université d'Ottawa
Lire l'article au complet ici.
By Kate Porter, CBC News Ottawa, March 2, 2022
The problems with building thousands of houses in the Ottawa suburb of Orléans — a plan based on a long-promised bus rapid transit line that has never materialized — came home to roost at transportation committee Wednesday, as residents pushed for a corridor across federal Greenbelt lands to ease gridlock.
Committee members ultimately voted seven to four to approve the City of Ottawa's preferred route for a $178-million future bus Transitway and $128-million extension to Brian Coburn Boulevard.
Par Julien Paquette, Le Droit, le 2 mars 2022
Le Comité des transports a adopté mercredi la conception fonctionnelle du trajet pour le futur segment du boulevard.
...La création d’un nouveau lien routier est-ouest dans le sud d’Orléans soulève les passions dans ce secteur de la ville depuis de nombreuses années. La congestion sur les principaux axes routiers en direction du centre-ville est un enjeu quotidien, surtout pour les résidents du sud de ce secteur qui doivent se diriger vers le nord pour les emprunter.
By Mike Crawley, CBC News, February 17, 2022
Ontario's steel industry is aiming for a dramatic reduction in its greenhouse gas emissions, a move that will help Premier Doug Ford's government get closer to achieving its climate-change targets.
The three biggest industrial emitters of CO2 in Ontario are all steel plants. Steel production alone accounts for more than 40 per cent of all industrial greenhouse gas (GHG) emissions in the province, more than the refinery, forestry, mining and chemical sectors combined.
But a push is now on — funded in part by nearly $2 billion from provincial and federal taxpayers — to convert Ontario's steel plants to using lower-carbon sources of energy.
By the Canadian Press, CBC News Ottawa, February 28, 2022
Global warming is already costing Canada billions, from wildfires in the West to reduced seafood harvests in the East, says a new report from the world's top climate change research body.
The Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) has released a new summary report on impacts, adaptation and vulnerability. Intended to guide political decision-makers, it holds grim warnings for Canada.