By Jennifer McIntosh, Ottawa Community News, November 11, 2016
A plan to redevelop St. Charles Church at 135 Barrette St. had planning committee members praising Modbox and Linebox Studios.
The proposal include a 55-unit residential space, a coffee shop and an outdoor space which will include a farmers market and a parkette.
“The building is an important part of Vanier’s history,” said Barrhaven Coun. Jan Harder.
By Allison Jones, CBC News Ottawa, November 13, 2016
The month before Ontario's Liberal government announced a rebate on electricity bills, internal polling suggested that a whopping 94 per cent of residents were eager for price relief.
Polling commissioned by the government and obtained by The Canadian Press through a freedom-of-information request shows steadily increasing concern among Ontarians about their hydro rates in the months ahead of the Liberals' pledge to take eight per cent off bills.
By Joanne Chianello, CBC news Ottawa, Novembe 12, 2016
This week's accident near the eastern portal of Ottawa's LRT tunnel isn't expected to cause any delays to the $2.1-billion project.
But the consortium building the rail system is regrouping to figure out how to make up for time lost because of the Rideau Street sinkhole — and how to meet its deadline for the massive project.
'Right now I'm not going to say anything because that's something that we're looking into.' - Peter Lauch, Rideau Transit Group
According to the technical director of the Rideau Transit Group, officials are still looking at how to "mitigate" the effects of the June 8 sinkhole that resulted in a gaping crater just east of Sussex Drive.
By Martin Appelt, Ottawa Citizen Letter to the Editor, November 13, 2016
Photo radar: They’re grabbing our cash
Re: Wynne says cities pushed for return of photo radar, Nov. 9.
Ah, the cookie jar. If we could only trust our municipal politicians to keep their greedy fingers out of it. Photo radar in school zones – it is all about the kids, isn’t it? We have, after all, a pandemic of kids getting hit by vehicles in Ottawa school zones. Or was it people stabbed near the market? Or bikers hit on bike lanes? I could find plenty about the latter, one report about the former. But what do I know?
By the Ottawa Citizen, November 12, 2016
Work has resumed on LRT construction after provincial labour investigators lifted three requirements in their probe into of Thursday’s tunnel site incident in which three workers were briefly trapped.
Investigators had asked Rideau Transit Group, the city’s LRT contractor to not disturb the scene and to share documentation. They also asked for documentation from Hardrock Concrete, a subcontractor.
By Jon Willing, Ottawa Citizen, November 11, 2016
The city is counting on $6.9 million from the province to build a new pedestrian bridge over the Rideau Canal, according to the draft 2017 budget.
If the money comes through, the city would pay $3.6 million and the feds would contribute $10.5 million. MP Catherine McKenna announced the federal money in August.The $21-million bridge for pedestrians and cyclists would span the canal at Fifth Avenue and Clegg Street.
By Jon Willing, Ottawa Citizen, November 11, 2016
Labour investigators have issued three requirements after a preliminary investigation at the LRT tunnel site where three workers were stuck on a lift Thursday.
Investigators have required the city’s LRT contractor to not disturb the scene and to share documentation. They have also asked for documentation from Hardrock Concrete, a subcontractor.
City Council tabled the draft operating and capital budgets for 2017 earlier this week at City Hall. Councillor Shad Qadri’s office shared this list of infrastructure spending that will benefit Stittsville ward. Note that some of the items listed below cross over multiple wards in the city. The final budget goes to City Council for approval on December 14.
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Design & Construction Public Works and Environmental Services $15,000 – Canada 150 Maple Grove Project.
Planting a grove of 150 native Canada Maple trees as a legacy project for Canada’s 150th anniversary celebration $75,000 –
Palladium Stormwater Facility Maintenance Project
By Stittsville Central.CA, November 10, 2016
“An event to bring together entrepreneurs, landowners, investors, and interested stakeholders from the community, to begin a conversation about the future of Stittsville Main.”
Presented by Stittsville Village Association (SVA), West Ottawa Board of Trade, Quitters Coffee, StittsvilleCentral.ca
By Michelle Nash Baker, Ottawa Community News, November 10, 2016
A new bus route will make its way through Vanier starting at the end of this year.Due to continual delays and frustrations,OC Transpo will split the former Route 5 will be split into two more reliable routes – creating a new Route 5 and a new Route 19; the latter will start at the St. Laurent Centre and then head downtown.
“The change is to make service more regular and more reliable,” OC Transpo’s manager of transit service planning and reporting, Pat Scrimgeour, told Vanier residents on Nov. 8. “This is about the number of people who are counting on this bus to simply bring them downtown.”
By Michelle Nash Baker, Ottawa Community News, November 4, 2016
Raphaël Morin is concerned for the future.
“I wish to make decisions that support a sustainable economy and better relationship with our natural environment,” he said.
That is why Morin, an Orleans resident, is running as the Green Party of Ontario candidate in Ottawa-Vanier.
By CTV News Ottawa, November 10, 2016
Three workers were trapped in Ottawa's light rail transit tunnel near Waller Street and Laurier Avenue on Thursday after some concrete came loose and fell.
The three workers were in a 'safe zone' about 200 metres from the tunnel's entrance for about an hour. One suffered minor injuries and was taken to hospital; the others were unharmed.
While police initially called the incident a "tunnel collapse," Mayor Jim Watson later said at the scene that it was not a tunnel collapse; rather, workers were spraying concrete in a part of the tunnel and some rebar came loose and fell down.