By CTV News Ottawa, September 14, 2016
A proposal to build a new, state-of-the-art bike park at a city site has divided many Carlington area residents.
On Thursday members of the Community and Protective Services Committee will debate a proposal by the Ottawa Mountain Bike Association, backed by River Ward Councillor Riley Brockington, to build a bike park at the top of Carlington Park.
By Tom Spears, Ottawa Citizen, September 14, 2016
The National Research Council has seen the future: NRC saves the planet by fixing global warming.
Canada’s biggest science agency has an internal document, introduced to some staff by NRC’s former president days before he left his position in March, that outlines an ambitious view of NRC in 2050.
By Doug Hempstead, CBC News Ottawa, September 14, 2016
Good afternoon commuters!There are some changes today if your commute takes you along the multi-use pathway in the Bayview area. Drivers be warned: there's nothing normal about this fall's commute.
A new pathway provides access between the Ottawa River and Scott Street starting today at 6 a.m. Flaggers will be onsite until Friday to direct pedestrians and cyclists to the new route.
By CBC News Ottawa, September 14, 2016
An Ottawa wildlife centre says it's in desperate need of funds after seeing a steep increase in the number of sick, injured and orphaned birds arriving at its doors.
The Wild Bird Care Centre says the number of birds it's cared for this year has risen by about 35 per cent over 2015 — and as a result, they're launching an online fundraiser in the hopes of bringing in $100,000 to pay the bills associated with that care.
By Madeline Ashby, Ottawa Citizen, September 13, 2016
Have you heard the bad news?
According to NASA, this August was the hottest month on record. Again. That’s not the hottest August on record, or the hottest month of 2016. It means that August of 2016 was the hottest month since recording began – in 1880. That means 2016 is well underway to becoming the hottest year on record, just like the past three years. In fact, every month since October 2015 has set new monthly high-temperature records. This summer was hotter than last summer. This winter was warmer than last winter. And it doesn’t show signs of stopping.
By David Reevely, Ottawa Citizen, September 14, 2016
The Obama administration has released a new offshore wind power strategy that includes building a load of wind farms in the Great Lakes while Ontario sits on its hands. We’re worried (officially) about stirring up sediments and contaminating our own and U.S. drinking water. They evidently aren’t so concerned.
“Offshore” wind power was one of the elements in Dalton McGuinty’s green-energy revolution. There’s room for big turbines, steady and predictable wind, relatively few neighbours compared with land-based wind farms, and the potential to put them so far out nobody will see them from land at all.
By Jon Willing, Ottawa Citizen, September 14, 2016
Rideau-Rockcliffe Coun. Tobi Nussbaum is apparently becoming a coveted speaker outside of Ottawa.
He’s off to Seattle later this month to speak at the National Association of City Transportation Officials’ “Designing Cities” conference. He’ll be sharing his insights during a session called Paving the Way for Safe Streets: The Role of Political Leadership.
By Jon Willing, Ottawa Citizen, September 14, 2016
Ottawa council is staying on the road to building a truck tunnel between Highway 417 and the Macdonald-Cartier Bridge to Gatineau.
Council voted 21-2 Wednesday to move forward with a tunnel environmental assessment, subject to funding help from the upper-tier governments.
Gloucester-South Nepean Coun. Michael Qaqish dismissed the tunnel as a project of “political convenience” with a massive price tag, even before knowing the ground conditions.
By Emma Jackson, Ottawa Metro News, September 12, 2016
We’re complaining as much as ever, just about different things.
The bylaw department’s 2015 annual report shows spikes in calls about licensing, signs and zoning, while animal and noise complaints have dropped steeply over the past fives years.
Bylaw chief Roger Chapman said the reduced noise is thanks to being proactive in student-dense neighbourhoods.
By Kate Porter, CBC News Ottawa, September 12, 2016
Another big dig is set to start under Ottawa's downtown, this time to carve out tunnels with the capacity to store up to 43 million litres of raw sewage and runoff resulting from big storms.
The combined sewage storage tunnel is the centrepiece of the Ottawa River Action Plan approved by city council in 2010, and aimed at preventing sewage from spilling into the waterway.
By Joanne Chianello, CBC News Ottawa, September 13, 2016
The National Capital Commission was given an unenviable task by boss Melanie Joly. Take over the controversial discussions on finding a new location for an expanded Civic campus of The Ottawa Hospital, consider all federal land available and report back in six months, the minister of Canadian Heritage said in May.
Oh, and don't forget to check in with the public. Talk to you in November.
By the Editor, Ottawa Citizen, September 12, 2016
It’s too early to predict which of a dozen potential sites will eventually house the new Civic campus of the Ottawa Hospital, but the process now underway to select it should cheer anyone interested in local health care. In addition to the list of proposed locations, the National Capital Commission, charged with the unenviable task of wading through the hyper-charged politics of the situation, has laid out clear criteria to guide the recommendation it must eventually make.