A Sur le Vif, ICI Radio Canada Ottawa, le 15 septembre 2023 à 16h38
Entrevue avec William Van Geest, Coordonnateur de programmes, Écologie Ottawa, sur le rassemblement pour le climat.. Fridays for the Future (15 minutes)
By ICI Radio Canada Ottawa, le 15 septembre 2023
Des centaines de personnes se sont rassemblées, vendredi après-midi, à Ottawa, dans le cadre du mouvement « Vendredis pour l'avenir ». Les manifestants demandent au gouvernement fédéral de mettre fin à l’exploitation des énergies fossiles. Le reportage de Nelly Albérola.
By Blair Crawford, September 14, 2023
Coun. Shawn Menard wants Ontario’s auditor general to investigate how the province’s Conservative government decided to open up new land for development in Ottawa.
In a notice of motion filed at the end of Wednesday’s city council meeting, the Capital Ward councillor wants council to call on the auditor general “to consider reviewing the provincial government’s decision to add urban boundary expansion lands (in) Ottawa and for the province to reverse this costly decision.”
...Menard also cited a CBC report that said some of the land opened up by the province had recently been bought by five people with ties to the provincial Conservatives.
By Nicole Williams, CBC News Ottawa, September 14, 2023
... Now, a new 530-page provincial report is warning the impacts of climate change will only get worse.
The report finds that eastern Ontario could face an average of up to 60 days of extreme heat (over 30 C) per year by 2080 under what's commonly known as the "worst-case" scenario where emissions rise until 2100.
Locally, that would mean last week's record heat would be a lot more common, as those types of temperatures would happen three times as often as they do now on average — placing vulnerable people, businesses, infrastructure and agriculture at further risk.
.... Coun. Shawn Menard, who also chairs the city's environment and climate change committee, said "the city is doing what it can right now" to adapt. Those efforts, he said, include pushing for building retrofits, working to reduce the risk of flooding and enhancing Ottawa's resiliency to powerful windstorms like last year's derecho.
... Coun. Steve Desroches said there needs to be a stronger partnership between the city and the province to make change. He called for an investment strategy to help cities such as Ottawa make infrastructure more resilient to extreme weather events.
By Mike Crawley, CBC News, September 13, 2023
A new report commissioned by Premier Doug Ford's government warns that climate change poses high risks to Ontario, with impacts on everything from food production to infrastructure to businesses.
The report – called the Provincial Climate Change Impact Assessment – projects a soaring number of days with extreme heat across Ontario, as well as increases in flooding and more frequent wildfires.
By Ben Andrews, CBC News Ottawa, September 11, 2023
Catherine Boucher felt a rush of shock and dismay when she saw the city's plan for a long-awaited development in Little Italy.
In the draft plan released in May, a new elementary school is situated on top of Plouffe Park, a sliver of public green space in a central neighbourhood where parks are scarce.
Although the plan for the property between Preston Street and the Trillium Line includes a new park next to Plouffe's current footprint, community groups are concerned the construction could leave the neighbourhood without any green space for years.
"Every inch of green space is very important to us and this play park has served a purpose for generations," said Boucher, president of the Dalhousie Community Association.
By Theresa Kavanagh, Ottawa Citizen, August 31, 2023
When you represent a city ward in the nation’s capital, it is inevitable that you will be having conversations with our largest land-owning federal partner, the National Capital Commission (NCC). As Bay Ward city councillor, I have had many opportunities to speak with the NCC on the best use of the public land that belongs to all residents.
By Elyse Skura, CBC News, August 31, 2023
The City of Ottawa is refusing to tell taxpayers exactly how much they're paying each month to the maintainers of the Confederation Line, citing contract confidentiality.
Rideau Transit Maintenance (RTM) is in charge of ensuring the light rail system runs smoothly through a 30-year contract worth $1 billion. That contract includes maintaining the tracks, stations and fleet of Alstom Citadis Spirit cars — a job it subcontracts to the trainmaker.
By Elyse Skura, CBC News, August 19, 2023
It started with park meetups, but quickly grew into a lifeline for families during emergencies.
But one unexpected hurdle proved too much for the Kenson Park Community Association: a five-fold increase in its liability insurance, from $260 to $1,250.
"Unfortunately, it was the the only reason why we we folded," said Matthew McBain, the group's former president.
"We just, as an executive, felt that we could not go back to our community and ask our members to pay more for insurance."
If the group had been around before amalgamation, however, it never would have had to make that choice.
By Josh Pringle, CTV News, August 24, 2023
The city of Ottawa implemented a discretionary spending freeze and a hiring pause for "positions not impacting service delivery" in the first half of the year, as staff looked to help offset the million dollars in costs associated with heavy snow, freezing rain, tornadoes and other weather events.
A report for the finance and corporate services committee shows the city of Ottawa is projecting a $6.6 million deficit in the tax-supported services budget this year. The expected deficit includes $11.7 million of tax-supported services pressures relating to COVID-19, which is offset by $11.2 million in funding from the upper levels of government.
By Arthur White-Crummey, CBC News Ottawa, August 22, 2023
Montreal's effort to energize busy commercial streets by closing them to vehicles is inspiring some Ottawa city councillors to think about whether the experiment could work here.
Knoxdale-Merivale Coun. Sean Devine has been approaching his downtown colleagues to talk about when and where it could happen.
...Devine sees it as a transformation of public space that draws crowds of people to revitalize local businesses.
By Ted Raymond, CTV News, August 21, 2023
A protest group calling on the government to combat climate change says three of its members were arrested Monday morning during a sit-in on the Plaza Bridge over the Rideau Canal in Ottawa.
Protesters with the group On2Ottawa were blocking morning traffic on Wellington Street, down the road from Parliament, to call on the federal government to develop a national firefighting agency to deal with wildfires.