By CBC News Ottawa, January 19, 2015
Residents in Stittsville are upset over plans to cut down hundreds of trees as part of work to build a 150-home subdivision.
The development, off Fernbank Road, used to be provincially designated wetland.
The city has asked the developer for a study to find out if the land is safe to build on, and the developer says it'll need to remove the trees to bring the machinery in for the study.
By Matthew Pearson, Ottawa Citizen, January 17, 2015
Mayor Jim Watson says he’s focused on reaching a tentative agreement with the National Capital Commission on the city’s preferred route for extending light rail to the west, despite vocal opposition this week from a church congregation and some Richmond Road businesses who say the plan is unacceptable.
After some public friction last fall over the city’s favoured rail route, Watson and Foreign Affairs Minister John Baird, who also oversees the NCC, agreed to a 100-day truce, in hopes of finding a solution for getting trains between Dominion station and Lincoln Fields.
By Ottawa Community News, January 13, 2015
TORONTO - The difference in electricity prices between peak and off-peak times in Ontario is far too small to encourage people to conserve energy, the province's environment watchdog said Tuesday.
Environmental commissioner Gord Miller's conservation progress report echoed findings of the auditor general, who said last month that the narrow difference undermines time-of-use pricing as an incentive for ratepayers to shift to off-peak.