Fines could increase for 'dooring'
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By Danielle Bell, Ottawa Sun, March 20, 2014

If you hit a cyclist getting out of your car, be prepared to pay more for it. Under proposed new Ontario legislation introduced this week, fines for dooring — opening a car door into the path of an oncoming cyclist — could go up to as much as $1,000. Cycling advocates say although getting hit by a car door is a major worry, hitting people in the pocketbook is probably not enough to stop it from happening. via Fines could increase for 'dooring' | Ottawa & Region | News | Ottawa Sun.

Whole Foods looks for local food suppliers for Lansdowne store - Ottawa - CBC News

By CBC News Ottawa, March 20, 2014

U.S. grocery chain Whole Foods is calling on local farmers and artisans to help stock the shelves of its new market at the redeveloped Lansdowne Park this year. As it has done in the U.S., the company issued a call for people in the area who sell non-genetically modified foods from the area around a store to pitch them on items such as salad dressing, fair trade coffee and produc via Whole Foods looks for local food suppliers for Lansdowne store - Ottawa - CBC News.

Ottawa homebuilders worried about stricter infill rules - Ottawa - CBC News

By CBC News Ottawa, March 20, 2014

Proposed rules for infill housing that would require Ottawa home builders doing landscaping to more closely match the "character" of the street should be shelved until the city has studied their impact more carefully, according to the head the Greater Ottawa Homebuilders Association. The city's planning committee is expected to debate and vote on updated standards to the city's infill rules next week. via Ottawa homebuilders worried about stricter infill rules - Ottawa - CBC News.

The NCC’s survey on its land uses: terrible, horrible, or worst-ever?
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By David Reevely, Ottawa Citizen Blog, March 20, 2014

The National Capital Commission wants to know what you think about its long-term plans for its “capital urban lands,” properties under federal control in Ottawa and Gatineau. That includes everything from Parliament Hill to Tunney’s Pasture to the parkways to the Experimental Farm to Leamy Lake, inside the Greenbelt.

It is holding public meetings on the subject, or you can fill out this online survey.

U.S. delays moving armed convoys carrying nuclear waste through eastern Ontario

By Ian McLeod, Ottawa Citizen, March 20, 2014

OTTAWA — Armed convoys of trucks ferrying intensely radioactive liquid through eastern Ontario to the United States will be delayed for at least another 17 months, according to the U.S. government.

The Department of Energy, in its 2015 budget request to Congress released Wednesday, says the controversial shipments are not expected to begin moving to a U.S. nuclear reprocessing plant until September 2015, two years later than originally planned.

Spring has sprung ....not!!
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By Doug Hempstead, Ottawa Sun, March 18, 2014

The snow shovels of Ottawa, like Ottawans themselves, are worn down to an angry nub.

But, to mark the official arrival of spring, those angry nubs will again be flinging cursed, relentless snow onto the blackened, petrified banks which line the driveways of the city that spring forgot.

Near-naked PETA models in hot tub protest water wasted on animal products
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By Denis Armstrong, Ottawa Sun, March 19, 2014

Office workers out for lunch Wednesday got more than they bargained for as two near-naked female models shared a hot bubble bath at the corner of Bank St. and Albert. Covered in little more than bubbles and goose pimples, the two bathers involved in the stunt staged by animal rights organization PETA, braved the cold and leers from passersby to mark World Water Day and spread the message that eating meat is not environmentally friendly. via Near-naked PETA models in hot tub protest water wasted on animal products | Ottawa & Region | News | Ottawa Sun.

Proposed NCC policy aims to ‘put the park back into the parkway’

By Don Butler, Ottawa Citizen, March 19, 2014

OTTAWA — The National Capital Commission is developing a new policy for its scenic parkways that will give priority to accommodating pedestrians and cyclists rather than automobiles.

“The proposal is aiming for a shift in paradigm, putting the park back into the parkway,” Lucie Bureau, the NCC’s chief of planning and transportation, said Wednesday at a media briefing about the commission’s Capital Urban Lands Master Plan.

OC Transpo gets top marks from Ottawa commuters

By Matthew Pearson, Ottawa Citizen, March 19, 2014

OTTAWA — A customer survey has given OC Transpo its highest overall rating since a transit strike more than five years ago drove down satisfaction levels significantly, but the company still has work to do to make its female riders feel safer late at night.

According to the 2013 customer survey, which was based on telephone interviews with 1,525 randomly selected people conducted between Nov. 22 and Dec. 10, 80 per cent of transit users rated OC Transpo as “good” or “very good.” More than 800 of them were regular riders.

580 CFRA News Talk Radio :: Premier says they'll look at other funding options for transit :: News - Article

By CFRA News, March 17, 2014

Premier Kathleen Wynne is denying she was motivated by a deal with the NDP when she took raising taxes off the table when looking at how to pay for transit improvements across Ontario, even though a provincial panel recommended the move.

She said she didn't need the NDP to tell her raising the HST, gas tax and income tax would be hard on middle-income families.

Water plan flows to city’s environment committee

By Matthew Pearson, Ottawa Citizen, March 17, 2014

OTTAWA — Ottawans might soon get a chance to spill their thoughts on issues facing the city’s waterways if the environment committee approves a comprehensive water strategy at its next meeting.

The 18-page plan represents the first phase of the city’s efforts to ensure the health of Ottawa’s watersheds for future generations by working with a range of federal and provincial agencies and conservation authorities.

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