By Canadian Press, Ottawa Citizen, March 13, 2014
TORONTO — Premier Kathleen Wynne says her Liberal government will not raise the tax on gasoline, increase the HST or hike income taxes on the middle class to pay for public transit expansion.
Wynne says she’s announcing what the government is not doing because the Progressive Conservatives have been trying to score points by claiming the Liberals would hike taxes to fund transit.
By David Reevely, Ottawa Citizen, March 13, 2014
OTTAWA — The city’s hopes for new condo and office towers close to its new light-rail stations have taken another hit, with a car dealership’s fresh proposal to redevelop a prime piece of property near St. Laurent mall into a new and better dealership.
The Elite BMW lot on Ogilvie Road is on a property that has been rezoned for 30-storey buildings, which are key to the city’s hope to turn its $2.1-billion rail line into an urban transit system that’s busy at all hours.
By David Reevely, Ottawa Citizen, March 13, 2014
OTTAWA — The Ontario Liberals have neglected Ottawa’s transportation network because they have no plan for the capital region, a trio of Progressive Conservatives said Thursday.
The three — London MPP and transportation critic Jeff Yurek, Ottawa-Orléans candidate Andrew Lister, and Glengarry-Prescott-Russell candidate Roxane Villeneuve — called their news conference for the east portal of the city’s light-rail tunnel. It’s part of a $2.1-billion transportation project underwritten by $600 million in provincial money, plus $225 million to widen Hwy. 417 east of Nicholas Street.
By Tom Spears, Ottawa Citizen, March 13, 2014
OTTAWA — When barn swallows vanished after holding up a $24-million bridge replacement in Barrhaven last summer, officials never whispered the word “murdered”.
But newly released documents show the sudden disappearance stirred up a whodunit at Ontario’s Ministry of Natural Resources.
By Alison Sandor, CFRA News, March 11, 2014
Officials with the Mississippi Valley Conservation Authority are warning snow pack levels are the highest they've been since 2008.
Coupled with rain and a fast melt, it could mean significant flooding.
"That's not a real huge concern at this point in time, it's just there is potential for above average flooding," said Water Management Supervisor Gord Mountenay. "In our watershed, snow pack is not normally the driving force of the spring flood. It's one of the three main inputs, if you will, the others being rain fall and how quickly it warms up."
