By Ottawa Citizen, January 25, 2014
OTTAWA — A snow squall warning from Environment Canada remained in effect Saturday evening for the capital as blowing snow created low visibility on the roads.
About five centimetres of blowing snow was expected Saturday, ending late in the evening before the wind picks up to 50 kilometres per hour.
By Joanne Chianello, Ottawa Citizen, January 24, 2014
Before the sun was up, before the coffee was brewed, before any civilized person would think about communicating with the outside world, Mayor Jim Watson is calling me out on Twitter.“
@jchianello you seem to have bought the line about ‘one sentence’ in LRT report on Scott and Albert — wrong. Referenced 6 times — check minutes!” he tweeted at 6:11 a.m. on Thursday morning.
By Blair Crawford, Ottawa Citizen, January 24, 2014
OTTAWA — O-Train service was disrupted for nearly four hours Friday night after a private contractor dumped a load of snow near Prince of Wales Drive that blocked the entrance to the Dow’s Lake tunnel.
With the tunnel blocked, O-Train service between Bayview and Carleton stations was halted just after 6 p.m. O-Train passengers were rerouted onto the No. 107 bus until tracks were cleared.
By David Reevely, Ottawa Citizen, January 24, 2014
OTTAWA — The hotel Claridge Homes wants to build on Dalhousie Street isn’t unacceptably tall, the Ontario Municipal Board has decided, but it may be too glassy and stark for the ByWard Market.
The planned 48-metre hotel, which is to replace the already half-dismantled Union du Canada building, was approved by city council but neighbours appealed to the OMB. The board can overrule city council’s urban-planning decisions.
By Tom Spears, Ottawa Citizen, January 23, 2014
OTTAWA — Echinacea, known for fighting colds, is being tested in Ottawa for a bigger job: cleaning up contaminated industrial soil.
The big plant with the purple, cone-shaped flowers grew in test plots on Victoria Island last summer, where soil has pollutants from more than a century ago.
By Mai Habib, CFRA News, January 23, 2014
Two-car families in Ottawa suburbs need somewhere to put both vehicles and the city is trying to help.
Families in smaller houses can often fit only one car in their driveway and that creates chaotic parking along streets.
By Lauren Davis, CFRA News, January 23, 2014
Mayor Jim Watson says he\'s still willing to work with the National Capital Commission to plan a route for the western light rail line, but the final cost to Ottawa taxpayers will be the limiting factor.
The NCC has demanded that the entire 1.2-kilometre stretch on federal land, west of Dominion Station, be buried to provide unimpeded access to the Ottawa River; the City plans to put 500 metres of it in an open trench.
