By Kelly Egan, Ottawa Citizen, January 7, 2014
Where we stay, where we play, where we pray — there’s no hiding. Hydro shocks everywhere wires flow.
Electricity costs are to rise about 42 per cent over the next five years. As this is a government guess, expect things to be worse.
By David Reevely and Don Butler, Ottawa Citizen, January 7, 2014
Commuters and truckers who use the Macdonald-Cartier Bridge should brace themselves for two years of traffic chaos.
The steel box girder bridge, built between 1964 and 1966, is about to undergo the most extensive refit in its history to replace worn-out parts and give it upgrades to better resist earthquakes, according to a tender posted by the Department of Public Works.
By Carys Mills, Ottawa Citizen, January 7, 2014
OTTAWA — Hopes of keeping a theatre in Ottawa’s downtown World Exchange Plaza are over.
The cinema has been closed since Landmark Cinemas showed their last films there at the end of December. But property manager Bentall Kennedy had hoped negations with a new company could keep Ottawa’s last downtown theatre running.
By Don Butler, Ottawa Citizen, January 6, 2014
OTTAWA — Hydro Ottawa has halted the early replacement of thousands of first-generation smart meters after the Ontario Energy Board turned down a request that would have allowed it to recover the cost from ratepayers.
In a decision last month, the OEB agreed with its own staff and two interveners that replacement of the Rex 1 smart meters was not necessary.
By David Reevely, Ottawa Citizen, January 6, 2014
OTTAWA — Three more wards got new candidates Monday, including new participants in crowded fields in downtown Somerset and suburban Gloucester-South Nepean.Somerset.
Martin Canning is the fourth candidate to register in the ward where veteran councillor Diane Holmes says she’ll run again but hasn’t formally filed yet. The environmental activist and consultant says downtown needs a more progressive and innovative approach if it’s going to be the core of a prosperous, high-tech-oriented city.
By Tom Spears, Ottawa Citizen, January 5, 2014
OTTAWA — Finally, sunrise is coming earlier.
The afternoons have been getting longer and brighter since well before Christmas, but the mornings have stubbornly kept coming later, and they’re darker.
Finally now the day is ready to get longer at both ends.
By Kelly Egan, Ottawa Citizen, January 6, 2014
OTTAWA — The deer hunt is over. Yet the talk of killing is just beginning.
In Hamilton, there is a proposed cull to protect the tender shoots at the Royal Botanical Gardens. This follows a count of 162 deer in nearby meadows.
By Ottawa Citizen, January 6, 2014
OTTAWA — Laurier Avenue west of Elgin Street was a small lake and soon to be a large rink after a water main rupture Monday afternoon.
The flooding occurred in front of 150 Laurier Ave., and forced work crews to close Laurier to vehicles and pedestrians between Elgin and Metcalfe streets.
By Megan Hurley, Ottawa Citizen, January 6, 2014
OTTAWA — Ottawa was hammered by freezing rain for the second time in less than a month, causing school bus and flight cancellations and wreaking havoc on the Monday morning commute.
Ottawans began their work week breaking ice off car windows, shovelling snow from driveways and generally having a miserable time, weather-wise.
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By Tyler Dawson, Ottawa Citizen, January 3, 2014
OTTAWA — The death of the original Easy-Bake Oven — a perennial favourite among budding bakers — is not yet nigh.
The federal ban on manufacturing 75- and 100-watt incandescent bulbs as of Jan. 1 does not immediately remove from the market the 100-watt bulbs needed to operate that children’s cookware made before newer versions that come with an actual heating element.
By Elizabeth Payne, Ottawa Citizen, January 4, 2014
OTTAWA — The palm-tree dotted campus of the University of South Florida in Tampa might seem an unlikely place to catch a glimpse of the future of frosty Ottawa. But if you step inside a senior urban design studio there, that is what you will find.
Master’s students at the university’s School of Architecture and Community Design have spent the fall creating redevelopment plans for the Chaudière islands, an ambitious academic project that parallels work going on in real time. And Shannon Bassett, the Ottawa-born assistant professor overseeing the projects, hopes the students’ visions for redeveloping the islands will influence work that is eventually done there and which is set to get under way in coming months.