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CMHC Ottawa housing tracker
Find the most recent nationwide CMHC reporting here.
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Potential warming centre at Kitchissippi United
Multiple parents and community members have been writing to me about the potential use by the City to operate an overnight warming shelter at Kitchissippi United. I worked yesterday afternoon and last night to get up to speed. Parents at the Ottawa Children’s Montessori school (a tenant at Kitchissippi United) and some community members have…
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Spencer park design
My office has fielded a number of questions about the new park at Spencer/Huron and I’m happy to say we now have a shareable version of the final design, which I’ve posted below. I’m also cognizant that I haven’t broadly shared my preference for a park name. My thanks go to everyone who made a…
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Pole position
Good evening, Kitchissippi. This evening a story ran in the Ottawa Citizen about the traffic pole that is – for the moment – smack dab in the middle of the new cycle track. This was a Reddit discussion this weekend and today we confirmed that the configuration is temporary, and it will be moved next…
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Cut-through bridge traffic woes
Good evening, Kitchissippi. Residents of Westboro Beach and Champlain Park who live on streets like Clearview and Lanark have been writing to me tonight to let me know they’ve had another bad weekend. Cut-through traffic trying to reach the bridge, especially starting in mid-afternoon, has been rough this summer, backing up for blocks, most recently…
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Noisy frog
I was very pleased yesterday to hear that the O-Train lines 2 & 4 will be put through the 21-day trial running process beginning on October 7. If everything performs flawlessly then train service could re-start on the southern line by mid-November. We all have our fingers crossed. Given the lengthy testing already accomplished, everyone…