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2026 Kitchissippi community garage sale June 6
Join us Saturday, June 6 (8 am start) for the Kitchissippi Community Yard Sale! Councillor Jeff Leiper and local community associations are partnering for this fantastic annual event. Participating communities: Champlain Park – Civic Hospital -Hampton Iona – Hintonburg – Island Park – Mechanicsville – Wellington Village – Westboro – Westboro Beach Details: Add your yard
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Back to the table on Build Canada Homes
Last December, the Prime Minister announced that Ottawa would be the first city to receive federal help through the new Build Canada Homes initiative. Late Thursday night ahead of the long weekend, we learned the details of the proposed deal that Mayor Sutcliffe has struck with the feds. There is less than a week before
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CMHC Ottawa housing tracker
After a very slow January for housing starts in Ottawa, February’s starts were the highest for that month that I’ve tracked. Those consisted of 50 singles being started, 6 semis, 119 rows and 782 apartments. Completions were flipped. January 2026 saw the highest completions in the years I’ve tracked (785). February 2026, though, was the
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CLV looking for benefits relief
As many residents will have noted, the request by CLV for additional height at their Gladstone/Loretta development has been bouncing around committee and Council for several weeks. As I noted in a previous newsletter, this is in large part due to assertions by the developer that they should get a break on their community benefits. Yesterday, the City released a report for consideration recommending that of
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Doug Ford: don’t privatize our water
By Jeff Leiper and Catherine McKenney Ottawa has some of the best tap water in the world. It’s a point of pride for the employees who deliver it, and for city councillors who get to brag about it. Elected officials and other stakeholders worry, though, that Doug Ford’s government is on the path to privatizing
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Several big developments on the horizon
It doesn’t rain, but it pours. Things have been fairly quiet on the development front in Kitchissippi without big approval battles for several years even as tower approvals march ahead without fanfare along Scott, Carling and elsewhere. Three recent proposals are out-of-the-ordinary, though, and I wanted to describe my approach to those anticipating that they