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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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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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403 Richmond tower proposal
I’ve received several inquiries about the advertisement recently posted online by Mastercraft Starwood showing a high-rise at 403 Richmond – currently the site of the Tubman Funeral Home. I will note first that the only development permission on the site is for nine-storey building to which Council gave its approval in 2021. Any further height…
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OC Transpo: the data behind the headlines
Join Rail Fans Canada, Better Transit Ottawa and Councillor Jeff Leiper for a webinar exploring citizen-led data tools that provide insight into public transit in Ottawa. Shane Seguin, Ajay Ramachandran and Jeff will talk about Rail Fans’ crowdsourcing efforts to track trains in service and Better Transit Ottawa’s data that provides insight into bus cancellations…
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Bus crisis spin
As transit riders know, over the course of the past week or so, our bus service has deteriorated rapidly. Buses aren’t showing up and certainly not coming on time. Now, yesterday, OC Transpo put out a memo that was actually very helpful describing their response to the immediate crisis. I’ve posted that memo here. What’s…
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Freezing rain coming / Pluie verglaçante à venir
Good morning, Kitchissippi. It looks like we’re in for some significant freezing rain accumulation beginning late evening today (Sunday) continuing through tomorrow morning. Most frequently due to branches falling, freezing rain storms can cause power outages. Visit Hydro Ottawa’s outage safety at https://hydroottawa.com/…/outage-centre/outage-safety for tips on getting prepared. Report outages using any of the following:…
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Lansdowne discussion off to a bad start
This morning, Mayor Sutcliffe held a press conference to outline the modified Lansdowne 2.0 project recommendations in advance of city councillors or the general public having access to those documents. I am writing this afternoon to express my profound disappointment at the way in which this process has unfolded and the disrespect with which Mayor…
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The strip mall conundrum
When does “good” city planning have “bad” outcomes? I’ve been thinking a lot since getting back from a planning conference in Toronto about the difficulty city planners often face when trying to balance competing public interest considerations as the city develops. Since returning, I’ve had strip malls on my mind. While I was at the…
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Byron/Churchill
In my newsletter last week, I pointed to the work the City is doing to implement a protected intersection at Byron and Churchill. You can read more about that here. I’ve already received feedback opposing the change since the re-design would remove the northbound left turn lane from Byron to Churchill. Residents are concerned that…
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Federal election candidate survey
Earlier this month, I posed several Kitchissippi-centric questions to the candidates running for the four major parties in our riding in the federal election. Below, I’ve reproduced the answers from Joel Harden (NDP), Yasir Naqvi (Liberal) and Amanda Rosenstock (Green) who provided their replies by the April 23 deadline, as well as Paul D’Orsonnens (Conservative)…