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Mohammed AdamThe London Free Press |
Let's admit it: Many of us don’t want social housing anywhere near us. We fear what an influx of people from shelters, and others with all manner of...
The idea of seeking the best ideas and designs possible to create the very best Lansdowne we can seems alien to city leaders.
The city maintains that public safety is the only reason for them, although fines from speed cameras brought in $9 million in 2022 and more than $11...
With six million across Canada lacking a family doctor, it's amazing that health care is on the back burner, and Canadians are not up in arms.
I had a ringside seat to the 1987 Vancouver Commonwealth summit in which the two leaders went toe-to-toe over the issue. Mulroney quickly became my...
No one thinks of Canada as a place where hundreds of people line up for hours to try to get a physician. But that just happened in Kingston, Ont.
The convoy-anniversary protesters got kid-glove treatment — again. But officers aren't so lenient with other demonstrators.
We don’t need to give people a right to live in tent encampments. We need to give them a right to decent housing — which we can afford to...
The Housing Accelerator Fund can be the model for federal spending: money going directly to cities that need it. No meddling middlemen.
A family physician is a small-business person struggling with high costs and overhead. Many find that their practice has become stressful and is no...
What's also baffling is why the city allowed the problem — if it even was a problem — to fester.
'We could be in a position to have shovels in the ground for these projects in 2025.'
'People ... have this perception of the market as being unsafe or rough. But if you spend time here, it is not.'
Ottawa bylaw has zealously gone after Palestinian supporters who use megaphones at demonstrations. But that hasn't been the enforcement pattern at...
Councillors have finally learned to work co-operatively, which is good. But city government faces the true test of its efficacy this year.
As is typical, city politicians talk and talk, incapable of finding concrete solutions. Meanwhile, conditions deteriorate.
Studies suggest they're not getting proper sleep, and one Eastern Ontario board is exploring different start times for morning classes. Not so fast,...
The human rights commission recently stirred up a needless argument over statutory holidays, and politicians got in on the action. Bah, humbug to them...
The 2.5 % property-tax hike is well under current inflation levels, and bucks the trend in some other cities. We may end up having to pay more in the...
City policy says 20 per cent of new residential development should be affordable. There is clearly a big gap between policy and practice.
Why is the city only now preparing a report, which will be ready in the spring, in response to the federal program?
Fare increases and service cuts: That’s the usual road travelled by struggling transit companies, but its effectiveness is questionable.
At a time of a serious housing crisis, when the City of Ottawa had a great chance to lay down a marker for affordability, it bailed.
The board has given its chair the power to reject speakers outright and to vet presentations in advance. It's a sharp, and needless, departure from...
Pro-Palestinian protests in this country have offended some, but free expression sometimes offends. It's part of a democratic society.
The alarm bells are ringing loudly after what appears to be a proliferation of clinics in Ottawa that charge fees for primary care.
This should be a no-brainer. London, Halifax and Hamilton have already made the necessary zoning changes. The national capital should stop worrying...
OSEG is right to say it has helped fix an aging and dilapidated Lansdowne. But is that all we can aspire to when we have such a jewel of an asset?
'Under the current situation, (LRT) is not going to happen.'
Worrying about the fate of Stage 3 LRT before we repair the transit system's day-to-day problems isn't the right way to go.
One would expect them to do more on housing than just sit back and demand their federal counterparts shovel more money their way.
Ontario needs to fix the staffing shortages that permeate the health care system.