Spacing Ottawa » Patty Barrera http://spacingottawa.ca Understanding the urban landscape in Canada's capital region Sat, 19 May 2012 14:59:21 +0000 en hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.3.2 Copyright © Spacing Ottawa 2010 evanthornton@spacing.ca (Spacing Ottawa) evanthornton@spacing.ca (Spacing Ottawa) 1440 http://spacingottawa.ca/wp-content/plugins/podpress/images/powered_by_podpress.jpg Spacing Ottawa http://spacingottawa.ca 144 144 Understanding the urban landscape in Canada's capital region Spacing Ottawa Spacing Ottawa evanthornton@spacing.ca no no Week in review: the headlines http://spacingottawa.ca/2010/02/19/week-in-review-the-headlines-8/ http://spacingottawa.ca/2010/02/19/week-in-review-the-headlines-8/#comments Fri, 19 Feb 2010 22:53:02 +0000 Patty Barrera http://spacingottawa.ca/?p=2050

CITY HALL

I'm no Marxist proposing living wage (Ottawa Citizen)

City to study living wage policy, East end councillors split on issue ( Orleans EMC)

LANSDOWNE

Ottawa residents have chance to weigh in on Lansdowne plans (Ottawa Citizen)

TRANSIT

Transit-riding parents set to fight for stroller space (Ottawa Citizen)

DEVELOPERS

Councillor seeks to revisit boundaries (Ottawa Citizen )

OTHER IDEAS/OTHER CITIES

Urban Food Strategy Unveiled (Globe and Mail)

photo by Kona Gallagher…

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CITY HALL

Winds of change in air for new council (Ottawa Citizen)

City gets $780Gs back for fuel it did not use (Ottawa Sun)

Expand Lansdowne jury, adviser urges (Ottawa Citizen)

CYCLING

More cyclists brave elements to commute year-round (Ottawa Citizen)

SCHOOL BOARD

Board again tackles alternative school issue (Ottawa Citizen)

URBAN ART

Cozy up to a lamppost and some urban art (MetroNews)

photo by Justin Van Leeuwen…

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Carleton O-Train station -- set to see more users soon?

Carleton O-Train station -- set to see more users soon?

2010 MUNICIPAL ELECTIONS

Ottawa council needs new blood: advocacy group (CTV)

Watson officially enters Ottawa's mayoral race (Centretown News)

Peggy Feltmate retires (Ottawa Citizen)

URBAN DESIGN

The dukes are up (Ottawa Citizen)

TRANSIT

Student group hails transit pass plan (CBC)

LANSDOWNE

NCC not interested in buying Lansdowne (Ottawa Citizen)

Architects named for Lansdowne redesign (Ottawa Sun)

photo by Earl Andrew
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CITY HALL

• Council passes budget, 3.77% tax hike. Bus routes, tree trimming slated for cuts win reprieve, but at cost of higher transit fares (Ottawa Citizen)

• City seeks citizens' ideas for Lansdowne urban park (MetroNews Ottawa)

• Committee introduces new anti-poverty strategy (CBC Ottawa)

DESIGN

• Key Carleton landmarks circled for major facelift. Updated master plan urges replacement of Paterson Hall among other recommendations (Ottawa Citizen)

CYCLING

• More cyclists brave elements to commute year-round (Ottawa Citizen)

MUNICIPAL ELECTION

• Hume is the man to watch. If he runs for mayor, election will be about ideas, the future (Ottawa Citizen)

BLOGS

• Ottawa was chosen as UNESCO’s first pilot site for Sustainability & Cities Study

photo by Aaron Bihari…

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CITY HALL

• Committee gives Ottawa South pedestrian bridge the go-ahead (ctv.ca)
• Green bin collection gets rolling (Ottawa Citizen)

2010 MUNICIPAL ELECTIONS

• Cullen announces intention to vie for mayor’s chair (Ottawa Citizen)
• Gauthier joins race, will Watson follow?(Metronews.ca)

CYCLING

• City considers segregated bike lanes (cbc.ca)
• Doucet peddles new cycling plan for city (Ottawasun.com)

NCC

• Feds pour $35M into NCC for Ottawa-area facelifts (Metronews.ca)

photo by Simon Pulisifier…

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CLIMATE CHANGE

• Our Cities Are Hotbeds of Climate Action (TheTyeee.ca)

COUNCIL WATCH

• City Council Environmental Report Card (Ecology Ottawa)
• City of Ottawa plans cut to buy-local program (CBC)

HOUSING

• Ottawa, provinces huddle to get housing cash spent (Ottawa Citizen)

MUNICIPAL PARTIES

• Parties can pump new blood into city politics (Ottawa Citizen)

URBAN DESIGN & LANSDOWNE

• Seven members of Ottawa's design review panel resign (Ottawa Citizen)
• Frustrated architects dump panel: Hope en masse resignation will ‘humiliate’ City Hall into designing a better Ottawa (Ottawa Citizen)
• Councillors debate weight of public feedback on Lansdowne Park decision (EMC Ottawa East)…

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COUNCIL WATCH

• 'Everybody loses’ in bus strike with city’s tally put at $5.9M (Ottawa Citizen)
• Let's end parochial municipal politics (Centretown News)
• City Government for the people (Ottawa Citizen)
• Luxury Spending (Ottawa Citizen)

DESIGN & PUBLIC SPACE

• City hears plea to buy former school (Ottawa Citizen)
• Tim and Pat Murray: From Alcan to the Pope (Ottawa Citizen)

ENVIRONMENT

• The green bin mile (Ottawa Citizen)
• Clean river a costly proposition (Ottawa Citizen)
• Ottawa Columnist Argues HOV lanes Hurt the Environment (CityCaucus Blog)

photo by Green Bin Ottawa…

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URBAN & CITY DESIGN

• Ottawa in the year 2050, Architects, designers share their vision of Canada’s capital (Ottawa Citizen)
• Development 'is not a bad thing' Reflect on process, urban-issues critic (Ottawa Citizen)

COUNCIL WATCH

• Committee Rejects Donation Ban (CFRA.com)
• You're stuck with it: Budget news goes from bad to worse (Ottawa Citizen)
• City Government for the people (Ottawa Citizen)
• City Council approves LRT as Ottawa’s rail technology choice (OttawaStart.com)
• Why they voted the way they did on Lansdowne (Ottawa Citizen)

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