All Entries Tagged With: "Capital Ward"
Doucet Running For Mayor
Capital Ward City Councillor Clive Doucet surprises press conference attendees who expected an announcement on his intention to seek City Council re-election: “The key thing is we have to start spending less by spending smart,” said Doucet, lamenting that as the city grows ever larger, expenses seem to be spiralling out of control. “We have [...]
Doucet Threatens Legal Action To Block Lansdowne
Capital Ward Councillor Clive Doucet dimisses the democratic will of Ottawa City Council in favour of challenging the approved Lansdowne Park Plan via the courts: “Perhaps one of the greatest opponents to the deal to redevelop Lansdowne Park is threatening legal action to kill the project. Coun. Clive Doucet left the council table before the [...]
Chernushenko To Run For Ottawa City Council
Former deputy-leader of the federal Green Party David Chernushenko wants to replace Capital Ward Councillor Clive Doucet: “I believe it is time for local politics to be guided by a bold vision of Ottawa as a vibrant, healthy and accessible city, Chernushenko said in his Friday morning statement. City Hall needs a fresh outlook to [...]
Ex-Glebe President Seeks Spot On Council
Bob Brocklebank, a former president of the Glebe Community Association may revisit decision to run for Ottawa City Council if Capital Ward Councillor Clive Doucet registers to run for re-election: “I’ve been at City Hall many times and it is very frustrating to deliver your five-minute speech and be ignored. I have an interest in [...]
Introducing the new Clive Doucet
Backroom Liberal organizer Isabel Metcalfe files papers to run in Capital Ward: ”I covered some of that race, and saw Metcalfe give one of the worst performances of any serious candidate in an all-candidates debate at the Holiday Inn by Kanata Centrum, drawing actual boos from the crowd when she pooh-poohed the idea of having [...]
What Was Clive Doucet Thinking?
Lack of Councillor support kills Doucet motion to add a de-amalgamation question on the fall municipal ballot: “Doucet, besides being a councillor, is also a substantial urban thinker. Accordingly, he should know that de-amalgamation would result in rural municipalities bordering on places like Kanata, Barrhaven and Orleans slapping up super malls to suck business away [...]
Doucet Steps Up Lansdowne Debate
Capital Ward Councillor Clive Doucet plans press conference regarding the costs to Ottawa taxpayers of financing a stadium for a group of developers at Lansdowne Park: Date: Thursday, April 8, 2010 Time: 10:00 a.m. Location: Councillors’ Lounge, City Hall, 110 Laurier Avenue West “Councillor Doucet will bring together Jean-Marie Leduc, a concerned taxpayer who has recently [...]
New Candidates For City Council
No acclamations in Capital or Barrhaven Ward. Councillors Harder and Doucet will have to face some competition: Derek Hallworth has signed up in Barrhaven and Ron Le Blanc has filed papers in Capital. Nobody else has signed up in the wards so far. Barrhaven Councillor Jan Harder and Capital Councillor Clive Doucet haven’t officially declared [...]
New Faces Seek Council Seats in Barrhaven, Capital Wards
Barrhaven and Capital Wards each now have competitors wishing to unseat Councillors Harder and Doucet: “Derek Hallworth has filed nomination papers to run in Barrhaven, while Ron Le Blanc has filed in Capital” “The current ward councillors, Jan Harder in Barrhaven and Clive Doucet in Capital, have not filed papers to run as of Wednesday.” [...]
Candidates File Papers For Municipal Election
Two more Ottawans take the plunge into the pool of municipal politics: “Sriyan Pinnawala has filed papers to run in Rideau-Vanier ward and Mano Hadavand has filed in Capital ward.” “They are the only candidates who have so far filed nomination papers in those wards.” Click here for more on this story.
