All Entries Tagged With: "David Reevely"
Doucet Displeased
Ottawa Mayoral candidate Clive Doucet addresses rumours that he is running for mayor in order to receive more severence pay once he is defeated: “Clive Doucet is running to win the office of Mayor of the City of Ottawa. He has never lost a municipal election campaign and he has no intention of losing this [...]
Wellington vs. Macdonald
David Reevely weighs in on the debate about the proposal to rename Wellington street to Sir John A. MacDonald street. What do you think about his proposal? Share you thoughts in OEN’s ‘Recent Comments’ section: “Whatever its other merits, renaming downtown Wellington Street would get rid of the silly situation we have now with two Wellington [...]
A Job For A Transit Commission
Should the cities of Ottawa and Gatineau create a transit commission to manage public transit within the Greater Ottawa Area? The Citizen’s David Reevely thinks so. What to you think? Let OEN know what you think in our ‘Recent Comments’ section: “This is important work and I’m glad somebody’s doing it, but the NCC doesn’t [...]
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 [...]
Pressure from the Bureaucracy
Does the City of Ottawa bureaucracy serve to implement the decisions of Council, or does Ottawa City Council sit to legitimize the actions of its bureaucracy? From a City of Ottawa News Release: “The City of Ottawa has been presented with a unique opportunity to replace its aging articulated bus fleet with state-of-the-art buses at [...]
Doucet Still Sad About The Chiarelli LRT Plan
Capital Ward Councillor Clive Doucet proclaims his fondness of projects past proposed through a prompt press release: “Aside from the financial loss and the loss of needed infrastructure improvements, it is worth remembering the big lost opportunity. Last fall could have been a time when the first electric light rail line would have gone into service [...]
Kitchissippi Ward Candidate’s Website Is Now Up
Thanks to David Reevely for this one. Tell OEN what you think of the site www.katherinehobbs.ca:
Doucet Sits Out Lansdowne Discussions
David Reevely weighs in on Capital Ward Councillor Clive Doucet’s decision to sit out anything to do with the design competition for the public component of Lansdowne Live: “It’s not good for a councillor to leave his constituents unrepresented on a contentious issue in their neighbourhood, even if he doesn’t like the way it’s gone [...]
Money That’s Gone, and Not Coming Back
David Reevely blogs on the City of Ottawas’ battle to retain it’s in-lieu property-tax payments, as the federal goverment continues to sell and lease-back it’s Ottawa owned properties: “Federal properties are exempt from municipal and provincial property taxes, but the federal government pays cities the money it would have spent on both taxes.” “When the [...]
Doucet loses his moorings on Lansdowne
David Reevely examines Capital Councilor Clive Doucet’s open letter to the NCC regarding the purchase of Landsowne Park: ”Characterizing the project as “a mall and some associated landscaping” is profoundly dishonest.” “Doucet’s city council’s most passionate urban romantic.” For more of Reevely’s examination, click here.
