With a proposed $3.76 billion in spending, the City of Ottawa’s 2020 draft budget looks to improve the city’s troubled transit system by putting $7.5 million toward increasing service reliability while reducing wait times. An additional $15 million has been set aside to build more affordable housing units.
The hope was that students would opt for the UOSU’s tailgate party instead of the infamous street party on Russell Avenue, but a “rotation of roughly 600-700 students” attended the tailgate in the Sandy Hill Arena parking lot while thousands flooded Russell Avenue.
Vanier does not need outside bureaucrats to put some spit and polish on their main street or marginally improve their homelessness resources. They need entrepreneurial programs, social services, and educational opportunities that recognize the ward’s diversity.
The challenge, which ran from Feb. 4 to 10, resulted in a higher lack of productivity than usual, with only three of 23 councillor seats occupied throughout the week. (Councillors who were not part of the challenge still used it as an excuse for their absences).
This incredible dependency upon shelters reveals that employment and housing initiatives need to be radically overhauled.
“I think this is an amazing use for our pointless diplomas, instead of just letting them sit in our houses collecting dust.”
“For the Gallery to hire this individual sends a very clear message to trans lives that we’re not valued in these spaces.”
Students returning to school this September will be welcomed by a familiar sight—campus construction. And this time, some of it is here to stay for an extended period.
While construction of the new light rail transit (LRT) campus station might be inconvenient for commuters, it also introduces a new set of challenges for the University of Ottawa Faculty of Science’s Nuclear Magnetic Resonance (NMR) facility, which houses millions of dollars of research equipment.
A safe, introductory health-care service, where users have the freedom to explore their options without fear of being charged, is desperately needed in Ottawa. By allowing addicts to use drugs in a space where they are surrounded by health-care professionals and treatment pamphlets, seeking addiction treatment becomes a step that’s much less dramatic and scary.
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