Category: News
Cardel Homes seeks naming rights for Goulbourn Rec Complex
(Goulbourn Rec Centre, May 2015. Photo by Barry Gray.) The GRC could soon be known as the CRG if city councillors approve a $600,000 naming rights deal with Cardel Homes. Next…
Multiple charges and arrests after raids at Magna Terra marijuana shops
(Inside Magna Terra on Iber Road. File photo.) The owner of the Magna Terra marijuana dispensary chain is among seven arrested and charged after police raids on his two Ottawa…
LINKED: Iber Road marijuana dispensary raided by police
Jacquie Miller reports in the Ottawa Citizen: Ottawa police raided two more marijuana dispensaries Tuesday, this time targeting a locally owned chain that was the first to open shop in…
UPDATE: Waste Management “taking steps to review” Quebec garbage application
The City of Ottawa’s communications department sent this memo from City solicitor Rick O’Connor to media outlets today. Today was the deadline to request an appeal to the Ministry of Environment’s decision…
NOTEBOOK: LRT open houses, pedestrian safety upgrades, more
LRT OPEN HOUSES Watch for a open house events in June and November for updates on plans to extend light rail transit west past Moodie Drive towards Kanata and Stittsville. Kanata…
UPDATE: City will appeal MOE decision on Carp landfill service area
City of Ottawa solicitor Rick O’Connor recommended that city staff appeal a Ministry of Environment decision to allow the Carp landfill to accept waste from Western Quebec. The memo was circulated to…
City needs your help to test citywide Internet speed
(Press release via City of Ottawa) The City of Ottawa has launched an Internet Performance Test (IPT) in partnership with the Canadian Internet Registration Authority (CIRA). The test allows users…
Carp landfill facility gets ok for Quebec garbage, despite City’s objections
As Lando said in the Empire Strikes Back… You might remember hearing back in September that Waste Management applied to the Ontario Ministry of the Environment for permission to bring construction and demolition waste from…
Jo-Jo’s Pizza provides land for a new community garden
Here’s another interesting project in the works for Stittsville Main Street: The Kassis family, owners of Jo-Jo’s Pizza, are partnering with a group of local volunteers to help establish a community garden…
COMMENT: Let’s start saying light rail to Stittsville
(ABOVE: Artist’s rendering of the Rideau LRT station downtown. Via City of Ottawa.) It was great to see City Council approve plans for Phase 2 of light rail transit (LRT)…
NOTEBOOK: New RMT on Stittsville Main, a lost building’s rich retail history
NEW RMT ON STITTSVILLE MAIN Holly Milliner has moved her registered massage therapy practice, Syner-G Massage Therapy and Wellness Centre to the little white house at 1535 Stittsville Main Street, just south of…
Public meeting on February 27 about youth opioid overdoses
City officials are hosting a public meeting on Monday, February 27 at the Kanata Rec Centre on the youth opioid drug overdoses in the community.
NOTEBOOK: Development notes, O’Leary in Kanata, music in Stittsville
UPDATE ON HAZELDEAN CAR DEALERSHIP There’s a revised site plan online for the proposed car dealership at 5835 Hazeldean Road. The property is currently a gravel lot for the Canadian…
LINKED: A Kanata dad’s brutally honest letter about his daughter and drug abuse
(PHOTO: Sean O’Leary with his son, Ronan, inside the family store MYHome Furniture in Kanata. O’Leary says he is trying to give his children as normal a life as possible…
Consultation on “Early Years & Family Centres” on Saturday
(via City of Ottawa) The Ontario Ministry of Education is transforming the way services for children 0 to 6 years are delivered in the province. In 2018, all child and…