I don't always agree with Councillor Carr but this is a great idea that is picking up steam across the country.
Municipal, publicly-run grocery stores drive down costs and focus on affordable food rather than profit.
Glad to see it having potential here in Ottawa.
I thought Carney was a builder of infrastructure? With $2.4 billion, we could quickly get to incredible levels of intercity bus service.
Medical appointments, family visits, vacations, etc could all be done without a car.
Instead, the people who can afford a car will save ~$5 per tank.
For the past three years since hes been councillor, David Brown has voted in favour of fare increases and cuts to routes that have devastated our system, including his rural residents and now he's using that as an excuse to privatize a public service.
Councillors must defeat his motion.
More extreme overreach from
Ford who wants to take away the ability of cities to...set their own transit fares??
Setting fares is not and should not be the jurisdiction of provincial govts.
The power of democratically elected local officials should not be at the whim of Doug Ford.
Of course they would.
Bus lanes cost the city virtually nothing, would reduce congestion and increase the number of customers businesses get while cops would cost the city tens of millions more for very little benefit.
Why do businesses continue to advocate against their own interests?
People should be prioritized over cars at all times in a place like the Market, not just on special occasions.
Sam, one of our board members, breaks down the case for a fully-pedestrianized Byward Market rather than the proposed half-measures ⤵️
New from me in @ottawacitizen.com today.
If Sutcliffe and the rest of council is serious about supporting local businesses, improving safety and restoring the vibrancy of the Market, they need to do something far more straightforward: pedestrianize it.
Doug Ford wants my neighbours to die.
The toxic drug crisis has only worsened and now Ford thinks we need to remove life-saving services for people in neighbourhoods like Sandy Hill and Lowertown?
There's absolutely no evidence for this.
ottawa.citynews.ca/2026/03/16/o...
Luloff stepped down as Conservative candidate when it was found he had a potential DUI - now he's found guilt but hes not stepping down as councillor in the next election?
What gives?
Orleans deserves better.
According to statistics from Gonthier, less than 20 percent of collisions involving cyclists and four percent of collisions involving pedestrians at intersections in Ottawa between 2019 and 2022 are later to right turns on reds. For Coun. Tierney, who is the chair of the Public Works and Infrastructure Committee, road safety is along his top priorities. He is glad the data is supporting what we already know. “I’m glad we can turn the page on tis and focus on the other important issues in our city. If the councillor really feels that strong about it, table a motion about it, because you are wasting people’s time with this house.”
The chair of the Public Works and Infrastructure Committee thinks it’s “wasting people’s time” for me to submit an inquiry to city staff about the pedestrian safety issues that impact Centretown residents.
That’s the job, Tim. See you at committee tomorrow.
Équiterre et plusieurs organisations au 🇨🇦 dénoncent les 5 G$ retirés du transport collectif :
« En coupant les solutions qui permettent aux gens d’économiser sur leurs déplacements, ça n'aide pas les ménages à réduire leur facture de mobilité »
Communiqué : www.equiterre.org/fr/articles/...
This has to be the lamest plan to "revitalize" the Market I've ever seen - it revamps some parking garages but functionality changes nothing.
Right now, a lot of it just acts as a giant parking lot -- council should be bold and pedestrianize it.
Note to Claridge and Ottawa council:
Ottawa City Council has already ceded so much land to urban sprawl at the behest of their wealthy developer donors.
It's just never enough for big corporate developers like Claridge.
I was reminded that yesterday was the 4th anniversary of the now-dubbed "Battle of Billings Bridge" when over a thousand of us in Ottawa blockaded convoyers from coming into our city.
With the growing far-right, it's a good reminder of how we can still fight back - and win.
I would agree that it is a bit of a confusinf motion - will try and get more details and clarity but seems to speak of an expanded level of powers.
Councillors like Plante claim to be progressive but then submit motions like these.
We're in a budget crisis re: public transit, routes have been cut, it's the most expensive it's ever been and people are suffering.
How is this going to solve any of this. Hint: It won't.
Ottawa City Councillor Stephanie Plante just put forward a motion at Council to essentially give transit special constables the same powers as police when it comes to people using drugs.
When it comes to transit, people are asking for better servie not expanding policing powers.
Last week, the govt finally admitted they cut public $5 billion from the Canada Public Transit Fund.
Without predictable federal funding, cities will be forced to cut service or raise fares outcomes that disproportionately hurt low-income riders.
From me on behalf of @environmentaldefence.ca:
Chart showing Ottawa's bus fleet size decline since 2010, while the population increases
Here's a visualization of how Watson and Sutcliffe's austerity impacted our bus fleet since 2010.
This was never a sustainable path and now we're left with too few buses on the best of days, let alone enough to cover for an LRT service disruption.
15 years ago, Ottawa had a fleet of 1000 buses - that number has dwindled to 730 as a result of reckless cuts and now with constant LRT shutdowns we are feeling the consequences of decades of bad decision-making.
Sign the petition below to call on council to buy more buses:
Just what we need for Ottawa's mayor: another developer-backed, cut-and-slash conservative hell-bent on austerity because it's working so well right now!
Let the historical record note that the business elites at Davos repeatedly laughed during a fascist speech that declared intent to annex another country’s land, promoted election conspiracies and railed against the free press
Before the massive cuts to OC Transpo in 2011, Ottawa had around 1000 buses in its fleet - in 2025 that number's dwindled to around 760.
The problem of bad transit service didn't just happen. It is the result of over a decade of bad council decision.
Remember that in the coming election this year.
Very disappointed in some councillors who voted for the
@ottawapolice.bsky.social budget.
If there was ever a year to oppose it, it's now when police are asking for their biggest increase in 10+ years.
Glad we have ANCHOR, but this is some major backsliding on where we were in 2020/2021.
The money for those increases has to come from somewhere - especially if the city isn't willing to raise property taxes to an adequate amount!
Smh councillors calling the biggest increase in the
@ottawapolice.bsky.social budget in the last 15 years "reasonable."
There is *nothing* reasonable about giving the OPS a $30 million budget increase while we can't even provide enough emergency services for people.
It's absurd.
Guy who says he loves keeping costs low will force people to work in offices costing taxpayers more to keep office spaces open so govt workers can take Zoom meetings in downtown Ottawa instead of at home.
It makes a lot of sense.
Terribly stupid idea that will satisfy faux-populist urges to dunk on public servants while simultaneously making the lives of public servants and the service itself so much worse.
Goofy stuff.
Tim Tierney "there is no time for political theatre"
Also Tim
