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Council today approved the City’s proposed 2025 budget directions, timeline and consultation process.
The budget directions report proposes a municipal tax increase of no more than 2.9 per cent, made up of various levies for the City, Ottawa Public Library, Ottawa Public Health and Ottawa Police Service.
The Transit Services budget will be developed with consideration of funding between $0 and $120 million from the federal and provincial governments. It will consider an increase to the transit levy of between 2.9 and 37 per cent, a transit-fare increase of between 2.5 and 75 per cent in...
September 18, 2024 - 15:09 | City of Ottawa - Media Relations / Ville d'Ottawa - Relations avec les médias | City of Ottawa News Releases
Canada’s transport security agency says several airports will be equipped with CT scanners in a bid to detect explosives and other threats.The Canadian Air Transport Security Authority says it plans to install the technology, which provides 360-degree views through computerized X-ray imaging, at airport checkpoints across the country in the coming years.
September 18, 2024 - 15:03 | | The Globe and Mail
In Hour 1, we preview tomorrow's special joint meeting at City Hall, featuring Ottawa's Environment Committee and the Emergency Preparedness and Protective Services Committee. Does the City of Ottawa need to strengthen its idling bylaws? According to the Executive Director of the Community Associations for Environmental Sustainability, the answer is 'yes'. Meantime, will Ottawa city council vote to restore off-peak LRT service? The answer to that question is 'no'. CTV Ottawa's Josh Pringle delivers the details. Plus, we bring you up to speed on today's top headlines.
September 18, 2024 - 15:00 | | CFRA - 580 - Ottawa
Bureaucracy was supposed to make life simpler but something went wrong. IDEAS takes a blue-sky, ducks-in-a-row, examination into our love-hate (or hate-hate) relationship with corporate red tape: bureaucracy — or what 19th-century philosopher Max Weber termed an “iron cage."
September 18, 2024 - 14:56 | | CBC News - Ottawa
Matthew Tkachuk estimated that he tells a story about Johnny Gaudreau's exploits, both the on-ice and off-ice variety, to somebody at least once a week.
September 18, 2024 - 14:54 | | Global News - Canada
The Pivot Legal Society and the BC Civil Liberties Association say they’ve launched three complaints against the Vancouver Police Department alleging illegal surveillance and police brutality against pro-Palestine protesters.The association and the society say the complaints stem from the “violent dispersal” of protesters who demonstrated at a Vancouver rail crossing in May.
September 18, 2024 - 14:44 | | The Globe and Mail
