The City’s Environment and Climate Change Committee today approved its portion of Draft Budget 2025, including key investments to reduce greenhouse gas emissions and build climate resiliency. This budget also supports core services that residents rely on every day, such as water services and waste collection.
The City would also invest in growing Ottawa’s tree canopy. This includes two new programs. A new Private Land Tree-Planting Program would distribute trees across the city and provide full-service tree planting in priority areas, free of charge. This program would increase tree...
November 19, 2024 - 17:49 | City of Ottawa - Media Relations / Ville d'Ottawa - Relations avec les médias | City of Ottawa News Releases
The city received about 20 cm of snow in the last 24 hours, leading to poor road conditions as city crews work to address the situation.
November 19, 2024 - 17:35 | Mackenzie Mazankowski | Global News - Canada
Quebec provincial police say two more people have been charged in connection with the killing of a cryptocurrency influencer.Kevin Mirshahi’s remains were found in a north-end Montreal park last month, nearly four months after he and three other people were kidnapped from his Old Montreal condo building on June 21.The three others – two women and a man – were found alive a day later, but Mirshahi, 25, was nowhere to be found.
November 19, 2024 - 17:07 | | The Globe and Mail
PolySeSouvient estimates about 450 firearms need to be added to the list of banned weapons and it is urging the government to complete the task before the next federal election.
November 19, 2024 - 16:53 | Globalnews Digital | Global News - Canada
A New Brunswick judge has ruled that Aboriginal title can be declared over privately owned land — even land they’re not fighting to reclaim, according to a Court of King’s Bench decision released last week.
November 19, 2024 - 16:42 | | CBC News - Canada
Saskatchewan’s Opposition NDP says Premier Scott Moe’s government needs to address high food prices in light of recent scurvy cases in the province’s north.Northern affairs critic Jordan McPhail says the cost of fresh produce and milk is exorbitant in Stony Rapids, a community near the Northwest Territories boundary.Photos provided by the NDP, which it says were taken Monday from a grocery store in the hamlet, show a jug of milk selling for $18, a bag of apples for $15 and a package of grapes for $20.
November 19, 2024 - 16:39 | | The Globe and Mail