JOANNE CHIANELLO
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All three provincial appointees to the
@ottawapolice
service board have resigned, according to the Solicitor-General's office. This after
@QPbriefing
reported that member Robert Swaita attended the truck protest in Ottawa. This is a mess.
#OttNews
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NEW from City Hall:
@DianeDeans
was called into Mayor
@JimWatsonOttawa
's office and asked to step down from the police services board. She said no. Mayor is looking to oust her. Board member Sandy Smallwood has tendered his resignation in protest.
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I have never seen so much vitriol at city council in the 12 years I've been covering it. Several councillors have told Mayor
@JimWatsonOttawa
they've lost confidence in this. Also the word "disgusted" is being thrown around a lot.
#OttNews
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I started covering City Hall when Larry O'Brien was mayor. And I've never seen a dumpster-fire of council meeting like this. Check it out for yourself:
#OttNews
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This seems clearly untrue, as is evidenced by the parked semis in the downtown.
#OttNews
We want to be very clear, both for the current demonstrations and any planned demonstrations--illegal activity will not be tolerated.
There will be consequences for anyone contravening City By-laws, Highway Traffic Act and Criminal Code legislation.
@ottawacity
@OttawaBylaw
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.
@OPSChiefSloly
says some bridges and highway bridges will be closed as need to limit trucks into the core. The question is, of course, why was this not done last weekend? We’ve heard this week that was not possible…yet here we are.
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BREAKING: It's official.
@ottawapolice
have charged convoy organizer Chris Barber has been charged with counselling to commit the offence of mischief,
counselling to commit the offence of disobey court order and counselling to commit the offence of obstruct police.
#OttNews
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Pedestrian blockade of truck convoy at w/b Riverside still going strong with hundreds here. (And lots of honks-in-support from bystanders.)
#OttNews
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Mayoral candidate
@cmckenney
would keep all Ottawa public libraries open on Sundays, and keep beaches and pools open longer in the summer if elected.
#ottnews
#ottpoli
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BREAKING:
@OttawaPolice
will deploy 150 additional officers into Centretown, Sandy Hill, Lowertown and ByWard Market effective immediately.
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Back in March, I wrote that SNC-Lavalin didn't meet the 70% minimum technical score, but still won the $1.6-billion contract. Today, documents confirm that is true. Here's our breaking story:
#ottnews
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Is there other data other than these two minutes?
New data shows that very few cyclists and pedestrians are using Queen Elizabeth Driveway when it's closed to cars. Watch this video as a great example. When I recorded it yesterday afternoon, not a single pedestrian or cyclist passed me for the entire two and a half minutes.
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This shortsighted policy will fuel the vicious circle of poor service - low ridership. Using public transit should be second nature for us - not a frustrating last-resort option.
#ottnews
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It's pretty shocking how little responsibility
@fordnation
's government is taking for the position we're in now. More vaccines would have been better, certainly. But more restrictions a month ago - as scientists has urged - would also have helped.
#ottnews
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After being told that
@JR_Ottawa
would scrum with local reporters after
@fordnation
left, Roberts took off. Where are you Jeremy Roberts? Why are you afraid of reporters?
#OttNews
#OnPoli
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So the RCMP is starting to remove trucks protesting at the Coutts border after 4 days of the blockade. On Day 5 of the Ottawa protest - which some are calling an occupation - what are authorities planning to do? Still no update, although that may be by design.
#OttNews
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The deadline to register to run in the 2022 municipal election has passed and
@RickChiarelli
is not running for re-election.
#ottnews
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The
@OttawaPolice
are blocking the northbound lane on Bank Street at Chamberlain, in an apparent attempt to stop more vehicles from driving into the downtown, while allowed them to leave it.
#OttNews
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Why did
@ottawapolice
and
@ottawacity
think they didn't need to respond to reporter
@_llebrun
questions about vehicles on QED during the convoy protests? What else didn't they tell us?
#ottnews
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Some inside-baseball news from me: Ottawa police hire elite crisis-management firm to handle protest messaging | CBC News
#OttNew
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This is misleading. Council can’t dictate the design of an addition on a heritage building, but has the authority - and responsibility - to reject a design it considers incompatible. That’s council’s job - and the mayor leads council.
#ottnews
Mayor
@JimWatsonOttawa
says the city does not have the right to decide on the design of privately owned buildings, including the Château Laurier. Read more:
#ottawa
#ottcity
#ottnews
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@OttawaPolice
@QPbriefing
I don't believe the police board could have an emergency meeting if it had to, as it currently has only three members.
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.
@ottawapolice
say they may still arrest people involved in the illegal protests. Will Ottawa-area MPP
@randyhillier
be one of them? | CBC News via
@JulieIreton
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This is SO NOT about me, I would point out that when I wrote that Ottawa bought trains that haven't been used anywhere before, I got some pushback from some city staff, councillors and various others. Today, many are referring to how no one else has used this train.
#OttNews
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Mayor
@JimWatsonOttawa
says he's "furious" about the LRT. Then why did the city accept a system that wasn't ready? Here are just 3 of the stories I've written about this in the past six months:
#ottnews
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It is hard to imagine why we would build a rapid transit system that cannot be accessed on holidays -- the very days we need public transit. Sigh.
#ottnews
⚠️Access to Pimisi Station will be restricted on Canada Day, Saturday, July 1, at the request of Heritage Canada and Ottawa Police to support crowd safety on event day.
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Another 60 RCMP officers are being sworn in right now to work with
@OttawaPolice
, says
@OPSChiefSloly
.
#OttNews
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BREAKING: Integrity commissioner finds Coun. Jan Harder has violated the councillor code of conduct, recommends that she be taken off the planning committee, which she has chaired for 7 years, and that her pay be suspended for 15 days.
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It is simply not acceptable for the city to refuse to give even the most basic details of an LRT settlement worth hundreds of millions of dollars to the people paying for it. Where is the transparency and accountability for this Council?
#ottnews
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One of the most shocking votes I've seen at council, given the news this week. Seven members of council refused to ALLOW A DISCUSSION of having emergency meetings while LRT down.
#OttNews
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Some of these new releases tread very close to untruths. I have found it a surprising campaign tactic from the
@_MarkSutcliffe
campaign.
#ottnews
#ottpoli
Practically anyone in public life is subjected to torrents of online abuse, which is corrosive to politics and personally painful, even to people who are used to it.
Also, though, here are the last nine news releases from the Sutcliffe campaign.
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Senior PC candidate
@MacLeodLisa
was given $44K in 'MPP allowance' by the Nepan riding association over 3 years, Opposition reveals | CBC News
#OttNews
#OnPoli
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I find it shocking that the day after an axle CAME OFF a light rail car that there are NO
@OC_Transpo
officials available to speak with the media.
#ottnews
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BREAKING: The Ottawa Police Services Board is going to announce a new police chief TOMORROW afternoon.
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And interestingly, that staffer still has his job…
“This is mindboggling. Ontarians are being told a political staffer took over the machinery of government to make determinations that increased the value of certain developers’ property by billions of dollars and neither the minister nor the Premier knew.”
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It is interesting that the councillors who are most "outraged" by the reportedly voluntary developer donation to Captial ward are among the ones who accept the most developer donations during municipal elections.
#ottnews
« Troster added that if her colleagues are concerned with donations to certain wards from developers, they should take a similar ethical stand when it comes to accepting developer donations to their campaigns next election. »
👀👀
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For those at City Hall who didn't hear whether Jan Harder told Coun.
@RiverWardRiley
to shut up, here you go.
#OttNews
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We will learn more about what city leaders did and didn’t do surrounding the occupation, but in the meantime, some thoughts on how dysfunction at council failed us all.
#OttNews
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I am covering the provincial election, but I find the fact that not a single member of FEDco would table a motion from their colleague
@ShawnMenard1
is shocking.
#OttNews
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That's very kind of Mayor
@JimWatsonOttawa
, although the praise all goes to the women who came forward, and trusted me with their stories. I am humbled by their bravery.
#ottnews
Mayor Jim Watson thanks
@jchianello
's investigative reporting on Chiarelli allegations.
"She and I don't agree on a lot of things, but her work on this story has been thorough, sensitive and even-handed. She has helped to give a public voice to these courageous women.
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Having just turned 49, I take a lot of inspiration from
@Kathleen_Wynne
, who first became an MPP at 50. Ten years later, she was premier, a job she held for five years. Hell of a mid-life crisis.
#onpoli
"Absolutely," Ontario's first female premier responds when asked if she recommends the job to little girls. She said she hopes we don't have to wait another 150 years for the next woman to lead Ontario.
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Wow, congratulations
@JimWatsonOttawa
on coming out! Hope you have someone special in your life (who likes to go to a LOT of events!)
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@cmckenney
@_MarkSutcliffe
But I've written this today to provide some facts to frame the debate. Is McKenney's bike lane promise cost-neutral? Seems so. Do you have to be in favour of it? Of course not. But let's debate this on its merits, not on a muddied view of its economics.
#ottnews
#ottvotes
/END
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One of our reporters went to
@MacLeodLisa
's campaign office. Workers there "have no idea" where she is.
#OttNews
@OnPoli
Senior PC candidate
@MacLeodLisa
was given $44K in 'MPP allowance' by the Nepan riding association over 3 years, Opposition reveals | CBC News
#OttNews
#OnPoli
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So this happened last night at 9 p.m.: SNC-Lavalin should be ejected from Trillium Line bid: evaluation team | CBC News
#ottnews
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.
@KatePorterCBC
and I work hard to report accurately on council, but it's difficult to properly convey the dumpster fire that was council last night, where the police services board was overhauled mid-crisis:
#ottNews
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Nothing wrong with trying out
@OC_Transpo
’s free service this month. But it won’t make up for 2 years of
#ConfederationLine
frustration, or silence accountability questions about the project.
#OttNews
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Mayoral candidate
@cmckenney
says they will publish their donor list on Oct. 20, four days before the election.
#ottpoli
#ottnews
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Instead of sleeping - or going to my gym appoinment - I've been up doing some bike lane-math. (Yeah, it's a thing.) Here's how
@cmckenney
plan can be "cost-neutral" as they have argued. 1/
#ottnews
#ottvote
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It's one thing for the LRT to be down during a frozen rain event (not great), but that we have heard nothing about what is happening in three hours is not acceptable
@OC_Transpo
.
#ottnews
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Liberal leader
@StevenDelDuca
will be visiting Ottawa Wednesday, the first of the provincial leaders to visit the protest sites. Am hearing from a Liberal source.
#OttNews
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“The action is imminent,” says interim police chief Steve Bell. Says they will use “legal” measures to end illegal act.
#OttNews
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I just went to smell Parliament station (there's almost nothing I wouldn't do for you, Ottawa!) and it was okay. But look at the state of the walls. The place looks dirty and some of the walls seem to be peeling off. Sigh.
@OC_Transpo
#ottnews
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Why is there a train shortage? We were told we'd have 17 working trains - 15 for the rush hour commutes, and 2 spares. We have NEVER run 15 trains on the Confederation Line. And where are the spares? We need answers.
#ottnews
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Mohammed Adam is 100% correct - it is not remotely acceptable that council has agreed to discuss hundreds of millions in LRT Stage 2 "settlements" in secret. Where is the accountability and transparency?
#ottnews
via
@ottawacitizen
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Ottawa is becoming unliveable. Each misstep has been annoying, but the acceptance of mediocrity and mistakes is much more than that.
Here’s my realization.
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Pat King, making the rounds of trucks on Wellington Street. “They never used to have cops here,” he says on increased police presence.
#OttNews
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I'd love to know where in the democratic world - anywhere - where the threshold to win a vote is 30% + 1. This seems like a dangerous precedent MInister
@SteveClarkPC
is setting for cities.
#ottnews
#onpoli
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We are missing 7 trains. Where are the 17 working trains we paid for in our $2.1B LRT deal? When will we get these answers?
#ottnews
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This is devastating news. Diane Deans worked tirelessly for her community and her city. As a reporter, she helped me with many important stories to bring accountability and transparency to City Hall. She is a force.
#ottnews
It is with a heavy heart that I share the news that long time Ottawa City Councillor Diane Deans has entered palliative care after a 5 year battle with ovarian cancer.
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BREAKING: Residents of Ottawa and the surrounding three regions will be required to wear masks when accessing indoor services.
#ottnews
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I am so grateful this Christmas to be able to have my family close and my heart goes out to those who are on their own today, for whatever reason. I’m also grateful for
@OttawaHealth
staff and all health care professionals working over the holidays. Merry Christmas
#OttNews
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Lest it be said I don't ever say anything nice about the
#ConfederationLine
: Today, I took the LRT from
@CBCOttawa
to the
@RideauCentre
and back at my lunch break on a single fare. Train came within minutes both ways. If it worked like this all the time, we'd be golden!
#OttNews
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If my in-box is anything to go by, Coun.
@ShawnMenard1
is asking about many of the things residents want to know. What’s the truth? We really don’t know.
#OttNews
The big question on my mind lately is:
When will residents of
#Ottawa
stop being lied to by authorities?
We are hearing over and over again that enforcement is taking place but that is clearly, and verifiably, a lie.
#OttawaOccupied
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Dr.
@VeraEtches
says there is now CONFIRMATION of community transmission in Ottawa today. There may be up to 4,000 cases of undetected COVID-19 in Ottawa today.
#ottnews
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Apparently, more than 18 months into the pandemic, a number of city councillors do not have control of their mute buttons.
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I ask in all honesty what the point of this letter is. The mayor has spoken with the owners to no avail. You have supported the addition with your votes. What political influence could you possibly wield at this point?
#ottnews
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For the second time in five weeks, a light rail vehicle has come off the rail. We hear there are no injuries, but there does appear to be damage to the LR vehicle. This cannot be normal.
#ottnews
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The integrity commissioner is investgating the complaints of a sixth woman about
@RickChiarelli
's alleged conduct. She shared her story with me. Even after all this time reporting this story, I found it shocking.
#OttNews
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Gummed up floor, broken down escalator at Parliament station. Is it just me or is this looking a little worse for wear for an LRT opened less than 2 years
@OC_Transpo
?
#ottnews
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I understand and appreciate the importance of being prudent with taxpayers' money. But it's not prudent to do a half-assed job on public projects. And we are the capital of half-assedness.
#ottnews
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I agree with this 100%. But we also need our public and elected officials to say that, too - so we can quote them. We need them to say clearly: "Don't go out to buy clothes. Or video games. Or pot."
Spotted this being shared around, and I can't help but think journalists need to see this more than anyone. We can't control how public health officials are sharing key information, but we *can* translate it into clear, concrete messaging for the public.
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My deepest thanks to all the women who trusted us with their stories. This is for you.
#ottnews
Congratulations
@CBCOttawa
for winning the 2020 RTDNA Canada National Investigative Journalism – Dan McArthur Award for CBC Ottawa – Better Without A Bra: A CBC Ottawa Investigation.
#RTDNA2020
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I can't tell you how much grief I got from city executives, incluidng
@OC_Transpo
's John Manconi, when I wrote this story in early 2019.
#OttNews
#LRTinquiry
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About 200 people are out at Beachconers now to hear NDP Leader
@AndreaHorwath
(who might be losing her voice!). Very different than the event I was at this morning for PC Leader
@fordnation
#OttNews
#OnPoli
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Emails between John Manconi and Peter Lauch in the summer of 2019 show train reliability and maintenance issues - just weeks before the city accepted the LRT.
#OttNews
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I originally teased my friend
@GetBAC
about getting a ticket, but I didn't realize he was covering the protest at the time. Where's your discretion now
@OttawaPolice
?
#OttNews
Good to know
@ottawacity
is still handing out parking tickets. I did deserve it, staying 3 hours in a 2-hour zone while covering the 5th day of the protest convoy.
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@fordnation
is re-announcing the expansion of Hwy 417. Talks about bumper-to-bumper traffic. (Right now, the highway is super clear in both directions at Pinecrest/Greenbank.)
#OttNews
#OnPoli
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.
@cmckenney
is making their housing platform announcement at a multi-faith affordable housing complex in Barrhaven.
#ottnews
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A period of "virtually flawless performance" like the 12-day consecutive trial run? I recognize -- and agree -- that we need to make things better for transit users right now, but we also need accountability. Who is responsible for this not-so-perfect LRT?
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@JimWatsonOttawa
@AllanHubley_23
It's amazing that when
@OC_Transpo
commissioners wanted answers, they were slapped down by chair Hubley. But now that the mayor is mad, suddenly money is found for more buses.
#ottnews
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Oh look - it’s
@JR_Ottawa
.
@CBCOttawa
hasn’t had much luck getting in touch with him during this entire campaign.
#OttNews
#OnPoli
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@Travisdhanraj
Chief Sloly adds that "arms and weapons" have been "brought into the national capital region." WHAT? Will be needing some follow-up information.
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They sure did. Took a public inquiry to prove it, although the evidence was always there.
#OttCity
is living through the consequences, and likely will be for years.
#ottnews
Old story but this one reason is why we are here today. Story by former cbc reporter
@JCHIANELLO
Did the city move the goalposts for accepting LRT?
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@dianedeans
@OttawaPolice
According to a memo sent to council, and later media, Mayor
@JimWatsonOttawa
spoke with Torigian. How this is approprate I'm not sure, as the mayor doesn't sit on the board. And there was a whole thing yesterday about this....
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Over the past decade, I've written a lot of stories about the LRT. I'm not sure any hav upset me as much as this. When did people know?
#OttNews
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Covering 18 days of the LRT public inquiry with
@KatePorterCBC
was eye-opening and overwhelming. It was a festival of transparency like we’ve never seen before.
#OttNews
#ottnews
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On the roof of the
@OttawaCitizen
building awaiting PC Leader
@fordnation
’s first appearance in Ottawa during this campaign.
#onpoli
#ottnews
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@Larry_OBrien1
@Colettod
@JimWatsonOttawa
@OttawaCitizen
Proud of him? Didn’t you make homophobic comments about him in the 2010 election, alluding to him never having kids and calling him a “princess”?
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The secrecy around the LRT1 project at city hall Halle ed because councillors let it. We need a culture shift at city hall.
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Well
#OttCity
, this is an interesting story by
@CharliePinkerton
. Was Robert Swaita receving confidential police information while attending the trucker protests?
#OttNews
Ford government’s Ottawa police board appointee protested with truckers (🔓)
via
@CharliePinkerto
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