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2010-07-28 Voracious appetite for change
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Ottawa Sun Published: Wednesday, July 28, 2010The voracious appetite for change Earlier this year on talk radio I stated that we could see as many as eight new faces on city council after October’s municipal election. At the time, only Gord Hunter and Peggy Feltmate had indicated they were retiring while Alex Cullen had registered to run for mayor.Since then, Jacques Legendre has said he is hangin...More
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| 2010-07-21 Ecotax will be recycled, count on it! | Ottawa Sun Published: Wednesday, July 21, 2010Ready for eco fee redux: Unpopular tax likely to be back in some other form by next year After a frustrating 20 days of inconsistently and arbitrarily dinging and infuriating...More |
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| 2010-01-07 Discipline key to crowded Mayoral race | Ottawa Sun Published: Wednesday, July 7, 2010Discipline key to crowded Mayoral raceAt least 14 names will be on the ballot for mayor on Oct. 25 after Larry O’Brien declared last week he will run for re-election and Capit...More |
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| 2010-07-01 Now we have a real race for Mayor | Ottawa Sun Published: Thursday, July 1, 2010Real campaign starts with O'BrienWelcome to the 2010 mayor's race.This once-assumed sleepy coronation for Jim Watson on Oct. 25 is now a grind 'em down, duke it out, horse race...More |
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| 2010-06-23 The tunnel is the only option | Ottawa Sun Published: Wednesday, June 23, 2010Tunnel on right path: Putting LRT under east-wet downtown corridor key to easing trafficJust four months remain until the 2010 election. And while there are refreshing newcom...More |
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| 2010-06-16 Gov't incents employees to offer ideas | Ottawa Sun Published: Wednesday, June 16, 2010Push to save moreIf you didn’t already know, it’s National Public Service week across Canada. As for mothers and us dads, well, we just get a dinky day out of 365 while our f...More |
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| 2010-06-10 Politics is an honest job | Ottawa Sun Published: Thursday, June 10, 2010Politics an honest jobDuring the hanging of former prime minister Jean Chretien’s portrait in late-May on Parliament Hill, political observers were treated to two rarities in ...More |
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| 2010-06-03 Time to move forward with Lansdowne Plan | Ottawa Sun Published: Wednesday, June 3, 2010Time to hit the gas on parkEarlier this week, I took time to review the architects’ conceptions for Lansdowne Park on display near the information desk at City Hall. I arrived...More |
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| 2010-05-26 Just say NO to a global bank tax | Ottawa Sun Published: Wednesday, May 26, 2010Taxed to prop up banks: More important to make regulatory changes than pay into insurance fundThere's no denying that global financial sector decisions -- mostly in the U.S. a...More |
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| 2010-05-05 Bigger issues are not being addressed | Ottawa Sun Published: Wednesday, May 5, 2010Bigger issues at stake: More collaboration and less confrontation needed at legislaturesRecently, I have lamented the fact that national political debate is fixated on, for the...More |
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| 2010-04-28 Advice for fall election candidates | Ottawa Sun Published: Wednesday, April 28, 2010A little campaign advice: Know the issues, understand legislation and how files move through councilThere are 179 days remaining until we cast our municipal ballots for mayo...More |
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| 2010-04-07 No fan of uber-transportation hub | Ottawa Sun Published: Wednesday, April 7, 2010Crossing their lines: The idea of a transit hub at the VIA rail station has its faultsAnother few weeks have passed and Ottawa's guaranteed headline topic of transportation i...More |
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| 2010-03-31 First salvo of next election campaign | Ottawa Sun Published: Wednesday, March 31, 2010Springboard can fall flatWith the Canada150 "ideas" conference from this past weekend now concluded, the focus for federal Liberals returns to the present foibles and future...More |
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| 2010-03-24 Obama-care and Canadian relevance | Ottawa Sun Published: Wednesday, March 24, 2010Health fight not done: Transformative reform still needed on both sides of the borderU.S. President Barack Obama's health-insurance -- not health-care -- reform victory is q...More |
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| 2010-03-17 Fighting for a Cure on March 27th | Ottawa Sun Published: Wednesday, March 17, 2010Dukes up against cancer: Charity boxing bouts will raise funds for Wellspring Survivorship CentreThe countdown is on to Fight for the Cure 2010 at the Hampton Inn and Confer...More |
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| 2010-03-10 Industries of the future | Ottawa Sun Published: Wednesday, March 10, 2010Hope for the futureIn last week’s throne speech and budget the Harper government laid out its three-pronged agenda of continued infrastructure funding, spending restraint an...More |
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| 2010-03-03 YOW community helps Haiti | Ottawa Sun Published: Wednesday, March 3, 2010New beginnings: Airport community has done us proud with effort to help HaitiansThe games of the 21st Winter Olympiad are done. Our front yard snow is melting. Each morning w...More |
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| 2010-01-27 Ottawa west by-election is coming | Ottawa Sun Published: Wednesday, January 27, 2010Too close to call: Byelection will be sneak preview of provincewide battleThe battle lines in Ottawa West-Nepean are being drawn with the recent announcement that former r...More |
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| 2010-01-20 Mayoral candidates "run" differently | Ottawa Sun Published: Wednesday, January 20, 2010Race to this finish: Candidates take different approaches to municipal electionWhile voting day -- Oct. 25 -- is still more than 10 months away, the strategies of the perc...More |
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| 2010-01-13 Health Hub could be a winner, if ... | Ottawa Sun Published: Wednesday, January 13, 2010One-stop access: Success of health hub will lie in governance and co-operationToday, 2233 Mer Bleue Rd. in Orleans is a non-descript piece of tract farmland covered in sno...More |
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