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WISH YOU WERE HERE
WHAT A VACATION IN CUBA CAN TEACH US ABOUT THE GLOBAL ECONOMY.
A
new article by Clive, published by Maisonneuve.
I was sitting on the logia of the old Hotel Nacional
in Havana smoking a cigar and looking out towards the Straits of
Florida,
the sun sinking behind the horizon. It wasn’t hard to see
why Hemingway...
Read
it on-line >>
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Ward Report for May
- Light rail or just a lot more buses?
- No Parking Meters in Old Ottawa South
- Enviro-breakfast
- Air Quality Summit details>>
Media Release April 29, 2008
Councillor Doucet calls for a Plan
B to Transit Option 4
Clive Doucet to highlight need for better routing of
light rail.
April 29, 2008, Ottawa, Lansdowne Park, Coliseum Building, 7:00
p.m.
“We got the technology right but we got the routing wrong,” states
Capital Ward Councillor Clive Doucet. “The four transit options
only differ in choice of vehicle technology. There is no routing
choice between the options. The recommendation of electric light
rail is the best technological choice but there are no alternate
routes offered. The routing is a major shortcoming and a
recipe for another light rail failure.”
Backgrounder >>
Media Release April 15,2008
The
largest ever FCM public survey endorses 1% of the GST be transferred
to cities
Ottawa - Councillor Clive Doucet was delighted to see that the
largest
survey ever conducted by the Federation of Canadian
Municipalities (FCM) revealed that 90 per cent of respondents
say that the federal government should provide financial support
to municipal governments.
more >>
Visit the Federation of Canadian Municipalities website for more
information on the survey
http://www.fcm.ca/english/media/press/april152008.html
Why
clean air matters
" It has long been a preoccupation of mine that
we are growing the City of Ottawa blindly in a way which degrades
the quality of the air we all need for good health. But it's
a message that is very difficult to get Council to believe
poses an imminent
threat to our health",
Clive Doucet
Media Release, April 7, 2008
Councillor Doucet calls for fresh air summit
in Fall
Ottawa – Air pollution, and the fine particulate matters
associated with it, are closely related to a wide variety of health
problems,
including asthma, cardiovascular disease, strokes, cancer, immune
deficiency diseases and low birth weights. more>>
Media contact: Catherine Henry, (613) 580-2424, ext. 25287 or
580-2487
 April
10, 2008
Refuge and refugee cities and neighbourhoods
Cities have always had a good side of
the tracks and a bad side. All that has changed is the economic
forces
which
create
them.
In Elizabethan London, the Lord Chamberlain was worried about the
entertainment industry, bear baiting, cock fighting and of course
the theatre... more>>
Ottawa
has the worst city political administration in the country.
But it’s important to remember it wasn’t always so. We used
to have one of the best. . more
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UPDATE:
Feb. 6/08.
Commons committee to probe Baird's role in Ottawa civic election
From The
Tyee, Jan 23, 2007
John
Baird, Light Rail Killer
Did Tories' new enviro minister undercut
a big light rail project to settle a political score?
A Tyee special report, by Laura Drake
Last week, John Baird, the Conservatives' new Environment Minister, hopped
a ride on a low-emissions hybrid bus to a press conference in Western Ottawa.
Once there, the Ottawa based Minister, described by many as the rising star
of his party, announced $230 million in funding for the development of green
technologies, part of a downpour of environmental initiatives rained down by
the government last week.
For complete article and comments go to the The
Tyee
New Inquiries to the City
tabled in committees. (Updated
Feb. 27) >>more
Green streets for pedestrian safety
Ottawa, August 31, 2007, Metcalfe and Isabella . more >>
Tree Update: April
30.
Listen to an interview with Clive and Pamela White by Shelagh Rogers
on
Sounds
Like Canada,
CBC Radio.
Read Clive's poem Greetings
from a Tree Being to a Human Being,
Threat of Queensway expansion is back
March 1, 2007 update. Click here for details
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