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Tewin Clearcut Archive
Seventy hectares of forested land just outside Ottawa’s urban boundary has recently been clear cut. Owned in a partnership between Taggart Investments and the Algonquins of Ontario (AOO), the clear-cut portion…
Fulcrum Radio Show
Fulcrum Radio Show: Damian Piper covering local issues with excerpts from City Council meetings and interviews with local experts.
Doucet and Holmes: Who speaks for Canada when it comes to city planning in the capital?
Clive Doucet and Diane Holmes, retired Ottawa city councilors who represented Capital and Somerset wards, call, in The Citizen, for a provincial investigation into the collusion between the NCC and…
Doucet: Queen Juliana Park shouldn’t be a parking lot
Clive Doucet, former Ottawa city councillor and mayoralty candidate, explains in The Citizen why the proposed site of the New Civic at the Central Experimental Farm for a number of…
History and gratitude forgotten in Civic Hospital site decision
Jane Keeler, a resident of Old Ottawa South, explains what we’re about to lose if the City approves transforming a popular green space into a parking lot this coming spring…
Tree Songs 2 unites artists and activists across Canada in support of the environment
On Nov. 21, Tree Songs 2 united artists and activists from Nova Scotia and Newfoundland to Peterborough and Toronto. In Ottawa, the focus of the event was the TOH new…
Reimagine Ottawa in conversation with the Fulcrum
Nov. 5, 2021, Interview with the Fulcrum “Today on the show we have a special exclusive with ReImagine Ottawa. They’re doing a lot of work to bring to light the…
In the News Archive
- iPolitics.ca, January 13, 2022 – Cockburn slams plan to put hospital on Ottawa’s Experimental Farm
- The Ottawa Citizen, January 12th, 2022 – If a tree falls…. Bruce Cockburn joins fight against Civic hospital site
- The Ottawa Citizen, January 6th, 2022 – Doucet and Holmes: Who speaks for Canada when it comes to city planning in the capital?
- The Hill Times, November 8th, 2021 – Activists urge investigation of NCC, city council approval of new $2.8-billion Ottawa Hospital Civic campus site
- The Ottawa Citizen, November 2nd, 2021 – Doucet: Queen Juliana Park shouldn’t be a parking lot
- www.healthing.ca – November 2nd, 2021 – Doucet: Queen Juliana Park shouldn’t be a parking lot
- The Ottawa Citizen, October 26th, 2021 – Bruce: Ottawa’s new hospital — Will bigger really be better?
- www.healthing.ca – October 25th, 2021 – Bruce: Ottawa’s new hospital — Will bigger really be better?
- The Ottawa Citizen, October 21st, 2021 – Today’s letters: LRT shutdowns, the Civic hospital site
- The Ottawa Citizen, October 9th, 2021 – Today’s letters: A train in trouble, hospital corners and more
- CBC News, October 5th, 2021 – New Civic hospital campus clears another hurdle at NCC board
- Ottawa Citizen, October 5th, 2021 – NCC approves new Civic site plan, demands connection to LRT
- CBC News, October 4th, 2021 – Committee approves master plan for new Civic hospital campus
- Ottawa Citizen, October 1, 2021 – Planning committee to vote Monday on master plan for new Civic hospital
- Ottawa Citizen, October 1, 2021 – Egan: We ‘settled’ on the new Civic; no wonder the long faces
- Ottawa Citizen, October 1, 2021 – Today’s letters: On hospital financing, home care and physical fitness
- CentreTown Buzz, September 28th, 2021 – Analysis: What will be the real impact of the new Civic Hospital site?
- CBC News, September 27th, 2021 – Civic hospital campus approaching last hurdles in approval process
- The Ottawa Citizen, September 21st, 2021 – Adam: LRT, housing, the farm — so many issues for Ottawa’s new crop of MPs to deliver on
- CBC News, September 18th, 2021 – Chianello: These are the key campaign promises for the city of Ottawa
- Ottawa Citizen, September 11, 2021 – Today’s letters: ‘Long-haul’ COVID, the Civic hospital, and the federal election
- Ottawa Citizen, September 8, 2021 – Egan: NDP calls for Civic hospital inquiry — oh, the politics we would find
- NDP Centre Press Release, September 8th, 2021 – Angella MacEwen calls for public inquiry into decisions around Ottawa Hospital location
- Ottawa Citizen, September 3rd, 2021 – Naqvi proposes protection law for Experimental Farm while Civic Hospital project rolls on
- Ottawa Citizen September 2nd, 2021 – Adam: City of Ottawa needs to say how it will pay for its share of the new Civic hospital
- Ottawa Citizen September 2nd, 2021 – Egan: Why the new Civic hospital is never getting underground parking
- CentreTown Buzz, August 19, 2021 – New hospital site creates serious concerns for West Centretown
- CTV News, August 16th, 2021 – Ottawa Centre likely to be a key battleground
- The Citizen, August 15th, 2021 – Protesters let their singing voices be heard about Dow’s Lake location for Civic
- CBC News, August 15th, 2021 – Rally to protect trees is latest action against future Civic hospital site
- iPolitics.ca, August 5th, 2021 – “Capital attack on the environment: Can Ottawa be saved from itself?” Alan Freeman
- CTV News, July 12th, 2021 – Opposition grows to Civic Hospital Parkade plan
- The Citizen, July 10, 2021 – Egan: It’s come to trees and parking — have we botched location of new Civic hospital?
- CBC News, July 4th, 2021 – Transportation plan for future Civic hospital flawed, neighbours say
- Ottawa Citizen, July 3, 2021 – McKenna presided over Civic hospital fiasco
- Ottawa Citizen, July 3, 2021 – Parking garage, LRT connection called ‘dealbreakers’ for Civic hospital plans by Coun. Jeff Leiper
- CTV News, June 30th, 2021 – Neighbours of future Ottawa Hospital Civic Campus don’t want to trade park for parkade
- CTV News May 2nd, 2021 – Design and site plan of new Ottawa Hospital Civic Campus unveiled
- The Hill Times, January 21st, 2021 – Ken Rubin: Ending madcap planning in Ottawa
- The Citizen, January 13th, 2020 – Rubin: What’s happening at Tunney’s Pasture behind closed doors?
- The Hill Times, December 3rd, 2018 – Deliberation: can we fix government decision-making?
- Ottawa Citizen, March 6th, 2018 – Save the heritage cafeteria
- February 23rd, 2018 – Government of Canada leases federal land to The Ottawa Hospital for new Civic Campus
- CBC News, Jan 17th, 2018 – Group calls for inquiry into Civic hospital move
- Ottawa Citizen, April 5th, 2017 – Egan: 10 years later, Russell Mills leaves NCC, defends Tunney’s as best hospital site
- The Hill Times, December 16th, 2016 – McKenna’s handling of Ottawa Hospital relocation showed ‘lack of political experience,’ say Liberal insiders
- Ottawa Citizen, December 16th, 2016 – New Civic hospital planning kicks off with $3-million grant
- The Ottawa Citizen, December 6th, 2016 – Ottawa’s new hospital will be built on a major fault line, but earthquake experts aren’t worried
- CBC News, December 3rd, 2016 – Civic hospital process the worst way to get to a fine decision
- CBC News, December 2, 2016 – Government set to cede Sir John Carling site after politicians unite on hospital move
- CBC News, December 1st, 2016 – Here’s the skinny on the top 4 hotly contested sites for a new Civic campus
- CTV News, December 1st, 2016 – Tunney’s Pasture scrapped as future home of Ottawa Hospital Civic Campus
- CBC News, December 1st, 2016 – Sir John Carling site better fit for Civic hospital, says Ottawa mayor
- CBC News, November 30th, 2016 – Ottawa Mayor Jim Watson to act as broker in Civic hospital deadlock
- CBC News, November 30th, 2016 – Chianello: Let’s get some answers before we dig in our heels on the Civic campus question
- The Ottawa Citizen, November 29th, 2016 – Updated: Ottawa Hospital board rejects Tunney’s Pasture as site for new Civic
- CTV News, November 29th, 2016 – Ottawa Hospital Board, local MPPs, reject Tunney’s Pasture as new hospital site
- The Ottawa Citizen, November 25th, 2016 – Holzman and Durrell: The Civic is your hospital, folks – it’s not a casino
- The Ottawa Citizen, November 25th, 2016 – Editorial: A compromise site for the Civic hospital campus
- The Ottawa Citizen, November 25th, 2016 – Hospital officials reeling behind the scenes after Tunney’s Pasture selection
- CBC News, November 25th, 2016 – Chianello: Questions linger after NCC picks Tunney’s Pasture for new Civic hospital
- The Ottawa Citizen, November 24th, 2016 – Egan: Why the Ottawa Hospital should reject the Tunney’s site
- CBC News, November 24th, 2016 – Reaction mixed after Tunney’s Pasture revealed as NCC’s top pick for new Civic hospital
- Ottawa Citizen, Nov 24th, 2016 – Civic relocation to Tunney’s Pasture wouldn’t hurt response times: Paramedics
- CBC News, November 24th, 2016 – Tunney’s Pasture picked as NCC’s top site for new Civic hospital
- The Ottawa Citizen, November 24th, 2016 – Tunney’s Pasture site for new Civic hospital: What we know and don’t know
- Ottawa Citizen, October 21st, 2016 – Holzman, Durrell: A common-sense solution to finding the right site for the Civic
- CBC News, September 12, 2016 – NCC reveals list of 12 possible sites for new Civic hospital campus
- The Ottawa Citizen, March 13th, 2016 – Experimental Farm ‘greenness’ helps our health, experts say
- CBC News, February 17th, 2016 – Ottawa Hospital re-evaluating site for new Civic Campus