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Mohammed Adam: The council that gave us Lansdowne 2.0, failed to fix OC Transpo, and fell short on homelessness is coming back for an encore.
Randall Denley: What takes some of the shine off Election Day is the lowest voter turnout since 2003.
If you haven't decided who to vote for on Oct. 26, here's a guide to where all the mayoral candidates stand on the major issues.
Randall Denley takes a skeptical look at Ottawa Community Housing's acquisition of just over 500 housing units in Nepean.
Jeff Leiper, Alex Lawson, Neil Saravanamuttoo and Mark Sutcliffe faced off one last time before Ottawa votes. Here's what our pundits took away.
Mohammed Adam: Ottawans should be not swallow Mark Sutcliffe's pitch for re-election without question or examination.
Mohammed Adam: Who got it right balance and who missed the boat with their proposed tax increases?
Randall Denley: He has a knack for identifying things that irritate the public and proposing simple solutions. If only he weren't running for mayor.
Brigitte Pellerin: Voters are showing up at town halls with notebooks. They're bringing friends to events. And I am loving it.
Randall Denley: Where will the money come from? It’s a good question that lacks a simple answer.
Brigitte Pellerin: I'm a veteran of these registration Hunger Games. But did the mayor have to wait until a month before the election to say...
Randall Denley: Why should the provincial government’s most important service rely on charity? Do they demand local people raise money for schools...
Brigitte Pellerin offers some handy voting advice for people who don’t want to dig deep into platforms or watch debates.
Randall Denley: Mark Sutcliffe’s tax promise creates a bit of a dilemma for his opponents.
Mohammed Adam: Alex Lawson helped out Convoy supporters. But there is no indication that he participated in any lawlessness.
Mohammed Adam: Mark Sutcliffe is not some extraordinary digital genius, but he does have the power of incumbency. Will that be enough?
Randall Denley: But is this a city government issue? The provincial and federal governments are the ones with the money and authority to act.
Mohammed Adam: On face value, mayoral candidate Alex Lawson’s plan sounds like a great idea. But would there could be chaos on the streets?
Brigitte Pellerin: The transit system's fare reader is pretty convenient to use with an Apple Watch. Too bad it doesn’t actually collect fares.
Randall Denley: Making an election issue of how many days a week city employees work in the office is laughable.
Mohammed Adam: Lansdowne 2.0's projected revenues are in jeopardy if the CFL team keeps losing the very fans the project needs to succeed.
Brigitte Pellerin: As the city’s loudest and most obnoxious opponent to return-to-office rules, this makes my heart sing.
Mohammed Adam: It boggles the mind that in Canada’s capital, of all places, Donald Trump would be honoured with a street name.
Incumbent mayor Mark Sutcliffe's election promise to lower the cost of monthly transit passes might be what OC Transpo needs to recover after years of...
Mohammed Adam: The mayor's new transit pledge banks on a projected $85M in monthly savings from not-yet-signed provincial LRT takeover plan.
Brigitte Pellerin: It feels like every mayoral candidate has given up on transit and is throwing stupid ideas out there hoping we’ll believe them.
Randall Denley: Do we need a special body like the BMDA manage the limited city activities in the market?
Brigitte Pellerin: Forget how well each candidate speaks English or French. What Ottawa voters want is real talk, not talking points.
Randall Denley: Juicing up population numbers is a clever way of making city councillors look closer at expanding the urban boundary.
Brigitte Pellerin: Unless the "night mayor" can show us something existing staff couldn’t have done with existing budgets, don’t renew the office.
Mohammed Adam: Don’t laugh. Just look at the poll numbers. There’s no question it is now a three-way race for mayor.
Brigitte Pellerin: Here’s the situation the yellow ticket is papering over. We are forcing people back downtown, four days a week now, and we have...
Brigitte Pellerin: It seems like a lot of effort is going into what amounts to a rounding error in a municipal budget.
Mohammed Adam: The solution is imperfect, but if this is how we are going to get decent housing for our prime ministers, so be it.
Randy Boswell: Here's why Caivan’s 40-acre parcel of land just outside the urban boundary south of Stittsville wasn’t greenlit for development.
Brigitte Pellerin: While it's easy to feel discouraged about the amount of sexual misconduct in Ottawa, we’re on the right path by facing it head-on.
Randall Denley: The Auditor General’s report on Ottawa's "New Ways to Bus" plan shows it ended something closer to No Ways to Bus.
Mohammed Adam: With a $10.8 billion infrastructure deficit, there is no credible alternative if we are serious about fixing roads and bridges.
Brigitte Pellerin: Imagine each resident being allowed to add their car to a city account that lets you park anywhere there’s a meter without paying.
Randall Denley: Between pension contributions, wage negotiations and job cuts, managing the public service has been a weak file for Carney.
Brigitte Pellerin: Do we really have to be warned there may be rocks at the bottom of the river?
Every mayoral candidate should take a position on how to pay for repairing the city's deteriorating roads and sidewalks
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