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Portman: Court ruling on Kanata golf course a betrayal

Portman: Court ruling on Kanata golf course a betrayal

The golf course was once the essential Crown jewel of an agreement to safeguard green space in the Kanata North community.

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Jamie Portman

Cloutier: Long-term care — Will 2025 be the year we fix it?

Cloutier: Long-term care — Will 2025 be the year we fix it?

The next Ontario government must stop repeating the current mistake of funding new long-term care homes built by companies with bad records.

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Lise Cloutier-Steele

Today's letters: Could Lansdowne 2.0 get any worse for Ottawa?

Today's letters: Could Lansdowne 2.0 get any worse for Ottawa?

Monday, Sept. 27: The latest Lansdowne plans don't improve the city, a reader says. You can write to us too, at letters@ottawacitizen.com

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Citizen Letters

Katz: International Holocaust Remembrance Day — it's no longer enough to say 'Never Again'

Katz: International Holocaust Remembrance Day — it's no longer enough to say 'Never Again'

Recent surveys have found that 54 per cent of Canadian adults do not know that six million Jews were murdered during the Holocaust.

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Ottawa Citizen

Floralove Katz

Today's letters: The big issue in the ByWard Market is homelessness

Today's letters: The big issue in the ByWard Market is homelessness

Friday, Jan. 24: The Market has lots of issues, but until we can solve the problem of those without housing, the rest don't matter, says one...

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Citizen Letters

Mamais: Meta's new policy will only add to disinformation

Mamais: Meta's new policy will only add to disinformation

In 2025, Donald Trump, Elon Musk and now Mark Zuckerberg are letting the world know that, like it or not, they are in control of how 'truth' will...

24.01.2025 2

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Penny Mamais

Westover: Our new dog upended our lives. We love him anyway

Westover: Our new dog upended our lives. We love him anyway

We broke down under out daughter's entreaties and and got a dog, whose many foibles are somehow adorable.

23.01.2025 20

Ottawa Citizen

Suzanne Westover

Egli: 5 years ago, I was at the heart of Ottawa's COVID response. Here's what I learned

Egli: 5 years ago, I was at the heart of Ottawa's COVID response. Here's what I learned

We knew that some decisions we made about COVID would frustrate people because they either went too far or not far enough.

23.01.2025 10

Ottawa Citizen

Keith Egli

Pellerin: Make the ByWard Market a teenager-friendly destination

Pellerin: Make the ByWard Market a teenager-friendly destination

Teens shouldn’t just be relegated to a “youth area” off George Street. The whole ByWard Market should be an epic teen magnet.

23.01.2025 10

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Brigitte Pellerin

Beeby: Prying information out of government is just getting harder

Beeby: Prying information out of government is just getting harder

More and more access to information requests are coming back with chunks of data blacked out, or no data at all — which, of course, serves...

22.01.2025 10

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Dean Beeby

Denley: Ottawa should say no to new renoviction bylaw

Denley: Ottawa should say no to new renoviction bylaw

The problem of landlords wrongly evicting tenants — so-called 'renovictions' — is a small one. And there are already many tools to prevent abuse.

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Randall Denley