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Consider the Flora footbridge: years of designed and effort went into creating the original concept. Senior city staff and poli , then forced it to be redesigned for additional costs, delays, and had to get everything reapproved. Reason? Fear. Result is less good than it could’ve been.
December 23, 2025 at 12:51 PM
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Ironically, Ottawa only needs to look to examples of recent NCC (yeah, the organization that used to make glacial movement look fast) projects to see how to do it. Examples like the bistros and swimming docks have shown the benefit of trying stuff without first doing endless study.
December 23, 2025 at 12:31 PM
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For all of Postmedia’s faults, of which there are many, it’s pretty commendable how unequivocally they have stood behind a journalist subject to a former Conservative MP’s “false” and “unhinged” conspiracy theories

(Even sitting Conservative MPs distanced themselves from Chris Alexander’s claims)
Former Conservative Minister’s Allegation Ottawa Citizen Journalist was a Soviet Spy is ‘False’ and ‘Unhinged’, National Security Committee Told
Canadian MPs express confusion and skepticism about Chris Alexander’s claim that a widely respected journalist spied for the Soviet Union
pressprogress.ca
December 20, 2025 at 3:02 PM