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Ottawa's acting police chief and the city's head of emergency services assured council Wednesday they'll do what they can to keep an impending weekend motorcycle rally from turning into another long-term occupation.

Two major construction projects start in the city of Ottawa today, as the summer construction season continues to ramp up.

On Thursday, Mayor Jim Watson joined 60 other Canadians on what the Russian Foreign Ministry is calling a "stop list," effectively banning them from entering Russia for the foreseeable future.

For the fourth straight summer, Montreal Road in Vanier will be down to one lane for construction, and businesses struggling though the pandemic are looking forward to this project coming to an end.

More residential streets across the capital are seeing their speed limits reduced to 30 kilometres per hour.

Public information sessions on the future of the Alexandra Bridge, set to be torn down and replaced over the next decade, are underway this week.

The City of Ottawa's auditor general has agreed to review the municipal response to the truck convoy, and take over reviews requested by both city council and the police services board.

A month after the so-called Freedom Convoy was cleared out of downtown Ottawa, city council is pressing the federal government for a new model of policing for the core of the nation’s capital.

Ottawa city councillors will be taking their seats in the council chambers today for the first time since the spring of 2020.

It was the first time in two years that council members were invited into chambers for a meeting, now that many COVID-19 restrictions have been lifted.