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A recommendation to close restaurant patios on city-owned property at 2 a.m. wont receive unanimous support from city council, despite the municipal governments attempt to help Ottawa small businesses survive the second year of the COVID-19 pandemic.

Article content A choice looms over two council committees, meeting Tuesday, about the future of the city’s relationship with a red-brick apartment complex in Vanier where some of the most vulnerable families in Ottawa have been housed. City politicians face pressure to put an end to staff’s per-diem payments to the Ottawa Inn to shelter homeless people at this property, and not only from the councillors whose proposal to end the arrangement sits on the March 2 meeting agenda. We apologize,...

At long last, the much-debated addition to the Chateau Laurier hotel has been given the green light at City Hall. Council voted 14-10 Wednesday to approve the design and issue a heritage permit for the proposed addition at the back of the iconic downtown lodging.  The councillors who opposed the proposal were Riley Brockington, Rick Chiarelli, Diane Deans, Mathieu Fleury, Theresa Kavanagh, Rawlson King, Jeff Leiper, Catherine McKenney, Carol Anne Meehan and Shawn Menard. “I voted NO because ...

Health officials are cautioning that Ottawa's COVID-19 case numbers could rise rapidly as businesses reopen and variants spread across the province — pushing the city ever closer to the red zone.

Article content Council’s community and protective services committee is slated to vote Thursday on a move by two councillors to have the city terminate its longstanding and controversial arrangement with a Vanier hotelier to house homeless families in off-site apartments for about $100 per night. Rideau-Vanier Coun. Mathieu Fleury and Somerset Coun. Catherine McKenney are bringing forward a motion to have the city launch “a proper procurement process” to house the families living at the ...

Some residents in the neighbourhood are opposed, saying services for the homeless and vulnerable should not be concentrated in one area of the city.

The opening of an emergency COVID isolation centre for homeless people in Lowertown has a group of nearby residents raising concerns.

Plan for controversial addition to the iconic downtown hotel will now go to full council for consideration on Feb. 24.

The citys planning staff scored the land poorly and recommended that the proposal for the community be further analyzed over the next few years before allowing the property into the urban area. But a surprise motion that referenced the citys "truth and reconciliation action plan" called for the 445 hectares to be included in the urban area and was approved by nine councillors at the committee level last week. Council is set to discuss the issue at its meeting next Wednesday. Ottawa Morning17:00...

  OTTAWA -- The debate over the proposed new addition at the back of the historic Fairmont Chateau Laurier resumes this week at Ottawa City Hall. On Friday, a joint meeting of the Planning Committee and Built-Heritage Sub-Committee will vote on the latest application from Larco Investments to build a 159-room, two-pavilion addition at the back of the hotel on Rideau Street. Larco Investments filed the new application with the city in November, months after reaching an agreement with Herit...