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  OTTAWA -- The pre-school program at a city of Ottawa run child care centre will close for at least 14 days after an employee tested positive for COVID-19. In a memo to Council, Community and Social Services General Manager Donna Gray says an employee at the Dr. Ernest Couture Child Care Centre on Riverside Drive tested positive. The last day the employee worked was on April 6, and they tested positive on April 8. Gray says in consultation with Ottawa Public Health, the city has determined the pre-school program at the centre will close for at least two weeks. The toddler program can...

Article content For one brief moment, I thought the city of Ottawa was about to do something rational to help the more than 350 homeless families it has stashed in motel rooms across the city. What caught my attention was a headline in this newspaper saying “City eyes private leasing for affordable housing.” Yes! At last, an obvious idea about to take hold, but no, eyeing and acting are completely different things, as the story explained. When it comes to a certain type of city bureaucrat, it’s never too soon to delay. We apologize, but this video has failed to load.

Article content Ottawa council has given city staff the go-ahead to study a novel approach to increasing the number of desperately needed affordable housing units in the capital by leasing directly from private-market landlords. Staff are scheduled to review and make recommendations on the feasibility of what’s called a “head-lease” program by the second quarter of 2022 — a timeline some believe will cause the city to miss out on a fleeting period of friendlier rental-market conditions. We apologize, but this video has failed to load. Try refreshing your browser, or Affor...

Article content Ottawa Public Health reported 80 new cases of COVID-19 and one new death on Thursday. There have been 14,950 confirmed cases of COVID-19 in Ottawa, including 442 deaths, since the first case was reported last March. There are 517 active cases of COVID-19, compared with 497 on Wednesday. Twenty-seven people in hospital, including four in ICU, OPH said. Medical officer of health Dr. Vera Etches warned Wednesday that several key COVID-19 indicators in the city were nearer to the province’s “Red” category Ottawa’s COVID-19 rate is at 38.7 cases per 100,000 people (the Red ...

Posted: Mar 03, 2021 9:13 AM ET | Last Updated: March 3 The City of Ottawa pays to house families in these apartments in Vanier when family shelters are overflowing. Many stay months, if not years.(Jean Delisle/CBC) The City of Ottawa will keep using the privately-owned Tabor Apartments in Vanier as emergency shelter space, but will put out a call to see if other landlords or hotels might offer units to help with a big spike in families needing housing. Since 2015, the city has paid Ottawa Inn owner Ahmed Syed to use his building. It pays $89 a night per unit for 15 families at Tabor,...