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Ottawa's 2021 budget has passed despite the objections of one-quarter of city council who rejected the spending plan over concerns about police funding and transit fares.

  OTTAWA -- The name of Hector-Louis Langevin could be removed from a street in Ottawa's Rideau-Rockcliffe neighbourhood in the new year. Councillor Rawlson King gave notice of motion on Wednesday asking Council to rename Langevin Avenue, off Beechwood Avenue in the Lindenlea neighbourhood, to Commanda Way. In July, King asked residents for feedback on renaming the street named after one of the father's of Confederation. Langevin is considered a key architect of the residential school system. Commanda Way would be named after Algonquin eld...

POLICING The Ottawa Police Services Board passed its 2021 budget in late November after two lengthy meetings in which nearly 100 members of the community demanded the board scrap a planned $13.2 million year-over-year increase in spending. Board chair Coun. Diane Deans told CTV Morning Live after the budget had passed that they could not make a $13 million cut so soon. "You can't, just a few days before you pass a police budget, decide to reduce the numbers by 13 million dollars. That would have meant layoffs at police because most of the increase that they're getting this year goes to cos...