Congratulations to everyone who completed their school year and to those who have graduated and moving onto a new chapter in your loves. Dreaming is limitless. Learning is living. Adventure awaits you! Thank you to all of the teachers and those who work alongside them to support our students throughout the school year! You often…
PQCHC is organizing the Sharing in Student Success – parents can register via phone to make it easy.
I was privileged to join almost 40 volunteers from the Ottawa Community Housing (OCH) Board of directors and committee members this past Thursday planting 20 trees in one OCH’s Debra Dyne’s community. These 20 trees will create a legacy for the residents of the community. And are an important part of the Corporation’s work in…
The National Capital Commission (NCC) board of directors voted last Thursday to rename the Sir John A. Macdonald Parkway as Kichi Zībī Mīkan (pronounced kitchi zee-bee MEE-khan) which means “Great River Road.” The new name references the Algonquin name for the river — Kichi Zībī — and the original name for the parkway, the Ottawa River Parkway. It also highlights the importance of…
The City’s Emergency Preparedness and Protective Services Committee today approved the Ottawa Paramedic Service’s investment plan for 2024 to 2026, which would put more new paramedics on the road to address a steady increase in service demand and help reduce the amount of time spent waiting in offload delay in hospital emergency rooms. To address…
June is International Pride Month. It is a time for the Two-Spirit, Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual, Transgender, Queer, Questioning, Intersex, Asexual/Aromantic + (2SLGBTQQIA+) community and their allies to come together and reflect on their journeys and celebrate their achievements. Recent events show that as a community it is increasingly important, now more than ever, that we…
Firefighters from Ottawa Fire Services will visit homes across the city from Monday, June 5 to Monday, June 12 as part of the spring Wake Up! program to ensure smoke alarms and carbon monoxide alarms are present and working. Ontario’s Fire Code requires that homes have a working smoke alarm on each floor and outside…
On Monday May 29th Mayor Sutcliffe was joined by Transportation Committee Vice-Chair Catherine Kitts, Environment and Climate Change Committee Chair Shawn Menard, and Councillor for Somerset Ward Ariel Troster for an official kick-off to the 2023 construction season. The event was held at the site of the reconstruction of Albert Street, Queen Street, Slater Street,…
After a five hour long discussion, where over twenty residents delegated, Planning and Housing Committee received a report “Our City Starts with Home: Scaling Up Non-Profit Housing in Ottawa” commissioned by the Alliance to End Homelessness Ottawa as part of its Starts with Home campaign. The report shows how the City of Ottawa can play…