Alcohol in parks is such 1950's "bluestocking" Ontario issue. I grew up and worked in Montreal, then moved to Ontario. Drinking in public was never an issue in Montreal, including parks. Drinking responsibly was just a part of the culture. Drinking in Ontario was so heavily suppressed for so long, which created an underground culture of binge drinking in private, including late at night in remote parks.
Counselors having to nominate parks entirely smacks of the expectation of significant abuse by the public, which is both a possibility and an insult to the majority of Ottawa residents.
Solution, have a public Drinking hotline which gets fast response in the first few months and any groups abusing public drinking to get a very strong message that it won't be tolerated
Lansdowne. That Lansdowne was not included in the Master Transportation Plan, in any level of planning in the last 20 years speaks loudly. That it neither has priority bus or LRT access in any plans, strongly suggests any investment is inconsistent with the growth of Ottawa, which includes a further 500,000 residents before 2045, which are most likely to be focused on Kanata and west of Kanata as the major employment increases are most likely based on the Kanata Tech Park.
City staff reports. My professional history includes data analytics at a senior level in major analytics providers including IBM/Cognos here in Ottawa. The City has totally inadequate informztion on their data collection practices, refuses to allow access to their raw collected data and provides inadequate and incomplete information on on how they come to their conclusions. They refuse to disclose information prior to presentation, providing no time to digest and question their conclusions. They rely on most residents not caring enough to track what the City is doing, until the brown stuff hits the rotating device. Councilors and their Staff do not have the expertise to understand how inadequate the information provided to them really is.
$11 B deficit. This a Federal and Provincial problem. Both look to massive immigration to solve the demographic issue of a combination of aging boomers and dramatic drops in birth rate (far below replacement levels, a world wide problem), and yet expect Cities to massively increase taxes (84%+ of Candians living in cities like Ottawa), where cities have little taxation rights. Frankley this is the senior governments playing "tax chicken" with the cities as anyone who proposes (long overdue) tax increases will get voted out of office.
Alcohol in parks is such 1950's "bluestocking" Ontario issue. I grew up and worked in Montreal, then moved to Ontario. Drinking in public was never an issue in Montreal, including parks. Drinking responsibly was just a part of the culture. Drinking in Ontario was so heavily suppressed for so long, which created an underground culture of binge drinking in private, including late at night in remote parks.
Counselors having to nominate parks entirely smacks of the expectation of significant abuse by the public, which is both a possibility and an insult to the majority of Ottawa residents.
Solution, have a public Drinking hotline which gets fast response in the first few months and any groups abusing public drinking to get a very strong message that it won't be tolerated
Lansdowne. That Lansdowne was not included in the Master Transportation Plan, in any level of planning in the last 20 years speaks loudly. That it neither has priority bus or LRT access in any plans, strongly suggests any investment is inconsistent with the growth of Ottawa, which includes a further 500,000 residents before 2045, which are most likely to be focused on Kanata and west of Kanata as the major employment increases are most likely based on the Kanata Tech Park.
Ottawa needs a replacement for Lansdowne that is consistent with public transit and drive/park
And for drive/park that means park'n'ride and quick transit to support areas of Ottawa and outlying communities where transit is decades away.
City staff reports. My professional history includes data analytics at a senior level in major analytics providers including IBM/Cognos here in Ottawa. The City has totally inadequate informztion on their data collection practices, refuses to allow access to their raw collected data and provides inadequate and incomplete information on on how they come to their conclusions. They refuse to disclose information prior to presentation, providing no time to digest and question their conclusions. They rely on most residents not caring enough to track what the City is doing, until the brown stuff hits the rotating device. Councilors and their Staff do not have the expertise to understand how inadequate the information provided to them really is.
$11 B deficit. This a Federal and Provincial problem. Both look to massive immigration to solve the demographic issue of a combination of aging boomers and dramatic drops in birth rate (far below replacement levels, a world wide problem), and yet expect Cities to massively increase taxes (84%+ of Candians living in cities like Ottawa), where cities have little taxation rights. Frankley this is the senior governments playing "tax chicken" with the cities as anyone who proposes (long overdue) tax increases will get voted out of office.
The city needs to place a surcharge tax on rideshares and use that money to support OC Transpo.