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5 Steps to a Better City Budget for 2026
1 in 6 of Your City Tax Dollars is Paying to Fix Old Infrastructure
City Reserves Drop into the Red Zone
Lansdowne 2.0 Gets Up to $22 Million in Ottawa's 2025 Budget
A Better Way to Manage Transit
What I'm Looking For in Ottawa's 2025 Budget (Part 3)
What I'm Looking For in Ottawa's 2025 Budget (Part 2)
What I'm Looking For in Ottawa's 2025 Budget (Part 1)
Ottawa's Night Council is an Opportunity to Do Better
How Ottawa Could Get an Extra $72 Million a Year from the Feds and Province
So Many Smart Ideas to Get People Engaged in Their City
Doug Ford is Locking Ottawa and Other Ontario Cities into a High-Tax Urban Expansion Growth Model
Can You Help Me Advocate for a Better Ottawa?
Three Community Wins Worth Celebrating
Will Sutcliffe Throw Bus Riders Under the Bus?
Stop Building New Shelters, City Hall! There is a Better and Cheaper Way to House Newcomers
What Lansdowne 2.0 is Really About, Explained in One Chart
Taxpayers Deserve a Say on Big Ticket Items Like Lansdowne
What We are Not Being Told About Ottawa's Finances
THIS is the Petition You Want to Sign, Calling for a Referendum on $493m for Lansdowne
The Real Reason for Ottawa's Fiscal Crisis
Take Responsibility for Your Actions, Mr Mayor
Self-Driving Cars Are Coming Sooner Than We Think
Coolest Street in the World (part 2)
How We Build Places for People in Ottawa
Lansdowne Would be a 1% Property Tax Increase for Everyone in Ottawa
An Awesome NCC Announcement ... That Only a Few People Heard
Will Taxpayers Subsidize $4 Billion in Tewin Developer Profits?
Why We Urgently Need to Fix Consultation in Ottawa
For People on Bikes, 6 Quick Announcements
You Deserve a Montreal Bike Weekend
How to Revitalize Downtown Ottawa
One Thing We Can Do About the Ottawa Housing Affordability Crisis
Rising DCs in Ottawa are the Canary in the Coal Mine for Future Tax Increases
Spring into Active Parkways this Saturday
Don't Buy the Developer Line About DCs
How Will Ottawa Manage an Additional 50,000 Cars on our Roads Every Day?
Why an Ottawa City Hall Re-org Will Achieve Little
Stop The Ottawa Hospital's Plan to Sprawl Parking onto Historic Greenspace
Another Sweetheart Deal for Developers
How to Get Better Biking in Ottawa
Mr Sutcliffe's Not-So-Good Week
New Deal for Ottawa: Was That Really the Best We Could Negotiate?
What Ottawa City Hall Needs to Do Before You Can Do Your Part on Climate
Stop Trying to Divide Us, Mark
5 Things on My Mind, as the Ottawa Winter Turns to Spring
Will Ottawa Council Do What It Needs to Do for Climate Action?
Changes to Wellington St are Starting to Look Inevitable
A Climate Plan That Would Net Us $12 Billion
Is Ottawa (the City) Quietly Quitting Its Climate Promises?
Ottawa is Canada's Sprawl-iest City
Ottawa Council Reverts Back to Dysfunction
Why I Put Myself Forward for the Ottawa Police Services Board
Public Art in Ottawa is a Competitive Advantage, Not Just a “Nice-to-Have”