It’s Thursday, July 9. Here are the top stories from the Ottawa Citizen newsroom today.
FEDERAL RETURN-TO-OFFICE DRIVING COMMUTER BIKE DEMAND, MECHANICS SAY
City traffic counter data shows downtown bike trips rebounding post-pandemic.
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CITY COMMITTEE MOVES TO CURB BAD-FAITH RENOVICTIONS
A proposed bylaw aimed at preventing bad-faith renovictions is one step closer to becoming law after Ottawa’s planning and housing committee approved the measure Wednesday, with only Barrhaven East Coun. Wilson Lo dissenting .
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DESPITE CITY ‘LOSING’ DELEGATES’ CONCERNS, HIGHRISE DEVELOPMENT IN CENTRETOWN TO MOVE FORWARD
Planning and housing committee chair Jeff Leiper told concerned residents it would be a major step — that he wouldn’t take — for the committee to rescind the April 22 proposal approval.
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YOU’D ALMOST THINK WE LIVE IN TORONTO! THREE EATERIES INTRODUCE NEW DISHES TO OTTAWA
Ottawa’s food scene is broadening. That much we know from new arrivals such as Yan’s Restaurant in the ByWard Market, the city’s first purveyor of Georgian and Armenian cuisine, as well as Altay Flame in Vanier, which has introduced Uyghur cooking to the city.
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‘I STAYED IN MY CAR, SO I WASN’T HOMELESS’: OTTAWA’S HIDDEN YOUTH CRISIS
They sleep on couches, under bridges, in tents — and many don’t count themselves among the city’s unhoused. Nobody is sure how many homeless youth there are, including the city, which has pledged to house them all by 2030.
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