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Kate Porter

Kate Porter

Reporter at CBO-FM (CBC Radio One Ottawa 91.5) Online

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Ontario property assessments have been paused for years, and who knows when they'll resume

The Municipal Property Assessment Corporation used to assess every property across Ontario every four years, sharing those values with municipalities so they can determine property and education taxes. But COVID put that process on hold in 2020, and it's not clear when it will begin again.
over 1 year ago
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Their mother died after an ambulance delay, but it's taken 20 years...

Ambulance dispatchers in Ottawa will finally get software to triage the most urgent 911 calls with far greater nuance and accuracy — 20 years after a coroner’s inquest recommended it be installed.
over 2 years ago
cbc.ca

City of Ottawa employee took work vehicle to convoy protest, then r...

The auditor general’s office has detailed the 2022 crop of tips to the City of Ottawa’s confidential fraud-and-waste hotline, including one about a city employee who took a work vehicle to the convoy protests.
over 2 years ago
cbc.ca

Ottawa's electric buses have met expectations, city concludes

The four electric buses that were part of a pilot project have shown that the technology is indeed a good alternative to diesel, staff conclude in a brief report going before transit commission next week.
over 2 years ago
cbc.ca

City urged to use government-owned land for affordable housing

Ottawa has an "impressive stock" of government-owned land that should be turned over to non-profit housing providers to build a thousand new affordable units a year, a community-led report recommends.
over 2 years ago
cbc.ca

City of Ottawa draws on lessons learned during derecho to prep for ...

Nearly a year after a destructive wind storm knocked out power for days on end, the City of Ottawa is writing guidelines for distributing food and checking in on vulnerable residents during the next emergency.
over 2 years ago
cbc.ca

City bylaw should prevent 'tree massacres,' advocate says - CBC.ca

A longtime advocate for Ottawa’s greenspaces says the city’s new tree protection bylaw appears to have failed one of its first big tests, now that Tewin partners have been allowed to resume cutting on a swath of land in the rural southeast end.
almost 3 years ago
cbc.ca

Midnight log hauling continues after Tewin drone footage made publi...

Even as City of Ottawa officials look into dozens of hectares that have been clear-cut without a permit at the future suburb of Tewin, one neighbour says heavy equipment continues to do loud overnight work behind her house.
almost 3 years ago
cbc.ca

Tewin clearcutting needs to be explained, says committee chair - CB...

The chair of Ottawa’s environment and climate change committee wants staff to explain how hundreds of trees were cut down without a permit at the future suburb and what could happen next under the tree protection bylaw.
almost 3 years ago
cbc.ca

Neighbours aghast at 'deforestation' of Tewin lands - CBC.ca

The partners behind the future Ottawa suburb of Tewin say they’ve been cleaning up brush and trees felled by last year’s wind storm on a parcel of land just outside the urban boundary, but aerial images appear to tell a different story.
almost 3 years ago
cbc.ca

Ottawa LRT is safe, but transit boss says extra precautions can't b...

Ottawa’s light rail system is safe for riders but short-term fixes can’t be used for decades, the city’s transit general manager said Thursday, one day after the Transportation Safety Board warned about the light rail vehicles.
almost 3 years ago
cbc.ca

Mayor-led group could consider contracting out city services - CBC.ca

A small working group that includes Mayor Mark Sutcliffe could soon be charged with overseeing several targeted reviews of City of Ottawa’s services and programs to assess whether they’re best done in-house, by a contractor, though a public-private partnership or another setup.
almost 3 years ago
cbc.ca

Search underway for next top city execs - CBC.ca

Two of the most important staff jobs at the City of Ottawa are expected to be filled by May, after hiring panels made up of councillors approved paying an executive search firm to find candidates.
almost 3 years ago
cbc.ca

OC Transpo will get 100 fewer electric buses for $1B price tag - CB...

The business case and funding for OC Transpo’s big shift to electric buses have been updated, and now the City of Ottawa expects to get 350 buses instead of 450 for the previously announced billion-dollar price tag.
almost 3 years ago
cbc.ca

Federal workers return to the office — but not the one they left

The hybrid work model rolling out in the federal public service comes as the federal government has been on a hiring spree and is rethinking the way it uses its office space.
almost 3 years ago
cbc.ca

Ottawa police faces leadership shifts ahead of key budget debate - ...

Ottawa’s new police Chief Eric Stubbs was already preparing for his first budget, but now the force has seen its top administrator retire and it received a new board chair just weeks before the document is presented.
almost 3 years ago
cbc.ca

City of Ottawa approved $90M in brownfields grants in 5 years - CBC.ca

The City of Ottawa has approved more than $150 million in tax breaks for developers who clean up contaminated sites since the program began 15 years ago, although it has paid out far less than that.
almost 3 years ago
cbc.ca

City of Ottawa pauses grants to developers who de-contaminate sites...

Ottawa city council has pressed pause on a 15-year-old program that gives grants to developers who clean up and rebuild on sites that are contaminated or have derelict buildings, such as former factories or gas stations.
about 3 years ago
cbc.ca

Here's who's tapped to chair City of Ottawa committees this term - ...

The leadership roles and committee assignments for the new term of Ottawa city council have taken shape and some councillors who felt most shut out four years ago are much happier this time around.
about 3 years ago
cbc.ca

City's transit deficit not fully covered off by provincial grants -...

The City of Ottawa wasn’t allocated enough funding in a long-awaited provincial announcement to fully cover off its anticipated $85-million transit deficit.
about 3 years ago
cbc.ca

Some developers win big after province expands urban boundary - CBC.ca

The parcels of rural land that Ontario’s housing minister has allowed inside Ottawa’s urban boundary include a farm that was supposed to be protected from development, yet was purchased for $12.7 million in 2021.
about 3 years ago