Category: Editorials

Earth Hour just isn’t going to work. An inconvenient truth maybe, but a truth all the same.

Ottawa smokers haven’t been able to light up in public places for nearly seven years after the city passed a controversial bylaw banning smoking in work and public places in 2001.

The city’s bus drivers rarely use French when calling out stops and conversing with passengers, a deficiency that came to light after Ottawa resident Michel Thibodeau complained to the city in November over a lack of French-talking OC Transpo drivers.

As Ontario and Ottawa policy makers signalled intentions to mandate sprinklers in new residential buildings this month, developers and home builders bristled at the prospects of the new regulation – making sprinklers mandatory will save lives, yes, but cost too much money, or so the argument goes.