Archive 1997-2016
Last month’s federal election prompted renewed speculation in some quarters that party-politics could be coming to Ottawa city hall. While such suppositions seem to be unfounded, or at least premature, they provide us with a reason to pause and appreciate our excellent system of party-free municipal politics.
Like a bad dream from which the city can’t seem to wake up, the sad saga of the Somerset Street footbridge over the Rideau Canal goes on and on.
Broadbent was known nationally for his decency in the cutthroat federal political world that often encourages the opposite.What he was not known for nationally was the riding he represented.
Some politicians are already grumbling about not being able to hammer signs into frozen ground, having to sprint from warm cars to knock on doors in sub-zero temperatures and facing a long, drawn-out election campaign over the holidays.