Category: Editorials

Some of Ottawa’s roads are being recognized provincially, but this is an honour the city would prefer to forego.

No doubt you’ve heard of the term “open your eyes,” referring to the need to ignore biases, stereotypes and impressions and see things from an entirely different and perhaps revolutionary perspective. Consider this a plea to open your ears.

Look around and the symptoms are there: report after report calling for this or that project, artists’ conceptions that are likely to remain just that — a concept. It’s clear what’s ailing the city. The diagnosis is simple: Ottawa has vision problems.

But it’s hard to understand why enough of these youth councillors couldn’t even get it together to meet the quorum requirements to actually hold a meeting. Why fight for something if you’re not going to use it?