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Councillor-elect Catherine McKenney is ready to be sworn in on Dec. 1 as Diane Holmes’s successor in Somerset Ward, but she is the only newly elected woman on a city council that lost Holmes and two other women — defeated Katherine Hobbs in KitchissippiWard and retired Maria McRae in River Ward.
Caption TextGraphic by Oliver Sachgau, Centretown News
Shaded area shows relationship between leased land and existing Civic Hospital campus.Some community groups are concerned the federal government’s recent transfer of publicly owned land from Ottawa’s Central Experimental Farm could be the beginning of a slippery slope that sees parcels of historical land put up for commercial development.
Miriam Katawazi, Centretown News
Somerset Ward councillor-elect Catherine McKenney will seek allies for an urban caucus.With urban wards outnumbered in city council meeting decisions in past years, newly elected Somerset Ward Coun. Catherine McKenney and fellow central-area councillors say they believe an urban caucus will be the key in making changes that benefit the city’s urban core.
As the flowers surrounding the National War Memorial are removed, some Canadians are looking for a more permanent commemoration of Cpl. Nathan Cirillo.