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A new grocery store proposed as part of a condo development at 187 Metcalfe Street may create more problems than it will solve, critics say.

A Superior Court has ruled that a Centretown community activist has the right to lobby government and businesses that deal with it and ask for information but Ontario activists still lack protection against legal intimidation from those they challenge.

If you build it they will come. It’s a tired old phrase and perhaps less relevant now than it once was. Evidence of this is that Ottawa has built a drinking water infrastructure valued at more than a $1 billion and spends $121 million a year to pipe clean water to Ottawa homes. But despite this, only 53 per cent of the city’s residents say they drink tap water exclusively while at home.