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Residents of about 16,000 older homes across Ottawa with potenially lead tainted drinking water will have to wait another year to find out how long it will take the city to replace their outdated lead pipes.
The president of the Ottawa Professional Firefighters Association says a four-year contract squabble with the city over salaries is causing financial uncertainty for firefighters and damaging employee morale.
Ottawa is at a disadvantage in the competition for the Portrait Gallery of Canada because federally owned sites, which make up many of the city’s prime locations, are not eligible under the federal government’s bidding process, city officials say.
The Ottawa Panhandler’s Union plans to take direct action against the recent introduction of wrought-iron fence built to prevent homeless youth from loitering and sleeping under the sheltered inclines in the pedestrian walkway of the Colonel By underpass near the Rideau Centre.