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Author: Kaitlin Gruehl

Ayesha Khan sits in a padded booth at Eddy's Diner.
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City to hand transit riders worrisome fare increase in 2025

Despite Statistics Canada indicating slowing inflation for public transit fares, the City of Ottawa is considering significant fare hikes, increased property taxes and service cuts as it debates the budget for 2025. Those impending increases concern Ayesha Khan, a fourth-year student at Carleton University. She lives in Orléans and uses public transit to get to school. She is worried about...