Councillor calls on city to fix Ottawa’s most accident-prone intersection
An Ottawa councillor is demanding urgent improvements to an intersection in his ward that the Ottawa Police Service has identified as the most accident-prone in the city. According to an annual report on collisions — there were nearly 20,000 in 2024, the data shows — the highest concentration of crashes occurred at the intersection of Hunt Club Road and Riverside...
‘The only wrong vote is a no vote’: Citizens have their say on casting a ballot in the Ontario election
Fewer than half of all eligible voters across Ontario — and in each of Ottawa’s nine electoral districts — turned out to vote in the recent provincial election. A team of Capital Current reporters captured the views of local residents about why they did or didn’t cast a ballot in the 2025 Ontario election. Some — ultimately representing the minority...
Ottawa commuters frustrated by fare hikes as city seeks transit funding
Kari Glynes Elliott, co-founder of Ottawa Transit Riders, remembers one particularly memorable conversation with frustrated commuters. A family of Syrian refugees “living on the poverty line” approached her advocacy group after purchasing a second-hand car “because they couldn’t trust the transit system,” she said. As Glynes Elliott recalls it, one of the family members, a senior, told her, “I can...