Category: NCC – FEDERAL GOVERNMENT

Archivist’s note: The overview below was posted in December 2009: The story and thread below are about the activities of the 2006 NCC Mandate Review Panel and the Coalition for NCC Renewal that was formed to respond to it; and to later related developments up to October 2007. Much has changed for the better since then, under the leadership of CEO Marie Lemay, including open Board meetings, and other events

Preface NCC Mandate Review Panel announced (April 2006) — incl submissions Panel report published (December 2006) Federal Budget: More money for the NCC (March 2007) New NCC Chair appointed (May 2007) New wind blowing at the NCC (September 2007) New appointments at the NCC (October 2007)

May 12, 2012 Here are three pictures, courtesy of the National Capital Commission, from a presentation staff made to senior management in the fall of 2010. The street, “Pickford”, may not be local. (Pickford Drive in Kanata has a different street sign.) How would you like to have this happen to your street?  

22 February 2015 This is stretching the terms of our mandate a bit but a majority of the Board felt it was important and appropriate to join the chorus of comments protesting the dedication of a prime area on Parliament Hill to a memorial to the victims of communism.  Here is our letter. Local heritage architect Barry Padolsky was out of the gate first, with an open letter to the Prime