Cheryl Doran posted the following to the Nature List on April 26, 2009: Just a short note to report on the hidden Turtle Sanctuary in the Ottawa South Greenbelt. Sunday April 19th at 14:30, four Merivale High School students, one parent, and my children were out to turn over logs to look for salamanders and…
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February 8, 2007 — Cheryl Doran writes: I’d like to share with you an Ottawa good news story! It’s about biodiversity and a refuge for species that are threatened with extinction. It’s a story about Turtles. Quiet, timid, complacent little creatures that live to be well over 70 years old and their unique home is…
Ken McRae reports – December 2006: There is a “Notice” posting on the Ontario Ministry of the Environment’s (MOE) Environmental Bill of Rights Registry (EBRR) regarding the Ontario Ministry of Natural Resources (MNR) consideration of a “Discussion Paper – A Proposed Modelling and Scenario-based Approach for Identifying Natural Heritage Systems in Southern Ontario”. A copy…
Alex Cullen has analyzed municipal campaign contributions for the 2003, 2006 and 2010 elections: + the 2003 report + the 2006 report + for 2010, his report comes in two parts: the text (46 pp, 626 KB), and the tables (18 pp., 787 KB). A few highlights from the 2010 report: + two candidates for…
Nine of ten members of the Environment Committee were visited in the first half of February 2015 and presented with a brief outlining the opportunities and challenges before the Committee as we see them. This brief was the result of a collaborative effort via the GA List involving ten people in all. A slightly amended…
13 November 2014 The Greenspace Alliance today sent a congratulatory letter to each member of the new Council, also reporting on the responses to our propositions received from 13 among them. (Find their responses here: <http://www.greenspace-alliance.ca/winners>.) The letter to Mayor Watson is reproduced below (as a PDF here). The letters to each Councillor or Councillor-elect…
As documented elsewhere on this web site (see “NCC Renewal“), in 2006 the federal government conducted a review of the NCC’s mandate. The Poets’ Pathway Committee made a submission to the Panel headed by Prof. Gilles Paquet. Here are some highlights, expressed in oral presentation: * For this project to be realized further, the cooperation of…
The Spring 2016 Newsletter (1.4 MB) of the Ottawa-Carleton Wildlife Centre has extensive information about London, Ontario’s Beaver protocol, one of its Best Wildlife Management Practices. This is in sharp contrast to the City of Ottawa which remains firmly wedded to trap-and-kill. The Centre sent a copy to all members of Council, along with a…
2 March 2016 Six and a half months after a one-day hearing in early August 2015, the OMB (member R.G.M. Makuch) issued a decision dated February 23, 2016. Briefly, Taggart/Walton wanted the Board to allow the appeal of Official Plan Amendments 150, 140 and 141 in their entirety and order the City to expand the…
In December 2014 the City of Ottawa issued a Notice of Study Commencement for an environmental assessment of widening the Airport Parkway south of Brookfield Road and Lester Road between the Parkway and Bank Street. The study is expected to take two years. Here is a Project Overview. See also www.ottawa.ca/airportparkway. The first meeting of…