Politics

KANATA-CARLETON – Dr. Jennifer Purdy will run for the third time as the Green Party candidate in Kanata-Carleton in the Feb. 27 election, but it will be her first time as a provincial candidate.

KANATA-CARLETON – Karen McCrimmon, a 31-year military veteran and Member of Provincial Parliament for Kanata-Carleton (2023-2025) is the riding’s Ontario Liberal Party candidate for the provincial election to be held on Feb. 27. 

TORONTO – The annual Rural Ontario Municipal Association (ROMA) Conference wrapped up last week (Jan. 21) and Ward 5 Coun. Clarke Kelly is calling his time there fruitful.

TORONTO – Ward 5 Coun. Clarke Kelly, the City of Ottawa’s Rural Ontario Municipal Association (ROMA) representative, is in Toronto to start the week at the organization’s annual conference.

KANATA-CARLETON – Following Prime Minister Justin Trudeau’s not so surprising resignation announcement yesterday (Jan. 6), Kanata-Carleton MP Jenna Sudds released a statement on the move.

WEST CARLETON – Last week’s City of Ottawa budget announcement will bring around $40 million in roads, infrastructure upgrades and other projects to Ward 5 in 2025.

CITY HALL – It was a marathon session at City Hall yesterday (Dec. 11), and at the end of it, City of Ottawa Council approved a $4.98 billion budget, although not all councillors were in favour of it.

CITY HALL – Ottawa councillors are preparing to vote on the city’s 2025 budget, which still has a $36 million gap in funding the municipality hopes will be filled by upper levels of government.

FITZROY HARBOUR – While Coun. Clarke Kelly thinks the city’s Natural Area Acquisition program is an important one, he believes the program has missed the boat on its plan to purchase a parcel of land on Ferry Road near Fitzroy Harbour.

CITY HALL – The Agriculture and Rural Affairs committee (ARAc) approved its portion of draft budget 2025, which includes more than $3.7 million in net operating funding and more than $8.7 million in capital funding.