Politics

CITY HALL – It took more than five hours and had to navigate a minor protest, but City of Ottawa council approved a more than $5.5 billion budget to manage the city in 2023.

ARNPRIOR – It was a high school rivalry game that suddenly got political.

WEST CARLETON – The latest proposal for the new federal electoral boundary map will see West Carleton split in to two ridings, with a huge chunk of the rural community joining Conservative leader MP Pierre Poilievre’s south Ottawa riding.

KANATA – Beaches-East York MP Nate Erskine-Smith dropped by the Kanata-Carleton riding yesterday (Feb. 15) testing the waters on a provincial Liberal leadership bid.

KINBURN – The Ontario Federation of Agriculture (OFA) had some political power at their regular monthly meeting last night (Feb. 13).

WEST CARLETON – The recently released City of Ottawa 2023 draft budget has more than $13.4 million in spending targeted in Ward 5.

KANATA-CARLETON – Kanata-Carleton Member of Parliament Jenna Sudds has boiled down 2022 and shared a snapshot of the last year in numerical data.

KINBURN – During the just-past 2018 to 2022 City of Ottawa term of council, politicians would lead you to believe there was a great divide between the rural, suburban and urban wards.

CITY HALL – Andrew S. Hayden Hall was filled with pomp and pageantry and everything you would expect from the new council’s swearing in ceremony, except for new councillor West Carleton-March Coun. Clarke Kelly.