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_ (press release) _ Residents of Ottawa and Gatineau are gathering by the Prince of Wales Bridge tonight at 6:00pm to voice their opposition at the City of Ottawa’s plan to build a $250,000 gate on the Prince of Wales Bridge. ...

_ (press release) _ ** Ottawa ‑ ** The City of Ottawa is projecting a year-end budget surplus of $6.6 million in the tax- and rate-supported areas, a significant improvement from 2015 which ended with an overall budget deficit of $41. ...

_ (press release) _ ** Ottawa – ** Today, Ottawa City Council voted to approve the enactment of regulations to expand existing smoke-free regulations. The by-laws, once enacted, will come into effect on December 1, 2016 and the City is working to ensure residents, businesses and other affected groups are aware of the changes. ...

_ (Via Stittsville Coun. Shad Qadri) _ City Council approved today the naming of the Goulbourn Recreation Complex Gym to be the Erica Wiebe Gym. It comes within two weeks of Erica’s astounding accomplishment in the Women’s Freestyle 75-kilogram wrestling category, earning Canada’s fourth, and final gold medal in the Rio 2016 Summer Olympics. ...

_ (Via City of Ottawa) _ ** Ottawa ** – Mayor Jim Watson and Councillor Diane Deans, Chair of the Community and Protective Services Committee, held a community celebration at City Hall today marking the first 250 participants to secure permanent housing as part of the Housing First initiative, a priority of the City’s Ten-Year Housing and Homelessness Plan. ...

_ (Via City of Ottawa) _ ** Ottawa ** – The City of Ottawa is in the process of converting 58,000 streetlights to Light Emitting Diode (LED) technology, an initiative that, upon completion, will save the City an estimated $6 million annually. ...

_ ** Editor’s note: It recently surfaced the city was planning to install barriers at the abandoned Prince of Wales truss bridge. The bridge is popular with pedestrians and cyclists between Ottawa and Gatineau, or just for people looking for a neat sight. ...

_ (Via City of Ottawa) _ ** Ottawa ** – A tunnel between the Macdonald-Cartier Bridge and Highway 417 for mixed traffic is technically possible, according to a recently completed feasibility study. The City of Ottawa undertook the study with a funding contribution from the Government of Ontario to explore the tunnel option as a means of reducing truck traffic on downtown streets. ...

_ (press release) _ ** Ottawa ** – Mayor Jim Watson and the Honourable Catherine McKenna, Minister of Environment and Climate Change, will raise the rainbow flag as the City of Ottawa celebrates the start of Capital Pride. Somerset Ward Councillor Catherine McKenney and Capital Pride Grand Marshal Charlie Lowthian-Rickert will also take part in the flag raising and proclamation, which will take place at noon on Monday, August 15 at Marion Dewar Plaza at Ottawa City Hall, 110 Laurier Avenue West. ...

_ (Via City Solicitor Rick O’Connor) _ Mayor Watson and Members of Council, Earlier this afternoon, the City was served with a Statement of Claim filed in the Ontario Superior Court of Justice on behalf of members of the taxi industry. ...