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We’ve been watching the tributes flow in for Bill Teron, the “Father of Kanata”, who passed away earlier this week at the age of 85. More than any mayor or politician, Teron’s vision and leadership has shaped the way that Ottawa has developed over the past 50 years. ...

Ottawamatters.com launched this morning, the latest media startup in Ottawa since a stable of community papers closed earlier this year. Village Media, the company that owns a chain of similar local news sites, launched the new service under a partnership with 1310 News and promises coverage of breaking news, local events and community information. ...

A group of tow truck drivers will be protesting in front of police stations on Monday. They’ll be at City Hall from 7:00am-8:30am, at the police station on St. Joseph Boulevard from 9:00am-11:00am, and at the Huntmar police station from 11:30am-3:30pm. ...

_ (Via Coffee With…) _ Former CTV Ottawa news anchor Carol Anne Meehan and former CFRA news anchor Norman Jack have returned to the Ottawa news scene with a new weekly program entitled “Coffee with…” “There are so many interesting people doing interesting things in the Ottawa area,” said Meehan. ...

_ (Via Government of Ontario) _ Starting March 1, 2018, Ontario will ban unsolicited, door-to-door sales of certain household appliances to better protect consumers from aggressive and misleading contracting at home. Businesses will only be able to enter into a contract in the consumer’s home if the consumer has contacted the business ahead of time and invited them into their home for the purpose of entering into a contract. ...

Uber expanded its existing food delivery service in Ottawa on Wednesday, making its platform Uber Eats available in more of the capital’s west end, as well as launching in Gatineau. The food delivery service, which was introduced to Ottawa in 2016, is available from 10 a. ...

[caption id=“attachment_69101” align=“aligncenter” width=“1024”] OC Transpo hopes two large projects to bring Trillium Line infrastructure up to date will improve reliability. (Wikimedia Commons/Public domain)[/caption] Ahead of the expected opening of the Confederation Line in November, the names of 40 LRT cars were unveiled at Ben Franklin Place alongside members of city council, and Mayor Jim Watson. ...

This afternoon on Twitter Ottawa Citizen columnist David Reevely tweeted quite a thread on government transparency re: contracts. Bunch of government officials reach an agreement to transfer public land from one entity to another, for public purposes. They hold a public event for it! ...

_ (press release) _ Construction began this week on Ottawa’s first animal housing area in a women’s shelter. ** Interval House of Ottawa (IHO) ** , the city’s oldest shelter for women and children fleeing intimate partner violence, is renovating so they can accept pets, keeping families together and reducing abuse victims’ trauma. ...

_ North Gower rescue venturing to help rural landowners with skyrocketing cat populations _ _ (press release) _ For the last three years, ** Sandi Lawson ** has dedicated her life to rehabilitating and rehoming feral cats and kittens in the rural Ottawa area. ...