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Analysis
The mayor's many calculations for this 2025 budget
Ottawa's mayor has not followed the typical playbook for this 2025 city budget. But the city's finances are also more difficult than ever.
In Depth
Wetland protections are shifting, especially in Ottawa
CBC Ottawa spent time in the city's rural areas and reviewed many documents to learn how Ontario's controversial updated scorecard has affected three local wetlands.
Large wetland near Tewin development gets protected
While wetlands in the rural west have lost provincial protection, the City of Ottawa's move to evaluate wetlands near a big future development has led to a newly designated South Bear Brook wetland.
Plan to expand Stittsville quarry would remove wetlands
A quarry application by Tomlinson Group highlights two competing priorities in the province: the need for construction materials, and the need to protect wetlands and other natural features.
Wetland in west Ottawa lost status after land was cleared
A 41.5-hectare provincially significant wetland in Ottawa's rural west has lost its status after a property owner cleared brush and trees, and the owner now has to let it grow back.
Ottawa wetlands cut from 'provincially significant' list
Fifty-five hectares of rural westn Ottawa wetlands have lost their provincial protections since a 2022 move by the Ontario government aimed at building more housing.
Tough city budget to be drafted on mayor's directions
The City of Ottawa's draft budget for 2025 will be crafted based on the mayor's approach of raising property taxes by 2.9 per cent and exploring an unknown mix of difficult cuts and price hikes on transit.
Analysis
'Raucous' budget season begins in Ottawa
The next few months of deliberations about the City of Ottawa's 2025 budget could bring either a thrilling high or some tough lows that will be hard to stomach.
Mayor's 'Fairness for Ottawa' campaign gets council support
Ottawa city council has unanimously endorsed the mayor's "Fairness for Ottawa" campaign, backing his efforts to get more money for transit and from federal properties.
Ontario property assessments have been paused for years, and who knows when they'll resume
The Municipal Property Assessment Corporation used to assess every property across Ontario every four years, sharing those values with municipalities so they can determine property and education taxes. But COVID put that process on hold in 2020, and it's not clear when it will begin again.