Previous Council ‘Toxic, Dysfunctional,’ Sutcliffe Says
Mayor Mark Sutcliffe has created a controversy on X by calling the council of former mayor Jim Watson troubled. You need to be logged in to view the rest of the content. Please...
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You Can’t Negotiate Stupid: PATTON
All OC Transpo is charged with is getting people downtown and it can’t do it, Bulldog commentator Mike Patton says. You need to be logged in to view the rest of the...
Ottawa Has Competitive Race For Mayor: POLL
The mayoral election is a two-horse race with one more horse coming up on the rail, a Compass News-iPolitics poll shows. Mayor Mark Sutcliffe leads at 42 per cent with challenger Jeff...
Much Like Transit, Sutcliffe Plan Sloppy: GRAY
Mayor Mark Sutcliffe’s non-campaign campaign (balloon-less edition) released its 10-point transit plan which, interestingly enough, has 13 points. That might explain a lot. Sutcliffe points out in his newsletter train-plan preamble that the...
Sutcliffe, Lawson, Leiper And Balloons: GRAY
In most everything, if people are mad at you, at least they’re taking you seriously. But if they are laughing at you, you are in trouble. They think you’re a trifle, insignificant....
Balloongate: Is Leiper Trolling The Mayor?
You’re not campaigning if you don’t have balloons at your public announcements, Mayor Mark Sutcliffe told the media. That said, mayoral candidate Jeff Leiper and his campaign honcho Stephen Yardy appear to be...
Lawson Key To Mayoral Campaign: BLUESKY
This user of the social network Bluesky thinks the effect of candidate Alex Lawson on the mayoral campaign will be profound: You need to be logged in to view the rest of the...
Beware Those With Good Intentions: BENN
“There is nothing more dangerous than someone who wants to make the world a better place.” A thought-provoking quote attributed to the street artist Banksy. Something that all residents of Ottawa, and...
No Balloons, No Campaign, Mayor Says: POTTER
By Evan H. Potter Mark Sutcliffe is not, officially speaking, a candidate for mayor. But he did tell us last summer that he would be running for a second term. The paperwork just remains...
Ottawa Needs Anger To Oust Mayor: POTTER
By Evan H. Potter Recently, I’ve been preaching the gospel of proper polling – probability samples, low margins of error, the whole catechism. Don’t trust vibes, I say. Vibes are how campaigns and...
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