Don’t Let Sutcliffe Near Trains: GRAY
Mayor Mark Sutcliffe should not be allowed anywhere near trains. Not even close. Sutcliffe supported putting the proposed Alto high-speed rail downtown. Just how much of downtown would be left if the...
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Poll Shows Wild Card Lawson Puts Sutcliffe In Jeopardy: GRAY
Ottawa has a mayoral race. That’s hard to imagine for just a few months ago it looked like incumbent Mayor Mark Sutcliffe had a walkover on his hands. But now Sutcliffe has...
Sutcliffe Can Campaign Like No Other
Here is one of the advantages of incumbency for Mayor Mark Sutcliffe. Sutcliffe gets to bask in the spotlight with Prime Minister Mark Carney accepting money from the federal home-building plan. No...
LRT: More Nothing From City Hall: GRAY
What if you held a press conference and nobody came? Would what happened there not be news if no media showed. Or maybe it would be news but not in the news...
Shoes-On-Pavement Wins Mayoral Vote: POTTER
By Evan H. Potter On April 12, Péter Magyar did something in Hungary that, until recently, belonged in the realm of political fantasy. He defeated Viktor Orbán, a 16-year incumbent who had...
Sutcliffe’s Vulnerable, Leiper’s Pathetic: GRAY
In most large communities, light-rail operates pretty much all the time. And it runs well in cold-weather cities such as Calgary where some have called that city’s LRT system the best in...
Leiper Needs A Big Beautiful Idea: POTTER
By Evan H. Potter Let’s not overthink this. Kitchissippi Councilor Jeff Leiper will become Ottawa’s new mayor if he can hold three-quarters of former mayoral candidate Catherine McKenney’s 119,241 votes from their...
Ford Shows Sutcliffe Little Love: STANKOVIC
“I love this guy (Mayor Mark Sutcliffe) … this guy’s a champ,” Ontario Premier Doug Ford said in 2024. With friends like these, who needs enemies. Ottawa isn’t getting much out of...
Train Crisis Puts Sutcliffe’s Re-Election In Jeopardy
Mayor Mark Sutcliffe must be very worried about his re-election chances if the O-Train is forced to close for an extended period that could take years. That means the O-Train would be shuttered...
Here’s Sutcliffe’s Big Election Advantage
This is the kind of free advertising that the mayor and, less so, councillors get that reinforces their name recognition and makes it difficult for newcomers to municipal politics to win come...
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