A community advocate and organizer is questioning the quality control and enforcement of contracted projects at the City of Ottawa after seeing a trend of “shoddy” workmanship and unfinished results.
The jury at a coroner’s inquest into a 2019 Ottawa bus crash that killed three people made 60 recommendations on Thursday aimed at preventing similar deaths in the future – including the installation of driver-facing cameras on the city's transit buses.
Ahead of the release of the Ontario government’s budget on Thursday, Ottawa Mayor Mark Sutcliffe said he hopes to see issues like public transit, public safety, downtown revitalization, affordable housing and economic development in Ottawa prioritized.
