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NCC 'thrilled' by public response to LeBreton Flats proposals
With another capacity crowd turning out Wednesday evening to view video presentations of the possible redevelopment of LeBreton Flats, NCC officials were “thrilled” at the “enormous” interest of...
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NCC resisted Tory pressure to sign off on victims of communism memorial
Those who opposed the former Conservative government’s plan to build a Memorial to the Victims of Communism on a prominent site near the Supreme Court might owe a debt of gratitude to the National...
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No new CEO in sight for National Capital Commission
OTTAWA — Four months after the federal government said the process for finding a new boss for the National Capital Commission was “nearing its conclusion,” it’s still getting there. “The process has...
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The awesome power of taking the long view
The latest tiff between the mayors of Ottawa and Gatineau and the National Capital Commission has some pretty harsh rhetoric in it, but the actual remedy proposed by Mayors Jim Watson and Maxime...
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Joanne Chianello: Tribal mentality breeds contempt for rules rest of us must...
OTTAWA — Only in a town like Ottawa could you lump together two figures as incongruous as a National Capital Commission director and a crack-smoking OPP officer. While their transgressions are not...
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NCC slams door on Ottawa, Gatineau request for seat on the board
OTTAWA — A demand by the mayors of Ottawa and Gatineau to sit on the board of the National Capital Commission was firmly rebuffed by the Crown corporation on Thursday. But Ottawa Mayor Jim Watson, who...
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Editorial: The NCC and Ottawa
A bid by Mayor Jim Watson and Mayor Maxime Pedneaud-Jobin to have seats for local elected representatives on the board of the National Capital Commission seems to be going nowhere. The jurisdictional...
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Sitdown with NCC’s brainy new CEO Mark Kristmanson
One of the great things about this job is that you get private audiences with all kinds of interesting people, and Tuesday was one of those times: mostly by dint of my job description, I had the first...
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Coalition of architects urges relocation of Memorial to Victims of Communism
A coalition of architects, planners and landscape designers is urging National Capital Commission chairman Russell Mills to appeal directly to Prime Minister Stephen Harper to relocate the proposed...
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Egan: NCC is not master of this house but head waiter to cabinet
The National Capital Commission does not run the capital. The NCC, at crunch time, does not even run the NCC. It is a useful thing to keep in mind as we tumble down this rabbit hole even further, with...
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Book excerpt: Marion Dewar's lessons on how to welcome refugees
Deborah Gorham’s new book, Marion Dewar, a Life of Action, chronicles the social activism of the dynamic woman who served as Ottawa’s mayor from 1978 to 1985. Dewar played a key role in mobilizing...
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Egan: Ottawa Hospital president breaks his silence on NCC's push for Tunney's...
On the afternoon of Nov. 23, the president of The Ottawa Hospital was on business in Toronto when the phone rang. This was it, the message Jack Kitts had waited almost 10 years to hear. Where, after...
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Egan: 10 years later, Russell Mills leaves NCC, defends Tunney's as best...
Russell Mills chaired the first-ever regular public board meeting of the National Capital Commission on Nov. 7, 2007, “public” being the rocket in that historic launch. On Thursday, he chairs his last,...
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Capital Wishlist: Russell Mills on what Expo 2067 will be like
To mark the 150th birthday of Confederation, we asked local residents from a variety of backgrounds to share their wishes for the future of the capital and the country. Today: Russell Mills. Expo 67...
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