Policy

The Influence Firewall

Alex Lawson’s plan to keep campaign money from buying influence at City Hall: a four-year firewall barring campaign insiders from lobbying the officials they helped elect. No new cost, no new department.

What’s broken in Ottawa’s housing market, and how we fix it.

Ottawa’s shelters have become dangerous. The drug crisis inside the buildings is a public safety failure for the people shelters are supposed to protect, and the disorder around them has changed how local families experience their neighbourhoods. That isn’t a money problem. It’s a management problem.