David Reevely
Ottawa Citizen
Ottawa, ON, Canada
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OPP didn't tell me before signing contract with Palantir, ex-minister Yasir Naqvi says
OTTAWA — When the Ontario Provincial Police began using Palantir Technologies’s controversial Gotham database product in 2015, it was an “operational issue”… → Read More
Resisting the Liberals' internet regulations from an appliance showroom in Smiths Falls
OTTAWA — One Monday night in October, Corey McMullan, an appliance salesman in Smiths Falls, Ont., got political on the internet. → Read More
New name, new boss, new pitch: The company formerly known as Corel wants to enable your remote-working life
OTTAWA — In the early 2000s, the company then known as Corel fell off the radar. Now CEO Christa Quarles wants to send it back into the sky, with a different… → Read More
Broken Links: Preparing Canada's supply chains for climate-change damage
Canada’s supply chains were designed to withstand a certain level of shock, which the COVID-19 pandemic blew right past. → Read More
Ottawa's Mission Control prepares for its moonshot
OTTAWA — Behind the drab grey siding of the one-storey industrial building that holds its headquarters, across from a self-storage facility, Mission Control… → Read More
Letter from Ottawa: The convoy protest is not an ordinary demonstration—it’s more damaging and more dangerous
If you don’t live in Ottawa, this is the thing Ottawans need you to understand → Read More
Reevely: Hating the carbon tax with nothing else to offer doesn't help anyone
The federal Liberals have put up the most conservative climate-change plan Canada has ever seriously considered and Ontario’s conservative government hates it. → Read More
Reevely: Jim Watson wins re-election but wrangling city council just got a lot tougher
Jim Watson has been re-elected mayor but he’ll have a much less pliant city council to work with for the next four years. Several of his allies went down. → Read More
Reevely: Stop your whining and go vote, will you
When are you voting in the city election? The key, people who study these things say, is to make a plan. Don’t just vaguely intend to vote. → Read More
Reevely: Watson's pledge on seniors and transit makes little sense
If tech magnate Terry Matthews cared to hop the No. 64 bus from his Brookstreet Hotel to his Wesley Clover stables, he’d pay less for the OC Transpo trip than a part-time Walmart clerk does to get to and from work. → Read More
Reevely: This Monday's vote is about the kind of Ottawa we want
Ottawa’s election Monday doesn’t have one central animating issue that makes it easy to pick whom to vote for. And yet the future of the city is at stake on so many fronts. → Read More
Reevely: Ottawa Mayor Jim Watson faces Twitter charter challenge
When Mayor Jim Watson blocks people on Twitter he’s violating their constitutional rights, a trio of Ottawa activists says, and they’re going to court to try to make him stop. → Read More
Reevely: Early donor-list disclosures set a record for transparency in Ottawa's elections
Another city council candidate, College ward’s Emilie Coyle, released her list of campaign donors Wednesday, bringing the number of would-be politicians willing to show voters who’s funding their efforts to seven. → Read More
Ottawa to permit murals in residential areas, Watson promises
Ottawa should encourage murals in residential neighbourhoods, Mayor Jim Watson said Wednesday, after city council retroactively approved one in Hintonburg that a bylaw officer had ordered painted over. → Read More
Hintonburg's Magee House ready for the wrecking ball in mid-November
The 135-year-old Magee House in Hintonburg is due to be demolished by mid-November, now that city council has given final approval. In July, a wall on the heritage building collapsed after years of water seepage wore away the mortar. → Read More
Advance voting in Ottawa way up in this year's municipal election
Twice as many people voted in the special advance polls for this month’s municipal election as did so in 2014, the city says, though the polls were open longer and in more places this year. → Read More
Magee House demolition passes planning committee
Hintonburg’s Magee House got closer to demolition Tuesday, as city council’s planning committee approved plans to tear the historic building down for public safety. In July, one wall of the 1881 structure on Wellington Street collapsed. → Read More
Watson skips city electric-bus demonstration for fear of conflict of interest
Jim Watson skipped an OC Transpo demonstration of an all-electric bus to avoid concerns that he was using the city transit agency for a campaign event, his office says. → Read More
Reevely: Ford and Kenney build a new blue machine to take on Trudeau
Premier Doug Ford’s western swing to fight carbon taxes with Alberta conservative leader Jason Kenney is a rehearsal for next year’s federal election campaign, when they’ll be Con… → Read More
'Not an inspiring day for heritage in Ottawa' as Magee House demolition approved
Hintonburg’s half-collapsed Magee House has to be torn down, the city’s committee on heritage buildings agreed Thursday. → Read More