Toon Dreessen

Op-ed: More procurement reform would allow Ottawa businesses to help shape our city

In all the recent talk of trade wars, tariffs and buying Canadian, I didn’t expect procurement to feature prominently. I couldn’t be more pleased to

Building The City We Aspire To Be

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Ottawa is facing many challenges: we need more housing that achieves better sustainable density to create homes for families and support small businesses for a

A mass timber, zero carbon community centre, daycare and family resource facility – Architects DCA

City Building: How to create housing, boost the economy and create an equitable city by harnessing talent

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Ottawa is a unique place. We are a city of a million people and growing. We are the capital of a G7 country and, as

Op-ed: Is selling ‘air rights’ to public land such as Lansdowne Park the best we can do?

Ottawa

“The proposal has increased in cost and would add $310 million to our debt obligation. While the design is improved…fundamental questions remain about how the

Op-ed: Could Ottawa’s ‘night mayor’ spark a desire to design a city for people?

Ottawa

On May 3, the city approved the role of “night mayor” to help get the word out. So, what is essential to making a vibrant

Op-ed: Your vote helps build our city — literally

City Hall

“We can be the city we want to be. But we can’t get there if we don’t vote,” writes Toon Dreessen.

Op-ed: We can be better than bland, but it will take a coherent vision for our city

Ottawa

“We need to be both a city for people and a city for the world,” writes Toon Dreessen.

Making smarter development decisions to ‘become the city we aspire to be’

Real Estate

We need to understand the root causes and bring leadership to solving problems so that we become the city we aspire to be, writes Toon

How building height limitations are contributing to Ottawa’s housing crisis

Real Estate

By limiting development on certain streets to four storeys, the city has virtually guaranteed that these lots will remain undeveloped, writes Toon Dreessen.

Why #ShopLocal should be applied to small businesses on – and off – mainstreets

Techopia

Governments often design RFPs to demand unreasonably high thresholds for insurance coverage, years of experience or firm size that have little or no bearing on