General Update/Rumour thread [Urban Ottawa] - Page 136

waterloowarrior · #**2701** Posted **Mar 14, 2013, 12:55 AM**

searching through the lobbyist registry... there are couple meetings between top UofO officials and top city officials regarding future developments

Real Estate/Property
Discussion with respect to future developments on the University campus.
Kirkpatrick, Kent - City Manager
Fleury, Mathieu - Councillor, Ward 12
Arpin, Serge - Chief of Staff
Watson, Jim - Mayor 01-Oct-2012
11-Dec-2012
Planning and Development
A third party may consider development possibly adjacent to the University.

J.OT13 · #**2702** Posted **Mar 18, 2013, 3:31 PM**

Stanley Cup memorial to be built at Sparks and Elgin, near the site of the old Russel Hotel, where the cup was originally donated by Lord Stanley in 1882.

http://www.ottawasun.com/2013/03/18/lord-stanley-memorial-to-be-created-in-ottawa

kwoldtimer · #**2703** Posted **Mar 18, 2013, 4:51 PM**

I wonder if that means they will get rid of that bear/fish sculpture? Never liked that thing....

c_speed3108 · #**2704** Posted **Mar 18, 2013, 7:31 PM**

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Originally Posted by kwoldtimer

I wonder if that means they will get rid of that bear/fish sculpture? Never liked that thing....

That will be relocated, although they have not yet said to where exactly.

McC · #**2705** Posted **Mar 18, 2013, 7:36 PM**

If they keep it on Sparks, there's lots of room on the two blocks of the Mall west of Bank St.

Skipper · #**2706** Posted **Mar 18, 2013, 7:39 PM**

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Originally Posted by J.OT13

Stanley Cup memorial to be built at Sparks and Elgin, near the site of the old Russel Hotel, where the cup was originally donated by Lord Stanley in 1882.

http://www.ottawasun.com/2013/03/18/lord-stanley-memorial-to-be-created-in-ottawa

Some have to wonder if the federal government, in its austerity measures will manage to find gazebo 2 (G8 Summit) for Harper to have a legacy project right outside his office. Sure hope not!!!!!!! Hope it won't be his office by the time this monument is completed.

c_speed3108 · #**2707** Posted **Mar 19, 2013, 11:54 AM**

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Originally Posted by Skipper

Some have to wonder if the federal government, in its austerity measures will manage to find gazebo 2 (G8 Summit) for Harper to have a legacy project right outside his office. Sure hope not!!!!!!! Hope it won't be his office by the time this monument is completed.

The monument was first supposed to go at Rideau and Sussex but the LRT created problems there so they went location hunting.

This thing won't be done until 2017. I guess time will tell if Harper is still in by then. That will be 9 years in office, but I suspect with the Canada 150 stuff that year he would sure like to be if he can hang on that long. (Every government in modern history regardless of party has a bit of shelf life)

McC · #**2708** Posted **Mar 19, 2013, 1:11 PM**

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Originally Posted by c_speed3108

This thing won't be done until 2017. I guess time will tell if Harper is still in by then. That will be 9 years in office,

11 years, actually; but only one more election, and one that he's unlikely to lose given the state of the opposition parties and the 30 new seats being added mostly to growing suburbs across the country (where CPC support has also been growing steadily).

kwoldtimer · #**2709** Posted **Mar 19, 2013, 1:22 PM**

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Originally Posted by Skipper

Some have to wonder if the federal government, in its austerity measures will manage to find gazebo 2 (G8 Summit) for Harper to have a legacy project right outside his office. Sure hope not!!!!!!! Hope it won't be his office by the time this monument is completed.

Not much of a legacy. Now, a National Portrait Gallery would be a legacy project......

McC · #**2710** Posted **Mar 19, 2013, 2:03 PM**

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Originally Posted by kwoldtimer

Now, a National Portrait Gallery would be a legacy project......

www.sadtrombone.com

J.OT13 · #**2711** Posted **Mar 20, 2013, 12:50 AM**

I'm out of Citizen online articles so I can't post the following, but in today's Citizen, the widow of the artist who created the bear eating salmon was ready to fight to keep it where it is, but a new article from 2 hours ago says that she is willing to consider its relocation.

McC · #**2712** Posted **Mar 20, 2013, 2:19 PM**

Did you know that you can still select all of the text (Ctrl+A) in a Citizen article after the "Subscribe Now" box covers it? I just dump it into notepad or "paste special / unformatted text" into Word to read the article, or share it here (you just have to trim a page or two of garbage from the beginning and end of the article).

amanfromnowhere · #**2713** Posted **Mar 20, 2013, 2:43 PM**

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Originally Posted by McC

Did you know that you can still select all of the text (Ctrl+A) in a Citizen article after the "Subscribe Now" box covers it? I just dump it into notepad or "paste special / unformatted text" into Word to read the article, or share it here (you just have to trim a page or two of garbage from the beginning and end of the article).

there is another simpler way... close that Subscribe Now window and then hit back (or Backspace) and when the page starts showing up hit stop (or Esc button) immediately several times...
sorry for off topic

McC · #**2714** Posted **Mar 20, 2013, 3:13 PM**

HA! I can't decide whose approach is funnier, you'd probably have to film them, and show them side by side (sped up, of course) and set the video to a recording of Yakety Sax to make a proper comparison.
(I hear you can also work around it by jimmying with your browser settings)
anyway: worst.paywall.ever.

(also sorry for carrying on further off topic)

kevinbottawa · #**2715** Posted **Mar 20, 2013, 5:14 PM**

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Originally Posted by amanfromnowhere

there is another simpler way... close that Subscribe Now window and then hit back (or Backspace) and when the page starts showing up hit stop (or Esc button) immediately several times...
sorry for off topic

Just tried it. Works beautifully! An even easier way is to read the Citizen on your cell phone. The block doesn't apply to the mobile site. A lot of Citizen articles are also available on http://o.canada.com.

J.OT13 · #**2716** Posted **Mar 20, 2013, 6:04 PM**

Thanks guys!

J.OT13 · #**2717** Posted **Mar 20, 2013, 9:53 PM**

I have an idea; the bear statue was originally intended for Met Life's lobby next to a wall of water and pool (not sure which building, but not the Wellington getting gutted, I think maybe the what is now the Sun Life Centre).

So what I was thinking is maybe place the statue in the lobby of Place de Ville tower D's lobby, next to the escalators down to the concourse/subway.

harls · #**2718** Posted **Mar 21, 2013, 2:06 AM**

Close up of the DT projects under construction

Pretty grainy, but I was pretty far away as well, plus it was dreary outside.

Ottawan · #**2719** Posted **Mar 21, 2013, 1:31 PM**

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Originally Posted by harls

Close up of the DT projects under construction

Pretty grainy, but I was pretty far away as well, plus it was dreary outside.

That's a really awesome angle. With Parliament in the foreground, someone from the construction industry in Ottawa should go and take that shot for promotional material.

waterloowarrior · #**2720** Posted **Mar 26, 2013, 10:35 PM**

dow honda preliminary proposal - 2x 48 fl...edit: made a separate thread, figure this could generate a lot of discussion http://forum.skyscraperpage.com/showthread.php?p=6067867