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Château Laurier: No Holding Out for a HeroFriday, July 12, 2019CONVIVIUM, By Raymond J. de Souza
The Château Laurier fight is over. The hideous extension will be built and Major’s Hill Park will be despoiled as it will now dwell in the shadow of an...
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Decoding Five Comments from Council's Château Laurier debateThursday, July 11, 2019CBC NEWS, By Joanne Chianello
The three-year debacle over the controversial addition to the Château Laurier hotel came to a quasi-end late Wednesday afternoon in a split vote, though...
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Council ends Battle Château, motion to pull heritage permit defeatedThursday, July 11, 2019OTTAWA CITIZEN, By Jon Willing
Cries of “shame” howled from the public gallery Thursday after the majority of city council refused to reconsider a decision that allows the owner of the...
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'Betrayal of democracy': Reviled Château Laurier addition to go aheadThursday, July 11, 2019CBC NEWS | By Joanne Chianello, Kate Porter
Ottawa city council has upheld a decision to allow a reviled addition to the historic Château Laurier hotel, voting down an attempt to reopen the...
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Council upholds Château Laurier addition, but will have to vote again ThursdayWednesday, July 10, 2019Ottawa Mayor Jim Watson argued and voted in favour of controversial hotel extensionCBC NEWS, By Joanne Chianello
City council narrowly defeated a last-ditch attempt to block a...
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Egan: Château rescue plan dies in knots of our own makingWednesday, July 10, 2019THE PROVINCE, By Kelly Egan
There was something sad and circus-like about how the Château Laurier saga unfolded on Wednesday, strangled in procedural knots — with a touch of poison — to its...
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City council delays final Château Laurier decision until ThursdayWednesday, July 10, 2019OTTAWA CITIZEN, By Jon Willing
City council on Wednesday was poised to let Larco Investments forge ahead with a controversial, boxy design for a seven-storey addition to the Château Laurier...
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Denley: Keep it simple, Ottawa Council – vote against the current Château Laurier additionTuesday, July 9, 2019OTTAWA CITIZEN | OPINION, By Randall Denley
For members of Ottawa Council, Wednesday’s vote on the much-maligned addition to the Château Laurier is not about architecture, or process or...
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Friends of the Château Laurier Retains Legal Representation in Ongoing Effort to Stop Proposed Addition to Historic HotelMonday, July 8, 2019HERITAGE OTTAWA
National advocacy group FRIENDS OF THE CHÂTEAU LAURIER has retained legal representation in the course of ongoing efforts to protect the Château Laurier from the...
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GIBBONS: Council must show some courage on Château Laurier fileMonday, July 8, 2019OTTAWA SUN | OPINION, By Rick Gibbons
It’s been called everything from an overgrown storage container to an homage to Soviet-style brutalism (thank you, Monte Solberg.) Whatever your...