Faced with paramedicsunable to meet response times for the most life-threatening calls, and a record number of ambulanceshortages, Ottawa city councillorsnot only agreed to athree-year strategy to boost paramedic hiring but also called for it to be sped up.

Ottawa residents will be limited to three containers of garbage every two weeks after 22 of 24 city council members voted in favour of the new plan, replacing the contentious idea of having to put tags on bags.

Ottawa's mayor wantsto limit households to three garbage bins at the curb each collection day,in a move he hopes will have more buy-in around the council table, even if it leads to a more lenient policy than city staff had originally recommended.

The City of Ottawa wants totriple the number of new paramedic hires next year as emergency responders struggleafter several high-stressyears, and calls for ambulances soar.

Ottawa residents might not need to put tags on all garbage bags after all, after a city committee failed to reach a consensus on how to move forward with a curbside strategy.

The auditor general's office has detailed the 2022 crop of tips to the City of Ottawa's confidential fraud-and-waste hotline, including one about a city employee who took a work vehicle to the convoy protests.

The City of Ottawa is poised to approve moving the home of the Ottawa 67's hockey team to a spot overlooking the end zone of TD Place stadium, on what is now the grassy hill of a city park, andcritics say it's happening without enough scrutiny.