If anyone could slap a mall next to a World Heritage Site, it’s Ottawa City Council

In promoting his mall, Roger Greenberg was afforded deferential treatment I have not seen in any other city. No other developer was invited to negotiate. No other proposal for Lansdowne Park was considered.

OTTAWAIt was a little municipal tragedy, scarcely worth a mention in the out-of-town dailies. All at stake was 37 acres and 140 years of history. But it provoked sadness and anger—less than a fifth of people surveyed supported it—and reminded everyone how government run...

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