Heard On The Hill

Will there be a Wellington National Mall in Ottawa? Plamondon says there should be

Plus, Gerald Butts to join consulting firm, and Kelsey Johnson starts at Reuters on May 21.

A petition calls for a National Mall on Wellington Street to stretch from Elgin to Lyon streets. The Hill Times photograph by Andrew Meade

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BY NEIL MOSS

May 8, 2019

An Ottawa group wants to bring a bit of Washington to Ottawa, urging Ottawa to turn Wellington Street into a national mall. As the Ottawa municipal government decides on what a remodelled Sparks Street should look like, a petition is seeking to open Sparks Street to traffic and to make Wellington S...

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