Join the GCA Board! The Glebe Community Association (GCA) is looking for volunteers to join our Board of Directors. Right now, we are actively seeking individuals for the following roles: * Communications Director * Chair of the Environment Committee * Area Representative for Powell and Clemow Avenues * Area Representative for Glebe to Second Avenues—between [...]
Subject to the lifting of current provincial health measures forbidding larger gatherings in parks, the Spring Parks Clean-Ups will not be going ahead as planned on the weekend of May 15, 2021. Alternative dates will be considered when measures are relaxed.
Glebe Community Association Lansdowne Committee Update April 2021 This update will focus on the following items concerning Lansdowne Park: City’s review of Lansdowne Park Aberdeen Square Renewal project Canada Healthy Communities Initiative funding application Glebe Community Pop-Up art gallery at Lansdowne Park Next meeting of the GCA Lansdowne Committee City’s review of [...]
A group of Honours students in the Geography Dep’t, under the supervision of Prof. John Milton, are looking into how the Glebe currently meets (or not) the definition and functionality of the 15-minute walkable neighbourhood as the focus of their spring course. 15 min neighbourhoods are typically defined ones in which you can access all or [...]
Poster Design Competition for Grades 3 to 6 The GCA Environment Committee, in collaboration with the United Nations Association in Canada’s Sustainable Development Goals Ambassador, is holding a poster design competition to discourage motor vehicle idling in school zones. Join us in raising awareness of this issue and in working to ensure cleaner air for [...]
February 2021 Project Overview Building Energy Study High-efficiency Windows Optimize Control System Weatherproofing The Glebe Community Association (GCA) partnered with the City of Ottawa to improve the energy efficiency and reduce greenhouse gas emissions at the Glebe Community Centre. This project helps sustain this 100-year-old heritage building as a valuable [...]
The National Capital Commission is proposing to set up a small bistro in Patterson Creek Park this summer as a pilot project. Find out about the proposal and provide your comments through an online survey until March 25, 2021. LINK Helpful backgrounder PDF
Below are comments from the Glebe Community Association on the Draft Official Plan: Official Plan Comments
The Glebe Community Association (GCA) strongly supports the motion tabled on February 10, 2021 by Councillors Theresa Kavanagh and Catherine McKenney regarding nuclear waste disposal plans at Chalk River. We urge you to support this motion and urge Council to swiftly adopt and act on it, in the interests of the health and safety of [...]
The City of Ottawa is holding an online engagement until March 8 to present the Prince of Wales Bridge Environmental Assessment study and proposed options for a new interim multi-use pathway. This link would become an interprovincial active transportation crossing over the Ottawa River, where residents would be able to walk, cycle and cross-country ski. [...]
