Kanata Greenspace Protection Coalition

09/30/2026

Our latest eNews with Candidate Q and A
https://ourkanatagreenspace.ca/enews-here-it-comes-the-candidate-qa/

09/14/2026

Lots in the KGPC latest eNews as we get back to work after the summer.
https://ourkanatagreenspace.ca/enews-welcome-back/

09/04/2026

Tomorrow Night!

09/03/2026

Congratulations 👏 to KGPC Chair Barbara Ramsay 🎉 for being recognized with an Ottawa 200 commemorative coin for her meaningful contributions to our community. Barbara has worked tirelessly for almost 8 years to preserve and protect our cherished Kanata Greenspace Lands. 🌳🌱
We are lucky to have Barbara and all our KGPC volunteers keeping up the fight. 💪

Thank you to Mayor Mark Sutcliffe and Kanata North Councillor Cathy Curry for standing with our community to keep Kanata Green, Protect Critical Stormwater Infrastructure, and Stop Reckless Development.

Premier FordNation it’s time for an MZO and land swap!

Karen McCrimmon Jenna Sudds Prime Minister of Canada National Capital Commission Rob Flack Todd McCarthy Environment Ontario City of Ottawa

08/23/2026

Thanks again to Kanata North Coun. Cathy Curry for making this video on the history of the 40% Agreement. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=v_cJO2U3Dzw&t=1s
For more info on the history of our fight, check out The Kanata Greenspace Lands: Our Story on our website: https://ourkanatagreenspace.ca/history-of-the-greenspace/

Kanata North FordNation Mark Sutcliffe Rob Flack City of Ottawa

In this video, Councillor Curry provides an explanation of the back...

08/21/2026

Check out Coun. Curry’s latest newsletter for Mayor Sutcliffe’s letter to Premier Ford and more on our issue…

Kanata North Community Newsletter for August 21, 2026 The latest newsletter is now available at Kanata North Community Newsletter. Please share this update with your neighbours and encourage them to sign up for upcoming newsletters here on my website.

08/18/2026

From the Ottawa Citizen, Letters to the Editor:

Water will go where water must go

“They paved paradise and put up a parking lot” are the lyrics of one of Joni Mitchell’s classic songs and they could help explain one of the reasons there is so much flooding in our city.

Rain water has to go somewhere. A lot of it goes into sewers, but a lot has to be absorbed into the ground.

To create more housing, the city is allowing infills almost anywhere there is an empty plot of land. People are subdividing their lots and putting up an additional dwelling, or they are demolishing their small home on a large lot and putting up two or more monster homes.

Water which used to be absorbed on this land must now go someplace else. With no upgrades to the sewer system to accommodate these new buildings, the water ends up flooding people’s homes.

There should be a moratorium on new infill dwellings until the city councillors and engineers can guarantee that the sewer system can handle the new load being placed upon it.

Les Shinder, Nepean

08/12/2026

With more thunderstorms ⛈️ expected, just 2 days after the last heavy rains, we want to share this post from James, one of our wonderful KGPC volunteers, who lives next to the Kanata Greenspace Lands.

These photos from the recent storm show rain overflowing the street and draining onto the former golf course via a swale created between the houses when they were built. My deed says I cannot change the grading on the lot because of this swale.

These photos demonstrate how the golf course was engineered to absorb heavy rain from the neighbourhood. From Google: “A drainage swale is a shallow, broad, and gently sloped landscape depression designed to capture, slow down, and redirect surface water runoff by gravity. It moves water safely away from foundations or property lines while encouraging natural soil infiltration”

This is the second time this summer. The July 1st storm saw even more runoff diverted to the swale. It happens every year.

ClubLink should have done their due diligence - they can’t overturn the forces of Nature.

Kanata North FordNation Mark Sutcliffe City of Ottawa Karen McCrimmon Jenna Sudds Prime Minister of Canada National Capital Commission Todd McCarthy Rob Flack Environment Ontario