City of Ottawa Politics with Evan H. Potter
Evan Harold PotterWhat's really going on at Council? I decode City of Ottawa politics in the lead up to the 2026 municipal election. I'll dig into issues that matter to all residents--development, taxes, transit, and sustainable communities--through a political lens.
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And the Winner Is...Ottawa Council
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If anyone had any doubts, yesterday’s results demonstrated once again that incumbency is the single most important determinant of success in municipal elections — especially in Ontario, where the...
Election Night: Business as Usual on Ottawa Council?
The official campaign comes to an end on Monday night. The unofficial campaign began in the summer of 2025, when Jeff Leiper and Mark Sutcliffe announced their intentions to run for mayor. Alex Lawson and Neil Saravanamuttoo eventually join...
The Mayoral Debates: A Final Look at Sutcliffe, Leiper, Lawson and Saravanamuttoo
Photo credit: CBC/Arthur White-Crummey.
For Ottawa’s four leading mayoral candidates, there is no better opportunity to deliver those closing arguments than the two remaining debates. Even in our fragmented media universe, the reach...
Jeff Leiper is Great at Knocking on Doors. Why Can’t He Land the Metaphorical Punch?
The mayoral campaigns can probably forget about dramatically shaping the public narrative through another poll (internal or public) or a last-minute communications makeover. Six months of public polling have told us two things: Mark Sutclif...
You Can’t Bend Election Poll Reality...or Can You?
It’s Thanksgiving Weekend, so I’m going to be brief. We’re back at it with polling controversies. Nik Nanos released a poll on Friday, the day that Brigitte Pellerin and I recorded this podcast. He said that Mayor Mark Sutcliffe holds a “co...
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Assoc Professor of Communication at the University of Ottawa. Keen observer of City Hall. I write on City of Ottawa politics & on strategic coms in Canadian public admin, cultural statecraft, foreign policy & national security.
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