The Week In Review

1. The latest on the response and fallout to the historic Canada Day flooding, which has impacted over 5,000 homes in Canada's Capital.
2. Concerns from residents and city councillors about the local response, as well as frustrations with insurance and contractors.
3. The city's financial supports and potential provincial disaster funding.
4. A full framework for a new renoviction bylaw clears Committee, and now heads to City Council.
5. There are no plans to revisit a Centretown high-rise development after some unhappy residents weren’t informed.
6. A fireworks show with no notice upsets and confuses everyone.

Interviews

Extensive Canada Day floods are just the latest extreme feud with Mother Nature that Ottawa has dealt with over the past decade. What are the financial impacts, and how do municipalities plan ahead? We check in with Kathryn Bakos, the Managing Director of Finance and Resilience at the University of Waterloo's Intact Centre on Climate Adaptation.

The Ottawa Police Services Board recently approved Phase 1 of its plan to implement new facial recognition software. However, privacy and civil liberty advocates and experts in criminal justice are raising concerns about the technology’s use and safeguards. Chiming in on that discussion is Tamir Israel, who heads the Surveillance and Technology Program at the Canadian Civil Liberties Association.