OTTAWA COVID-19 was the top story in Ottawa and across Canada this year, but other stories were popular for visitors to CTVNewsOttawa.ca Here s a look at some of the top, non-COVID related stories viewed on CTVNewsOttawa.ca in 2020. In January, toilet paper clogged Canada s busiest highway just east of the Thousand Islands Bridge. Ontario Provincial Police say two transport trucks collided on Hwy. 401, sending rolls of toilet paper across the highway. It took crews a few hours to clean up the rolls of toilet paper and reopen the highway. With less traffic on the roads during the first wave of the COVID-19 pandemic, one motorist caught the attention of police just east of Ottawa.
Posted: Dec 18, 2020 4:00 AM ET | Last Updated: December 18, 2020
A worker puts the finishing touches on a new public toilet in Montreal in May 2018. (Paul Chiasson/Canadian Press)
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On Dec. 18, council gave staff the authority to submit the list of projects for funding.
Ottawa could have self-cleaning public toilets on Sparks Street and in the ByWard Market, as well as Wi-Fi in more community centres, by this time next year.
The city has been allocated $20.1 million under a COVID-19 program funded entirely by the federal and provincial governments. City council will hold a special meeting Friday to ensure staff can submit the city s list of dozens of relatively minor but doable projects by the Jan. 7 deadline.