Clive Doucet
Clive Doucet is a distinguished Canadian writer and city politician. He was elected for four consecutive terms to city council in Ottawa from 1997 to 2010 when he retired to run for Mayor.
As a city politician he was awarded the Gallon Prize as the 2005 Canadian eco-councillor of the year. He was defeated twice by Jim Watson in 2010 and 2018 when he ran for the Mayor’s chair. He presently lives in Grand Etang, Inverness Co., Nova Scotia.
Mr. Doucet has agreed to write a series of nine essays about his Ottawa municipal career which
Unpublished Media will begin publishing in January 2023.
The story and opinions are his own.
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There’s no greater grace than to be where you are supposed to be and know it. I lived in that...
The first difficult issue that came at me after my election was similar to the Aberdeen, but much...
The Ottawa River is one of the largest, grandest rivers on the entire planet. When you look...
When I first ran for city politics, I ran because of the six-lane, Bronson Expressway which the...
John Lorinc recently won the mouthwatering $60,000 Balsillie Prize for his book on cities. ...
It’s rare that there is any real change in city politics. Elections come and go but the same...
