Bruce Deachman: I don’t want Lansdowne to fail, but I also don't trust this deal. City council should vote 'no.'

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Two years ago, I wrote a column in support of the Lansdowne 2.0 development. In it, I waxed nostalgic about my lifelong relationship with the grand old dame of urban parks and all she had given Ottawa: the concerts , fairs, exhibitions, conventions, sporting events and monster truck rallies. Article content

The new plan, I acknowledged, wasn’t perfect. Residents’ concerns about an overly small replacement arena crowding out the Great Lawn were reasonable. The green roof once planned for the event centre was gone. But I felt the 130 or so annual events held there were too important an economic driver to risk losing. Besides, the old Civic Centre, where I

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