City News

Design underway on the Downtown Urban Square

The City of Oshawa is developing the Downtown Oshawa Urban Square, located at the intersection of Bond Street East and Simcoe Street North in the heart of downtown Oshawa. The Square will be a unique focal point of downtown Oshawa, hosting community celebrations, events and concerts that appeal to both community members and visitors, bringing vitality and excitement into the downtown core.

The project is seeking comments related to the accessibility of the Square including  pathways and site...

TeachingCity Oshawa collaboration highlights public art through new interactive map

A new interactive map developed through a TeachingCity Oshawa collaboration with Durham College and The Robert McLaughlin Gallery (RMG) is highlighting public art in Oshawa.

The mobile-friendly map allows Oshawa residents and visitors to interact with six public art pieces in the city’s downtown core:

1. Crown, Douglas Bentham;
2. grace, Mary Anne Barkhouse;
3. Group Portrait 1957, Douglas Coupland;
4. Reverb, Noel Harding;
5. River Tree/Bench, Reinhard Reitzenstein; and,
6. Upstart II, Clement Meadmore.

At each artwork...

New Annual Snapshot highlights year six of TeachingCity Oshawa partnership

The City of Oshawa and its education and research partners – Durham College, Ontario Tech University, Trent University Durham GTA, and the University of Toronto’s Department of Civil and Mineral Engineering – are pleased to announce that the TeachingCity Oshawa 2022/2023 Annual Snapshot, detailing accomplishments from the partnership’s sixth year, is now available online.

Notable applied research, experiential learning and curriculum-based projects featured in the Annual Snapshot include:

• Cultural...

Open your heart and home to a shelter animal in need

With the number of pets needing homes at an all-time high, Oshawa Animal Services is appealing to community members to consider fostering an animal or taking a doggy on a day out.

Fostering Animals

Oshawa Animal Services is urgently seeking caring foster homes for pets, especially medium to large dogs.

The Foster Program provides a temporary safe and loving home for cats and dogs that may not be ready yet for adoption because they are too young, pregnant or nursing, sick or injured, in need of some...