Pellerin: In defence of Ottawa's much-needed trees

It was one of the most endearing things about early-morning bike rides along the Pinecrest Creek pathway. Bunnies munching and birds singing. But now all you see at Iris Street and the Transitway is a sad, awful gash where majestic trees used to be. Bunnies and birds have been evicted, their homes turned into scraggly earth, sacrificed on the altar of transit progress. Tough but necessary, or so we think. Very much unlike proposals to pave over golf courses in Barrhaven and Kanata to build yet m