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Prostitutes, MPs,
and social workers blame Canada’s Criminal Code for violence
and exploitation in the sex trade but the jury is still out as
to whether the solution is decriminalization or legalization
A pesticide ban on private property
may be delayed but it is not dead, say city council health committee
members.
Jodie-Lynn McLewin
was the first to crawl across the finish line and claim her title
as “Ottawa’s Fastest Baby” at the first annual
Ottawa 67’s Baby Race last week.
Provincial parties
in Ottawa Centre are gearing up for the next election, which
may take place as early as next spring.
A proposal that
would make cutting down trees on private property a public decision
has the support of at least three Ottawa city councillors.
Parent solutions
to school budget woes dismissed
Ideas were few and
far between at a recent public meeting intended to generate ways
to cut more than $18 million from the Ottawa school board budget.
New committee
selection system ‘less democratic'
Electing committee
chairs openly is more democratic than secret ballot elections
that promote a secret agenda, says Ottawa Centre MP Mac Harb.
NCC faces public
scrutiny once more
The National Capital
Commission’s second annual meeting was much like the first
last year — discussion ranged from downtown development
to the Moffat Farm along with a few new issues thrown in for
good measure.
New fire trucks
relieve equipment shortage
Fourteen new state-of-the-art
fire trucks, five of which are headed for stations serving Centretown,
will relieve equipment shortages caused by older trucks constantly
in the repair shop.
The provincial government’s
experiment to produce more civic-minded youth through 40 hours
of mandatory volunteer work is a step in the right direction.
It’s unfortunate that the step is small and unstructured
and will likely result in some students not being granted diplomas.
Letters
The first snowfall
has come and gone and December has finally arrived. Many of us
Christmas diehards have anxiously awaited this moment since the
ball dropped last January. Can you believe the year went by so
fast?
What product is
available at virtually every retailer across the continent at
the same price?
The Centretown Emergency
Food Centre is initiating its first-ever “business food
drive” in a desperate attempt to spark more donations during
the holiday season.
Retailers
pin hopes on strong Christmas sales
Snow dusts the ground
and Santa Claus can be found in area malls.
Ottawa’s new
plan for the city’s future is only a first draft, but businesses
are already seeing its positive effects, says the head of a downtown
business association.
Big-box retail outlets
that once sat in the city’s suburbs are now dashing into
the downtown core.
The Mayfair theatreon
Bank Street celebrated its 70th anniversary on Dec. 5.
On Dec.7, Gallery
101 will be animated with arts lovers, bidders will manoeuver
to view works by local artists, and music and chatter will fill
the air at the annual 101 Frames auction fundraiser.
Local artists are
praising the “Join the Crowd” program, a four-month
campaign to create media awareness and promote the art scene
in Ottawa.
If you are a visual artist, please step
forward and identify yourself.
The single city of Ottawa won’t be
two years old until New Year’s Day, but 59 per cent of respondents
to an informal survey already seem to accept that they live in
Ottawa. The other 41 per cent still say they live in one of the
other ten municipalities amalgamated two years ago.
First, the city passed the anti-smoking
bylaw, making it illegal to light up in any restaurant or bar
from Cumberland to West Carleton.
The City of Ottawa has decided to open
a new front in its effort to redraw ward boundaries before the
next municipal election.
Ottawa’s fire services should stop
sweating the small stuff and get on with business.
The people at the top are still squabbling,
but Ottawa’s rank-and-file firefighters have made their
peace.
When amalgamation began, being “let
go” looked good.
If you like your neighbourhood outdoor
rink maybe you better volunteer to look after it, otherwise it
might not be there much longer.
For years, they successfully devoted their
lives to politics, but amalgamation cost them their jobs.
The arts community has experienced a surge
of grant applications because amalgamation has changed eligibility
regulations. But there isn’t enough money to go around.
The single city was sold to people on the
pitch that it would save them money.
So, again, is the single city saving money
now — and will it in the future?
Ambassador’s Row, home to many foreign
dignitaries, looks more like a logging road than a tree-lined
strip of real estate.
Rural residents battle stereotypes about
“Jeb the farmer.” Urban dwellers fight to reduce the
number of cars on their streets. And suburbanites just want to
know who to talk to at City Hall.
Soon, the fields and woods around the Corel
Centre will be growing houses instead of trees – but this
isn’t your typical urban sprawl.
It was business as usual for Cecil Stanley
when his development company got the green light from the transition
board to develop 48 hectares of his land in two parcels west
and south of Greely.
Campaigning on the “Common Sense Revolution,”
Mike Harris became Ontario premier in 1995.
If councillors were teachers, they wouldn’t
give amalgamation an A+, but few would flunk it either.
It’s 9 p.m. Coun. Diane Deans is just
getting home to her husband and 13-year-old daughter. Her day
started with a 6 a.m. TV interview at the New RO. She calls this
a good day — only one meeting.
When Jim Malone drives along the Queensway
near the Corel Centre on hockey nights, he doesn’t like
what he sees.
Ever since amalgamation, the City of Ottawa
and the Canadian Union of Public Employees seem locked in an
endless labour relations bout, with both sides hoping to score
points with the ringside judges.
The provincial government demanded Ottawa
became a unified city, but two years later the province still
hasn’t used its power to unify hydro service.
The young golden-haired
host shows her excitement for visitors to her Somerset Street
West apartment with a sloppy lick and wagging tail.
While fans pile
into the Civic Centre to watch the Ottawa 67’s play hockey
every Friday night, the team is inside preparing.
It’s a new
beginning for the Ottawa Rebel, who are entering the coming lacrosse
season with a new-look lineup and a new coach.
Sledge hockey
helps disabled athletes
On a Friday evening
at Jim Durrell Arena, sledge hockey players like Adam Cavanagh
prepare to play a friendly house- league game.
Column: Jake Porter
story brings focus in sports back down to roots
For
a brief moment in time, everything in sports felt right.
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