Front Page Headlines / April 1, 2005

Residents not sold on downtown train proposal   Centretown residents fear a proposed new light rail system will further snarl downtown traffic and duplicate transit programs already in place, city staff heard last week.   Holmes questions police request for more officers   Centretown citizens could be seeing an increase of police officers in the next ten years if the Ottawa Police department gets what it wants from the City, although Coun. Diane Holmes says more officers will take away from community involvement with police.   Free crack kits hit city streets to curb spread of disease   Ottawa’s Site needle exchange program will start distributing crack equipment to drug users next month in an attempt to curb skyrocketing rates of Hepatitis C among addicts.