A community safety group is pushing for Ontario to follow the lead of several other provinces and pass tough legislation that will hold landowners accountable for criminal activities taking place on their property.
Bus congestion on the Macdonald-Cartier Bridge could be a thing of the past, as a joint study begins next year to improve public transportation between Ottawa and Gatineau.
High school students at a workshop on sexual abuse shrink when they hear how the internet and websites such as MySpace could encourage someone to sexually or violently take advantage of them.
Tenants of City of Ottawa’ subsidized housing whose residences are in need of repairs can now bypass their landlords and demand improvements directly from the city.
Flu season is here again, and so are Ottawa’s free flu clinics. Despite reports the vaccine isn’t 100 per cent effective and concerns about side effects, the city plans to administer the same number of vaccines as last year.
Those moving to Kent and Nepean streets will have more options since the Ontario Municipal Board dismissed an appeal against a residency development last month.
An inquest into the death of Wade Hatt, who died in October 2005 after overdosing at the Somerset Street Methadone clinic, yielded 16 recommendations from a coroner’s jury in November about how to make administering methadone safer.