A Centretown
property manager says he hopes a neighbourhood survey will finally
convince city councillors that a proposed $4.2-million footbridge
across the Rideau Canal at Somerset Street is a bad idea.
Talk is cheap
when it comes to ending child poverty. That was the message from
people who work with child poverty on a daily basis as policy
experts, activists and people with firsthand experience met to
offer solutions to this Canada-wide problem.
Operation Go
Home, an organization that helps street youth reunite with their
families, finally has a new home at 176 Rideau St., but will
have to raise $100,000 just to pay the rent and renovate.
In an effort
to improve the lives of cats in the community, the Ottawa Humane
Society has kicked off its 2005 cat awareness campaign called
the Year of the Cat.