Spray-painting vandals have been targeting five vacant homes on Bay Street for years, graffiti that has now spread to nearby businesses, city signs and postal boxes.
The 80-year-old National Press Club is now at a crossroads as it prepares to declare bankruptcy in the near future and re-emerge as a charitable foundation.
Officials from the NDP and Progressive Conservative parties of Ontario believe the retirement of current Liberal MPP Richard Patten may increase their possibilities of winning the Ottawa Centre seat in the October elections.
New Corrections Canada guidelines for locating parole offices do not call for enough public consultation when sites are being considered, says Ottawa Centre MP Paul Dewar.
When a real estate giant bought the building at 135 MacLaren St. two years ago and started converting vacant units into fancy executive suites, tenant Sandra Bender says she lived in a construction zone for the next 18 months.
Ottawa Community Housing, a city-owned corporation, plans to lobby the province for funding for subsidized housing after Ontario’s new budget failed to deliver the much-needed money.
Aggressive panhandling, vandalism and drugs topped the list of safety concerns in Centretown, when results from a safety survey were released to the public at a community forum last week.