After being
in limbo for several years, a project to provide Ottawa’s
GLBTQ community with its own drop-in centre may be back on track
and become more than just a website.
A proposal
to rethink the National Capital Commission’s public consultation
process for the next phase of the LeBreton Flats redevelopment
is not very workable, says the chair of a local city group.
Centretown
churches are thinking twice before distributing parish lists,
taking photo directories or mentioning members by name during
service following the introduction of new federal and provincial
privacy legislation.
The Canadian
Fallen Firefighters Foundation plans to build a national monument
in LeBreton Flats to honour more than 800 firefighters across
the country who have sacrificed their lives to save others, in
what firefighters call long overdue recognition.
Julian Amour
has spent five years trying to make the concert hall at 150 Elgin
St. a reality, but if government funding doesn’t come soon,
he says he is giving up.
The city of
Ottawa could become a major hub for new immigrants as a result
of the federal government’s plans to foster economic growth
through immigration, but only if it markets itself more intensively
as a centre of opportunity.