Archive 1997-2016
By Lindsey Parry
It’s a busy day in the Rideau Centre.
Four teenage girls sit around a table in the food court, eating New York Fries and drinking Coca-Cola. They talk loudly, often all at once.
But although these OAC students are having fun, they still say they have plenty to worry about.
By Carlen Lavigne
This year’s municipal elections have a new electronic voting system, but fewer polling stations.
Many highrise apartment buildings are losing their voting booths, causing problems for seniors and the disabled.
The new technology means that each polling station can handle more people. So, there will be only 111 polling stations on Nov. 10, compared with 300 in 1994. People who voted in the lobbies of their buildings now have to vote elsewhere.
McIntyre, head of the Tenants Federation, says that closing the apartment polling stations “removes the democratic process for the elderly and disabled.”
Ottawa Centre Liberal MPP Richard Patten is seeking changes to provincial laws that would allow psychiatric patients with a history of violence to be forcibly treated and monitored.
Patten recently told a coroner’s inquest that he plans to provide for community treatment orders in his private member’s bill to amend the Ontario Mental Health Act.
By Brian Salisbury
It’s a communication gap that’s costing more than just headaches for the Canadian Museum of Nature and its former volunteer arm, the everGreen Fund.
It’s costing Ottawa’s youth, as well.
Tens of thousands of dollars intended to go toward environmental education for youth are sitting in a trust account, untouched since 1994 because of a soured relationship between the museum and everGreen.