Archive 1997-2016
By Jennifer Tryon
City council has drowned any hopes Centretown residents had of a new Plant Pool until the turn of the millennium.
At a city council meeting held Jan. 21 the Plant Pool was on a long list of community services that city treasurer, Mona Monkman, recommended not be considered for funding until 2004.
By Karyn Pugliese
Jarrod Miller, 26, is the editor and youth co-ordinator of Native Youth Today, a national bimonthly newspaper published in Centretown. His mother is Cree, his father Saulteux. But like many of his generation, Miller is not legally native.
By Aloma Jardine
With the ice storm of the century firmly under their belts, Ottawans are ready to celebrate winter.
But this year’s Winterlude offers people more than just an escape from everyday life.
The National Capital Commission will donate half the price of each ticket sold for its Feb. 7 Canadian Ice Breaker Show to the Red Cross Ice Storm Relief Fund.
By Damali Nabagereka
Ottawa-Carleton District School Board trustees say the province’s delay in releasing funding information for 1998-99 could mean a rocky start next school year.
Board Chair Lynn Scott says the lack of information will delay the budget process.