Archive 1997-2016
By Corey Boles
When conservatives of all stripes descend upon Ottawa late in February, they will be engaging in an exercise of futility.
The United Alternative Convention, set to take place Feb. 19-21 at the Congress Centre, faces many obstacles before it even gets going. By far the most imposing of these is the ego of the man at the helm of the Reform Party of Canada.
By Shannon Hagerman
A few years ago, a Quebec woman went to a hospital for some regular lab tests. Imagine her shock when doctors told her she had a terminal illness. Later, she got a very disturbing phone call. It was from a funeral home. It wanted to sell her a deluxe package.
Daniel Huot interviewed me in late November. While I agree with the general thrust of the resulting article (“Canadian trade hurt by Asian crisis,” Centretown News, Dec. 4, 1998) and applaud your paper’s effort to inform its reader on this important issue, there are some corrections I would like to make, for the record.
The ostrich called the school boards of Ottawa-Carleton finally took its head out of the sands of denial this week. It’s about time.
The chairs of the four school boards met with local politicians earlier this month in order to draft a school-funding program that would better serve the region than the plan proposed by the provincial Tories. Rather than the 100-per-cent usage of school space proposed by the education ministry, the working group wants schools to operate at about 80- or 90-per-cent capacity.