Archive 1997-2016
The issue: Learning how to skate in Centretown.
What’s new: Ottawa created CitySkate because the city could no longer afford affiliate member status with the Canadian Figure Skating Association.
What is next: See if the community and participants actually like the new program.
By Cara Filby
With Winterlude, winning hockey franchises and the recent Canadian Championships in figure skating, the city has caught skating fever.
For those aspiring to one day join those world-class skaters, there are various options. CitySkate is one of them.
By Shannon Hagerman
The Ottawa-Hull economy is booming with low unemployment rates. But even with all this good news, Centretown residents may be losing out.
“Most of the big job growth is going to be in the ’burbs,” said Gerry Geis, labour market analyst with Human Resources Development Canada. Geis cites congestion in the core as one reason why more companies, like the growing call-centre industry, aren’t settling in the area.
These days, with journalists narrowly trailing lawyers on the list of revered and respected members of our society, it’s hard to imagine why anyone would make journalism their career.
Okay, it’s obviously not that implausible, or I, as a journalist, wouldn t be writing this. It’s even harder to figure out what would drive anyone to establish a media outlet.