Archive 1997-2016
Last fall, Wiebo Ludwig and Richard Boonstra seemed in danger of being “lynched” by their neighbours in northwestern Alberta.
Public sentiment, as the result of a two-year campaign of violence in the Alberta oil patch, had reached the point where the two men and their families were under constant suspicion.
Your coverage of our Y2K meeting was a gross misrepresentation of our message. At no time did we “forecast doom and gloom.” We deliberately steer away from extreme predictions, for the simple reason that no one knows what will happen in the year 2000. We do know there will be problems but no one can predict how severe they will be. Rather, we advise Centretown residents take precautions, just in case. A better heading would have been “Group urges preparedness for Y2K.”
The proposed cuts to health care in the upcoming regional budget unfairly target senior citizens’ resources. Obviously, the region needs to make budget cuts, since the only other option it has is to implement an unpopular tax increase. But at a time when we are trying to shift the brunt of health care responsibility to the community, does it really make sense to cut funding to regional health care?
By Damali Nabagereka
For the past seven months, the British High Commission, through a program called UK Accents, has brought various artists and performers into Ottawa in a bid to showcase the face of the United Kingdom today.
They are hip-hop rappers, dancers, visual artists, actors and chefs, and their mission is simple: to erase the conventional image of the British as conservative, boring, beef-eaters from your mind.