Archive 1997-2016
Parents of students at Centennial Public School and other Ottawa schools have enlisted the help of lawyers and law students to challenge the constitutionality of provincial cuts to special education.
Heritage Minister Sheila Copps says she has never discussed the creation of a Canadian portrait gallery in downtown Ottawa with her cabinet colleagues.
In your latest issue of Centretown News you printed a story about the labour unrest at the Ottawa-Carleton Catholic School Board. As President of C.U.P.E. Local 2357, I would like to clarify two issues.
Firstly, as to leave, we are struggling to maintain the leave that we have had for many years and harmonize that leave between the Ottawa and Carleton sectors. At present, there are two different contracts serving the support employees and they need to be merged.
By Mike Miner
Growing up, I spent my life in front of the TV consuming the latest cartoons about the latest toys, watching heavily sponsored old movies and eating Froot Loops ad nauseam (my favourite baseball player attributed his success to some unholy pact with Toucan Sam). Most entertainment I enjoyed as a kid was basically advertising.