Month: March 2000

While many of their peers spent the March break hanging out or sleeping in, a dedicated group of teenage animal lovers spent the week at a petsitting course offered by the Ottawa Humane Society.

A provincial plan to mandate teachers’ supervision of extra-curricular activities and increase their workloads is an “attack on the teaching profession,” says an Ottawa-Carleton teachers’ union president.

A tunnel is being designed to run under Somerset Street that will reduce overflow from sewers into the Ottawa and Rideau rivers by 90 per cent.

Historical significance of street names will likely influence which streets in Centretown will be renamed when the new city of Ottawa comes into effect.