Month: October 2000

For Ottawa residents with disabilities, a missed bus often means a day without transportation.

Staff and volunteers from the Women’s Place joined thousands of people in the World March of Women Oct. 15 with a special purpose in mind. They were out to save their centre, but they went home discouraged.

By James Sinclair

Traffic-calming measures may be to blame for increased emergency response times in Centretown, says a new study presented to the city’s Community Services and Operations Committee.

The study, presented at a meeting Oct. 11, suggests that vertical traffic-calming measures put in Centretown, such as the speed bumps constructed on Lyon Street two years ago, have slowed emergency response times in the area. read more

School closures are at the heart of the election of the Centretown trustee for the Ottawa-Carleton District School Board.