A new group of Ottawa-Carleton District School Board trustees could keep a number of downtown schools from closing next year.
Schools may remain open
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Month: December 2000
Abestos shuts down electronic repair shop
An electronic repair shop in the West Block of Parliament Hill has been shut down because of a fear that high levels of asbestos may be present.
Centretown-based novel nominated for Giller
By Brynna Leslie
Alan Cumyn talks to me over the phone from what he describes as his cluttered and cramped home-office in Ottawa South.
He discusses his new novel in the level voice of one who is used to reading prose to an audience. Cumyn’s novel Burridge Unbound was recently nominated for the Giller Prize, Canada’s richest award for fiction, and he’s hoping the nomination will help him tap into the lucrative American market with this book, and its companion novel, Man of Bone.
Traffic, school closures, tax breaks are voters’ top priorities
By Louise Hayes
Word on the street is that traffic congestion and tax breaks are the top two municipal election issues.
Fifteen people were questioned in the Sparks Street Mall and on the corner of Elgin and MacLaren about their opinions on the upcoming election.