Archive 1997-2016
Centretown residents fear that a proposed 20-storey building on the site of the former Ottawa Board of Education on Gilmour Street would cast a huge shadow and block the sun from the homes that surround it.
The schoolyard can be a scary place.
Centretown’s Elgin Street and Centennial schools, which faced the threat of closure twice in the last few years but were spared, could be possible targets again this year.
A bylaw exemption felt like a human rights victory for Falun Gong protesters last week, when they were permitted to hang banners on a fence across the street from the Chinese Embassy.