Archive 1997-2016
The owner of Friday’s Roast Beef House is asking the City to sell him the restaurant property, or give him longer than a five-year lease, in an effort to secure the future of the 31-year-old restaurant and heritage building before the City sells the property.
Partners in a planned $100 million expansion of the Ottawa Congress Centre and Rideau Centre say a re-design is long overdue.
An elite party last month at the Rideau Centre, Ottawa Congress Centre and Westin Hotel declared the complex, opened by former Prime Minister Pierre Elliot Trudeau, the saviour of the city’s core.
Not long ago, I stepped into a poetry reading expecting to find myself in the midst of a smoky lounge, drinking jug wine with a black beret perched atop my shaggy mop . . .