Archive 1997-2016
By Pamela Stephens
Imagine walking down the street and being followed by a police car. The officer requests to see your identification and tells you to “go back where you came from.”
Imagine being harassed every day at your place of work as you try to earn a living, being ridiculed and told you are “worthless.”
By Natasha Gleiser
Ottawa cyclists are worried about their bikes being stolen after last month’s discovery that some locks could be picked with a simple ballpoint pen.
Theft is a problem in Ottawa — 196 bikes were stolen in September, says Tom Cybulski from the Ottawa Police Service records section.
The province’s recent ban on raw fish has some Centretown restaurant managers concerned about people’s opinion of sushi.
Hundreds of children in the community spend their days at day-care centres, but a new study shows that low wages and poor working conditions in Canadian day-care centres are causing qualified childcare workers to abandon the field.