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Ottawa’s Site needle exchange program will start distributing crack equipment to drug users next month in an attempt to curb skyrocketing rates of Hepatitis C among addicts.
Centretown citizens could be seeing an increase of police officers in the next ten years if the Ottawa Police department gets what it wants from the City, although Coun. Diane Holmes says more officers will take away from community involvement with police.
Centretown residents fear a proposed new light rail system will further snarl downtown traffic and duplicate transit programs already in place, city staff heard last week.
Look around and the symptoms are there: report after report calling for this or that project, artists’ conceptions that are likely to remain just that — a concept. It’s clear what’s ailing the city. The diagnosis is simple: Ottawa has vision problems.