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As city council considers installing surveillance cameras on Rideau Street, Centretown residents and business owners are already pondering how the decision might affect their neighbourhood.
The Nepalese police knocked on Shree Kumar Rai’s door at 4 a.m. He woke up, answered the door, and was promptly told he must accompany the officers to the local police station in Dharan, a city in southeastern Nepal.
Tenants are all too often taken advantage of by avaricious, unscrupulous and exploitative landlords. The reason this happens, economists say, is that as a group consumers they can't band together to protect their common interests. Ottawa’s recent Tenants’ Conference, which did just the opposite, proves this is not always the case.
Ottawa resident Catherine Gardner was recently forced to spend the night at Algonquin College because she was told that there were no taxis available to pick her up.