Plans for a proposed GLBTTQ community centre in Ottawa have stalled due to a decline in active members and volunteers in the corporation in charge of steering the project.
Survey shows demand for food store choice
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Month: November 2007
Smokers fume over new bylaw
Beginning this month, OC Transpo passengers could be fined up to $5,000 for smoking anywhere within nine metres of transit property, including shelters, bus stops or transitways. But some smokers disagree with a new bylaw.
Collapsed building site still deemed unsafe
Sidewalks and streets around the intersection of Bank and Somerset streets will remain closed indefinitely after the owner of the former Duke of Somerset pub failed to fully meet a city-imposed deadline of Nov. 2 to provide proof that the building had been stabilized and it is safe for construction work to resume.
It’s silly season again in Ottawa
Consider this: the city passes a bylaw that prohibits eating ice cream on a Sunday on Bank Street. Ridiculous, you say – even bizarre. Well, yes. But in its own way no more so than a new bylaw that will ban smoking at city bus stops to create a “smoke-free transit." – an extension of the smoke-free city/province campaign.