It’s 10:30 a.m. on a weekday and the Starbucks at the corner of Metcalfe and Slater is buzzing with coffee-breakers looking for a mid-morning buzz.
Spilling the beans on growing coffee culture
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Month: December 2007
Cooking up life skills at community health centre
“More time” was the order of the day as Elgin Street’s planned concert hall survived a city council vote last week that could have stripped its municipal funding. Instead, council agreed to postpone the deal’s Nov. 30 deadline to the end of February.
Healthy eating an uphill battle for MPs, staffers
Perry Tsergas is feeling lighter these days. The Parliament Hill staffer lost 30 pounds this summer: a result of his vacation from politics and some time away from the unhealthy diet of a politico.
Letters for December 7, 2007
Youths unfairly blamed for ‘unsafe’ underpass
Re: Street youth “make downtown underpass unsafe,” Nov. 23
I take great offence in the suggestion that, we, the youth of downtown Ottawa make the city unsafe.
We all, for the most part, are struggling and poor. We live in single rooms or tiny apartments. We like to talk to each other and spend time with each other. The spot under the Terry Fox bridge is a popular gathering place because it is a central location that most of us live blocks from, if not under.