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The city’s community services committee has given a preliminary thumbs up to seeking $4.6 million in additional funding from a provincial fund for the Beaver Barracks affordable housing project in Centretown, despite cost overruns.
Centretown needs at least 17 paramedic units on duty at all times if the area is to be served adequately says Jean-Pierre Trottier, the Ottawa paramedics’ spokesperson.
The Friends of the O-Train lobby group is poised to release an alternative to the city’s four transit plans, which outline how the city would build the new Ottawa transit system.
The Centretown Community Health Centre decided to help put together an event to raise diabetes awareness in Ottawa during World Diabetes Day, says Christine Silvestre, a registered nurse who teaches diabetes education classes at the Centretown Community Health Centre.