Archive 1997-2016
Despite a push last year by Ottawa Public Library Board members and councillors to build the new main library and the city’s new central archives in one centralized location, the two will be constructed apart — with work to begin this month on the archives building in Nepean’s Centrepointe area.
The Ottawa District Parole Office may not remain in Centretown when it’s scheduled to be relocated next September, says a former chair of the parole office’s citizens’ advisory committee.
New provincial assessments sent out last week are raising property taxes across Ottawa – and to no one’s surprise, many Centretown residents are facing stiff increases.
Pet projects are often all-or-nothing films, personal visions which translate from grey matter to silver screen either perfectly or disastrously. Passchendaele, which was written, directed and co-produced by Canadian Due South star Paul Gross, manages to circumvent this phenomenon as something of a mixed bag, but sadly it falls more into the latter category than the former.