July 2012 - Page 3 of 9 - Centretown News

July 23, 2012 Corcoran Conn-Grant

Film Review: The Dark Knight Rises

“Why do we fall?” Seven years ago, in Batman Begins, a young Bruce Wayne was posed that question by his father. The answer: so that we learn to pick ourselves up again.

July 22, 2012 Const. Khoa N. Hoang

Preparing for Canada Day

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Const. Khoa N. Hoang

You haven’t lived in Ottawa until you have celebrated Canada Day downtown. Every year, our city unites in a massive celebration of our country and everything that makes us Canadian. We are a government town typically conservative in nature except on July 1 when streets are closed to vehicular traffic and the music doesn’t stop until the sun rises the following day.

July 20, 2012 Colin Johnstone

Odyssey Theatre presents French farce in Strathcona Park

Colin Johnstone

Actors Daniel Briere and Stephanie Izsak kiss in The Game of Love and Chance.

Back-and-forth identity swaps, broad musical numbers, grotesque masks, and rat-a-tat satirical dialogue are all part of Odyssey Theatre’s production of Marivaux’s The Game of Love and Chance – which is set to debut in Strathcona Park next week.

July 20, 2012 Ira Lamcja

City officials skeptical about Ottawa traffic ranking

A new study by GPS manufacturer TomTom reveals that Ottawa is the 10th worst city in North America for traffic congestion – worse than New York and Montreal and about on par with Toronto.