Archive 1997-2016
Residents and business owners are divided over plans to allow businesses to move into residential areas in Centretown. A number of streets could change status from “residential” to so-called “mixed use,” if city council approves the draft of the Centretown Community Design Plan.
It would be a night out like any other. There would be music, people chatting and mingling. Drinks would be served. It would have all the trappings of a dance club – except the decor includes dinosaur bones and displays of rocks and minerals. 
Amanda Stephen, Centretown NewsCynthia Iburg cozies up to a dinosaur at the Museum of Nature.
Residents driving in or out of Centretown on Bronson Avenue will have to contend with an increased police presence until as late as March, says Coun. Marianne Wilkinson, chair of Ottawa's transportation committee.
Jill Adams, Centretown NewsRadar trailers on Bronson Avenue, between Brewer Park and Holmwood Avenue, track the speed of passing cars as part of increased enforcement of speed limits.
“In a hundred years, maybe the vote.” That was the extent of black Americans’ wildest ambitions during the Civil War, looking forward past abolition to the seemingly unthinkable possibility of black military officers, so it is fitting that Spielberg’s semi-biopic of Lincoln and chronicle of the Thirteenth Amendment opens as the presidency of Barack Obama has been confirmed for a second term.