Archive 1997-2016
Ottawa paramedics are investigating the cause of a fire in a Centretown building after a 31-year-old man jumped from his third floor apartment, according to Public Education Information Officer J.P. Trottier.
With his 1944 play No Exit, Jean-Paul Sartre coined the phrase, “hell is other people.” Director John P. Kelly’s version of British playwright Alan Ayckbourn’s Absurd Person Singular seems to refine that famous line. Here, hell is five other people forced to make banter at an annual Christmas party.
The World Health Organization officially designated Ottawa as a member of its Global Network of Age-friendly Cities and Communities, the same day city council released the Older Adult Plan.
Construction at 96 Nepean St. can begin after an appeal by the Centretown Citizens Community Association to the Ontario Municipal Board was settled.