Fangliang Xu, Centretown News
One of 10 buildings in downtown Ottawa that is said to have a troubling history by Housecreep.com.How would you feel if you discovered the home you recently purchased had been the site of a police shooting or a series of mysterious deaths?
Month: November 2014
Local firms toast success of comet landing
A Centretown high-tech company is celebrating its part in the high-profile Rosetta mission that made international headlines on Nov. 12 when the European-built spacecraft launched a lander onto a comet hurtling through 510 million kilometres from earth.
Council gender gap raises concerns
Councillor-elect Catherine McKenney is ready to be sworn in on Dec. 1 as Diane Holmes’s successor in Somerset Ward, but she is the only newly elected woman on a city council that lost Holmes and two other women — defeated Katherine Hobbs in KitchissippiWard and retired Maria McRae in River Ward.
Farm supporters worry about its future
Caption TextGraphic by Oliver Sachgau, Centretown News
Shaded area shows relationship between leased land and existing Civic Hospital campus.Some community groups are concerned the federal government’s recent transfer of publicly owned land from Ottawa’s Central Experimental Farm could be the beginning of a slippery slope that sees parcels of historical land put up for commercial development.