Ottawa police issued an arrest warrant on Tuesday for a suspect charged with two bank robberies in November.
Arrest warrant issued for bank robbery suspect
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Month: January 2015
Public school board consults public on spending priorities
With Ottawa’s main public school board in the midst of planning for what’s expected to be four years of shrinking budgets, Centretown’s newly elected trustee, Erica Braunovan, doesn’t think the province's planned cuts to education spending will force the closure of any downtown schools.
Betting on a bustling Bank Street
Heather Garrod, the new chairwoman of the Bank Street BIA says one of her goals is to make the area a “reflection of the population.”
Garrod says she wants to “bring people back to Bank Street to see that there are interesting shops to support local business. That keeps the money local as well so it benefits everybody.”
Ottawa’s Egyptian community rallies for democracy in Egypt
Leaders of the Egyptian Canadian Coalition for Democracy organized a demonstration on the Rideau Canal to call into question the legitimacy of the government of Egyptian president Abdel Fattah el-Sisi.Shouting “down, down, with the military coup,” members of Ottawa’s Egyptian community rallied to denounce the Egyptian government on Sunday.