Month: November 2015

Trustees of the Ottawa-Carleton District School Board voted on Nov. 17 to delay making controversial changes to the early French immersion program. 

Instead, trustees decided that the board — the largest in Eastern Ontario with more than 70,000 students — should conduct more consultations with parents and other members of the school community and that any changes will not be implemented until 2017 at the earliest.

A town hall meeting turned confrontational after members of the public disagreed with the Gender Wage Gap Steering Committee on how they framed the fundamental problems underlying pay equity.

Asking for a meal to be boxed up to go is a question asked frequently by some restaurant goers but for many others the final destination of their food is the trash bin. Ottawa city council recently approved a motion to direct a food waste initiative report to the Federation of Canadian Municipalities for consideration.