Lighting up the Government Conference Centre and other downtown buildings is key to the NCC's illumination plan. National Capital CommissionThe National Capital Commission’s 10-year illumination plan is looking to light up the city just in time for Canada’s 150th anniversary, but not without final input from the private sector and various other stakeholders.
Month: November 2016
City, province eye school-zone radar
A group of students from Glashan Public School walk across the busy intersection at Arlington Avenue and Kent Street in Centretown. The Ontario government and City of Ottawa are looking for more ways to enhance road safety for children walking to and from school. Kelsey Curtis, Centretown NewsThe use of photo radar in Centretown school zones may soon become a reality, thanks to proposed provincial legislation recently announced by Ontario Premier Kathleen Wynne.
NCC dons overalls, touts green farming
The federal agency best known for bringing a cosmopolitan flair to Canada’s capital has also been exploring the rural side of its personality this month, advertising rental properties in Ottawa’s Greenbelt to prospective farmers and hosting a panel on the emerging importance of sustainable urban agriculture.
Museum receives medals of soldier killed last in 1918
The medals (left), memorial plaque and headstone of George Lawrence Price, the last Canadian killed in the First World War. Price was shot by a German soldier just two minutes before the Nov. 11 armistice. Photos courtesy of the Canadian War MuseumA medal set belonging to the last Canadian soldier killed in the First World War arrived at the Canadian War Museum earlier this month.