Archive 1997-2016
Senator Jerry Grafstein says he’s delighted the federal government is no longer continuing its selection process to find a home for the Portrait Gallery of Canada. To him, it means renewed hope that the gallery will return to Ottawa – where, he says, it belongs.
Steve Beauchesne, co-founder of Beau’s All Natural Brewery, discovered The Beer Store would not receive his empty bottles when customers returned them. 
Beauâs All Natural Brewery founders Tim and Steve Beauchesne (left and right) and Operation Go Home's Gerald Dragon have turned the brewer's bottle return problem into a program for street youth.Beauâs All Natural Brewery founders Tim and Steve Beauchesne (left and right) and Operation Go Home's Gerald Dragon have turned the brewer's bottle return problem into a program for street youth.
A city council committee has given a preliminary thumbs-up to $4.6 million in additional funding from a provincial fund for the Beaver Barracks affordable housing project in Centretown, despite cost overruns.
In a move deemed “unbelievable” and “demoralizing” by city artists, the Ottawa’s art community could lose $4.1 million in municipal funding if city council approves a series of budget cuts in the 2009 budget.