Kait Labbate, Centretown News
Mayor Jim Watson gets into the Halloween spirit.Once again this Halloween, city residents can join Ottawa Mayor Jim Watson for his ninth annual Trick-or-Treat-with-the-Mayor event.
Author: Centretown Staff
Coalition seeks solution to youth homelessness
As the number of young people using shelters in Ottawa continues to rise, a national coalition for youth homelessness called A Way Home will launch in the city at the end of October to find solutions to preventing, reducing and ultimately ending what many consider a growing emergency.
School’s said safe despite unlocked doors
The front doors of Ottawa public schools are being left unlocked after a job action by educational support workers. They are withdrawing from certain administrative duties, such as operating the buzzer system implemented in recent years to control visitors’ access to schools and heighten security.
Botanist goes to Mars – without leaving Earth
Paul Solokoff
Paul Solokoff "explores Mars" – on Earth.With NASA’s discovery of water trickling down Mars’ canyon and crater walls as well as the movie release of The Martian this month, the Red planet is all the craze and curiosity lately.