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Through a new initiative conceived to celebrate positive impacts on Ottawa communities, local change makers will be recognized for efforts to address problems and improve lives in their own neighbourhoods. Partnering with Impact Hub Ottawa, the City of Ottawa has announced its first-ever Social Impact Awards.
What’s been called Ottawa’s first openly gay bar, the Centretown Pub, is still on the market months after news of its planned sale sent a buzz through the city’s LGBTTQ+ community.
A leading advocate for transgender rights is expressing confidence that Bill C-16, which would significantly strengthen legal protections for gender identity and expression, will win committee and Senate approval now that the landmark legislation has easily passed second reading in the House of Commons.
Twenty-three Centretown church congregations banded together to host the first annual walkathon in support of the Centretown Emergency Food Centre — a fundraising effort sorely needed after the centre’s support of government-sponsored Syrian refugees this year left it struggling to meet the spike in demand.