Author: Centretown Staff

Participants gathered recently at a sex shop on Bank Street for a suicide prevention workshop aimed at “weirdos, freaks and queers” — people on the margins of society, particularly members of the LGBTTQ community, according to the event’s organizer.

As early as 2004, the world became aware of the horrors inflicted by the U.S. Army and CIA groups in Abu Ghraib, Iraq, a series of human rights violations – including physical and sexual abuse, murder, rape and torture – that were photographed and eventually publicized for all to see.

More than 65 years after French urban planner Jacques Gréber drafted his famous 1950 blueprint to transform the cityscape of Canada’s capital, Ottawa author and City of Ottawa planner Alain Miguelez is raising questions about Gréber’s legacy.