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City council has given the rubber stamp to a six month limit on ghost bikes and other roadside memorials in Ottawa. The decision was finalized during Thursday morning’s city council meeting. Somerset Coun. Catherine McKenney was the lone councillor to oppose the motion that passed without debate.
Mohamed Fahmy, a Canadian-Egyptian journalist who was imprisoned for over a year in Egypt, was at Carleton University on Monday evening to speak about press freedom and life after his release.
Manifest Change, a project of the Ottawa Coalition to End Violence Against Women (OCTEVAW), won the Crime Prevention Ottawa’s annual Community Safety Innovation award last week for their efforts to make Ottawa safer for women.
The city’s transportation committee approved a new roadside memorial policy Wednesday that will limit the duration of roadside memorials to six months.