Category: Editorials

The biggest problem with the police budget is city council cannot tinker with it: it either accepts or rejects the numbers proposed by the police.

It’s hard to live, drive or cycle in Centretown without noticing the decrepit state of many of its streets. Winter after blistering cold winter, the streets have taken a beating. Besides the yawning potholes, some of the area’s infrastructure is old and outdated. It’s time for a facelift.

Condos are part of the city’s vision to change the demographics of the downtown core and create more of a big-city feel.But that vision brings with it consequences that may not appeal to everyone.

Fifteen years ago, the House of Commons made a noble promise to the children of Canada and, indeed, the world to eliminate child poverty by the year 2000 . . .