Archive 1997-2016
Helen Nixon is frustrated. Last month, the 80-year-old McLeod Street resident received her 2005 property value assessment from the Municipal Property Assessment Corporation (MPAC), the agency responsible for residential property assessments in Ontario.
After a recent string of burglaries in Centretown, Ottawa police are warning residents to lock up their homes and befriend their neighbours.
For the next few weeks, about 125 children and their families, brought to Ottawa from Kashechewan, will call several downtown hotels their home.
Prostitution has hit too close to home for one LeBreton Street resident who recently found three used condoms on her doorstep. The same resident also says she has seen couples performing oral sex in cars in front of a nearby church.