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Residents of the Elgin Street area are teaming up with police to crack down on noisy bar and restaurant patrons who leave garbage in the streets, park illegally and blast music from their cars into the early hours of the morning.
Special education cuts, the near cancellation of school buses and school closures loom large on the horizon if the Ottawa-Carleton District School approves its proposed budget — one that slices $33.7 million to satisfy the provincial government’s funding formula, and one which director of education Jim Grieve calls “excruciating.”"
Despite significant public opposition to a proposal for a 20-storey building on Gilmour Street, the developer has purchased a second downtown site and plans are in the works for a similar highrise.
Centretown residents insured by CGU Insurance Company of Canada will no longer be covered against terrorist attacks.