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Mayor seeks nominations for service award
Ottawa Mayor Jim Watson is seeking city residents who have contributed to improving their community.
‘Big picture’ finds concrete examples at constituency level
By Joe Boulé
Health care. Education. Workfare. Tax cuts. Law and Order. Those are some of the issues that have dominated the election on the provincial scene.
It’s not much different on the local level.
Like most provincial elections, the issues that surface in the ridings are generally a microcosm of the “big picture” throughout Ontario. But at a local level — in Ottawa Centre — words such as “education cuts” get replaced with more concrete examples such as “McNabb Park.”
Fire code problems may lead to charges
By Daniel Kitts
The owner of an apartment complex that caught fire twice in the past seven months is expected to be charged with breaking the Ontario fire code, Ottawa fire department officials say.
William Robert Cuming of Kanata, owner of the Gainsborough at 285-289 Metcalfe St., was informed at a meeting on March 25 that he would be charged, says Charles O’Brien, division chief of the Ottawa fire prevention bureau.