Carleton journalism student Chad Paulin has been honoured with the first Rob Dolan Award for his coverage of municipal affairs in Centretown News.
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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.”
Reforms in the crossfire
By Daniel Kitts
The need for reforms, suggested in a $56,000 study conducted last year, was highlighted by two fires in the same apartment complex on Metcalfe Street within seven months.
An inspection after the second fire on March 12 showed the complex, located at 285-289 Metcalfe, lacked several pieces of fire equipment required for a building of its kind under Ontario’s retrofit regulations, introduced in 1992.