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A computer company has entered into a partnership with eight local high schools, including Lisgar collegiate institute.
The partnership promises to land some students a coveted job in Silicon Valley, but it has some people asking questions about corporations’ place in the classroom.
Controversy over the proposed expansion of Metcalfe Street is heating up, but the national campaign of a new opposition coalition is misleading and premature, say Ottawa Centre MP Mac Harb and the National Capital Commission.
Stop the Metcalfe Nonsense, a coalition of city and regional politicians, heritage experts and the Canadian Taxpayers’ Federation, is asking all Canadians to petition their MPs in defiance of the NCC’s vision for downtown Ottawa.
Three Centretown elementary schools could be among 15 in Ottawa-Carleton facing possible closure as a result of provincial funding changes.
McNabb Park School, on Percy Street, Centennial School, on Gloucester, and Elgin Street School fit the profile of schools that may be closed as the Ottawa-Carleton District School Board wrestles with reducing what the province considers excess classroom space.
The City of Ottawa is planning to scrap its funding for the Rooming House Response Team on June 30, hopeful the regional government will pick up the tab.
The city currently gives about $65,000 to the program annually. A planning and economic development committee draft proposal recommends shifting this responsibility to the region.