Category: Letters

My husband and I moved into Centretown this summer and are so impressed with the high quality of writing and content in the Centretown News.

Re: Ottawa Centre candidates on election standby

Re: Gilmour Street Parole Office

Youths unfairly blamed for ‘unsafe’ underpass

Re: Street youth “make downtown underpass unsafe,” Nov. 23

I take great offence in the suggestion that, we, the youth of downtown Ottawa make the city unsafe.

We all, for the most part, are struggling and poor. We live in single rooms or tiny apartments. We like to talk to each other and spend time with each other. The spot under the Terry Fox bridge is a popular gathering place because it is a central location that most of us live blocks from, if not under. read more