An Ottawa city councillor wants fences built in the Colonel By underpass, near the Rideau Centre, to discourage street youth from hanging out and in turn make the area safer.
Street youth ‘make downtown underpass unsafe’
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Councillors split over tax hikes and service cuts
City hall’s 2008 draft budget was tabled last week, and with it comes the all-too familiar debate between tax hikes and service cuts – a debate Mayor Larry O’Brien calls a “philosophical divide” that will shape the future of the city.
Community Calendar for November 9, 2007
Nov. 16-17
The Odawa Native Friendship Centre, 12 Stirling Ave., is holding an arts and craft sale from 10 a.m. until 3 p.m. Lunch will also be available. Proceeds will go towards the “Food for Friends” Christmas hampers and toys for Ottawa’s aboriginal residents. For information call 613-232-0016.
LeBreton affordable housing still a go
A city planner quoted in media reports last week denies any threat to the LeBreton Flats affordable housing development.