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Anger, impatience and frustration were in the air last week as the Ottawa-Carleton District School Board held its third consultation with parents of special education students whose programs are threatened with cancellation this fall.
Following a large federal grant, national cultural institutions say they are prepared to work for more private funding, but smaller organizations may be unable to generate such financial support.
Since the Conservative minority federal government could fall any day, federal political parties are getting prepared, and people are gearing up for nomination battles in Ottawa Centre.
Critics of the Ottawa Humane Society are concerned that a report on its animal behaviour assessment practices, commissioned after a controversial euthanization last summer, will fall short of being accountable to the public without releasing its euthanasia statistics.