Archive 1997-2016
Trustees of the Ottawa-Carleton District School Board voted on Nov. 17 to delay making controversial changes to the early French immersion program.
Instead, trustees decided that the board — the largest in Eastern Ontario with more than 70,000 students — should conduct more consultations with parents and other members of the school community and that any changes will not be implemented until 2017 at the earliest.
A town hall meeting turned confrontational after members of the public disagreed with the Gender Wage Gap Steering Committee on how they framed the fundamental problems underlying pay equity.
Asking for a meal to be boxed up to go is a question asked frequently by some restaurant goers but for many others the final destination of their food is the trash bin. Ottawa city council recently approved a motion to direct a food waste initiative report to the Federation of Canadian Municipalities for consideration.
Kelly O'Brien, Centretown News
Volunteers Joan West, 90, and Stan Harris, 78, (both standing) have been volunteers at the Good Companions Seniors' Centre for several decades.Stan Harris, 78, remembers the floor plan of the original Good Companions Seniors’ Centre, a place he helped build 58 years ago.