Archive 1997-2016
The newly-opened Taverns and Troublemakers exhibit recalls a time when Centretown residents had to cross the “bridge of a thousand thirsts” into Quebec for a drink – the era when most of Ottawa was a “dry” community.
Kait Labbate, Centretown News
Mayor Jim Watson gets into the Halloween spirit.Once again this Halloween, city residents can join Ottawa Mayor Jim Watson for his ninth annual Trick-or-Treat-with-the-Mayor event.
As the number of young people using shelters in Ottawa continues to rise, a national coalition for youth homelessness called A Way Home will launch in the city at the end of October to find solutions to preventing, reducing and ultimately ending what many consider a growing emergency.
The front doors of Ottawa public schools are being left unlocked after a job action by educational support workers. They are withdrawing from certain administrative duties, such as operating the buzzer system implemented in recent years to control visitors’ access to schools and heighten security.