Archive 1997-2016
Population: 106, 562
Average Household Income: $48,689
Language Breakdown: English, 85,495, French, 7,130
Industries: Government
Business
Health and Social Services
Source: Census Canada 1996
An Ottawa Centre MPP’s Who’s Who
Current: Richard Patten (Liberal)
By Angela Hall
Dubbed the “eyes and ears” of Centretown, a safety patrol hired last summer by Centretown business improvement groups will likely be back this spring to help keep panhandling, prostitution, vandalism and theft in check.
If the plan is approved in April by the Bank Street, Somerset Heights and Somerset Village business groups, the patrol of four Capital Security and Investigation employees could hit the streets by May and stay until Labour Day weekend, says Gerry LePage, executive director of Bank Street Promenade.
By Rita Trichur
The Ottawa-Carleton Catholic School Board’s decision to close St. Patrick’s Adult Day School is a bad idea in any language, says the school’s English-as-a-Second-Language students and teachers.
And the students say without English-language skills, many of them will be forced on to Ontario’s welfare rolls.
By Gina Harris
With construction causing traffic snarls on Elgin Street, major repairs to the watermain on Gloucester Street come at a bad time.
But the region will limit the disruption to traffic and businesses by finding a new use for some old technology.