Archive 1997-2016
By Keith Kalawsky
Despite loud opposition from angry parents, students and teachers — and squabbling among school trustees — the Ottawa-Carleton District School Board has taken one more step towards radically changing special education in the region.
By Denise Fung
Somerset Coun. Elisabeth Arnold says reversing the provincial government’s tax cuts will be the top item on her agenda if elected to Queen’s Park.
As the NDP’s new candidate for Ottawa Centre, Arnold says the tax cut, which reduced Ontario’s income tax rate by 30 per cent last July, should be scrapped in favour of funding social programs.
By Lily Nguyen
As a divorced Roman Catholic, Marcel Joanisse knew he couldn’t have his wedding in his church because it doesn’t remarry divorced people.
He turned to the City of Ottawa, expecting they could provide him with a civil ceremony. He was told by a city clerk that wasn’t a possibility either. Justices of the peace at the courthouse in Ottawa no longer perform wedding ceremonies.
By Mark Fernandes
Hot on the heels of a poverty awareness campaign, the Centretown Community Health Centre leads a plan to create the first-ever laundry co-operative for low-income people in Centretown.
In collaboration with McLeod-Stewarton United Church, First United Church and others, the health centre last year tackled the problems facing the 120,000 people in Ottawa-Carleton who live below the poverty line.