Archive 1997-2016
By Julia Rim
Nina Woods, 81, has been using Para Transpo for nine years because arthritis has made it difficult to get around.
“I am very content with the service,” she says. “I use it to go almost everywhere.”
On Jan. 1, the province stopped paying its $6.6-million portion of Para Transpo’s $15.2-million budget. The region must meet the shortfall.
By Nick Greenfield and Karyn Pugliese
In the wake of January’s ice storm, a calm atmosphere has settled over Centretown. Although residents have begun to put the pieces of their lives back together, city officials can only guess at the long-term damage to the area’s trees.
By Karyn Pugliese and Nick Greenfield
It was the iciest week in Centretown.
“Operation Ice Storm.” “The Storm of the Century. “Ice Storm ‘98.” Maybe, suggest some observers, the “Storm of the Millennium.”
But while army trucks rolled down Elgin Street, Pat Moore was getting a French manicure.
By Lindsay George
Lansdowne Park could be a thing of the past.
A document inviting detailed redevelopment proposals will go to committee at the end of the month. If approved the document will be given to council for consideration.
Ottawa Mayor Jim Watson says the city is proposing a partnership with a private business, where the city would provide the land but the company shoulders the cost of redevelopment.