Fangliang Xu, Centretown News
Anouk Hoedeman collects birds that have collided with highrises in downtown Ottawa.Every fall, high above Ottawa’s towering offices and sprawling city streets, a great migration takes place. From mid-August to November, hundreds of birds, from warblers to waxwings to woodpeckers, cross the city each night as they flee the chill of the approaching winter.
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Museums lobby for more money for youth works program
The annual Canadian Museums Day on Parliament Hill will take place Nov. 18 and this year, museum professionals are lobbying for an increased investment of $5 million per year in the Young Canada Works program, creating nearly 1,000 new jobs and internships for students.
St. Anthony hopes to make grey schoolyard green
Jessica Kenny, Centretown News
St. Anthony School hopes to replace its paved schoolyard with plants and an outdoor classroom.St. Anthony School is fundraising to turn its paved schoolyard into a more kid-friendly environment.
McKenney supports ghost bikes despite complaints
Miriam Katawazi, Centretown News
A ghost bike at the intersection of Bank Street and Riverside Drive.Despite the recent complaints by Ottawa residents regarding the sometimes prolonged existence of ghost bikes – impromptu memorials to cyclists killed in road accidents – Somerset Ward’s new councillor-elect Catherine McKenney doesn’t see any reason to rethink these reminders of lives lost, including one in Centretown.