Archive 1997-2016
At a time of rising global food prices and intensified effects of climate change hurting agricultural production, one Centretown-based group called Permaculture Ottawa is urging locals to look for places to start their own sustainable gardens. In early March, the UN announced the sharpest rise in the food price index since mid-2012. Volatile weather conditions lowered global crop yields, driving up costs for commodities.
The crisis in Ukraine, which has seen the overthrow of the country’s government and Russia’s annexation of Crimea, is being felt acutely at a Centretown church described as a “microcosm” of the troubled nation’s ethnic divide. 
Pedro Rocha Cabral de Vasconcellos, Centretown News Ukranian and Venezuelan communities rally for peace and call for non-confrontation in their respective nations.
The Tibetan Resettlement Project Ottawa, a volunteer-based initiative, is preparing to welcome 13 displaced Tibetans from northeastern India to Ottawa at the beginning of April.
For the first time since it was founded in 1882, the Royal Society of Canada will have its permanent headquarters in a heritage house on Somerset Street, after receiving a $500,000 donation from former RSC president William Leiss.