Archive 1997-2016
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By Melanie McNaught
So, who do you believe? Did Alexei Yashin’s agent phone the NAC asking them to make a phony invoice for services (never) rendered?
Yashin and his agent Mark Gandler say the phone call was about why the NAC wasn’t bringing in Russian performers.
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 Richard Bloom
When it comes to hockey, what’s good for Toronto isn’t always good for Ottawa.
The Ontario Minor Hockey Association, the body that oversees minor hockey from Windsor to Kingston, has decided to ban red laser pointers from all hockey games.
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.