Archive 1997-2016
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The dispute between the Ontario Secondary School Teachers’ Federation and the Ontario government has some teachers cancelling activities and students sitting on the sidelines.
Lisgar Collegiate, like other schools across Ontario, has prevented all extracurricular activities from beginning. Class trips and activities required as part of a course are being continued.
Controversy over the proposed expansion of Metcalfe Street is heating up, but the national campaign of a new opposition coalition is misleading and premature, say Ottawa Centre MP Mac Harb and the National Capital Commission.
Stop the Metcalfe Nonsense, a coalition of city and regional politicians, heritage experts and the Canadian Taxpayers’ Federation, is asking all Canadians to petition their MPs in defiance of the NCC’s vision for downtown Ottawa.
Three Centretown elementary schools could be among 15 in Ottawa-Carleton facing possible closure as a result of provincial funding changes.
McNabb Park School, on Percy Street, Centennial School, on Gloucester, and Elgin Street School fit the profile of schools that may be closed as the Ottawa-Carleton District School Board wrestles with reducing what the province considers excess classroom space.
By Rachelle Diprose
There’s not that big of a difference between basketball teams and drama clubs after all, Ottawa’s education officials have determined.
Ottawa-Carleton’s District School Board told parents Oct. 15 that volunteers will be allowed to supervise all extracurricular activities, including sports teams, in the place of teachers. The move was a reversal of a decision made earlier this month that kept volunteers from supervising sports.