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Local high school students itching to escape the pressures of the classroom since work-to-rule began in September are heading back to the basketball courts and volleyball nets.
A Nov. 4 vote ratified the collective agreement between teachers and the Ottawa-Carleton Public School Board.
With Carleton University’s fall varsity season now over, athletics director Drew Love must make tough decisions in evaluating some teams’ accomplishments.
Topping his list should be the university’s most prominent team — football.
After watching Carleton falter from a 5-3 record and a playoff spot in 1996 to consecutive 1-7 last-place finishes, Love must choose to keep the football program or sack it.
It doesn’t have the tackling and padding of traditional football, but organizers of a new flag football program say it’s not missing any of the fun.
October is flag football month and about 100 Ottawa-area schools are getting a chance to try out the sport, thanks to Football Canada’s new flag football program.
Ottawa 67s season ticket holders are concerned they’re not getting their money’s worth because of the new owner’s aggressive marketing campaign.
Ottawa entrepreneur Jeff Hunt, who purchased the No.1 ranked franchise in the Ontario Hockey League in June, was criticized by some season ticket holders who feel they’ve been cheated out of a deal. For the two home games after the opener, Hunt offered a 2-for-1 deal to everyone who had a ticket from the first game. However, this marketing technique hasn’t pleased everybody. Tammy McNamara, a 15-year-67s fan and a season ticket holder for the last 13 years, said she thinks the new marketing campaign is a good idea, but what it’s doing to ticket holders is very unfair.