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The Canadian Centre for Gender and Sexual Diversity – formerly known as Jer’s Vision – is celebrating its 10th anniversary in connection with this year’s International Day of Pink Gala, to be held April 8 at Ottawa’s De La Salle Secondary School.
City council’s recent decision to break with tradition and open the “Sens Mile” fan zone along Elgin Street ahead of the playoffs – in hopes of helping Ottawa’s NHL team actually make it to the post-season – backfired after club officials expressed concerns that the unusual move might jinx the Sens’ chances.
Stephen Karmazyn for Centretown News
On the 27th anniversary of a massacre in Iraq, Kurds in Ottawa discuss ways to counteract ISIS while commemorating Halabja. Sighs and moans came from all over the small auditorium. The audience took in pictures of a mass exodus from the husk of a fallen city. They were told of the horrors in Syria and Iraq. They were shown gasp-inducing numbers on the refugee crisis. Each moan and sigh marked another casualty in the war for hearts and minds. In the struggle against the social media juggernaut that is ISIS, those moans and sighs are war cries from an altogether different battlefield.
Efforts to reduce water consumption over the past few months across 50 Centretown properties are paying dividends for both the environment and the residents themselves.