Archive 1997-2016
By Kate Heartfield
In the days following the Nov. 13 municipal election, both the winner and the runner-up in the Centretown school trustee race were still trying to determine the reasons for the results.
Incumbent Albert Chambers, who says he was “surprised and disappointed” after the election, took only 32 per cent of the vote. School council activist Joan Spice won with 52 per cent, and David Allston, a 21-year-old university student, had a remarkably strong showing with 17 per cent.
By Louise Hayes
Word on the street is that traffic congestion and tax breaks are the top two municipal election issues.
Fifteen people were questioned in the Sparks Street Mall and on the corner of Elgin and MacLaren about their opinions on the upcoming election.
By Brynna Leslie
Alan Cumyn talks to me over the phone from what he describes as his cluttered and cramped home-office in Ottawa South.
He discusses his new novel in the level voice of one who is used to reading prose to an audience. Cumyn’s novel Burridge Unbound was recently nominated for the Giller Prize, Canada’s richest award for fiction, and he’s hoping the nomination will help him tap into the lucrative American market with this book, and its companion novel, Man of Bone.
Newly re-elected Somerset Coun. Elisabeth Arnold says her first order of business will be to make sure the new city is a compassionate one.