Archive 1997-2016
If you build it they will come. It’s a tired old phrase and perhaps less relevant now than it once was. Evidence of this is that Ottawa has built a drinking water infrastructure valued at more than a $1 billion and spends $121 million a year to pipe clean water to Ottawa homes. But despite this, only 53 per cent of the city’s residents say they drink tap water exclusively while at home.
A $3.8-million lawsuit against community activist Albert Galpin has been thrown out by a Superior Court judge after he ruled that “it was not unlawful in making a request for information that is specifically permitted by legislation.”
City council will consider widening the overcapacity sidewalks along Metcalfe Street between Gloucester and Wellington streets now that the city’s transportation committee has given the plan the green light.
When people think of 16-year-olds skipping school to jet-set across Canada and major American cities to pursue a career, teen pop-stars such as Miley Cyrus or Justin Bieber probably come to mind.
Ryan Lux, Centretown news16 year-old Emma Graham and her project that studied the use of Indian Dill oil as an environmentally friendly pesticide