The Ottawa-Gatineau Gay Pride Festival is in trouble. This year’s festivities, held in August, lost $13,000, adding to a $120,000 deficit incurred over the last few years.
Pride committee criticized for playing favourites
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Elgin Street hubub could cost bar owners big bucks
Penalizing bars when drunken patrons spill out onto the street yelling and screaming is misplaced justice, says Baseline’s city councillor Rick Chiarelli.
Letters for October 28, 2005
Broadbent not to blame for parole office woes
I must take exception to the Oct. 14 editorial regarding the temporary Ottawa District Parole Office on Gilmour Street that Corrections Canada secretly opened opposite Elgin Street Elementary School.
The editorial criticizes Ottawa Centre MP Ed Broadbent for his performance in relocating the office. In his defence, it must be said that Mr. Broadbent has been steadfast in his efforts to have the office relocated back to a more suitable location in the Ottawa business district. And please give credit when it is due — federal Centretown Conservative candidate Keith Fountain has made relocation of the Parole Office an election promise.
SOAPBOX by Peter Severinson—Freezing tuition is not the best path to accessible education
In a speech at Carleton University on last month, Ontario premier Dalton McGuinty announced that the provincial tuition freeze will end by September 2006.