Archive 1997-2016
I’d like to think that city councillor Diane Holmes will succeed in her efforts to persuade the decision-makers to keep the Main Branch of the Ottawa Library in the city’s centre.
But I fear that we’re about to see another of the curious short-sighted decisions that Ottawa is noted for, for instance moving the central railway station to Alta Vista or locating the city’s hockey rink/entertainment centre somewhere near Stittsville.
In an effort to improve the lives of cats in the community, the Ottawa Humane Society has kicked off its 2005 cat awareness campaign called the Year of the Cat.
Operation Go Home, an organization that helps street youth reunite with their families, finally has a new home at 176 Rideau St., but will have to raise $100,000 just to pay the rent and renovate.
Talk is cheap when it comes to ending child poverty. That was the message from people who work with child poverty on a daily basis as policy experts, activists and people with firsthand experience met to offer solutions to this Canada-wide problem.