Archive 1997-2016
When Bill McLachlan talks about his six closest pals, a heart-broken man 50 years younger shines through his eyes.
They were all killed in the Second World War, young Canadians fighting in Europe. McLachlan had known all of them since Boy Scouts.
“Remembrance for me is those six men, killed before they were 21,” McLachlan, a Second World War veteran, says. “I think of these young people who were snuffed out at the prime of life.”
The school year is off to a shaky start for elementary school teachers, who began September without new textbooks to back up the province’s new curriculum.
Ottawa schools only received the new textbooks a few weeks ago, leaving teachers no time to plan a teaching strategy to meet new education standards. While some say the new books are not essential, the teachers’ union feels differently.
The threat of a Remembrance Day sniper won’t stop doctors from performing abortions at a Centretown clinic in November.
The Morgentaler Clinic, on Bank Street, has three physicians who will continue working regular shifts, says Joan Wright, the clinic’s manager.
The fate of Centretown schools, which was to be decided by community working groups, will be left to the Ottawa-Carleton District School Board after all.
And after months of meetings, studies and speculation, the community working group set up to advise the school board on closures has recommended that no schools be closed in Centretown. The group released its report earlier this week and will present their study to trustees at a meeting Nov.10.
The community reports will be studied by school board staff which will make recommendations on Nov. 24. The final decision by trustees will be made public Dec. 21.