Archive 1997-2016
By Aloma Jardine
With the ice storm of the century firmly under their belts, Ottawans are ready to celebrate winter.
But this year’s Winterlude offers people more than just an escape from everyday life.
The National Capital Commission will donate half the price of each ticket sold for its Feb. 7 Canadian Ice Breaker Show to the Red Cross Ice Storm Relief Fund.
By Damali Nabagereka
Ottawa-Carleton District School Board trustees say the province’s delay in releasing funding information for 1998-99 could mean a rocky start next school year.
Board Chair Lynn Scott says the lack of information will delay the budget process.
By Tom McLean
A part of Centretown once considered a haven for prostitution, drug-pushing and panhandling is enjoying a revival thanks to police, residents and Ottawa’s self-proclaimed gay village.
The area around Bank Street and Gilmour Avenue has long had the reputation of a city slum. Robert Giacobbi, a part-owner of Wilde’s sex shop on Bank, says the reputation was somewhat warranted.
“A lot of people were doing their drugs and just hanging around, and there was prostitution,” says Giacobbi.
By Zachary Houle
A labor dispute at the National Art Gallery could keep an anticipated Picasso exhibition under wraps should union members strike or be locked out.
The Gallery’s union, part of the Public Service Alliance of Canada (PSAC), voted for a strike mandate last week after being in a contract dispute with Gallery management since April. Details of the vote aren’t being released.