Archive 1997-2016
By Aloma Jardine
Every Sunday night Richard Stevenson gets out a step ladder to look out the window of his bowling centre on Catherine Street.
Kent Bowling Lanes is on the second floor. Stevenson uses the ladder to look out the high window rather than run down the stairs.
By Damali Nabagereka
Although it’s not expected to be ready for at least another eight months, Sparks Street Mall merchants are eagerly awaiting a new parking lot slated to replace the old Kresge and Woolworths buildings.
Demolition of the controversial buildings is already underway, and a site plan for the parking lot has been approved by city council’s planning and economic development committee.
By Lindsey Parry
It’s a busy day in the Rideau Centre.
Four teenage girls sit around a table in the food court, eating New York Fries and drinking Coca-Cola. They talk loudly, often all at once.
But although these OAC students are having fun, they still say they have plenty to worry about.
By Carlen Lavigne
This year’s municipal elections have a new electronic voting system, but fewer polling stations.
Many highrise apartment buildings are losing their voting booths, causing problems for seniors and the disabled.
The new technology means that each polling station can handle more people. So, there will be only 111 polling stations on Nov. 10, compared with 300 in 1994. People who voted in the lobbies of their buildings now have to vote elsewhere.
McIntyre, head of the Tenants Federation, says that closing the apartment polling stations “removes the democratic process for the elderly and disabled.”