Centretown News

One year into its anti-gang campaign, Crime Prevention Ottawa released a report last month showing signs of progress, despite a challenging year for police. With more than 30 shootings in the city so far in 2014 – already surpassing last year’s total – organizers are emphasizing positive results in local communities beyond the numbers.

Hollaback! Ottawa is hoping to make the streets a little safer by putting the issue of gender-based violence on the agenda for the Oct. 27 municipal election.

Ottawa is stricken with a divide between the affluent and “everybody else,” says a report by the Coalition of Community Health and Resource Centres of Ottawa.Titled, Bridging the Gap, this inaugural report was released, say advocates, in hopes of shaping discussion among candidates in the upcoming Ottawa municipal elections.

Somerest Ward voters will have a lot of options to consider when they go to the polls next Monday. While most wards have three to six candidates running in the municipal election, 11 have stepped forward to fill the void left by veteran Diane Holmes, who is retiring.