Bring on the investigation into my behaviour, says school board trustee...
Public school board trustee Donna Blackburn says she welcomes a formal investigation into her conduct triggered by a complaint from fellow board member Christine Boothby.
View ArticleMany roads still treacherous as Ottawa recovers from freezing rain
Side roads in Ottawa remained treacherous Tuesday morning after a Boxing Day of freezing rain. Traffic was light on city roads, though, because so many people are off work for the Christmas holiday....
View ArticleNew Claridge plan for LeBreton Flats calls for five high-rise residential...
Claridge Homes’ vision for finishing up its LeBreton Flats development calls for a bustling, high-density city neighbourhood that has shops, cafés and lots of green space hugging the picturesque...
View ArticleParents plead with school board to save neighbourhood schools
About 170 people braved the snow Tuesday night to make their case to the public school board to save their neighbourhood schools.
View ArticleBarrhaven school council backs down from parental code of conduct
Trustees aren’t the only ones at Ottawa’s public school board interested in using a code of conduct to control the behaviour of colleagues.
View ArticleHope fades in fight to save seven Ottawa public schools
Parents aren’t about to give up the fight, but the chance of saving seven Ottawa public schools slated for closure in the city’s west end looks slim. At the last public meeting held this week, parents...
View ArticleSkate on the Rideau Canal while you can, ice pellets and warm weather on the...
Monday morning’s crisp, cold and sunny weather was perfect for skating on the just-opened Rideau Canal, but don’t expect conditions to stay great for the rest of the week.Ottawa will be hit with snow...
View ArticlePolice charge two people with drug trafficking after raid on Bank Street...
Ottawa police have charged two people in connection with a raid on the Topspot marijuana dispensary on Bank Street Friday.
View ArticleParents, community launch one more fight to save Rideau High School
Rideau High is a small, welcoming school where teachers make a difference in the lives of some of the most vulnerable teenagers in the city.
View ArticleBoard struggles with decline of students studying in English
When Dave Loehr’s son Spencer was in kindergarten, he and his wife decided to buck the prevailing educational trend in their Ottawa South neighbourhood and enrol him in an English-language program at...
View ArticleTrustees respond as parents plea for neighbourhood schools, English-language...
Parents made their case to public school trustees Tuesday to save English-language programs at their neighbourhood schools, even when those programs have been dwarfed by the popularity of French...
View ArticleEight public schools should still be on the chopping block, board says
Since an axe was suspended over eight Ottawa public schools this fall, parents and students have mobilized to save them from closure.
View ArticleApartment fire on Preston Street sends man to hospital
A man is in hospital after a fire broke out in his apartment above a bar on Preston Street early Saturday morning. The man is not seriously injured, said a friend who was at the apartment later...
View ArticleIcy conditions make Ottawa bid to set world snowman-building record tricky
Several hundred people made a valiant effort at TD Place Stadium on Saturday to beat the world record for the most snowmen built in a single hour.
View ArticlePublic school trustees say they will try to spare schools from closure in...
Public school board trustees plan to ask their colleagues to spare three of the eight Ottawa schools targeted for closure.It’s an indication of what’s in store as the Ottawa-Carleton District School...
View ArticlePublic school trustees recommend closing five west-side schools [Video]
Public school trustees have recommended closing five schools in the west end of the city.D. Aubrey Moodie and Greenbank middle schools, Century and Leslie Park English elementary schools and Grant...
View ArticleClosing Rideau High School would be 'act of systemic racism,'...
Rideau High School may not be full, but parents, students and neighbours did their best Wednesday to convince trustees at the Ottawa-Carleton District School Board that it should remain open to help...
View ArticleTrips to the U.S. unlikely to be cancelled, says Ottawa public school board
The Ottawa-Carleton District School board has sent a letter to the parents of children travelling to the United States on school trips, asking if they still want to participate. While all the parents...
View ArticleTrustees deeply divided on future of Rideau High School
Rideau High School should close, trustees at the Ottawa-Carleton District School Board recommended Thursday after two emotional evenings of debate.In a narrow vote, they decided that transferring the...
View ArticleTickets for Canada 150 outdoor dinner in front of Parliament sell out in...
Organizers of a huge open-air dinner on Wellington Street to celebrate Canada’s 150th birthday have apologized to people who were unable to score a ticket.
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