Take an Italian café with a contemporary touch serving up ethically-sourced beans and locally-made treats. Add a dairy case filled with milk, butter and eggs from nearby Cochrane’s Dairy and Stirling Creamery for those early-morning milk runs. Layer on a carefully-edited wall of magazines and newspapers. Combine it all in a Bauhaus-inspired floral shop and the result […]
Jeff Halper, originally uploaded by freegazaorg. Sorry for the lateness of this post, but I thought it might of interest to Ottawa folks . Tonight, you can catch the last of three talks given by Israeli human rights activist, Nobel Peace Prize nominee, Jeff Halper on the tremendously alarming situation between Israel and Palestine. Halper […]
Councilor Clive Doucet Ward 17: The Glebe, Sunnyside, Old Ottawa South and Carleton U. ‘Doucet Breaks Rank’ read the headline of the Ottawa Citizen, referring to the fact that the councilor is the only one to have spoken his views on the bus strike independently of city hall. His point: control over schedules isn’t worth […]
…check out this site: Public Transit in Ottawa. It’s run by a couple of Ottawa University students (current and former) and links to news sources, polls and other data relating to transit issues. They also have interviews with local politicians, such as Ottawa MPP Yasir Naqvi and the Green Party’s David Chernusenko.
Opinions expressed in this article are those of the author and do not reflect an official position of apt613. I live downtown. I live downtown because I don’t want, and typically don’t need, a car. I (foolishly) don’t work downtown; I work in Ottawa South. Fortunately I’m in good health and I can get to […]
It seems that Canadian politicians don’t wait for Halloween to dress up as their favorite foreign leader. First Stephen Harper spends a couple of years as Bush Jr. Jr., then Danny Chavez brings a bit of South American flava to St. John’s. Now it seems that Ottawa has decided to take up ‘the Chicago way.’ […]
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