The March 2022 issue of The Centretown BUZZ is out! We hope you’ll enjoy reading it.
Our volunteer team will be distributing the paper around Centretown this weekend. If you’re in Centretown, you should have the choice of reading the eight pages on newsprint or here as a PDF.
In this issue
- How far does $15,000 in federal and provincial grants go? Not as far as you’d think, when it comes to compensating downtown businesses for lost business and costs incurred because of the convoy occupation. And that doesn’t cover the workers who were laid off at all.
- What did riders think of the OC Transpo fare holiday last December? The Ottawa Transit Riders got an earful with more than 700 responses.
- Robert Smythe explains how the city keeps track of heritage properties at risk …
- And we have the latest news in the ongoing saga of Somerset House
- Councillor Catherine McKenney asks where we go post-occupation, including rethinking Wellington Street.
- Tamir Virani discusses why it’s important to preserve housing for people of all incomes
- Toon Dreessen points out the deficiencies in the city’s long-awaited High-Performance Development Standards, which are supposed to encourage more energy-efficient and sustainable buildings
- Want to see your fellow residents in person? The Centretown Community Association will hold an Earth Day celebration April 23, while the Dalhousie Community Association hopes to have its AGM in May in person. You can read about all their other activities in their columns.
- MPP Joel Harden celebrates Ottawans’ opposition to the Russian invasion of Ukraine
- Ryan Lythall points out that, for people like him, the end of mask-wearing is borderline terrifying.
- Nick Grover argues against shoveling more money into police budgets as a response to the occupation.
- And we have suggestions for places to go, films to see, and music to hear now that places are starting to open up.
How to read this paper
Read this month’s newspaper online here, or as a flipbook. We also have a high-res version for printing your own copy.
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