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The January 2024 issue of The Centretown BUZZ, Centretown’s community newspaper, is out.
You can read it online here!
City staff have recommended that two Centretown buildings be given the extra protection of provincial heritage status: the Bible House at 315 Lisgar, and the W.C. Edwards Building (the former home of the Orange Art Gallery) at 290 City Centre. And they recommend that “heritage attributes” be added for the city Water Works complex in LeBreton Flats.
The convoy occupation of downtown Ottawa almost two years ago was traumatic and unprecedented in this city and this country – and yet it’s been almost exclusively chronicled in either commission reports or daily newspaper accounts. Paul Wells’ short book is the first I’ve seen that takes a more reflective, independent look at the events.
Councillor Ariel Troster talks about the upcoming safer alternative response pilot and the right to protest.
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