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BE THE CHANGE – Some Great Community-Based Suggestions for Reducing Your Waste Footprint

BE THE CHANGE – Some Great Community-Based Suggestions for Reducing Your Waste Footprint

By Kate Reekie With governments and businesses around the world finally getting serious about climate change and setting ambitious targets for greenhouse gas emissions reductions, the focus now turns to… Read more »

ART BEAT – OOE ARTIST FEATURE: Landscape Architect Jennifer Shepherd Shares Irises and Insight with Budding Artists

ART BEAT – OOE ARTIST FEATURE: Landscape Architect Jennifer Shepherd Shares Irises and Insight with Budding Artists

By Tanis Browning-Shelp Looking out the front window of her family home during a COVID workday, landscape architect Jennifer Shepherd spotted a small posse of neighbourhood kids running around on… Read more »

Neighbours Helping Neighbours at Our Local Food Centre

Neighbours Helping Neighbours at Our Local Food Centre

Mainstreeter Staff The Old Ottawa East (OOE) community has been very generous this past COVID year in supporting the Centretown Emergency Food Centre at 507 Bank Street with food, toiletries,… Read more »

ART BEAT – Tim Hunt’s Main Street Sketches

ART BEAT – Tim Hunt’s Main Street Sketches

By Tim Hunt Tim Hunt explores his community outfitted with a small sketchbook, pen, and watercolour kit. In our regular feature, he shares the pages from his sketchbook and tells… Read more »

BOOK REVIEW – Reel Ottawa: A Memoir of One Man’s Love Affair With The Movies

BOOK REVIEW – Reel Ottawa: A Memoir of One Man’s Love Affair With The Movies

By Theresa Wallace From the age of five, when he went to see Snow White at the Regent Theatre at the corner of Bank and Sparks, Dan Lalande has been… Read more »

OPINION – The Lees Avenue Ward Boundary Fiasco Land Tribunal Blesses “Return” of UOttawa Campus to OOE

OPINION – The Lees Avenue Ward Boundary Fiasco Land Tribunal Blesses “Return” of UOttawa Campus to OOE

By John Dance In July, after a 40-minute “settlement hearing,” the Ontario Land Tribunal (formerly the Local Planning Appeal Tribunal) took the final step to reverse a misguided City of… Read more »

Catherine McKenna resigns, Yasir Naqvi secures federal Liberal nomination in Ottawa Centre

Catherine McKenna resigns, Yasir Naqvi secures federal Liberal nomination in Ottawa Centre

Mainstreeter Staff Things have changed since the last Mainstreeter report on Ottawa Centre candidates for the upcoming federal election. Incumbent Catherine McKenna, who originally was going to run again, has… Read more »

Gray Jay Hospitality Set To Take Flight at the Former Royal Oak

Gray Jay Hospitality Set To Take Flight at the Former Royal Oak

Mainstreeter Staff The Mainstreeter has learned that Gray Jay Hospitality, an innovative Preston Street restaurant focused on wild and Canadian foods, has leased the former Royal Oak at the corner… Read more »

Plan to transfer UOttawa Lees Campus to Vanier Ward kiboshed by OOECA appeal

Plan to transfer UOttawa Lees Campus to Vanier Ward kiboshed by OOECA appeal

By John Dance The old adage “you can’t fight City Hall,” took a beating when Ottawa City Council recently reversed its December 2020 decision to transfer the University of Ottawa… Read more »

Hawthorne Avenue hydro wires – be gone!

Hawthorne Avenue hydro wires – be gone!

By John Dance Enfin! City Council has approved burying the hydro wires and removing the poles when Hawthorne Avenue is reconstructed between Colonel By Drive and Main Street over the… Read more »

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