This is just one street corner* in one Canadian city after Team Canada won Olympic gold tonight. It was crazy.
*Elgin and MacLaren, Ottawa.
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I read with interest yesterday that in the interests of holding our tax increase to 3.9%, the City of Ottawa is considering getting rid of Crime Prevention Ottawa. I’ve attended a couple of community meetings organized by Crime Prevention Ottawa, and frankly I wasn’t all that impressed. I’m in favour of crime prevention, but CPO’s approach to [...]
Youville child care staff in a quiet moment I recently had the privilege of taking a tour of Youville Centre, as part of the United Way’s Seeing is Believing tour. Youville is a combination school and child care centre for teen moms. It’s bright, clean and cheerful, and it’s alive with the energy of [...] Being unemployed has some perks. For example, I get to spend a lot of time working on my godawful Nanowrimo novel. And I get to go for long walks around the Experimental Farm on these glorious sunny afternoons, and be part of the energy and noise of huge flocks of crows and geese preparing for [...] They’re saying the two downtown fires at the women’s shelter and the women’s rooming house are unrelated. Foul play is being blamed for at least one of them. Regardless of how they happened, one woman’s dead and an awful lot of women on the bottom rungs of the socio-economic ladder are suddenly even more precariously [...] It was a busy, busy weekend, including a brief trip to Montreal, the TimeRaisers event on Saturday night, and the Vintage Clothing Sale on Sunday, with knitting, novel-writing, novel-reading and breakfast eating crammed into random little pockets of time. TimeRaiser was even better this year than last, because they simplified and streamlined the whole thing. It’s [...] Yesterday was one of those days where we almost did a whole bunch of things, but actually did very little. In the morning we decided to drive out to Mantotick to the Swan on the Rideau where Sue W now works. We thought we’d have brunch at her new digs. We were about halfway there [...] Here are a couple of yummy little tidbits of upcoming fun. Burlesque Life Drawing Comes to Ottawa! Dr. Sketchy’s Anti-Art School is the little New York [...] Years ago, when my criminology degree was fresh, I did a volunteer stint as a court worker for the Ottawa Elizabeth Fry Society. My job, one morning a week, was to show up at First Appearance Court, keep an eye out for women who looked like they needed some help, and try to match them [...] Police watchdog drops blogger case (Ottawa Citizen, September 25, 2009) And so ends another chapter in the life of the Bank Street Bully. There are no surprises here. But how come, in the Citizen article, everything I said or wrote is qualified by words like “allegedly” or “claimed,” which makes it sound like I’m lying? And [...] |
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