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SEE VIDEO http://www.ottawasun.com/videos?autoStart=true&videoId=1283491372001&pageNumber=0 Families recently on the streets or at risk of losing their homes have a place to turn for help. The city is launching the Families First Program, providing support and referral services. “They may have addictions, they may have mental health issues, they may have financial problems,” said Wanda MacDonald, executive director […]
MoreThe sister of Ottawa’s latest murder victim feared for Leeanne Lawson’s life on Ottawa’s Lowertown streets. “The area that she was living in, I’ve been there,” Melissa Sauder told the Sun, adding she’s visited Lowertown twice in the last three years. “It was scary. I came in there with my fairly nice car,” she said. […]
MoreLeeanne Lawson usually wrote letters to her sister. When four months went by without one, her sister knew something was up. “This summer I was so worried, because it never goes that long,” Melissa Sauder said. “Something wasn’t right.” Her worst fears were confirmed around 7 p.m. Friday when police told their mother her sister’s […]
MoreSEE VIDEO http://www.ottawasun.com/news/ottawa/2011/03/09/17557041.html#/news/ottawa/2011/03/09/pf-17555811.html Wednesdays were hell. From witnessing a stabbing to crack addicts smoking up on their front steps, residents living near Cumberland St. and Daly Ave. saw it all when a homeless drop-in centre used to operate at St. Paul’s-Eastern United church. “It was on Wednesdays, once a week, for five or six years,” […]
MoreThe Anglican Diocese of Ottawa has apologized for comments made by an archdeacon which likened remarks made by downtown residents against a homeless centre to “Nazi Germany.” “They were not constructive to moving the dialogue forward,” the Very Rev. Shane Parker wrote in a letter to the Sun’s editor Wednesday afternoon. At a meeting Monday […]
MoreBoard members of an upscale downtown condominium don’t want a homeless drop-in centre in their neighbour’s backyard. “It’s just the wrong place in our mind to put this,” said Bruce Baker, condo board president of the Galleria at 200 Besserer St. Plans by the Anglican Diocese of Ottawa to move Centre 454 from its current […]
MoreSEE VIDEO http://www.ottawasun.com/news/ottawa/2011/01/19/16950701.html#/news/ottawa/2011/01/19/pf-16945271.html A family of seven is homeless after fire gutted their bungalow at 8 Rue du Cure-Labelle in the Templeton area of Gatineau around 3:30 a.m. Wednesday. No one was injured but the family’s spirits are crushed. A woman wearing a white jacket and dark pants, who didn’t want her name used, is […]
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