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A strike by 60 Salvation Army employees at a downtown shelter has been averted — for now. “We want the employer to come back to the table,” Larry Rousseau from the Public Service Alliance of Canada told the Sun late Monday. As of Tuesday, kitchen and maintenance staff as well as social workers at the […]
MoreSEE VIDEO http://www.ottawasun.com/2011/10/03/food-bank-struggles-as-thanksgiving-looms Empty boxes are sitting on shelves reserved for dry pasta at the Ottawa Food Bank warehouse, after a “disappointing” first phase of the Thanks for Giving drive. “We had a tough weekend,” said executive director Peter Tilley. “We’re down about 10 to 15% from where we’d like to be at this time […]
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. […]
MoreSEE VIDEO http://www.ottawasun.com/2011/07/26/ottawa-men-shed-clothes-for-their-unemployed-bros Ottawa femme fatales were straining their necks for a better view. Men even did double-takes as four male models — dressed in boxer shorts, dress socks, and dress shoes — paraded through the Byward Market in the pouring rain Tuesday afternoon. Some younger women laughed, or downright ignored them, while others were […]
MoreSome Ottawa cops say they’re letting drunks roam the streets because stricter measures in the central cellblock intended to protect intoxicated people are actually making things worse. “Why bother? You’re going to be stuck with them,” one officer who didn’t want to be named told the Sun. “Just don’t pick them up in the first […]
MoreSEE VIDEO http://www.ottawasun.com/2011/05/11/sally-ann-saddled-with-1m-junk-bill Shame on you, Ottawa. Thoughtless residents keep saddling the Salvation Army with so-called donations that turn out to be junk. And it’s cost the charity almost $1 million over the last five years to get rid of it. All too often, large items such as washers, dryers, fridges, and stoves are dumped […]
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