Source Feed: Ottawa Citizen
Author: Aaron Hutchins
Publication Date: October 8, 2025 - 11:32
Opinion: What would you do with no cars on a road for 30 minutes?
October 8, 2025
I will never forget the first day in January 2024 of our School Street pilot at Trille des Bois Elementary School in Vanier. All the parent volunteers were in place, reflective vests over our bulky winter coats, and the school principal was outside waiting to greet students and parents on Alice Street. I was in place by around 8:15 on Vachon Ave., and minutes later, two siblings and their mum slowly came up to the empty road and asked what to do. ‘What to do?’ I repeated. ‘Anything you want! The street is yours!’ Read More
Unpublished Newswire
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“I believe that we should maintain birthright citizenship in Canada, and I don’t know if I can be any more direct than that,” Fraser told reporters on his way to a Liberal caucus meeting on Wednesday.
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The study by researchers at the
University of California Davis
, and reported in the...
October 8, 2025 - 13:47 | Chris Knight | National Post
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