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By Mark Savage
image captionDownload Festival was run as a limited-capacity pilot event last weekend
Festivals and freelancers in the cultural sector face devastating consequences unless the government offers more support, MPs have warned.
The Public Accounts Committee praised a government scheme to bail out cultural institutions, but said festivals faced a survival threat unless ministers set up a cancellation insurance scheme.
It noted the government had not yet modelled how such a scheme could work.
The government said more help was coming via its culture recovery fund.
In its report published on Wednesday, the Public Accounts Committee also raised concerns over the lack of support for crew and technicians.
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Neighbourhood Walk: Walkin’ Down Main
Today we bring you the fourth in a series of neighbourhood photo essays by
Spacing Ottawa contributor Christopher Ryan, as we take a stroll down Main Street. Be sure to check back to see where Chris visits next.
A long time coming, I had decided that Main Street was going to be the site of my next walk. In spite of its proximity to Ottawa’s core, Old Ottawa East seems to fly below the radar. As a street that is loaded with examples of so much of the city’s history, the walk down Main is one of my favourites. Although it was part of a much longer walk (I wound up at Elmvale), I have chosen to focus on Main, between Hawthorne and the bridge.