What's really in Ottawa street drugs? New machines will find out
Ottawa Public Health is buying new machines to test illicit drugs being used at supervised injection sites, and plans to tell people what they find using an online dashboard.
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Ottawa Public Health is buying new machines to test illicit drugs being used at supervised injection sites, and plans to tell people what they find using an online dashboard.
Councillors on the city's finance and corporate services committee have voted in favour of budget directions that include a 2.5 per cent property tax increase.
Local activist and journalist Ewart Walters has died at the age of 83.
Ottawa residents will be limited to three containers of garbage every two weeks after 22 of 24 city council members voted in favour of the new plan, replacing the contentious idea of having to put tags on bags.
“Any change with garbage touches every resident in the city. What you saw here is a reflection of that."