OTTAWA A proposed new embassy row just west of downtown could soon be up for debate at Ottawa City Hall. The plan by the National Capital Commission would see green space in Mechanicsville near the Sir John A. Macdonald Parkway used for six new embassies that each be three storeys tall. Which countries will occupy the embassies has yet to be decided. But residents of Mechanicsville opposed to the project say the land space should not be used for a row of diplomatic missions. Roy Atkinson, of the Mechanicsville Community Association told CTV News at Noon that one the principal concerns is safety.
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More games, more books, more noodles and lots more tea: welcome to a changing Squirrel Hill
Squirrel Hill is one of the great urban neighborhoods in America, and has been for a long time. It was literally Mister Rogers’ neighborhood, where the television host the ultimate good neighbor lived.
Squirrel Hill was the first place in Pittsburgh well, anywhere that felt like home to me. For more than 20 years, I’ve lived in and around it (now in next-door Greenfield), and I’ve come to revel in its timeless rhythms from the Orthodox families walking slowly to shul each Shabbat, to the shrieks of joy of kids skidding down the hill at Blue Slide Park on flattened cardboard boxes, to the thrill of the hunt in the dusty stacks at Jerry’s Records, perhaps the greatest used record store in the universe.