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Focuses on government spending of the Medical Equipment Fund in Ottawa, Ontario. Designation of the fund for expensive medical equipment for hospitals, such as magnetic resonance imaging equipment; Way that money was spent on items such as a tractor and paper shredders; Defense of the spending by Health Minister Elvy Robichaud.

Focuses on Italian Maria Ferrante, who moved to Ottawa, Ontario in 1955. How she came to Canada to care for her injured husband; Anecdotes of her early days in Ottawa; Struggles she had with language barriers.

Focuses on plans by Marcel Beaudry, chairman of Canada's National Capital Commission, to transform Ottawa, Canada's capital city. Comments of Beaudry, including his assessment of the city as a so-called mess; Highlights of improvements to Sparks Street, LeBreton Flats, and Victoria and Chaudiere Islands; Speculation on whether it will happen; Views of critics, including practical and aesthetic concerns over a piazza.

Focuses on a report from Public Works Canada which found Canada's Parliament Buildings need $226 million in major renovations over the next decade, due to Conservative government postponed maintenance.

The article relates the author's first encounter, at age nine, with Norval Morrisseau, the Ojibway artist, who had come his parents' home in Cochenour, Ontario to talk about selling his paintings. This would have been about eight years after Morrisseau's first gallery show in Toronto, in 1962, caused a sensation in the big-city art scene, and three since he had earned even wider popular acclaim for a huge mural executed at Expo 67. My parents bought two paintings, one of a group of loons and the other of a finned creature from Ojibway legend, part human, part fish. Up there in the Red Lake district, where he first painted and peddled his work, his bold acrylics were quite common in ordinary homes. The National Gallery of Canada in Ottawa is planning a major retrospective of his paintings for early 2006. It's doubtful Morrisseau will be able to attend the opening: now in his early 70s, he lives in a nursing home in Nanaimo, B.C., suffering from Parkinson's disease, and no longer able to paint. Few living Canadian artists would even be considered for such an exhibition. But for an Aboriginal painter to be singled out for this career-capping treatment is especially remarkable. His painting is an indispensable link between the old ways of Aboriginal art and the entry of contemporary Native artists into the world of collectors and critics. The clashing religious influences of Morrisseau's grandparents play out in some of his most powerful work as a struggle to reconcile Christian and Ojibway beliefs.

Reports on impending legislation to regulate bank mergers in Ottawa, Ontario expected for late May, 2000. Important role of the financial services sector in the Canadian economy; Conflict of Ottawa government to uphold banks to a global standard while protecting domestic competition; Legal aspects for banks to file a merger request; Prospects of banks in international opportunities.

Discusses the efforts being made in the Canadian province of Ottawa to set aside a system of conservation zones in the ocean to protect wildlife. Observation of whales by Hal Whitehead; His participation in coordinating the plans with the Fisheries and Oceans Minister David Anderson and his frustrations with its lack of progress; Bureaucratic problems with conservation in British Columbia; The Canadian Wildlife Service's enabling act; Outlook.

Focuses on problems at Carleton University in Ottawa, Canada. Unauthorized report prepared by political science professors Sharon Sutherland and Glen Williams on the state of the university; Finding that the institution failed to serve many of its students well; Decision to increase average entering grades; The debate over standards.

The Dominion Institute is compiling a digital archive of memories and memorabilia from war veterans across Canada. One veteran, Edna Wilson, spent the final year of the Second World War working as an air force clerk in London. Wilson, who is 81 and lives in Ottawa, contributed the old photos on these pages as well as a letter she sent her older sister, Blanche, the day after celebrating the end of the war in Europe. Some of that letter, detailing the activity in London on Victory in Europe night, is excerpted here.

Reports on the scandal in Ottawa, Ontario over misspent billions that continues to plague the federal human resources department. Attack on the Liberal government for misappropriation of funds; The lack of a government scapegoat in the scandal; The role of Human Resources Minister Jane Stewart and former Minister, Pierre Pettigrew.

Reports on the anger of farmers in Manitoba over the Agriculture Income Disaster Assistance (AIDA) program of the provincial government of Ottawa, Ontario, for the latter's refusal to grant a bigger bailout package. Conditions which rule out many grain farmers; Setbacks suffered due to severe weather conditions; Sufferings of Manitoban farmers due to AIDA administrative problems.

The article presents news briefs for Ottawa, Ontario. The launch party for the book by "Toronto Star" reporter Linda Diebel, "Stéphane Dion: Against the Current," is discussed. Members of the Canadian Parlament lent support to the Multiple Sclerosis Society of Canada by wearing red carnations or with cash donations. Paul Dewar of the New Democratic Party in Canada wore an Ottawa Senators hockey jersey to the House.

My friend used to call him Big Red, because he was several inches over six feet tall and his face was always flushed. But neither my friend nor I knew much about him, really. We knew that he was quite thin and always seemed to be walking the streets of Ottawa's Glebe district in his navy blue raincoat and baseball cap. Big Red's flushed face made him look like he was a heavy drinker, but he never gave the appearance of being drunk. Most people were so used to seeing him that they didn't give him much thought. However, I do remember a store owner or two offering him a cup of coffee on occasion, sometimes something to eat. Someone told me that Big Red had been a mental patient, and one of the last in Ontario to have received a lobotomy. I never saw Red with any friends, so I figured he lived a very lonely life. Maybe that explained why he spent so much time walking the streets, visiting some of the stores of the Glebe. We get busy with our lives and often miss what's right in front of us, so I don't remember when he stopped coming. One day, I just noticed that something was missing. Big Red wasn't there. Not then, and not any time since. That was over 30 years ago. I live in the east end of Ottawa now, but I still do my banking in the Glebe. Red had been such a presence there that I can't return to my old neighborhood without thinking of him.

Eulogizes Canadian artist Orville Fisher. Biographical information on Fisher; World War II era works depicting the invasion of Normandy on display in the Canadian War Museum.

Discusses a donation scandal that Ottawa Senators hockey player Alexei Yashin is involved in concerning the $1 million he decided to give to the National Arts Centre (NAC) in Ottawa, Ontario. The side deals that were involved; Why the NAC decided to expose the deal; Yashin's denial of wrongdoing.

Reports on a police investigation of Owen Dulmage of Ottawa, who is charged with the kidnapping and forcible confinement of one young boy in 1960 and may eventually be implicated in a number of other such crimes. Examples of evidence collected by Ottawa police from his home in April 1997; How Michael Helferty, who Dulmage is said to have abducted, brought Dulmage to the police's attention.

Reports that Giorgio Pelossi spent five days in Ottawa to give a formal statement to the Royal Canadian Mounted Police (RCMP) regarding the Airbus Industrie case. The RCMP investigation of allegations that former Prime Minister Brian Mulroney may have accepted bribes in connection with European consortium Airbus Industrie's sale of passenger planes to Air Canada in 1988; Pelossi's access to information as a former associate of Karlheinz Schreiber, who represented Airbus in Canada.

Discusses controversy over efforts to redecorate Rideau Hall, the residence of Ramon Hnatyshyn, former governor general of Canada. How, when the Hnatyshyns moved in to the residence in 1990, they inherited a major restoration project under direction of designers and curators from the National Capital Commission (NCC); Problems caused when Gerda Hnatyshyn took over the overall restoration project herself.