'No bad ideas' for animating Sparks Street: Watson

When Jim Watson was working as a young Hill staffer on Sparks Street in the 1980s, he often worked late and found himself walking down the pedestrian mall after nightfall. Just him and the roll of tumbleweed. 
The mayor has heard all of the tired clichés about Ottawa — the capital city that rolls up its sidewalks at night and that really tired one that calls it the town that fun forgot. The City of Ottawa has long talked about livening up the street, and now the mayor wants to