Reevely: Let us try, once more, to save Sparks Street

With light-rail stations due to open nearby, a new Indigenous centre promised for Wellington Street and a push on by the federal government to spiff up the Parliamentary Precinct, the city is holding a public consultation on Saturday on how to revive Sparks Street. Again.
Wait, no, it’s too soon to be cynical. I’ll hold off for a few hundred words.
The session will be led personally by Mayor Jim Watson. That’s unusual, and a sign of how seriously the city is taking it. The city