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Homes calendar March 28 to April 3
This weekend Home show: Meet the professionals who can help you and your home with everything from eavestroughing to gardening, renovations and more at the annual Ottawa Home & Garden Show. It runs...
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Ottawa ComicCon: Star Trek's Mr. Chekov, others, join the bill
Ottawa Comiccon announced a number of late additions to its lineup, including characters from TV shows Star Trek and Star Trek: The Next Generation, as well as a key player from the new TV show The...
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Op-Ed: Paying people $1.15 an hour is wrong
“The Treadmill and the Poor Law are in full vigour, then?” said Scrooge. “Both very busy, sir.” “Oh! I was afraid, from what you said at first, that something had occurred to stop them in their useful...
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No charges in fatal Ride the Rideau collision
No charges will be laid in the investigation into a fatal collision involving a 40-year-old female cyclist last fall during a charity event hosted by the Ottawa Hospital Foundation. Laurie Strano was...
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Minister for the capital defends memorial site near Supreme Court
The minister for the national capital region endorsed the chosen location for the Memorial to the Victims of Communism Wednesday, saying downtown Ottawa doesn’t need another government building....
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Model home tour: Smart styling makes bold statement in Fieldstone towns
When it comes to selling homes in an ultra-competitive market, timidity doesn’t cut it. At least that’s the approach Richcraft has taken with its five urban town model homes at Fieldstone in Barrhaven....
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Sutcliffe: What I learned about Ottawa on my 51.7-km run (with video)
There are moments in your life when you see everyone at their best. On Tuesday, I travelled around the city for hours on foot and witnessed the kindness, generosity and hard work of hundreds of caring...
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Two semis, two styles under one roof for Westboro extended family (with video)
Not everyone could live right next door to their parents, but Meeka Proudfoot admits it has its perks: “We’ve never paid for a babysitter.” In 2013, Proudfoot and husband Iain sold their large...
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Jonathan McLeod: A wider highway, a village threatened
Cumberland is a lovely little village. Swallowed up by amalgamation 15 years ago, the residents have worked to ensure that its small-town charm persists while the community becomes part of the city of...
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Flipped tanker truck spills fuel oil in Nepean
Emergency crews raced to contain a fuel spill in Nepean Thursday after a tanker truck flipped on its side, injuring the 28-year-old driver. The Ottawa fire department’s haz-mat team was called to Alti...
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'The Gay Sweater' carries heavy message about acceptance and bullying
‘It is a physical object that gets you to think and reflect’ The sweater began as a lighthearted conversation between Jeremy Dias and his colleagues at Ottawa’s Canadian Centre of Gender and Diversity....
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Hazeldean reopened after car hits pole, flips
Ottawa police say they have reopened Hazeldean Road from Eagleson to Castlefrank roads following a single-vehicle crash that caused an electrical pole to catch fire. Police said the collision damaged...
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Higher Ottawa condos let architects get playful
With excavation now underway at Carling Avenue and Preston Street, Claridge Homes is that much closer to presenting Ottawa with its tallest residential tower: the 45-storey, 128-metre Icon. Of course,...
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Ethics watchdog OKs poitical aide joining Ottawa lobby shop
Federal Ethics Commissioner Mary Dawson has given a top Conservative aide special permission to join an Ottawa lobbying firm that he had business dealings with when he served as an adviser to Justice...
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Police negotiate with barricaded assault suspect (with video)
Ottawa police are negotiating with an assault suspect who has barricaded themselves inside a Hintonburg apartment. The individual is on the seventh floor of an Ottawa Community Housing building at 395...
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Missing Teen from Stittsville area found
Seija Smolmander, 16,of Stittsville, has been found safe, Ottawa police report. Smolmander had been missing since early Sunday morning.
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Harper's anti-niqab rhetoric helps terrorist recruiters: philosopher Taylor
By Joan Bryden Prime Minister Stephen Harper was accused on the weekend of playing into the hands of terrorist recruiters with inflammatory comments about the face-covering veil worn by some Muslim...
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Photos and video: Beth Shalom march to the Soloway Jewish Community Centre
Members of the Congregation Beth Shalom of Ottawa marched from their 151 Chapel St. location to their temporary new home at the Soloway Jewish Community Centre near Broadview Avenue and Carling Road, a...
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NCC ready to develop plan to see national capital in a better light
Not much will happen in time for Canada’s 150th birthday in 2017, but the National Capital Commission wants Canadians to see their capital city in a better light — at least at night. The NCC has posted...
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Editorial: A Canadian train culture (with video)
By any international standard, Canada doesn’t have much of a train culture. One reason for that is and will always be geography — ironically, given the place the railway occupies in our national...
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