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Pickup truck, minivan crash leaves four injured, including three children
Three children were among the injured following a “serious” collision between a minivan and a pickup truck at the intersection of Spratt and Earl Armstrong roads in the Riverside South area at about...
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Adam: The solution to the Rohingya refugee crisis
The United Nations calls the Rohingya one of the most persecuted minorities, and yet the world seems to have abandoned them. Deprived of citizenship and basic rights by their own government, they live...
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Immigration paperwork in future of Redblacks hopefuls from U.S.
The first regular-season road trip for some Ottawa Redblacks player won’t be to Montreal for a June 25 game against the Alouettes, but rather to Ogdensburg or some other location just over the...
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Ottawa book events this week
SATURDAY, MAY 30 Colin Rousseaux, author of Stolen: Malaysia Airlines Flight 370: The Perfect Crime will be signing copies and discussing his novel; 1 p.m. to 3 p.m. at Perfect Books, the corner of...
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Living by the Chaudière Falls: Windmill launches condo sales at Zibi
After more than a century hidden behind barbed wire and acres of concrete, the complicated process of freeing one of the National Capital Region’s greatest natural jewels takes a major step forward...
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Is Vancouver boring? Or are seekers of "grit" just voyeurs?
By now most Canadian media outlets have reported on the gauntlet thrown by the Economist: Vancouver is “mind-numbingly boring.” The cheeky blog post “Torporville” has certainly been click-bait. For...
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Letter: Blue Line Taxi goes above and beyond
Re: ‘Elated’ musician reunited with guitar left inside taxi, May 28. Ottawa musician Dave Nadeau is happily reunited with his Gibson Les Paul guitar. That’s great news. While it was missing, though,...
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Volunteer Roundup
For information on these and more volunteer opportunities, visit www.volunteerottawa.ca or call 613-736-5270. Get on board: Carty House, a transitional home for refugee women, seeks candidates for...
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Ottawa Paramedics: first aid knowledge dramatically increases chances of...
Survival rates for persons suffering cardiac arrest have increased from three to about 70 per cent as the general public has become more knowledgeable about first aid and CPR, according to Jean-Pierre...
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Ottawa murder suspect returned to the scene of the crime, jury hears
Mark Haslett was the last man police thought would return to the scene of the crime. But some two hours and 20 minutes after Rolland (Rolly) Laflamme, 54, was knifed in the stomach at his Carling...
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Review: Comic opera Don Quixote takes some musical stumbles
Don Quixote At Southminster United Church Reviewed Friday night Seventeen Voyces and the Ottawa Baroque Consort joined forces Friday night to perform Don Quixote at Camacho’s Wedding, a rarely heard...
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Thunderstorm watch ended after wild storm whips through region
The severe thunderstorm watch for Ottawa ended Saturday evening, after an intense, wind-whipped storm system blew through the area earlier in the day. There were a number of reports of downed trees and...
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Soaked protesters march in final push against anti-terror bill
Several hundred protesters braved thunderstorms in the capital Saturday afternoon as part of a final push to oppose Bill C-51, also known as the Anti-Terrorism Act, that is headed towards third reading...
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Jenkins: Downtown Ottawa has a rich history
Because this is the prettiest and most historic part of downtown, and it is near the workplaces of thousands, there are masses of walkers, runners, cyclists and tourists weaving through each other...
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Likely voters don't care if Harper snubs debates
Prime Minister Stephen Harper is unlikely to suffer any serious electoral consequences from skipping the traditional broadcast consortium leaders debates, a new study of online discussions finds....
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Alberta RCMP charge couple with murder in death of former Ottawa man
EDMONTON RCMP have charged two people with first-degree murder in the death of a former Ottawa man whose body was found in a burnt-out Jeep outside of Edmonton. Adrian Gregory’s body was found by...
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Beatings, rapes a reality for children at residential schools
“I grew up in a fearful life,” says Vernon Jacks, who was sexually abused for three years at a residential school in British Columbia. During the long nights he would think: “When is it going to happen...
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Real estate: Five Alta Vista homes on the market
Alta Vista is a large community in Ottawa’s east end. Made up of several smaller neighbourhoods, it’s an appealing area with several schools, churches, community centres, and plentiful green space and...
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Norway looks to rekindle former World Cup glory
The Norwegians are here. But please don’t call them “Grasshoppers.” That is so 1995. Heidi Store was a midfielder and captain of the Norwegian women’s team that captured Norway’s first and only FIFA...
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Egan: Also a truth – progress, not just pain, for natives in Ottawa
It’s a whole ocean of sad. What to do when we stop hearing the waves of pain? At the media desk Tuesday, a worker handed out a protocol for covering the “sharing circles” at this wrap-up meeting of the...
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