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City to continue targeting invasive wild parsnip with mow-and-spray plan
The City of Ottawa plans to continue spraying and mowing areas heavily infested with wild parsnip, the invasive plant with a nasty reputation for causing blisters and burns. Wild parsnip spreads...
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Ottawa (nearly) has Canada's happiest neighbourhoods
We’re a mostly happy gang in our Ottawa neighbourhoods, less bothered by local crime, graffiti, loud parties and street drugs than residents of Canada’s other big cities. So says a survey from...
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Police seek help to find suspect in sex assault
Ottawa police are seeking help from the public to identify a suspect in a sexual assault on Sunday morning near Carling and Alpine avenues in Ottawa’s west end. Police said an unidentified male...
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Ottawa residents invited to give blood for long-term health research
Ottawa residents are being asked to roll up their sleeves to help improve health care and health knowledge for future generations. Representatives of the Ontario Health Study, one of the largest...
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Police seek help identifying suspect in convenience store holdups
The Ottawa Police Service is asking for the public’s assistance to identify a man suspected of being involved in a pair of convenience store robberies last month. Police said the first holdup took...
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Sutcliffe: New hospital city's most important project
Set aside LeBreton Flats. Forget light rail. Don’t even think about a new downtown library. The single most important investment this community will make in the next decade is to build a new central...
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The Brier: Beer, doughnuts and a chance to win a game you shouldn't
The opening draw of the Tim Hortons Brier commences Saturday, kicking off what can arguably be called Canada’s premier national sporting event. For while curling is unmistakably a Scottish import,...
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Ottawa mechanic builds perfect winter Smart-mobile
Tod Anderson, a mechanic in Manotick, has turned a Smart car into the perfect snowmobile thanks to inspiration from our Canadian weather. Anderson came up with the idea for the car a couple of years...
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Ottawa Wine & Food Festival seeks judge's order to stay alive
The Ottawa Wine & Food Festival will shut down unless a judge restrains the Ottawa Convention Centre from renting its space to other events during the first two weeks of November 2016 to the...
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Rideau Carleton OLG Slots revenue falls by $1M as lockout talks continue
The union representing the locked out Rideau Carleton Raceway OLG Slots staff is concerned Ontario Lottery Corporation management is more focused on hiring replacement workers than resolving the...
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Lawyer accuses minister of ignoring her pleas to help refugees
An Ottawa lawyer lobbying the government to make it easier for refugees to have their cases heard says the minister responsible has ignored her pleas to help those already in Canada, as the influx of...
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Council puts road tolls on the transportation agenda
Road tolls could be part of the next transportation master plan if council agrees to study how fees could reduce traffic congestion and pay for maintenance. Local politicians will turn their minds to...
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Ottawa paramedic dispatcher killed in U.S. motorcycle crash
Ottawa paramedics are mourning the loss of one of their own after long-serving dispatcher Wayne Villeneuve died Wednesday. Villeneuve, 51, an avid motorcyclist, was on a month-long motorcycle trek...
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Condo sales set to launch at Arts Court redevelopment site
Ever since the city approved a plan for the redevelopment of Arts Court in 2013, we’ve heard about the expanded Ottawa Art Gallery, about much-needed space for the University of Ottawa, about a...
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City Hall Blog: Coun. Mark Taylor, in his own words
Mark Taylor says comments he made last week about a murder in Bay ward, Ottawa’s fourth homicide in 2016, were taken out of context and misinterpreted. A day after Taylor Morrow-Flint, 20, was shot in...
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Plummer brings the Bard to Music and Beyond
This is a year of early announcements from music festivals in Ottawa. The latest to release a big incoming show is Music and Beyond which is trumpeting the arrival of Christopher Plummer. The legendary...
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Mayor Watson has 'no interest' in road tolls: spokesperson
Mayor Jim Watson doesn’t want road tolls in Ottawa. He doesn’t even want to study them. “As stated in the past, Mayor Watson has no interest in studying road tolls in the City of Ottawa,” the mayor’s...
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Ottawa's Simwave gets set for virtual reality tidal wave
Inside the virtual reality headset, it’s April 9, 1917, and you’re at the Allied landing in the Battle of Vimy Ridge. You see shells land all around, and you feel their explosions rumble through you....
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Pembroke OPP officer charged in Upper Ottawa Valley crash
A 25-year-old Pembroke Ontario Provincial Police officer has been charged after the truck he was driving collided with another truck which struck a parked car with a passenger inside. On Wednesday, at...
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Stuntman Stu, The Ottawa Hospital launch #StuStrong fundraising site
The Ottawa Hospital has partnered with popular radio host and Ottawa Senators PA announcer “Stuntman Stu” Schwartz to launch a website for Schwartz’ fundraising movement, #StuStrong. Schwartz came up...
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