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Review: Lorde helps warm Ottawa Folk Fest crowd on chilly night
The New Zealand teenager Lorde, this year’s chart-topping darling of the pop world, shared her delight at being in Ottawa for the first time during a wonderful concert at the Ottawa Folk Festival on...
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Glebe home tour: A peek inside the old and the new
Why flip through the pages of design magazines or scroll through websites when you can experience the real thing? The annual Glebe House Tour Sept. 21 is a one-day event that allows the public to...
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Police ask for help finding suspects in assault, robbery
The Ottawa Police Service is asking for the public’s help finding two men in connection with a robbery assault at a bar last month. Police say the victim, a man, went into the washroom of a bar and was...
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Andrew King: Reimagining LeBreton Flats
The Citizen asked columnist and artist Andrew King what could be done with the LeBreton Flats grounds. Choosing to err on the side of bigger and bolder — perhaps a good deal more so than the NCC will...
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How can Ottawa tackle affordable housing and homelessness?
More than 10,000 Ottawa households waited for affordable housing last year, facing an average of almost five years on a waiting list. The wait, a 3.8-per-cent increase since 2012, was outlined this...
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Man charged with string of car thefts and break-ins
Ottawa police have made an arrest after a string of break-ins and auto thefts that lasted half the summer. From mid-July through September, 18 businesses and residences along Bank Street in Ottawa...
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Buyers camp out to snap up ravine lots at Minto Enclave
An instant community popped up this week when potential home buyers camped out at the sales office of Minto’s east-end development The Enclave at Trailsedge. The first of the eager beavers arrived...
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Speeder going 61 km/h over limit faces $1,040 fine, 14 demerit points
An Ottawa man is facing a $1,040 fine and 14 demerit points after getting caught by police going 151 km/h in a 90 km/h zone in LaPeche. MRC des Collines police said they stopped the 60-year-old on...
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Aurora borealis puts on a rare show
Skywatchers in many areas outside the city’s metropolitan region were treated to a relatively rare show Friday night when aurora borealis, better known as the Northern Lights, put on a show. Jim...
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Wellington West festivalgoers weather the wet and cold
Bone-chilling cold and pouring rain dampened the spirits of Saturday’s Tastes of Wellington West. In fact, the weather was so unpleasant that only the bravest of souls — and city council candidates —...
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Letter: Build new science museum on LeBreton Flats
Re: NCC eyeing major new capital landmark on LeBreton Flats; and Science and Technology Museum closed indefinitely due to mould, Sept. 12. Now that the Canada Science and Technology Museum is in...
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Letter: Transform the Flats into a quiet refuge
Re: LeBreton Flats: Imagining what Ottawa’s prime real estate could look like, Sept. 12. Is it really true? After all the fuming and hubbub over so many years about what to do with LeBreton Flats, is...
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In the high-stakes game of Magic, counting and cunning are your friends
In a large reception room at the Ottawa Convention Centre, 212 men and women were playing an intense game of cards with one goal in mind: Go pro. No, it wasn’t a poker tournament. This was serious,...
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Photos: Terry Fox run
A boy gets a rub on tattoo before the annual Terry Fox Run along Colonel By Drive on Sept. 14, 2014 Twins (L-R) Blake and Cole Thibeault decorate signs before the annual Terry Fox Run along Colonel By...
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Annual SlutWalk takes aim at rampant 'rape culture'
Oh, it was cold — especially if, like Isabel Otto, you showed up in a skimpy one-piece black leather thong and bra from La Senza. “I’m freezing for a good cause,” said the blue-haired 19-year-old...
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Firefighters gather to mourn fallen peers
When firefighter Martin Walsh was called to a fire in the middle of the night, his wife Valerie would wake up as well. “I’d get him out the door,” she said. “He always used to say that if I wasn’t...
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Photos: Sunday at Folk Fest
Sunday’s performances on the final day of Ottawa Folk Fest. The Wooden Sky live at the Ottawa Folk Festival on Saturday, Sept. 13, 2014. The Wooden Sky live at the Ottawa Folk Festival on Saturday,...
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Editorial: Let's get LeBreton Flats right
It appears the National Capital Commission is finally getting serious about developing its valuable LeBreton Flats land in downtown Ottawa. It’s about time. A city’s core should be vibrant and...
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Op-Ed: Save the Science and Tech Museum for imagination's sake
I stood in awe. I’d never before seen anything so large in such a small space. I craned my neck so far I bent backward, sizing up the gigantic steam locomotives that towered just past the Canada...
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Spend $20M on cycling annually, safe cycling group urges
The city should spend $20 million a year on cycling infrastructure, an advocacy group is urging. Citizens for Safe Cycling launched its “I bike, I vote” campaign Monday, six weeks ahead of the Oct. 27...
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