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Letters: Dispute between city and ride-sharing Uber
Uber fines discouraging Re: Two Uber drivers charged over the weekend, Oct. 6. I am so discouraged to read of my city’s decision to pursue Uber drivers with fines of up to $650. Uber serves only to...
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Blue-green algae found in more area waterways
Blue-green algae, which could be toxic, has been found in the waters of Dalhousie Lake as well as Mississippi Lake, according to an aquatic biologist for the area’s conservation authority. Blue-green...
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Doctors watching for paralysis in enterovirus patients
Ottawa physicians have been told to be on alert for clusters of patients with polio-like symptoms. Groups of cases involving paralysis and muscle weakness have been seen in parts of Canada and the U.S....
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Police charge man in connection with downtown sex assaults
Ottawa police have charged a man in connection with several sexual assaults that took place along Rideau Street last week. On Oct. 5th, police responded to reports that four women were inappropriately...
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Finance committee ends 'free ride' for Somerset House owner
Somerset House won’t be getting a “free ride” from the city any longer after council’s finance and economic development committee voted to stop waiving city fees for the derelict building. Council has...
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Crown outlines case against accused in slaying of Barrhaven teen
The three masked men, dressed in black and handguns drawn, stormed Michael Swan’s home on the other side of midnight, forcing him and his friends to their knees at gunpoint. They asked the Barrhaven...
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Wellington Village bike corral removed after complaints
Things were not OK at the Wellington Village bike corral, so the city has cut short a pilot project weeks earlier than planned. The $13,000 trial began in June when brightly coloured on-street corrals...
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Crews extricate driver in single-vehicle crash
Emergency crews had to peel back the roof of a car to free its trapped driver after a crash in the east end left the vehicle on its side, fire officials say. Ottawa Fire Services said it received a...
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'Midway killer' Wahab Dadshani released from prison
A killer who was described by the Parole Board of Canada as an “untreated violent offender” was released from prison Tuesday after serving a 15-year sentence for the sword slaying of a 26-year-old man...
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Power restored following major outage in Kanata neighbourhoods
Hydro Ottawa says service has been restored in the Kanata area where an outage left almost 2,000 customers without power and disrupted traffic signals at several intersections early this morning. The...
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Police searching for woman who's been missing since early last night
Laura Way was last seen at her home in Ottawa Tuesday night at 5:30 p.m. Police say she hasn’t been seen since. She is 36 years old and is described as a white female with freckles and short, dyed red...
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Homes calendar for the week of Oct. 11 to 17
This weekend Studio tour: Check out the works of 24 artists and artisans at seven studios nestled along the meandering roads of Brooke Valley in the Perth Autumn Studio Tour Saturday through Monday....
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City Hall Blog: A Somerset schism emerges
A few weeks back, I wrote that one of the challenges facing voters in Somerset ward is choosing between several strong candidates. At the Sept. 23 debate, many of them agreed on a lot of things and/or...
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Letter: Garbage, green bin ideas stink
Re: Property owners slate’ pledges an end to green bins, return of weekly garbage collection, Oct. 7. I am dumbfounded after reading that some candidates for city council support the idea that we...
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Peter Cleveland: Uber ignores consumer protection
The emergence of the Uber ride-sharing service in Ottawa has raised some important questions about the role of government in regulating the taxi industry and what that regulation means to consumers....
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Public Works scrambling to fix loose windows and bricks
The federal government says it has spent hundreds of thousands of dollars to keep MPs, staffers and visitors to the Centre Block safe from loose windows and bricks. None of those windows has fallen on...
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Ottawa police find $1.2M marijuana grow-op, but no suspects
Ottawa Police Services says they seized marijuana from a rural area in the west end of the city. Police revealed the results of the two-day investigation early Wednesday morning, saying a total of...
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Sneak peek of NACO's upcoming tour soars like an English cathedral
Emanuel Ax with NACO Southam Hall Reviewed Wednesday Wednesday’s NACO concert was one of the orchestra’s last before it leaves for its British tour later this month. The program offered the hometown...
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Stephen Taylor: Let Ottawans use Uber if they wish
To conjure up the metaphor of the buggy-whip maker is to make a point about how the introduction of new technology to an industry has made old products obsolete. It has been used so often since the...
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Letter: Language office a waste of money
Re: Budget cuts batter bilingualism in public service, Oct. 8. Official Languages Commissioner Graham Fraser is upset that his office investigated 476 complaints during the 2013-2014 year — up 15 per...
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