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Energy East Pipeline Open House to be held in Kemptville Tuesday night
An open-house discussion with TransCanada Ltd. on the proposed Energy East oil pipeline project will take place in Kemptville on Tuesday night. The proposed $12-billion Energy East oil pipeline will...
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Egan: Once ritzy, Sparks Street now a battered butler for the PS
Sparks Street, for oldtimers, is the city’s boulevard of broken dreams. It was often said, smirkingly, a cannon could be shot down Sparks after 6 and hit nothing. Not true. The cannon actually hit...
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McLeod: Another chance to get Sparks Street right
It slipped by with barely a word. A man few of us had heard of was relieved of a job many of us didn’t know existed. It was Nov. 3 that the businesses on the Sparks Street mall received an email...
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'Housing First' the focus as homelessness experts meet in Ottawa (with video)
It was snowing outside as 120 people sat around tables Monday, wrestling with how to reduce the numbers of Ottawa’s homeless youth. One thousand young people, mostly age 16 to 24, used emergency...
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Ottawa food inspectors feeling stretched
The high number of special events in Ottawa that require food inspections is leaving the city’s public health department stretched. According to a report tabled at Monday’s board of health meeting —...
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'I thought I was going to die,' Orléans woman tells kidnapping trial
She kept telling her jilted lover it was over but, an Ottawa court heard Monday, Andrew Bettencourt, 22, demanded they see one another for a “sentimental goodbye” that turned into an alleged six-hour...
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Opponents prepare to attend Energy East pipeline Open House Tuesday
Ecology Ottawa and the Council of Canadians are among a number of groups that plan to attend Tuesday’s open house meeting in Kemptville on the the proposed $12-billion Energy East pipeline, which would...
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Power restored after blackout hits more than 3,800 users in south Ottawa
Power was re-established about one hour after a blackout hit 3,856 homes in the Bank Street and Leitrim Road area. According to the utility the cause of the blackout is still unknown.
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The Whole Foods juggernaut is set to take over Ottawa
With Whole Foods Market set to open its doors at Lansdowne on Wednesday morning, here is a primer for those unfamiliar with the organic food juggernaut. What’s so special about the company? The grocery...
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Cohen: A cheap and small-minded museum plan
If you want to know just how much the national government disdains the national capital, consider its plans to save the antiquated, ugly and obsolete Canada Science and Technology Museum. The decision,...
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No room at (most) Ottawa inns for the next couple of days
For the past few days, out-of-towners looking to book a room in the capital via the regular online services have been greeted with page after page of hotel notices proclaiming: “Sorry, we’re booked.”...
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Ottawa still short of stores, despite Tanger, Whole Foods: expert
We need Whole Foods like a hole in the head, one would have thought, but the experts say otherwise. Look around, blind Everyman. Nothing but stores rising from the Earth: The Tangier outlet brought 75...
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Homes calendar for the week of Nov. 22 to 28
Ongoing See the dream: If you haven’t toured the CHEO dream home yet, take a peek. The luxury home makes up the bulk of the $1.76-million grand prize in the Dream of a Lifetime lottery. It’s open...
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Firefighters battle two-alarm blaze in Richmond
Ottawa firefighters are at the scene of a two-alarm house fire in the village of Richmond. According to officials the fire at 74 Col. Murray St. near South Carleton High School in the centre of the...
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Marketplace: Home decor made in Canada
Canadian decor isn’t just antler chandeliers, Hudson Bay blankets and Canada Day mugs made in China. There’s a vast range of artisanal and other items available from Canadian companies, artists and...
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McLeod: Central Ottawa kinder than callous sign suggests
Let me tell you about a man named John. I don’t really know much about John. In fact, I’m not even sure his name is John; that’s just how I’ve heard him addressed. I don’t know his history or his last...
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Watson's red carpet for entrepreneurs doesn't extend to outlaw cab firm Uber
Mayor Jim Watson said Wednesday that it wasn’t ironic for him to criticize Uber after announcing a special day to celebrate entrepreneurs because the innovative ride-sharing company isn’t following the...
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Canada Science and Tech Museum looking to lend out exhibits
The show must go on, and for the Canada Science and Technology Museum that means taking the show on the road. With news this week that its main building will be closed until sometime in 2017 as part of...
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Homeless and pets photographed for fundraiser
Millions of Canadians find companionship every day in a cat or a dog, and some of those Canadians live on low incomes or are homeless. The unique bond between human and pet is the focus of a...
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At last! Airport Parkway footbridge set to open (with video)
The sign on a temporary fence erected at end of Cahill Drive West to keep people out of the adjacent construction site says the project will be completed by December 2014. Given all the delays and...
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