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Lowertown landlord ordered to complete work, pay city $140,000
The City of Ottawa has won a legal victory over Claude Lauzon, owner of a crumbling former schoolhouse in Lowertown. Lauzon must now complete work to stabilize and protect the west and south walls and...
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Ottawa's Help Santa Toy Parade on Saturday morning
The young and young at heart came out to see — and play — Santa on Saturday morning for the Help Santa Toy Parade. Ottawa firefighters have been holding the annual event for 45 years, collecting new...
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Environment Canada warns of rain, strong winds
Environment Canada has issued a special weather statement for the Ottawa area, warning of rain and strong winds on Sunday night and Monday, with 15 to 30 millimetres of rain expected to fall over the...
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Anti-corruption rules on suppliers a threat to Canadian economy: study
By Andy Blatchford New federal rules that threaten to ban companies convicted of crimes from public contracts could kill jobs and hurt the Canadian economy, warns a study conducted for a powerful...
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After 31 years, Osgoode Coun. Doug Thompson admits it will be 'sad' to step away
THE EXIT INTERVIEWS When Ottawa’s city council next sits, eight familiar faces will be missing. The Citizen sat down with some of the departing councillors — some who chose not to run in the recent...
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Ottawa Pop Expo raises $10,000-plus to buy toys for CHEO (with video)
Ottawa Pop Expo’s second edition raised $10,000 over the weekend to buy toys, games, comics and “geeky apparel” for kids at Children’s Hospital of Eastern Ontario, organizers announced Sunday night....
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Mark Kristmanson: The NCC is expanding the options for light rail
The National Capital Commission believes a light rail transit system will be a great addition to an already spectacular capital city. That’s why the NCC has fast-tracked more than 100 land transactions...
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Cpl. Nathan Cirillo tribute unveiled at city hall
Honouring My Father — painter Katerina Mertikas’s moving tribute to Cpl. Nathan Cirillo — was officially unveiled Monday at Ottawa City Hall, even as demand for prints continues to grow. Mertikas, who...
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Introducing Ottawa's largest piece of cheese
A 1,000-pound provolone that would likely kill you if it fell on you the wrong way has arrived in Ottawa. “You never see something like this,” said Joe Nicastro, co-owner of Nicastro’s Italian Food...
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'From sophomoric and amusing to surreal:''Swatting' victim recalls harassment...
It started with simple prank calls. It escalated into pizza deliveries, always large with anchovies, that his family hadn’t ordered. Eventually, police officers were showing up at his door. Michael...
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Airport terminal staging emergency exercise Monday night
Don’t panic if you hear reports of a major emergency at the Ottawa International Airport terminal building Monday night. It’s only a training exercise. According to an advisory from the airport...
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Missing 16-year-old found safe and sound
The Ottawa Police Service says that James Nichols, 16, has been found safe and sound. There had been concern about the boy’s disappearance Monday at about noon because he was said to possibly be “at...
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Egan: Wasting time of $90K cops a crime that needs to end
A first-class constable in Ottawa will be paid just over $90,000 in base salary this year, thanks to an arbitration award last week. When you consider the same officer made $61,000 in 2002, and the...
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Organizers of Michael Brown vigil in Ottawa ask whites to stay in background
Organizers are asking white and non-black supporters to remain in the background during an Ottawa vigil Tuesday evening for Michael Brown, the unarmed 18-year-old black man shot and killed by police in...
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Unified security force will guard parliamentary buildings
The Senate and House of Commons will no longer have separate security forces inside the buildings on Parliament Hill. A joint committee of senators and MPs said Tuesday they had agreed to unify the...
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Update: Ottawa's hacker used my websites without my knowing, American owner says
Two websites that were being used by the hacker who’s targeted Ottawa and other police forces in this country were shut down Tuesday after the Citizen reached their American owner — who said he had no...
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Ottawa police officers' walk in heels a misstep, some cops say (with video)
A group of Ottawa police officers marched in high heels Tuesday as part of an effort to bring awareness to violence against women, even as another officer sent an email to the entire force calling the...
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Zoning review offers glimpse of future Ottawa
The future face of Ottawa became clearer Tuesday after the planning committee gave preliminary approval to the 2014 zoning review, a months-long effort to line up zoning guidelines with the city’s new...
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City Hall Blog: Hume was a 'formidable force'
After chairing the planning committee for 11 years, Alta Vista Coun. Peter Hume bid farewell Tuesday by offering a caution to future members of the city’s most demanding committee (it met 83 times this...
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Ottawa homicide victim portrayed as cold, controlling woman
Days before Ottawa public servant Lien Angelis was killed on the living-room floor of the apartment she shared with her husband, she went out of her way to exert control over her longtime secret...
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