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Dead man's severely beaten body found in South Keys (with video)
A man’s lifeless and severely beaten body was found by cyclists travelling along the footpath between the Airport Parkway Pedestrian Bridge and South Keys transitway Thursday morning, just two days...
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Condo Scene: Turn your child's bedroom into their private retreat
Your child’s bedroom is their sanctuary and its design, particularly in a condo, is important for several reasons. There are a few differences between condo bedrooms and those in a house that you need...
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Matt Stella: Ottawa's vigil for Michael Brown was about respect, not segregation
On Nov. 24 a grand jury in Ferguson, Missouri decided that it would not indict officer Darren Wilson for the shooting death of Michael Brown. Emotions that had built up for the past three months...
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Dr. Vera Etches: Ottawa can't be complacent about AIDS
World AIDS Day, which takes place on December 1 every year, is a time to reflect on what we have achieved in the local, national and global response to HIV and AIDS and the challenges we continue to...
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Editorial: The Catholic board and gay rights
Two students at St. George Catholic School in Ottawa were assigned a project on social justice. They chose gay rights, but the principal said that a presentation on that topic would be inappropriate...
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A delicious way to help down-on-their-luck restaurant staff
Restaurants come and go, even high-profile ones such as Domus, ZenKitchen, and Juniper Kitchen and Wine Bar, all of which closed this year. Their fans mourn but soon move on. What’s rarely thought of...
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Pierre Claude Nolin on being Senate Speaker, cancer patient
After a year as deputy speaker, Sen. Pierre Claude Nolin officially became Speaker of the Senate on Thursday. In an interview in his East Block office, Nolin talked to the Citizen’s Jordan Press about...
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CAS pitches Christmas wish for a family in newspaper ad
All Taylor wants for Christmas is a family of his own. That’s the stark message of a novel adoption advertisement placed in a community newspaper by the Children’s Aid Society of Ottawa. And if that...
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The right track? Explaining Ottawa's western LRT debate — what you should know
It’s been a week since the National Capital Commission held a dramatic news conference that some feared might spell the end of the city’s plan for light rail in the west end. That’s not the case, and...
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Firefighter injured in blaze at Kanata housing co-op
One firefighter was injured after he fell through a floor as crews battled a fire at a small commercial building in Kanata early Saturday afternoon. Marc Messier of the Ottawa Fire Service tweeted that...
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Photos: Residents, VIPs turn out for opening of Barrhaven's Minto Recreation...
Mayor Jim Watson headed a list of VIPs including councillors Mark Taylor and Jan Harder, along with Minto Group CEO Michael Waters for Saturday’s official opening of the state-of-the-art Minto...
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Fire damages Baseline Road apartment building
About 100 people had to be evacuated, but there were no injuries after a fire broke out in a Baseline Road apartment building early Sunday morning. At 1:44 a.m., Ottawa Fire responded to an alarm at...
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Photos: Art on Wheels, Ottawa’s first art show in a working automotive repair...
Two local artists with two different styles offered their unique take on automotive art on Saturday at the Wicked Garage facility in Greely, part of Art on Wheels, Ottawa’s first art show in a working...
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Blood clinics this week
For more information or to book an appointment to give blood, please call 1-888-2-DONATE or visit blood.ca. MONDAY Canadian Blood Services, 1575 Carling Ave., 8:30 a.m. to 12:30 p.m.; City of Ottawa,...
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Hockey players sent to hospital with possible carbon monoxide poisoning
Sixteen hockey players were sent to hospital early Sunday after they appeared to suffer carbon monoxide poisoning. The players went to the Queensway-Carleton Hospital complaining of feeling ill after...
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Jenkins: A breathless century of Ottawa history
“The Twentieth Century, destined to be Canada’s!” as a fortune-telling Prime Minister predicts in a chauvinist shout out, comes in blazing for Ottawa. A really big fire starts in Hull in April, 1900,...
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Ottawa firm pitching emergency response portal to police, fire and paramedics
Security expert Mark Macy was showing off his company’s remote building monitor system to a colleague over breakfast in Gatineau on Oct. 22 when news broke that a lone gunman had killed a soldier and...
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Paralympian leads way at Christmas Lights Across Canada event on Parliament Hill
In her 37 years, Elisabeth Walker-Young has overcome and achieved a lot. So there’s little doubt the British Columbia athlete will ace her latest assignment: MCing Wednesday’s Christmas Lights Across...
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Editorial: School trustees should speak
We elect trustees to keep our school system accountable to us, to the people. They are there to represent us. To raise their voices. To ask questions on our behalf and to tell us when they disagree...
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Right-to-die debate heads to the Senate this week
Conservative MP Steven Fletcher’s wish for a political debate on the ethically fraught issue of legalizing physician-assisted suicide will be granted, thanks to the planned introduction of a bill in...
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