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Special Christmas Eve weather statement issued for Ottawa
Environment Canada has issued a special weather statement for Ottawa, with rain, thunderstorms, very mild temperatures and strong winds forecast over the next few days. The outlook for Christmas Eve...
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Hot/Not: Food
HOT: Elevated bar snacks No need to tell the Spanish that bar snacks will be hot, since they’ve been eating tapas, since, oh, the 13th century. But when tapas made their way to North America, they’ve...
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Listen to Silent Night — as performed by the Dominion carillonneur on...
The sounds of Silent Night rang out over Parliament Hill on Wednesday as the country’s Dominion carillonneur took part in an international Christmas celebration. Andrea McCrady was one of 99...
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Food inspection agency looks for investigators to probe contracting practices
The federal agency charged with scrutinizing the safety of the food we eat is looking for an investigator to give the same kind of scrutiny to the way it hands out contracts. According to the bid...
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Before you buy: Choosing wallpaper
Gone are the days of enveloping a room in flowery paper resembling a field of wildflowers. Today’s wallpapers are bold and in large geometric patterns that draw attention to an accent wall. But with a...
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Balmy weather expected for Boxing Day in Ottawa
It appears our unusually balmy Christmas weather is sticking around. Environment Canada is predicting a high of 4 C in Ottawa for Boxing Day, along with a 60 per cent chance of rain or wet flurries....
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Window falls from Slater Street building
High winds on Christmas Day blew a large pane of glass from a downtown office building. The pane of glass fell from the Export Development Canada building at 150 Slater St. and smashed onto the street,...
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Working on Christmas? You're one of many in Ottawa not taking the holiday off
The Citizen’s Nicholas Galipeau is out talking to Ottawans who are, like him, working on this Christmas Day. Here are the people he’s finding. "Christmas is an international celebration of humanity."...
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Photos & Video: Christmas at Carleton Tavern
Hélène Gendron enjoys the presence of Santa Claus after having a turkey dinner at the Carleton Tavern in Ottawa, December 25, 2014. The Community of Hintonburg invited the community to join them for a...
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Making the headboard switch
Three men I hardly know have added new life to our marital bedroom. And husband David Brown is not the least bit jealous. Actually, I have never had a conversation with one of the guys. Noel Ellis is a...
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Before you buy: Tips for choosing a headboard
Headboards have become a crucial component to the design of a bedroom. “The headboard used to be just part of the five-piece bedroom set that you would buy at the furniture store and it wasn’t given a...
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Mixing it up in the bedroom
Couples are getting kinky, mixing it up in the bedroom with helpings of leather, satin and velvet. It’s all so saucy in a genteel, Ottawa kind of way. For the past three or four years, a growing number...
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Letter: We must acknowledge our forgotten veterans
We hear daily of World War veterans, Korean veterans and most recently, Afghan veterans; but we hear nothing of veterans who silently go unnamed and forgotten. Are the sacrifices of the “Cold War vet,”...
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Rock stars, economist and Hockey Night in Canada icon join Order of Canada
A rock-star economist. Two actual rock stars who have used their voices for advocacy. And the longtime voice of Hockey Night in Canada. The four — Mark Carney, the former governor of the Bank of...
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Phil Jenkins: A city grows through small changes
What is the opposite of a headline? I’m not sure there’s a word for it, and so let’s call it a footline. This column, the last of mine for 2014, is concerned with the footlines of Ottawa in the year...
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Neil Doef gets closer to home for Christmas
Neil Doef is closer to home. After spending weeks in hospital in Saskatoon, the result of a spinal injury sustained during the World Junior A Challenge, the 17-year-old from Smiths Falls arrived at The...
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Randall Denley: Lessons from a year of loss
If they gave refunds on years of your life, I’d be the first in line to return 2014. To say that the year just past wasn’t a great one in my life would be a considerable understatement, and not for the...
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City Hall Blog: Frances Watson, 1930 – 2014
Condolences continue to pour in for Mayor Jim Watson, whose mother, Frances Watson, died Sunday. She was 84. Very sorry to hear about your loss @JimWatsonOttawa. Condolences from my family to yours. —...
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Letter: Gang gun violence in Ottawa
Re: Politicians, activists call for action on gun violence following Tanger shooting, Dec. 28. With the 47th shooting at Bank and Slater streets early Monday morning, there seems little chance of gang...
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Ottawa literacy program helps female inmates
Bailey Reid is not the kind of CEO who hopes the organization she founded will be around forever. In fact, she wants the exact opposite — total obsolescence. “In 10 years, I would love to have worked...
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