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Photos & video: Hardy Scots and friends show their colours with Canal Kilt Skate
Saturday on the Rideau Canada provided an answer to the long debated question: What does a Scot wear under the kilt? The answer, at least for some Scots and their colleagues taking part in Sir John A’s...
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City Hall Blog: First day-time sighting of new O-Trains
Ottawa’s newest O-Trains have been spotted in daylight. Daylight testing of the new @Alstom Trillium Line vehicles in #ottawa #octranspo #O-Train #trainnerd pic.twitter.com/3zkUDf7OvU — Paul Croft...
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Sculptors wield chainsaws to carve Winterlude magic (with video)
Evher Coronel was born into a family ice-sculpting business, but he’s found a home in Ottawa. The artist has travelled 6,000 kilometres, chainsaw in hand, from Peru, where it’s the middle of summer,...
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Egan: Those snow removal signs? Used once, up the chute to the dump
We tend to judge big corporations on the little things. Often, it’s all we have. When the billion-dollar bank’s automated teller area looks and smells like a hobo jungle, at 9 a.m. When the phone...
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NCC delay in replacing diseased ash trees 'not effective strategy,' Ecology...
About 90 per cent of the trees the National Capital Commission intends to plant to replace the thousands infected by the emerald ash borer won’t be in the ground until 2018 or later, says a report...
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Snow descends on southern Ontario as national capital shivers through deep...
Presumably the army is on standby. After all, Toronto residents were under an extreme weather warning Sunday night and expecting a big dump of snow as a massive storm swept across southern Ontario....
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Open houses spotlight proposed eastern LRT
Controversy surrounding the city’s preferred route for the western extension of light rail often dominates discussion about Ottawa’s long-term transit blueprint. But that could soon change as the plan...
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Environment Canada issues weather advisory for regions south of Ottawa
While Ottawa should miss the brunt of the winter storm that’s tracking across southern Ontario, regions south of the capital won’t be as lucky. Environment Canada issued a weather advisory early Monday...
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Garden calendar: from Jan. 30
All From a Little Seed with master gardener Rebecca Hall, Feb. 3, 7:30 p.m., Kanata-March Horticultural Society, Old Town Hall, 821 March Rd. $5 for non-members. Tree Workshop: learn about protecting,...
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Letter: Union supports reappointment of Blair Crew
Re: Deans’ transit commission vote raises eyebrows, Jan. 30. The way that the citizen commissioners are appointed is one that can be debated and maybe should be. However, I would like to point out that...
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Windy winter weather slows traffic, delays flights
Dozens of minor collisions, due to drifting snow and slick roads, kept first responders busy Monday as traffic slowed to a crawl during the morning commute around the Ottawa area. The edge of a storm...
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Ticket defence program to fight back on behalf of homeless (with video)
A new legal clinic has opened in Ottawa to help homeless or street-involved people fight back against tickets that can often leave them with crushing debt. The Ticket Defence program provides free...
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Letters: More discussion on the Victims of Communism Memorial
Look elsewhere for inspiration Re: Memorial ‘bleak and brutal': Top judge, Jan. 27. I have followed the strong opinions of renowned architects and, now, Chief Justice Beverley McLachlin on the Memorial...
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Work starts on Glebe parkade
Construction has finally started on a municipal garage that will add much-needed parking near Lansdowne Park on Bank Street. The Glebe Parking Garage had been set to open last October until the City of...
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Fire destroys house near Osgoode
Investigators were looking for the cause of a fire Monday that destroyed a two-storey house in rural south Ottawa. No one was injured in the fire, which appeared to have started in the basement at 5567...
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Real estate: What they got in Bells Corners
Location: 17 Arnold Dr. Features: A bungalow with great bones, original hardwood in living areas and bedrooms, winterized sun room and large basement with high ceilings. New roof in 2010. Asking price:...
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City Hall Blog: Mayor Watson on John Baird's departure
Minutes after Foreign Affairs Minister John Baird began his address in the House of Commons, Mayor Jim Watson released the following statement: I want to thank Minister Baird for his years of public...
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Claire E. Marshall: Social change through music
Against the chilly backdrop of Ottawa’s Winterlude, a group is planning a frost quake of its own on Feb. 12 & 13. At the Symposium on Instrumental Change, 100 musicians, educators and social...
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Editorial: The John Baird legacy
John Baird, one of the most affable politicians on Parliament Hill, evolved into a broker who could resolve local feuds over coffee in Ottawa or disentangle a consular issue in a foreign capital. His...
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Baird's collegiality, humour will be missed by all parties
For many Canadians, perhaps the most surprising fact about Foreign Affairs Minister John Baird’s departure from politics is that he will be sorely missed by colleagues of all political stripes. Baird’s...
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