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Herbst, Ottawa 67's push the win streak to five games
67’s 2, Frontenacs 1 Liam Herbst made 18 saves in the third period of a Family Day matinee at the Rogers K-Rock Centre in Kingston to extend the Ottawa 67’s winning streak to five games. Brendan Bell’s...
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Ian Bush: Cases in question
Ian Bush, the man charged in the alleged assault and home invasion of a 101-year-old war veteran, is now linked by police to the 2007 slayings of retired Ottawa tax court judge Alban Garon, his wife...
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Bush summoned tax court judge with bizarre fax, six years before murders
The Tax Court of Canada case that set Ian Bush on the path to try to meet with Alban Garon at his Orléans home began in 1999, provinces away in New Brunswick. It was some six years after he incurred...
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A polio survivor speaks: 'Let them have the vaccine'
When she was 14 months old, Dolin Seenanan was unlucky enough to come in contact with a virus that changed the course of her life. In the morning, the toddler was jumping and running. By evening, the...
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Real estate: Spacious Alta Vista family home 'stood out'
Location: 1741 Rhodes Cres. Features: Renovated two-storey with five bedrooms, four bathrooms, main-floor family room, porch/sunroom, large yard backing onto park land, in-ground pool and double...
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Letters: The Maple Leaf at 50
Untold story of our Canadian flag Re: The Maple Leaf at 50, Feb. 14. My late brother-in-law, Gerry Quenneville, and my brother, Frank, in their screen business located on Eddy Street in Hull,...
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Environment committee votes to end Plasco deal
The city’s environment committee voted Tuesday to formally terminate Ottawa’s contract with Plasco — a crucial first step in severing ties with the homegrown clean-tech company, which filed for...
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Egan: Great-grandfather's carving returned, 85 years later
The long-gone artifact is silent with its story, carved in wood, ingrained with luck and knotted with a little love. Charles Vollrath, who died in 1952, was one of the Ottawa Valley’s most talented...
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Ottawa 'sexsomniac' found not criminally responsible for sex assault on daughter
An Ottawa man on trial for sexually assaulting his seven-year-old daughter was found not criminally responsible on Tuesday after a judge ruled he was in a state of automatism while sleepwalking....
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Stressed-out Ottawans find solace among the kittens of Purrfect Café
Ottawa’s first cat café isn’t quite the mirror image of the popular cat café trend sweeping Asia and parts of Europe, but the Purrfect Café is the ideal hub for those seeking the cuddly and calming...
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Antiques: An ode to Atlantic paddle steamer ships
Q: I recently bought this cup at auction as part of a lot with other cups. This 10-centimetre-wide one stands out as being more interesting, with its brown-and-white decoration. The inside rim features...
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Concerts: Feb. 19 to 26
Thursday, Feb. 19 Florida Georgia Line, country, 7:30 p.m., Canadian Tire Centre, 1000 Palladium Dr. Tickets: $49.50-$69.50. capitaltickets.ca Irene’s All Stars Blues with Maria Hawkins, 9 p.m.,...
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Denley: Pointless new rules for wildlife protection
If city staff get their way, construction and development in Ottawa is going to be governed by a new set of rules that sound like they came from a Disney movie. It would seem self-evident that turning...
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City Hall Blog: OC Transpo's budget presentation
Several members of Ottawa’s transit commission Wednesday commented on how detailed OC Transpo’s budget presentation was. In 52 slides, the bus company touched on everything from transit funding and...
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Transit commission approves 2.5% OC Transpo fare hike
The city’s transit commission voted Wednesday to increase OC Transpo fares by an average of 2.5 per cent. The decision, which still needs to be ratified by council and won’t take effect until Canada...
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Reward offered in two Ottawa bank robberies
Crime Stoppers and Ottawa police hope a $2,000 reward will help them to solve two recent bank robberies. The first occurred Feb. 5 at about 8:30 a.m. when a man walked into a bank on Montreal Road near...
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Burst water main shuts down three University of Ottawa buildings
The University of Ottawa has closed three buildings left without running water after a water main broke at King Edward and Greenfield avenues. The Minto Sports Complex at 801 King Edward St., the SITE...
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Disgraced curator at Experimental Farm jailed for child porn
A former curator of the Canada Agriculture and Food Museum, whose career ended in disgrace in 2013 for storing child pornography on his work computer, has been jailed for two years less a day. Franz...
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New federal email system won't be done until 2016
The federal government’s plan to merge 63 email systems across the country onto one platform is now one year behind schedule. The department overseeing the migration of hundreds of thousands of email...
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Tommy Smythe in town for design talk
Names and bow-ties tell you a lot about a man. It was television producers at HGTV who decided that a compact man with an oversized wit and a natural ability to share design lessons should be known as...
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