Ottawa Citizen

The federal government has been in court over the last two weeks fighting a proposed class action lawsuit that was launched by Black public servants and alleges systemic racism within the public service. Read More

Ottawa police's proposed budget for 2025 includes growing its workforce by 50 positions, including 22 sworn members. Read More

The veteran chairs of Ottawa's two English-language school boards will return to their roles for the coming year. Read More

Re: For Remembrance Day, honour Canada's peacekeeping legacy, Nov. 11. Read More

In a recent article in the Citizen, I asked whether Canada really needed the extra 100,000 or so public servants the federal government has picked up during the recent years of its tenure. Read More

The City of Ottawa's built heritage subcommittee has approved a plan to remove pews from the nave of St. Brigid's Centre for the Arts to make it more flexible as a rental space. Read More

It may surprise Ottawa residents to learn they can still walk into the lobby of the Château Laurier to check out the architecture and decor of the landmark hotel, even after a beloved Canadian photograph was snatched off the walls and replaced with a fake. Read More

Nothing like kicking off Round 1 of the Battle of Ontario with two points. Read More

Ottawa-Carleton District School Board trustee Nili Kaplan-Myrth is furious about the "very much political and very much divisive" decision to play an Arabic-language Gaza peace song at a Remembrance Day ceremony at Sir Robert Borden High School on Monday. Read More

Winter has arrived. Read More

Two Ottawa community health centres have applied to open so-called HART (Homelessness and Addiction Recovery Treatment) hubs, saying there are pressing needs for such services both within the city and in suburban and rural parts of Ottawa. Read More

Without question, the best move the Ottawa Charge has made in its brief history was the hiring of Carla MacLeod. Read More

Adam Gaudette's inked arms are a window into a fantasy-filled world of Star Wars and superheroes, a pleasant diversion from the pressures of being a professional hockey player. Read More

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Once the City of Ottawa identifies a new way to suck money from people, its appetite gets larger every year. Not satisfied with a one per cent penalty that effectively doubles a vacant property’s tax, the city now wants to gradually increase the potential penalty to five per cent. Read More

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Re: Deachman: Ottawa's rural population, often neglected by city hall, plans to make its voice heard, Oct. 31. Read More

Carleton University had been anticipating a deficit of $26 million this year, but the projected deficit is now "significantly higher," a message from senior administrators warned the university community. Read More

Ottawa is a place with so many good things happening. I fell in love with this city back in the 1980s when my elementary school in rural Niagara took a field trip here. Fast-forward to the 2010s and I jumped at the chance to move here. I don’t regret it. Read More