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uOttawa profs' union to hold strike vote set if conciliation fails next week

Thu, 2024-10-31 11:42
The union that represents University of Ottawa's full-time professors and librarians has set dates for a strike vote if conciliation next week is unsuccessful. Read More
Categories: Canadian News

Ottawa firefighters reunite with rescued babies for annual calendar

Thu, 2024-10-31 10:49
Ottawa firefighters are dropping the time-honoured tradition of featuring buff firefighters posing half-dressed on fund-raising calendars. Read More
Categories: Canadian News

SPLITTING UPRIGHTS: Lewis Ward gives Ottawa Redblacks confidence when the game is on the line

Thu, 2024-10-31 10:46
In the eyes of Redblacks head coach Bob Dyce, Lewis Ward is money. Read More
Categories: Canadian News

Man sentenced to six years in prison for border fraud, sexual assault

Thu, 2024-10-31 09:32
Ottawa police and the Canada Border Services Agency say a man has been sentenced to six years in prison following a joint investigation into immigration and citizenship fraud and sexual assault. Read More
Categories: Canadian News

LRT emergency exercise planned for Saturday in Ottawa's east end

Thu, 2024-10-31 09:24
People in Ottawa's east end will see a lot of red flashing lights along the Confederation Line on Saturday as the city practises responding to an emergency on the LRT Line 1 east extension. Read More
Categories: Canadian News

Sick days skyrocketed as Treasury Board employees returned to the office

Thu, 2024-10-31 07:30
The number of sick days employees working for the Treasury Board of Canada Secretariat took during the month of September skyrocketed as the department urged public servants to make their way back to their offices at least three days a week. Read More
Categories: Canadian News

Smiths Falls man, 23, dies of injuries sustained falling out of moving vehicle

Thu, 2024-10-31 05:09
A 23-year-old man has died of injuries he received when he fell out an open window of a moving vehicle in Smiths Falls. Read More
Categories: Canadian News

MacDougall: Public servants must focus on action, not on pretending to act

Thu, 2024-10-31 01:00
Given my experience working for a prime minister, one of the questions I most get asked is what working in government is "really like." Read More
Categories: Canadian News

How perinatal palliative care at Roger Neilson Children’s Hospice is helping families to heal

Thu, 2024-10-31 00:00
In 2020, Julie and Michael Kelly received shattering news. Read More
Categories: Canadian News

Deachman: Ottawa's rural population, often neglected by city hall, plans to make it voice heard

Thu, 2024-10-31 00:00
The word I wrote in my notebook looked something like “DoHiles,” so I tried writing it again, knowing I’d be unable to later decipher that particular scrawl. The second effort was only marginally clearer, resembling either “pet hales” or “pet holes,” depending on how you squinted. Read More
Categories: Canadian News

Sarah McLachlan postpones Ottawa performance and rest of her Canadian tour

Wed, 2024-10-30 16:41
Popular Canadian performer Sarah McLachlan has postponed a show scheduled for Nov. 8 at the Canadian Tire Centre and the rest of her national tour, she announced Wednesday. Read More
Categories: Canadian News

Gatineau police say teen missing since March could be in Ottawa

Wed, 2024-10-30 15:53
A missing 16-year-old last seen in Gatineau in mid-March could now be in Ottawa, the Gatineau Police Service said Wednesday. Read More
Categories: Canadian News

'A true civic giant': Former regional chair Andy Haydon, 1933-2024

Wed, 2024-10-30 13:54
When Andy Haydon was chair of the Regional Municipality of Ottawa-Carleton between 1978 and 1991, what we now know as the City of Ottawa was a collection of municipalities, from Ottawa itself to suburbs like Nepean and Gloucester and rural townships like Osgoode. Read More
Categories: Canadian News

Sindy's Run: A run in memoriam for Sindy Hooper

Wed, 2024-10-30 13:28
When he considered what his late wife, Sindy, would have wanted for her memorial service, Jon Hooper didn’t have to struggle for an answer. Read More
Categories: Canadian News

Council votes to study a bubble zone bylaw for Ottawa, with reservations

Wed, 2024-10-30 13:09
City councillors have given a cautious go ahead for staff to examine whether a so-called "bubble bylaw" is needed in Ottawa to protect schools, places of worship and other sensitive community sites from strident, possibly violent protests. Read More
Categories: Canadian News

A Zamboni gave a new meaning to driving to the net for the Ottawa Senators

Wed, 2024-10-30 12:58
Halloween came early at the Canadian Tire Centre. Read More
Categories: Canadian News

Ottawa’s Rocky Horror Picture Show still going strong — 7,000 pieces of toast later

Wed, 2024-10-30 12:27
Chris Jennings has a recurring nightmare that he won’t have enough toast. Read More
Categories: Canadian News

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