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When the sun rose on Ottawa’s largest mosque — after the darkest of nights — it gave light to a small but beautiful thing: a bouquet of flowers resting on the main glass doors and tea-light candles arranged in a peace sign. A small gesture, really. Some days, against shapeless evil, it’s all you have. Next door, Imam Samy […]

A weekend that began with American President Donald Trump’s “Muslim ban” has ended with the killing of six Muslims, and injuring of many more, while they were praying at a mosque in Quebec City. “We were attacked because we are Muslim. Shot at point-blank range because we are Muslims. Dead because we are Muslim,” the […]

Braving bone-chilling temperatures, about 2,000 people formed a human chain around the U.S. Embassy in Ottawa on Monday to send a message of solidarity with Muslims around the world and demand the Canadian government do more to help. “I feel a tremendous amount of fear and rage over what has happened in the United States […]

The brutal attack on a mosque in Quebec City has generated shock waves across the world, as it should. Here in Canada, we are shaken to the core, and awakened to the stark reality that hate has no borders. Canada is a peace-loving, welcoming country. It is a country wherein caring for each other is […]

The provincial government will spend $100 million to build natural-gas lines and help rural Ontarians get off electric heat, calculating that high hydro bills are a bigger problem than greenhouse-gas emissions. The provincial Liberals have been roasted for years over the high cost of electricity. Lots of rural residents are hit by two whammies: they’re stuck […]

This takes aggressive marketing to a whole new level. In a move that has some privacy experts raising their eyebrows, Bell Canada is forcing advertisements directly into the web browsers of customers who are in the process of leaving the Internet provider. Even more worrisome, say those same experts, is that Bell isn’t the only […]

No word on Butch or the rest of the Wild Bunch but a North Grenville man named Sundance is facing charges after the OPP said an officer was dragged along a Kemptville street during a traffic stop. Police issued a call for witnesses Monday. Grenville County OPP said an officer stopped a Honda Accord on Clothier […]

On the path to approving the location for a new main library, the conversation took a strange detour through Confederation Park. It’s peculiar for two reasons. First, the federal park isn’t recommended, and wasn’t even considered, for the project. That makes the second reason even more confusing: Mayor Jim Watson is trying to build opposition to putting a library in […]

The rising star of classical piano plays Southminster United Church Tuesday night.

With mortgage qualification rules becoming stricter and potential housing bubbles emerging, home renovations were at the forefront this year. By the middle of last year economists expected renovation spending to rise. With strong demand and low supply, renovating seemed like a safer, more affordable option, as opposed to purchasing a new property. The TrustedPros Team […]

Canadian border security officers have arrested an Ottawa man who was allegedly attempting to return to Canada with drugs and a weapon. Border officers stopped the man at noon on Sunday at the Ogdensburg-Prescott International Bridge border crossing. An investigation uncovered the drugs and weapon, according to the border officers. Jun Shao, 25, of Ottawa was charged […]

A report which warned against buying an interim fighter jet for the Canadian military will remain secret, even though it had previously been on the Defence department’s website for more than a year. The report was quietly pulled down from the site after the Liberal government announced its decision to purchase 18 Boeing Super Hornets […]

Make Your Own Stair Railing Q: Is it possible to mill my own hand railing for a stair project I’m planning to build? I want to make a staircase for my house, doing as much of the work as possible myself. I have a home workshop and tools, but I’ve never tackled anything this complicated. […]

The imam of Ottawa’s biggest mosque says he was shocked and saddened by Sunday’s attack in Quebec City that killed six and wounded eight but that it reflects the actions of a few individuals not “welcoming and very accepting” Canadian society. Imam Samy Metwally of the Ottawa Muslim Association said discussions were underway Monday morning […]

Just hours after news broke of a late-night attack on a Quebec City mosque that left six dead and eight wounded, MPs will gather in the Commons for what will almost certainly be a sombre start to the new sitting – and one that, if tradition holds, will likely undergo last-minute scheduling changes in order […]

The city of Binghamton won’t be left empty-handed when the Senators leave town next season. Sources told Postmedia the AHL’s board of governors has cleared the way for the New Jersey Devils to move their affiliate from Albany to Binghamton next season to replace the Senators, who have purchased the franchise and will move it […]

With kids at both Ottawa school boards enjoying a day off, traffic should be light on Monday mornings commute – emphasis on should. Instead, as the commute got underway in earnest, the city’s traffic centre was reporting a collision on Hwy. 417 near the Vanier Parkway had blocked the left shoulder and left lane. There was also […]

Upper story rooms of an Orléans nursing home were evacuated in the wee hours of Monday morning and a resident treated for smoke inhalation after a fire broke out. The alarm came from 879 Hiawatha Park Road shortly after midnight. Firefighters spotted smoke on the third floor of the four-storey building and traced it to […]

Since the House of Commons Special Committee on Electoral Reform (ERRE) tabled its report in December, the national conversation has largely focused on potential changes to the electoral system. One of the committee’s more significant recommendations related to the future of online voting in Canada, however, has flown under the radar. The committee recommended that […]

Donald Trump and his cohorts could well bring down the whole international architecture that has been so carefully constructed since the Second World War. The confusion and alarm of this past weekend may only hint at what lies ahead. The United Nations and all the institutions we have built to promote peace, facilitate diplomacy and improve […]

As authoritarian strongmen pummel liberal democracy into nothing more than a lump of majoritarian abuse, people will resist. Some will resist with violence. These self-styled heroes will imagine they’re undermining the authoritarian. In fact, they’re entrenching authoritarianism. The vigilante – and let’s not kid ourselves, a thug with a cause is a vigilante no matter how […]

MONTREAL — At least five people have been killed and several others have been injured after shots were fired in a Quebec City mosque Sunday night. The president of the mosque told the Montreal Gazette he received a call around 8 p.m. saying there had been a shooting. He said people were at the Centre Culturel Islamique de Québec for […]

The Canadian military is contributing approximately 200 personnel Monday to support the ongoing emergency response to the ice storm in New Brunswick. The provincial government in New Brunswick has requested the federal government provide the military personnel to help in certain duties, including delivering emergency supplies, assisting in re-establishing existing road networks, and supporting door-to-door […]

Ontario Conservative leader Patrick Brown spent Sunday in Ottawa meeting riding association officials and having an hour-long town hall attacking Liberal energy policies in the afternoon. “Ontarians in particular are living in energy poverty and it’s not right,” he told a crowd of supporters at a Scottish pub in Stittsville. “Businesses are struggling to keep jobs […]

Two Ottawa police officers made more than $70,000 each, in addition to their base salaries, in just over a year and a half, thanks to lucrative paid-duty deals that see officers working, in uniform, but off duty. The figures are among those obtained by the Citizen under access-to-information law that paints a much fuller picture of how frequently police officers […]