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Key organizations that were part of the consultation process for the sale and distribution of cannabis across Ontario responded Friday to the province’s proposed framework. Canadian Cancer Society “The Canadian Cancer Society is focused on ensuring that cancer takes fewer lives and that people living with cancer live longer and with a higher quality of […]

OPP officers are investigating a crash on Highway 401 near Ingleside that killed a motorist when his vehicle and a tractor-trailer collided on Friday.

The eighth edition of The Ride, The Ottawa Hospital Foundation’s premier cycling fundraiser, will shut down several roads on Sunday as hundreds of participants arrive at Tunney’s Pasture to ride for cancer research. Road closures: 6 a.m. to 6 p.m.: Goldenrod Driveway between Sir John A. Macdonald Parkway and Parkdale Avenue 7 a.m. to 11 a.m.: Parkdale Avenue between […]

Welcome to the 1950s, that post-war period when, if an Ontarian wanted to legally purchase alcohol, he or she entered a bland warehouse, filled out and signed a written order form, then handed it to a dour clerk behind a counter who disappeared into a back room and eventually emerged with a limited amount of […]

Citizen readers weigh in today on math, Macdonald and the Moodie LRT station. You can write to us too, at letters@ottawacitizen.com — We’re working to protect community Re: Moodie LRT station’s location bad for green space, city told, Sept. 1. The Crystal Beach Lakeview Community Association wants to clarify its position regarding the draft Environmental […]

Quebec police are asking for assistance in the case of an Ottawa man who was convicted of child pornography charges and was arrested last year on similar charges. The Sûreté du Québec’s internet sexual exploitation investigation team, in collaboration with the Ottawa police and other agencies arrested David Sharpe, 37, at a home on Prince […]

A new arm of the LCBO will sell recreational marijuana in Ontario, the province announced Friday morning, with the goal being to keep people from buying it. Customers will have to show identification and get their pot from salespeople behind counters in up to 150 standalone marijuana stores by 2020, with the actual marijuana concealed […]

The results have been tabulated.  Ottawa police traffic offices issued a grand total of 294 provincial offence notices in their five-day safety enforcement campaign in and around Ottawa schools. In particular, officers looked for: speeding; failing to stop, failing to yield to pedestrians at school crossings; failing to obey crossing guards; failing to obey school bus signs; and distracted […]

It is only natural that as Russia attacks other countries’ borders and elections, and Myanmar brutalizes an ethnic minority and North Korea terrorizes the world, there will be demands to do whatever thing makes us feel less utterly powerless. The demand is often for sanctions — to keep them, to multiply them, to reintroduce them. […]

The acclaimed American pianist's new solo recording, Open Book, delivers the usual high-level lyrical delights plus a free-form epic.

There were some dramatic shifts in the capital region’s job market last month as the overall unemployment rate dropped to 5.9 per cent compared to 6.3 per cent in July, Statistics Canada reported Friday. Usually a decline in the jobless rate signifies strength in the economy but not this time. The region actually shed 3,000 […]

Epigenetics experiments range from rats to worms to humans, and even plants: Labs that insert “transgenes” into an animal for research can add genes that create a fluorescent protein. It’s a useful tool in tracking which animals inherit which gene. They glow. A Spanish group found that a worm with this transgene glows a little bit […]

If you don’t have a driver’s licence, the fast lane of Highway 401 at high noon is probably the wrong place to call attention to yourself. Ontario Provincial Police officers stopped a 30-year-old Toronto woman Thursday for driving 57 km/h over the limit on Highway 401 in the Thousand Islands area, a 100-km/h zone. She […]

Police are advising drivers not to put all of their faith in GPS systems after a 22-year-old Woodstock man was arrested Thursday after blindly following his machine’s instructions in the wrong direction on busy Highway 401. At about 8:30 p.m., the OPP received several calls for a driver travelling westbound in the highway’s eastbound lanes […]

Denise Carruthers didn’t expect that her playful negotiations over a bottle of wine at the backyard fence would result in getting her dream home. Originally living next door to their current home on Fourth Avenue, Carruthers and her husband would often plead with their neighbours to give them first dibs if they ever decided to […]

The U.S. singer-songwriter plays Lansdowne Park Sept. 14.

One trucker is dead after a fiery, three-rig pileup late Thursday night that has shut down Highway 401 west of Cornwall. Police reported Friday morning that the eastbound lanes remain closed at Moulinette Road to Long Sault. When it would reopen wasn’t known. Stormont, Dundas and Glengarry OPP says that an eastbound tractor-trailer collided with […]

Motorists were forced to find other routes Friday morning after a large tree was apparently pulled down by a passing truck on Laurier Avenue. The incident occurred at about 8:15 a.m. when a moving truck on Laurier appeared to snag the large tree in the park near Bronson Avenue. Traffic in both directions was redirected […]

During my time as a diplomat on the Korean peninsula, I lived through recurring cycles of missile and nuclear tests, rhetoric, international condemnation, sanctions and demonstrations of military power. Alarm about recurring tensions has generally been in inverse relation to distance from the region, with South Koreans having been relatively unperturbed. South Korea has existed in […]

Firefighters quickly knocked down a fire in a west-end bungalow early Friday morning. A 911 call reported flames coming from the basement of the house on Beaverton Avenue near Merivale and Baseline roads.  A working fire was declared at 5:56 a.m., it was under control at 6:08 a.m. and damage stopped by 6:34 a.m. An […]

After Thursday’s mixed bag of wacky weather, the outlook for Friday seems pretty straightforward, so far. The forecast is for mainly cloudy skies, with a 60-per-cent chance of showers heading towards lunch time. There’s a chance of a thunderstorm in the afternoon, but no sign of hail, high winds or funnel clouds. Yet. Friday’s high […]

Epigenetics experiments range from rats to worms to humans, and even plants: Labs that insert “transgenes” into an animal for research can add genes that create a fluorescent protein. It’s a useful tool in tracking which animals inherit which gene. They glow. A Spanish group found that a worm with this transgene glows a little bit […]

Putting aside discussion about parents passing experiences to their offspring, the biggest gain in studying epigenetics may actually lie in ordinary human diseases.   The epigenetic changes that happen within our own bodies as we age can cause disease.   The big one is cancer. Of the enzymes in our cells that relate to epigenetic activity, […]

Few Canadians know of the Rohingya and their plight in Myanmar (formerly known as Burma). That is about to change. The reason is that atrocity crimes are now being committed against the Rohingya Muslim minority by the Myanmar government. The Rohingya – numbering around one million – are a long-persecuted minority in Myanmar. They have […]

Patients in Ontario are increasingly being treated by multiple caregivers, providers and stakeholders. Now more than ever, it is essential to have care coordination between all these groups to ensure the best health outcomes for the patient. When a hospital, primary care physician, long-term care home, community organizations and others work in a coordinated fashion, […]