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April Kibzey says she cannot sit idly by while cats freeze or go hungry outside her rambling home in central Vanier. “As human beings, in a society that we created and live by, I think we’re all responsible for the domesticated animals that we’ve turned into our companions.” And so she is running an unofficial […]

It was no surprise that the most dramatic six weeks in the history of Ontario politics would end with even more drama.  Doug Ford’s narrow victory at a convention where nothing went right was a fitting finale to the train wreck that has ensued since the Ontario Progressive Conservative executive, in its wisdom, decided that […]

Good morning… from an hour earlier than anyone would really like. In case you already haven’t, it’s time to move your clocks forward. (Yes, even the ones on your stove and in your car). The good news for those sleepy eyes? By moving the clocks forward this morning, we’re now one hour closer to spring. […]

Until Saturday, the biggest gong in the world was more than five metres across. According to Guinness. Made of copper, weighing more than 550 kilograms. It was displayed at the Third China Taiyuan International Cooked Wheaten Food Festival in Shanxi in 2005. The Shanxi gong is now second-class. The title has passed to the Progressive […]

JEONGSEON, South Korea — There’s a feeling of freedom when Mac Marcoux is roaring down the mountain at 120 km/h, the only sounds coming from the crunch of his skis on the snow and the directions from guide Jack Leitch. The 20-year-old skier’s love of speed carried him to Canada’s first gold medal of the […]

The Ontario Progressive Conservatives had a stage-managed play all set to reveal their new leader to take on Kathleen Wynne on Saturday, and they botched it. Doug Ford probably won. Maybe it was Christine Elliott. But probably Doug Ford. The party didn’t know when it would know. They couldn’t be sure they’d counted the votes […]

About 130 skiers had to rescued from a broken chairlift at Camp Fortune on Saturday afternoon. Marketing manager Erin Boucher said the “Pineault quad” suddenly malfunctioned at about noon, leaving the skiers stranded on the four-seater lifts, one of seven at the Chelsea facility. Because there was a problem with the gear box, the so-called […]

If, on a drunken lark, you fired three bullets from a handgun inside a highrise apartment — piercing a neighbour’s wall — what kind of penalty would be reasonable? Yili Yang, then 18, received a conditional discharge from Ontario Justice Matthew Webber, meaning he would have no criminal conviction if terms were obeyed. The Ontario […]

A 23-year-old Ottawa man was charged with numerous firearms-related offences after an incident on the patio of a Montreal Road establishment Friday night. An intoxicated male pointed a sawed-off shotgun at two people during a disturbance at about 10:50 p.m. in area near Lafontaine Avenue, Ottawa police said in a news release. Police said they […]

Buying pot logos can be expensive. A day after the Liquor Control Board of Ontario revealed the name and logo for stores that will sell marijuana, it confirmed on Saturday that it expected to pay advertising agency Leo Burnett about $650,000 for all brand and marketing related to the Ontario Cannabis Store. “The OCRC is […]

The Irish, possibly, have long been ahead of their time, but why hold the St. Patrick’s Day parade a week early, when the 17th is a Saturday, too? Hold on a wee minute, says the Irish Society of the National Capital Region, which offered this explanation to the timing of Ottawa’s parade. “The Irish Society […]

The Irish, possibly, have long been ahead of their time, but why hold the St. Patrick’s Day parade a week early, when the 17th is a Saturday, too? Hold on a wee minute, says the Irish Society of the National Capital Region, which offered this explanation to the timing of Ottawa’s parade. “The Irish Society […]