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Ottawa Redblacks defensive back Teague Sherman has been charged with multiple counts of sexual assault and was released by the CFL team just two days after turning himself in to police, this newspaper has learned. Sherman, 30, was told by Ottawa police sexual assault and child abuse detectives to turn himself in last week. The […]

An electrical fault is believed to be the cause of a dramatic early morning blaze at a Vars car auction yard that destroyed or damaged a dozen vehicles. Firefighters were called to the large ADESA auction lot at 1717 Burton Rd. at about 4 a.m. Tuesday. Six vehicles were destroyed in the fire and another […]

The 12 boys and their soccer coach rescued from a cave in northern Thailand left the hospital and appeared at a news conference Wednesday looking healthy as they answered questions from journalists from around the world.

Federal Environment Minister Catherine McKenna says she is committed to working with everyone on tackling climate change. Ontarios Doug Ford government is planning to scrap the cap-and-trade program and fight a federal carbon tax.

Ottawa patrol officers arrested an Ottawa woman Tuesday in connection with a downtown bank robbery. Police said in a release Wednesday a woman walked into a bank “in the 100 block of Bank Street,” near Albert Street at about 4:30 p.m., and demanded money from the teller. The teller handed over an undisclosed amount of cash […]

Bird safety activists in the capital are mobilizing to try to figure out how to treat a northern flicker-type woodpecker found hanging by its neck in the Heron/Alta Vista area late Tuesday. “We’ve reached out to our online contacts for assistance,” said Safe Wings Ottawa spokeswoman Anouk Hoedeman. “I just got an email from a […]

Cyril Leeder and Bernie Ashe have re-emerged on the Ottawa business landscape thanks to the acquisition of Deslaurier Custom Cabinets. The two well-known Ottawa sports executives have been announced as key members of a new ownership group for the 36-year-old Renfrew firm, which has big plans for the local cabinet-maker. “This is a company that […]

Ontario Provincial Police have charged three people in connection with two rural residential break-ins in 2016 involving the theft of firearms. The break-ins occurred on Dec. 13, 2016 on Heritage Drive in Montague Township and on Dec. 14, 2016 on River Road in North Grenville. Police have charged Yousef Abbadi, 21, of Ottawa with trafficking in […]

It is a rare thing in the hyper-partisan cacophony of the current Trumpian moment that a comprehensible and honest American accounting presents itself that makes some clear sense of the cultural pathologies that have led directly to the dystopian abyss where the world’s liberal democracies are now perilously teetering. That’s what’s on offer from Michiko […]

Ottawa Redblacks defensive back Teague Sherman has been charged with sexual assault and was released by the CFL team just two days after turning himself in to police, this newspaper has learned. Sherman, 30, was told by Ottawa police sexual assault and child abuse detectives to turn himself in last week. The allegations against him […]

A 40-year-old Ottawa man has been charged with a number offences after he was tracked down by patrol officers and canine units following a Richmond Road break-in Tuesday morning. Police were called for a break-in in progress at a store in the “300 block of Richmond Road at approximately 2:17 a.m.” The suspect had fled, […]

Ontario politicians embroiled in the heated and unproductive debate over the province’s sex-ed curriculum need to step back and ask themselves a simple question: Is this really about the kids, or is it all politics? NDP leader Andrea Horwath and a flock of progressive commentators claim that reverting to a former version of the curriculum […]

When Gatineau Mayor Maxime Pedneaud-Jobin looks out over the Zibi development on the Ottawa River, what excites him most is what he won’t see. In October, demolition crews will dismantle a massive 250-metre former Domtar building at the corner of rue Eddy and rue Laurier that has separated the city from the river as effectively […]

Traffic remains slow on the eastbound Highway 401 near Brockville early Wednesday after a tractor-trailer carrying a load of “freezie” desserts caught fire. The incident occurred near the Highway 2 exit at about 1 a.m. The force of the collision apparently burst the tractor’s fuel tanks, resulting in a fire that was visible for several […]

As many as 10 fire trucks were called to the scene of a blaze at 1588 Boul. Maloney E. in Gatineau early Wednesday morning. Firefighters arrived to find the uninhabited building engulfed in smoke and flames. About 26 firefighters were on the scene. The fire was declared under control at 6:10 am. There were no […]

A fire investigator has been called following a dramatic early morning blaze at a Vars car auction yard that destroyed a number of vehicles. Responders were called to the large ADESA auction lot at 1717 Burton Rd. at about 4 a.m. Six vehicles were fully involved in flame, and another six were damaged, according to […]

Unless you’re a heat freak, Wednesday looks like ideal summer weather: Perhaps a bit cool, with a projected high of 24 C and but virtually no humidity, although the UV remains very high with a reading of 8. Wednesday night is expected to tumble to sleep friendly 12 C. If you are a heat freak, […]

Unless you’re a heat freak, Wednesday looks like ideal summer weather: Perhaps a bit cool, with a projected high of 24 C and but virtually no humidity, although the UV remains very high with a reading of 8. Wednesday night is expected to tumble to sleep friendly 12 C. If you are a heat freak, […]

Peter Ruiter figures he had two options after a fire last fall destroyed his livelihood: He could rebuild and return to dairy farming, the job he’s worked at and loved for the past 35 years, or he could walk away from his Blackrapids Farm and try something new — politics, perhaps, or feed sales. He […]

The family behind popular Preston Street eatery La Roma has come to a compromise with the city that will allow their sidewalk patio to survive, relatively intact, for future summers, while adjusting to comply with new accessibility-oriented bylaw rules. For those the bylaw was designed to accommodate, the change can’t come soon enough. Days earlier, […]

Trash your allies and then expect them to buy your products. That seems to be the strategy the U.S. government is following these days on military equipment sales. U.S. President Donald Trump has continued to roll out insult after insult over the last month or so against America’s traditional allies. Trump says America’s NATO allies […]

Health Canada has issued a warning to cannabis companies that are sponsoring music festivals and promoting their brands as Canada heads closer to the legalization of recreational marijuana this fall. Companies that break regulations against advertising will face “serious consequences” that could include licence suspensions, fines as high as $5 million or jail time, Health […]

Ottawa police said they arrested a 24-year-old man on Tuesday on child pornography charges after a tip from the Queensland Police Service in Australia. Steven Rutter has been charged with possession, distribution and production of child pornography. He was scheduled to appear in court on Wednesday. In a media release, Ottawa Police Service said the tip […]

It was once called “The Second Niagara” — a swirling cataract where the Ottawa River plunged 15 metres over a series of limestone ledges with a roar that, explorer Samuel de Champlain wrote in 1613, could be heard “two leagues away” (roughly 10 kilometres.) “The water falls … with such impetuosity on a rock that […]

Quebec police say a Gatineau woman wanted for kidnapping her three children could be in Ontario. Yanna Mavraganis, 42, is accused of kidnapping Maximos Finley-Mavriganis, 8, Maya Finley-Mavraganis, 8, and Marina Finley-Mavraganis, 5, in April. Police said in a media release on Tuesday that they believed she could be in Ontario and may be staying […]