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Jim Watson says he changed the name of his previously described “internship” program after the Ottawa and District Labour Council called him out for using unpaid workers on his re-election campaign. The labour council didn’t like that the mayoral incumbent advertised an application opportunity for unpaid interns to work on his campaign. Hiring unpaid interns […]

The Canadian Forces will be moving a dismantled CP-140 Aurora to its new home at a museum in Trenton. The aircraft is now on the road after leaving a holding facility in Halifax, NS, and is expected to arrive at the National Air Force Museum of Canada in Trenton, ON sometime between Sept. 7-13. The […]

More than 1,500 patients who received treatment at a Stittsville medical centre have been tested for hepatitis B, hepatitis C and HIV by Ottawa Public Health after infection control lapses were discovered earlier this year. The testing revealed that a handful of the patients are currently infected or potentially infected with hepatitis B or C […]

Ottawa residents have taken to online information sharing service Reddit to post about strange visitors who have shown up on their doorsteps in the past several days. According to one poster, a stranger was frantically knocking on their door at an extremely early hour, waking them from their sleep. When they arrived at the door, […]

A severe thunderstorm watch is in effect for much of eastern Ontario and western Quebec including the capital as a warm, humid airmass is set to collide with a cold front. Severe thunderstorms are expected for Wednesday afternoon and evening before the front passes, Environment Canada predicted. Severe thunderstorm watches are issued when conditions are […]

If you’re planning to build cabinets, built-ins or even window and door trim at your place, pocket joinery is worth serious consideration. It offers a great way to make carpentry less complicated and more fun. Pocket joinery eases the assembly of wooden parts, and simplicity is a big part of the attraction. All pocket joinery systems […]

Maybe this bear had a boo-boo? A wandering bear has caused a stir at the Gatineau hospital, but police say there’s no safety threat as the animal is behind a fence and surrounded by police and officers from the province’s ministry of natural resources. Police were called to the hospital on Boulevard La Vérendrye at […]

A Nepean family is hoping to make someone a happy husband. The foursome found a man’s wedding ring during a weekend camping trip at Algonquin Park and posted the find on Reddit in hopes of finding the owner. “Were you canoeing in the Carcajou Falls area of Algonquin Park, Ontario when your wedding band flew […]

Kingston police had a 19-year-old man in custody within an hour of early-morning gunfire that left a 38-year-old man dead. They were called to shots fired at a west-end motel at 1 a.m. Monday. Paramedics treated the victim, but were unable to save him, police said. By 2 a.m., they had the local teen under […]

Police say they’re turning to the public after exhausting all other leads to identify a suspect in a shoplifting incident in the city’s west end July 30. No further details were provided in a media release Wednesday. The suspect is a white man with short hair and a full beard. He was wearing a long-sleeve […]

A traffic stop in Quinte West netted purple fentanyl, cocaine and a loaded pistol as officers arrested a trio of men Quinte West. Officers from the detachment were on a routine patrol when they spotted an unspecified traffic violation on South Trent Street in the community west of Belleville Aug. 30, the OPP said in […]

The two-month-old restaurant on Bank Street stresses local ingredients, from-scratch cooking and minimal food waste.

Get ready to swelter Wednesday as the mercury hits a high of 31 C that will feel more like 41. Showers are likely and there’s also a risk of a thunderstorm. It could be the muggiest Sept. 5 since records began in 1953, noted local weather historian Rolf Campbell, who tweets as @YOW_Weather. With a forecast […]

We need a day without The Donald On Saturday, my wife and I watched the funeral of John McCain on television; we then watched a series of programs that dealt with the late senator’s remarkable life and career. In short, we spent a considerable amount of time watching television. When it was all over, we […]

Transit can inspire frustration at the best of times, so it’s perhaps unsurprising that OC Transpo’s LRT-oriented fall service changes have provoked the ire of transit riders in affected areas of the city. But for some bus passengers, the adjustments they have to make as a result of the  changes are more than a minor […]

Perhaps the most tangible achievement of the Heritage Matters Task Force launched in 2016 by Mayor Jim Watson is the appointment of a special bylaw inspector tasked with keeping an eye on Ottawa’s most vulnerable and vacant heritage buildings. In addition to the regular property-standards issues you might expect bylaw officers to be on the […]

Children who were in kindergarten on the day Somerset House partially collapsed in October 2007 are in high school, now and there’s a good chance they’ll be licensed to drive a car before something comes of the vacant heritage building on the corner of Bank and Somerset. The fall of Somerset House and the ensuing […]

Caitlan Coleman says her husband, Joshua Boyle, deepened the nightmare of her captivity during their five years as hostages in Central Asia. In unsealed court documents, Coleman alleges she was physically and emotionally abused by Boyle while they were being held by the Taliban-linked Haqqani network. “J.B. (Joshua Boyle) regularly threatened to kill me by […]

Part of the Coun. Tim Tierney phone call that’s at the centre of an OPP anti-rackets investigation was broadcast over speakerphone while three people were in a room at Ottawa’s municipal election headquarters. The call was placed to Michael Schurter, who on July 27, the last day for election nominations to be filed, was registering […]

Five people are facing charges after crack cocaine, marijuana and the cannabis concentrate known as shatter were seized in a weekend raid by Ottawa police. The  guns and gangs unit executed a search warrant on Durocher Street on Saturday, police said in a release Tuesday. Besides drugs, police seized digital scales, cellphones, drug packaging and […]

Andrew Schouten cheated death once, but not twice. The 32-year-old farmer, member of a prominent agricultural family in the Richmond area, died in a bizarre mishap early Sunday on March Road, not far from the hamlet of Corkery and the town of Almonte. Ottawa police responded to a call at about 4 a.m. concerning a […]

Police divers continued searching the deep waters of the St. Lawrence River on Tuesday as a grieving family held vigil at a  nearby cottage for an 11-year-old Ottawa boy missing after a weekend boating mishap. The unidentified boy disappeared Saturday when the visiting family’s vessel capsized off the village of Rockport, about 140 km south […]

Back to school brings new friends, new routines and new things to learn. This newspaper visited W.E. Gowling Public School on Tuesday to ask parents and students what they’ve learned. What advice did you get from your parents about school? Finn Ketchum: Do your homework. What surprises you the most about school today? Moira Teed […]