Новости за 02.06.2022

Ottawa police are seeking public assistance to identify a suspect in an armed robbery May 16 at a business in the 5000 block of Mitch Owens Road in Manotick. According to police, the suspect, carrying a gun, entered the business at about 6 p.m. and demanded cash. He was handed an undetermined amount of cash, […]

He said he first heard of the coming convoy on Jan. 13, but was at the time dealing with fallout from the Eastway Tank explosion that killed six people.

A 50-year-old Ottawa man has been charged with two counts of sexual assault against a vulnerable youth on an OC Transpo bus. Police said the incidents occurred a little more than two weeks apart, at around 2:45 p.m. on May 2 and 17 in the Billings Bridge area, and involved a 16-year-old autistic youth. Ottawa […]

Ontario’s Special Investigations Unit is investigating an incident that occurred early Thursday morning in Ottawa’s west end. According to Ontario Provincial Police, which has jurisdiction over Hwy. 417, a man fell from the Woodroffe overpass shortly after midnight and sustained injuries. According to Ottawa Paramedic Service, the man was taken to hospital with non-life-threatening injuries. […]

The Peace Tower, the Senate and the Prime Minister’s Office on Wellington Street will be illuminated in purple Thursday night as celebrations begin to mark the Queen’s Platinum Jubilee. The British High Commission will also be lit up in purple today and through the weekend when celebrations will continue with a street party at the […]

Cadena Restaurant and Tapas Bar 385 Richmond Rd., 613-695-7772, cadenarestaurant.com Open: 11 a.m. to 11 p.m. daily Prices: small plates $13 to $28, main $25 to $55, paella $49 to $299 Access: no steps to front door or bathrooms When everything goes right with paella, it’s one of the world’s great rice dishes. In that […]

The next Ontario government will have its hands full over the next four years. And that’s just with the known challenges facing the province. The last Progressive Conservative government didn’t even get two years under its belt before COVID-19 changed the conversation about provincial priorities. Here are five things the next provincial government will almost […]

Storm damages have prompted Elections Ontario officials to change the locations of polling stations in some Eastern Ontario ridings. Nepean voters who are expecting to cast their ballots Thursday at St. Monica school on Merivale Road are being rerouted instead to the Metropolitan Bible Church at 2176 Prince of Wales Drive, according to Elections Ontario. […]

Convenient, connected and tucked away. That’s how Uniform Urban Developments describes its latest infill enclave in Bel Air Park. The 27-townhome project is called Kinver Private and it is indeed tucked away in a quiet, mature neighbourhood of mostly bungalows and leafy streets that has yet to see the kind of urban redevelopment that has […]

The good news is that no one in the capital area will likely suffer sunstroke while waiting to vote on Thursday. Instead, the weather office is calling for a pretty uniform and still grey day. The temperature’s expected to slowly climb to a dinnertime high of 21C, at which point a 60 per cent chance […]

Three years after a major National Inquiry and one year after unveiling a vague 'action plan,' the Trudeau government has made little progress, our analysis shows.

Thursday, June 2: How the Queen's own success may doom her successors, and other letters. You can write to us too, at letters@ottawacitizen.com

Here are some answers to common questions about insurance and filing claims, which are useful to keep in mind, particularly as experts warn that extreme weather events like the May 21 derecho will become more common as the climate changes.

The number of Hydro Ottawa customers still off the grid following the devastating May 21 storm to 300 on Wednesday evening, Hydro Ottawa tweeted, down from 1,400 earlier in the day and from 2,300 as of Tuesday night. For those still not connected to the grid, the continued outage is due to factors including tree […]

As Ontarians prepare to cast their ballots, here are some key facts on the 2022 vote and provincial elections past.

Those seeking votes in the June 2 Ontario general election were thrown into an atmosphere of mixed messages and tough choices.

In celebration of Pride month we are highlighting nine members of Ottawa’s queer and trans communities – one for each of the colours of the Pride flag – and the stories they wanted to share. For red, we feature Kerry Beckett, who describes herself as an old, out dyke. “I don’t have a coming out […]

The city wants the court to declare that the Rideau Transit Group is in contract default because of the derailments in August and September, temporarily shutting down Ottawa's LRT system both times.

"Some good news to start June."

Ottawa Public Health will not reveal how many people it has tested or why, but said it will report publicly if there is a positive case in the city.

Ottawa Police Service reported Wednesday that the body of a man recovered from the Rideau River April 22 has been positively identified as that of a 74-year-old man who had been reported missing April 4. Thomas P. Meyerhof’s car had previously been located at Vimy Memorial Bridge and River Road. Foul play is not suspected […]

Ottawa Fire Service were able to pluck two swimmers from the water about 200 metres from shore at Britannia Beach on Wednesday afternoon. A 911 caller reported at about 1:36 p.m. that a person was “drowning due to exhaustion.” A bystander jumped into the water and helped the struggling swimmer get to a buoy, where […]