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Everything I’ve learned in life, I’ve learned from jigsaw puzzles. Not strictly true, but still ... Read More

Less than a third of Canadian military members surveyed by the armed forces feel that organization provides a reasonable quality of life for them and their families, according to a new defence department report. Read More

Holly Price’s Old Ottawa South home was never big enough to decorate for the holidays like she always wanted. Read More

The most productive teenage hockey player in all of Canada was an extra forward without set linemates when the world junior pre-tournament schedule began last Thursday. Read More

It was like Santa dropped a lump of coal in the Christmas stockings of fans of the Ottawa Senators even before he was supposed to arrive. Read More

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A multi-agency police wiretap investigation that culminated in the arrests of 14 people in the Montreal area in April, 2024 uncovered an organized fraud “syndicate” that targeted seniors across Canada in a sophisticated “grandparent scam.” Read More

With my annual apologies to Clement Clarke Moore: Read More

Ottawa firefighters contained a fire in a Donald Street apartment on Monday. Read More

Redemption time is nigh for Canada at the world junior hockey championship. Read More

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Ottawa's forecast is calling for a white Christmas, with up to 15 cm of snow expected to fall in the national capital region right before Santa Claus comes to town. Read More

Over the past few months, I’ve written about a couple of homeless Ottawans: Thomas Cavasos, who, with his cat, Phoenix, can typically be found in his wheelchair at the northwest corner of Elgin and Lisgar streets; and Frances de Silva, who was living in a canoe on the Rideau Canal when I first met her. A subsequent story I wrote about her canoe being stolen ended with the kindheartedness of some readers who offered to gift her a new canoe. She currently lives in a tent along the Rideau River. Read More

There’s a rustic little wooden fence around Lee and Tammy’s home that might be cute if it weren’t for a couple of things: their “home” is a tent they’ve purposely hidden in a thicket in Gloucester, and the stick fence that Lee built is there to provide a barrier between the couple and the coyotes they hear at night. Read More

The question must be asked: when was the last time your imagination was allowed to freely dream? Or create wondrous worlds and characters full of crazy colours and outfits? Theatre has the special ability to allow us all to dream wildly and exist in a space that is our own — imagining how things could be instead of how they are. Read More

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The year 2025 will be pivotal for seniors. Read More

The Ontario government has appealed a landmark environmental decision that said seven young plaintiffs could sue the province for failing to act on climate change. Read More

I write to you from Alberta, as an Ottawan who now lives in that province. Read More