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To revive downtown Ottawa, the city must cooperate with the feds

Thu, 2025-01-02 08:00
I grew up in the west end of Ottawa. As a kid, I loved to take OC Transpo downtown on the weekends and just hang out. I was so proud of my hometown. Today, it’s a lot harder to go to the core and find a reason to be proud. Read More
Categories: Canadian News

Lai: Ottawa is well on its way to becoming a 15-minute city

Thu, 2025-01-02 08:00
The rise of the 15-minute city, in some form or another, seems to be certain in metropolitan Ottawa. Read More
Categories: Canadian News

Salgo: Four New Year’s resolutions for the public service

Thu, 2025-01-02 07:10
The start of a new year is widely viewed as a good time to commit to making yourself better. I have not found this to be the case in my personal life, as resolutions ranging from visiting the gym between membership renewals, to recognizing that onion rings are not a vegetable and beer is not “freshly squeezed barley juice,” have repeatedly gone awry. Read More
Categories: Canadian News

GAMEDAY: Ottawa Senators take on NHL's least-scored-against Dallas Stars

Thu, 2025-01-02 04:30
Thursday, 8 p.m. ET, American Airlines Center in Dallas. Read More
Categories: Canadian News

Dudas: Rail link to Ottawa airport is the real game-changer

Thu, 2025-01-02 01:30
On Jan. 6, OC Transpo will officially open Lines 2 and 4 to the public, marking a long-awaited opening of the north/south rail extension. Read More
Categories: Canadian News

Today's letters: 2025 — what the world needs now is love, sweet love

Thu, 2025-01-02 01:00
It’s that time of the year when many of us make resolutions to do things to improve our lives: exercise, eat healthy, spend more time in nature and try to strengthen relationships, usually. What if this year we add self-love? Read More
Categories: Canadian News

Fentanyl crisis leads Ottawa Public Health to promote free naloxone kits for all

Thu, 2025-01-02 01:00
The numbers are as alarming as they are tragic. Read More
Categories: Canadian News

Why a combat badge was mysteriously cancelled by the Canadian military

Thu, 2025-01-02 01:00
Canadian military leaders cancelled a proposed combat action badge in 2008 because they were worried soldiers in Afghanistan would risk their lives to attain the coveted honour, according to newly declassified records. Read More
Categories: Canadian News

Canada-Czechia becoming a 'new rivalry' at the world juniors

Wed, 2025-01-01 17:15
For 12 months, Canada's juniors have lived with the heartache of a twice-deflected shot by Czechia's Jakub Stancl with 11.7 seconds remaining in regulation time that knocked them out of last year's tournament in the quarter-final. Read More
Categories: Canadian News

Canada has 'complete reset' before elimination game with Czechia at world juniors

Wed, 2025-01-01 16:40
The wide-angle view of Canada's third-place finish in the Group A standings at the world junior championship focuses on the lack of production. Read More
Categories: Canadian News

Ottawa Senators refreshed and ready to push ahead as road warriors

Wed, 2025-01-01 15:20
As far as road trips go, it's gone about as well as it could for the Ottawa Senators, who have three games remaining on their lengthy nine-game away swing. Read More
Categories: Canadian News

Owner of multiple golds, Cup rings, Brent Seabrook stands by Canadian juniors

Wed, 2025-01-01 14:08
Along with the three Stanley Cups he won as a Chicago Blackhawk during his sterling 15-year NHL career, Brent Seabrook knows what it's like to both come oh, so close one year and to win a gold medal the next at the world junior championship. Read More
Categories: Canadian News

Leeds County OPP probe region's first road death of the year

Wed, 2025-01-01 12:15
Ontario Provincial Police officers from the Leeds County detachment are investigating the first fatal collision of the year in the region. Read More
Categories: Canadian News

Ottawa Charge top Toronto on emotional night for newcomer Larocque

Wed, 2025-01-01 10:35
TORONTO — From crazy to a good cry, veteran defender Jocelyne Larocque went through all the emotions in her first game with the Ottawa Charge. Read More
Categories: Canadian News

Canada wants another crack at U.S. after undisciplined world juniors loss

Wed, 2025-01-01 10:25
In the hours leading into the popping of champagne bottles, the singing of Auld Lang Syne and whatever's left of Dick Clark's Rockin' New Year's Eve, Canada ushered in 2025 on a sour note at the world junior hockey championship. Read More
Categories: Canadian News

Impaired driver who crashed into off ramp registers four times legal limit

Wed, 2025-01-01 08:58
An Ottawa motorist registered nearly four times the legal limit of alcohol in his blood following a single-vehicle crash on a Highway 417 off ramp. Read More
Categories: Canadian News

‘It’s the canal we can’t trust’: Ottawa Ice Dragon Boat Festival future uncertain

Wed, 2025-01-01 01:00
Richard Martin can’t recall exactly when he and his team, Chinatown Showboat, last competed in Ottawa’s Ice Dragon Boat Festival. Read More
Categories: Canadian News

On to world juniors quarter-finals: Canada falls to U.S., faces Czechia — again

Tue, 2024-12-31 19:58
Undisciplined play cost Canada a shot at finishing atop the Group A standings at the world junior championship. Read More
Categories: Canadian News

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