Category: Breaking News

It’s back to business as usual after the Ottawa police bomb squad responded to a potential hazardous materials situation downtown that turned out to be nothing but a false alarm.

OC Transpo says the percentage of bus trips running on time during the morning rush hour in the last three months of 2011 has improved compared to the same period in 2010, but they have not made any progress during the afternoon rush hour, according to a quarterly report released March 16.

At 10:30 p.m. on March 13, Obert Madondo ate his last meal before embarking on a hunger strike against the Harper government’s omnibus crime bill. The Zimbabwean refugee chose lasagna in honour of the Italian family that first welcomed him to Canada many years ago.

The province’s $600 million share of Ottawa’s LRT funding won’t be touched despite warnings of “significant” infrastructure cuts, finance minister Dwight Duncan said March 15.