Exhibit of 1,700 carcasses highlights bird-building collisions
By Jennifer Doede On Feb. 27, Safe Wings Ottawa hosted a display featuring over 1,700 dead birds at city hall. The avian creatures lost their lives colliding with the windows…
Team Homan takes Scotties, off to Beijing to vie for world title
By Caitlin Galipeau The Ottawa Curling Club’s Rachel Homan secured the Scotties Tournament of Hearts title for Team Ontario on Sunday. This is the 27-year-old skip’s third tournament title and…
Rooming houses generating high number of service calls
By Nathan Bragg New statistics released to city council show Ottawa’s rooming houses are generating a high number of service requests in recent years. These numbers come after the Somerset…
Sandy Hill centre set to become safe injection site
By Rupert Nuttle In response to the nation-wide opioids crisis, the Sandy Hill Community Health Centre is finalizing plans for a supervised injection site. The centre, located several blocks east…
Fight shifts to branch library
By Spencer Van Dyk The former Ottawa Teachers’ College on Elgin Street will someday be home to a new Centretown branch library if Somerset Coun. Catherine McKenney gets her way….
Opioids crisis deepens
By Rupert Nuttle In the wake of dozens of deaths in Ottawa in recent years caused by the street drug fentanyl, the city’s paramedics are bracing for a new source…
Downtown restaurant cuts ties with Shopify
By Santana Bellantoni A prominent Centretown restaurant has severed its relationship with the online merchandising platform Shopify because the tech firm announced it will keep the right-wing American digital news…
City sweetens up with Maple Fest
By Kristian Kelly Maple, that quintessentially Canadian flavour, is now joining poutine and ribs among Ottawa food festivals on the streets of Centretown. The Great Canadian Maple Festival is scheduled…
Rally fuels electoral anger
By Amy Yee Protesters called Prime Minister Justin Trudeau out on broken campaign promises during a week of action aimed at pushing for electoral reform in Canada. On Feb. 11,…
McKenney postpones sanctuary proposal
By Selene Tan Ottawa won’t be a sanctuary city quite yet. Despite initial plans to move quickly to seek the refugee- and immigrant-friendly status for the city, Somerset Coun. Catherine…