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Grief-stricken Barrhaven family prepares to bury 'very determined, independent little girl'
Last Wednesday night, after Ottawa police told Cheryl and David Cross that rescue workers were searching for their daughter Kristen in Dalhousie Lake, Cheryl couldn’t sleep.
Whitton
After objections from the Canadian Jewish Congress, the Historic Sites and Monuments Board of Canada will reconsider whether former Ottawa mayor Charlotte Whitton should be recognized as a person of national historic significance.
A 17-year-old teen with violent rape fantasies was sentenced to two years probation Monday for what a judge described as a “terrifying” plan to sexually assault women walking their dogs at the Conroy Pit.
A Canadian soldier, already in custody over assaults in the Petawawa area, has now been charged in connection to a sexual assault in Kingston.
A lawyer for Osgoode residents who don’t want snowmobiles and other motorized vehicles on a rural trail near their homes says the city is following a “superficial” process while reviewing the issue.
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Ever been torpedoed? Well, it’s like this …
In war, even when nothing is exploding, fate can deal a sailor a bad day.
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Special site: The Lansdowne Project
Read the latest news, see artists' conceptions and get background information on the redevelopment of...
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Ottawa in pictures
Got a fresh picture of life in Ottawa to share? Go to ottawacitizen.com/tips and use the handy form.
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The Blotter
The Blotter keeps you up to date on the latest crime and courts stories in Ottawa and Eastern Ontario...
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Out-going Ottawa councillor pitches multimillion-dollar downtown bike-lane plan
A sweeping proposal to make Ottawa more bike-friendly is being pitched by outgoing Rideau-Rockcliffe Councillor Jacques Legendre.
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Transpo boss's memo addresses bus delays
Communication procedures are to be reviewed after bus users were hit with major delays this month because of construction and other problems along Slater Street, according to city staff.
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Family in shock in wake of fatal Hwy.7 crash
The car crash that killed one woman on Saturday and injured two of her sisters has sent shock waves through the siblings’ large, extended family.
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Update: Victim of brutal rink attack stunned by attacker's sentence
A volunteer, left permanently brain-damaged by what the judge called a “callous, senseless and cowardly” attack at a public skating rink, was left in disbelief at the decision to sentence one of his attackers to three-and-a-half years in prison.
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Man who defrauded seniors ordered to repay $10,000 to each
A 49-year-old man who defrauded two elderly neighbours — including a disabled woman in a wheelchair — who lived in the same Ottawa Community Housing building as he did was sentenced to three years' probation Monday and ordered to pay each back $10,000. R
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Ottawa motorist charged after SUV crashes into Sushi restaurant
An Ottawa man has been charged after a vehicle smashed into the front of a Sushi restaurant Monday on Rideau Street .
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Video: World's tallest thistle?
Christine Sadler has an eight-foot-tall in her backyard. The Guinness people have conditionally accepted it as a new category in their book of records.
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Two people in hospital after fire at RCMP headquarters
A fire broke out in the data centre of RCMP headquarters Monday after contractors working in a storage room accidentally cut a high voltage wire.T
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Bigger city needs smaller council: Watson
Seeking to tap into growing dissatisfaction with city government, mayoral candidate Jim Watson Sunday unveiled a plan to shrink council by up to a third, to improve governance and save taxpayers $2 million a year.
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Photos: Algonquin College pedestrian bridge installation
On Aug. 21, a new pedestrian bridge was finally installed across Woodroffe Avenue at Algonquin College. When completed in 2011, the bridge will connect the new college trades building and a future underground transit station on the west side of Woodroffe with the rest of the college and the communities on the east side of the street.
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Man used dead father’s pension cheques to pay for strip clubs
There are no more private dancers for David Ellwood Butler.
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Gaining ground on the competition
Canada and all of North America have a long way to go to catch up to Europe in the sport of orienteering.
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Final day of reggae festival cancelled
The Ottawa Reggae Festival was cancelled Sunday after a financial meltdown forced organizers to axe the remaining finale line-up.
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Tim Horton’s customers tackle would-be robber
The quick-thinking of several Tim Hortons customers stopped a knife-wielding man in Gatineau Sunday evening.
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Police release names in Highway 7 fatal
Police released the names Sunday evening of those involved with a deadly afternoon crash on Highway 7 near Stittsville this weekend.
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Adami: Parking spat adds to family’s grief
Given the rush and state of mind that many people must be in when they drive up to an emergency department, why do they have to worry about stuffing a parking meter before going into the hospital?
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Stittsville-area crash kills Quebec woman, injures sister
One woman is dead and another critically injured after the vehicle they were riding in made a U-turn and was broadsided by another vehicle Saturday along Highway 7 near Stittsville.
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Hydro prices ‘going up like a rocket’
Electricity prices in Ontario are “going up like a rocket,” fuelled in part by the Ontario government’s Green Energy Act, says a longtime observer of the province’s energy scene.
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One year after Stephanie Sonneveld donated a kidney to Valerie McClymont, the friends still find it hard to discuss
Driving together to The Ottawa Hospital, Valerie McClymont and Stephanie Sonneveld talked about everything but the surgeries that faced them.
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Troubled reggae festival can’t stop the sheriff
Ottawa’s Reggae Festival had already been off to a bad start when news ricocheted Saturday that Bob Marley’s son, Ky-mani, had pulled out as its headliner.
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Overbilled hydro customer aims to get even
Considering how many times Hydro Ottawa kissed Sean Evans off before it finally figured out that it had been overbilling him for nearly a decade, the public servant hardly thinks his compensation demands are outrageous.
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