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Azaan Hamid had just gotten dressed for gym class at D. Roy Kennedy P.S. when the fire alarm went off around 10:35 Thursday morning. “I thought it was a drill,” said Hamid, 10, adding “everyone was getting out of the building very calmly.” They had reason to panic – an armed man had walked into […]
MoreEveryone looked up to Michael Bleakney and it wasn’t just because he was a “tall, strapping, Scottish fellow.” He was the kind of guy who’d dance with his wife, Kathy, in the kitchen for no reason. “He loved her so much,” said friend and colleague of 14 years, Ravi Sundararaj. The type of dad who […]
MoreIf you’re trying to drop cigarettes, don’t look to their electronic counterparts. That’s the conclusion from a new literature review by the University of Ottawa Heart Institute, published in the Canadian Medical Association Journal. There’s no evidence e-cigarettes can help smokers quit, the review states. But that’s not necessarily the only reason to use e-cigarettes. […]
MoreA sombre week is in store for the city. Funeral arrangements have been finalized for five out of the six victims of Wednesday’s Barrhaven bus-train crash, including OC Transpo driver David Woodard. Four passengers will be honoured this week. A service will be held for Karen Krzyzewski, 53, at Woodvale Pentecostal Church, 205 Greenbank Rd., […]
MoreHeads bowed, eyes closed, hands clasped; they prayed for their devastated neighbours, opening with Psalm 23. Six lives lost. No one to blame. As the community struggles to make sense of unthinkable tragedy, roughly 200 people, many with tears in their eyes, filed into the Cedarview Alliance Church in Barrhaven Sunday evening for a memorial […]
MoreThursday night harness racing has been extended at Rideau Carleton Raceway, and officials are praising the provincial government for reversing a decision, restoring the track’s twice-weekly race calendar. “I don’t see how we could’ve gotten by on one day a week,” said track announcer and handicapper Norm Borg. Rideau Carleton offers live horse racing on […]
MoreA Second World War veteran, NHL player, and prominent businessman passed away Sunday at the age of 91. Howard “Rip” Riopelle, who launched his professional hockey career in the 1945-46 season suiting up for the Montreal Royals, died in his Blackburn Hamlet home. “He was a very, very, faith-filled man,” said daughter Julie Wallace. “His […]
MoreFuneral details have been announced for two of the six victims in the fatal Barrhaven bus-train crash. The life of Carleton University student Connor Boyd, 21 will be celebrated Monday at 11 a.m. at Cedarview Alliance Church, south of Fallowfield Rd. The address is 2784 Cedarview Rd. Boyd loved the arts; reading, and all types […]
MoreA 27-year-old west-end man is wanted in connection with nearly two dozen offences, including a shooting in Nepean last month, and city cops are asking for the public’s help to cuff him. Behzad Behruzi has links to numerous gun offences, a break and enter, and uttering threats, say police. “I think there’s about 20 charges […]
MoreDecapitated bodies. Limbs strewn like toys in a yard. Fear of loved ones — not responding to their cell phones or social media feeds — being killed or seriously injured. Reaction to Wednesday’s horrific crash between an OC Transpo bus and VIA train, killing six and sending dozens to hospital, can range from numbness to […]
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