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The sister of Ottawa’s latest murder victim feared for Leeanne Lawson’s life on Ottawa’s Lowertown streets. “The area that she was living in, I’ve been there,” Melissa Sauder told the Sun, adding she’s visited Lowertown twice in the last three years. “It was scary. I came in there with my fairly nice car,” she said. […]
MoreLeeanne Lawson usually wrote letters to her sister. When four months went by without one, her sister knew something was up. “This summer I was so worried, because it never goes that long,” Melissa Sauder said. “Something wasn’t right.” Her worst fears were confirmed around 7 p.m. Friday when police told their mother her sister’s […]
MoreGovernment workers continue to earn more than those in the private sector — and the gap is growing. “The solution is obvious — we all need to go work for the government,” said Canadian Taxpayers Federation executive director Gregory Thomas. “But if everybody’s working for the government, then who is left to pay for it […]
MoreSEE VIDEO http://www.ottawasun.com/2011/08/31/murdured-teen-laid-to-rest Valerie Leblanc loved wearing fedoras and many of the hundreds who attended her funeral in Hull Wednesday donned them in her honour. “She would just get up in the morning and put on a hat,” friend Julie Racicot, 21, said after the ceremony at St. Joseph Cathedral. Mentioning Leblanc’s trademark brought a […]
MoreSEE VIDEO http://www.ottawasun.com/2011/08/30/no-suspects-leading-up-to-leblanc-funeral Despite having no suspects, Gatineau’s police chief is confident his squad will find Valerie Leblanc’s killer. “There is a lot of work that has been done since day one,” chief Mario Harel said during a press conference at Gatineau city hall Tuesday. “We are investigating each lead.” Police set up a command […]
MoreSEE VIDEO http://www.ottawasun.com/2011/08/29/electrical-vault-explosion-at-high-rise-forces-250-out Around 700 residents are displaced after an electrical vault exploded on the main floor of an east-end highrise Monday, sending two people to hospital. It happened at 1244 Donald St., near St. Laurent Blvd., around 1:45 p.m., forcing hundreds of residents out of the 16-storey building’s 250 units. “The whole electrical panel […]
MoreThe only survivor of an Alexandria house fire is out of a coma but doesn’t yet know his partner and three young children have died. Martin Desjardins, 26, has been in the burn centre at Toronto’s Sunnybrook Hospital since Aug. 12, after fire trapped the young family inside their Boundary Rd. East home. “You can’t […]
MoreA former west-Ottawa resident is one of at least 70 people found killed in Tripoli, Libya. Abdel Hamid Darrat, 46, was a “successful businessman” who has shuttled between Tripoli and Ottawa for the last 27 years. “He was just helping people,” Ahmed Hussein said about his friend of more than 20 years. “The whole community […]
MoreThe woman accused of leaving a man to to die on Bronson Ave. last week is the sister of a man who was also left to die — stabbed and bleeding — in an Ottawa park 10 years ago. Layla Farook Aman, 24, was just 14 when her brother Tareq Farook Aman, 19, was stabbed […]
MoreSEE VIDEO http://www.ottawasun.com/2011/08/24/major-expansion-for-ottawa-heart-institute For the last two years, Cornwall resident Terry Hamilton has been visiting the University of Ottawa Heart Institute every two months. “I had a corroded artery cleaned out when I had a stroke. It left this scar here,” he said, pointing at his neck. “I’ve had a stent put in my heart […]
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