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Yumi Schoenhofer can sleep now. The Ottawa woman has reached her 80-year-old mother who lives alone in Tokyo. “I called and finally, the line was open,” Schoenhofer said, adding the quality of the sound wasn’t great. “(We talked for) three to four minutes. It was good enough to find out she was fine.” Schoenhofer, the […]
MoreBy KELLY ROCHE and JUSTIN SADLER, Ottawa Sun Ottawa’s second homicide victim of 2011 is being remembered as a dedicated mom to her three kids and who loved volunteering at the local swimming pool. “Tina is a terrific lady. She put her heart into her kids’ activities,” said Wayne Toner, president of the Sudbury Laurentian […]
MoreThe city is investigating after a man driving an OC Transpo minivan was seen talking on his cell phone. “I thought it was kind of ironic,” said Rick Paul, a Sun reader who filed the complaint. “The fear I have as a motorcycle driver is somebody’s going to be texting and kill me.” It happened […]
MoreSEE VIDEO http://www.ottawasun.com/news/ottawa/2011/03/09/17557041.html#/news/ottawa/2011/03/09/pf-17555811.html Wednesdays were hell. From witnessing a stabbing to crack addicts smoking up on their front steps, residents living near Cumberland St. and Daly Ave. saw it all when a homeless drop-in centre used to operate at St. Paul’s-Eastern United church. “It was on Wednesdays, once a week, for five or six years,” […]
MoreA collection agency is going after convicted rapist, sex killer and former colonel Russell Williams, according to CTV Ottawa. Williams was apparently ordered to pay an $8,000 victims surcharge fine for the sexual assaults and murders he was convicted of last year. “A lot of offenders don’t have resources to pay,” said executive director of […]
MoreIf federal public servants want to exercise their right to choose to speak French or English at work, management must respect the employee’s choice. Public sector senior and middle managers were given this tip and many others Thursday when an employee study — taken to gauge ideas on how to foster bilingualism — was released. […]
MoreThe Anglican Diocese of Ottawa has apologized for comments made by an archdeacon which likened remarks made by downtown residents against a homeless centre to “Nazi Germany.” “They were not constructive to moving the dialogue forward,” the Very Rev. Shane Parker wrote in a letter to the Sun’s editor Wednesday afternoon. At a meeting Monday […]
MoreSEE VIDEO http://www.ottawasun.com/news/ottawa/2011/03/02/17471341.html#/news/ottawa/2011/03/02/pf-17470581.html Acute-care beds at area hospitals are increasingly unavailable, making for cancelled surgeries and longer emergency room wait times. That’s because an alarming number of seniors are using them who should be in long-term care. Currently about 3,300 people in the Champlain region are waiting for long-term care beds at home and in […]
MoreAn Ottawa Anglican Diocese official is comparing neighbourhood opposition to the relocation of a downtown homeless centre and comments by those opposing it to “Nazi Germany.” After a heated meeting with area residents Monday night, archdeacon David Selzer is “appalled” by comments describing the homeless. “There was a huge degradation of people using Centre 454 […]
MoreSEE VIDEO http://www.ottawasun.com/news/ottawa/2011/02/27/17429231.html#/news/ottawa/2011/02/27/pf-17428041.html Hockey fever in Navan has gone to the dogs. Sylvia Schaus’ four-legged friends, Jackson and Eli, were decked out in homemade Navan for Hockeyville jackets Sunday as the east-Ottawa village vied for the coveted title. “Hockey in my house is very big. I’m glad we only have one child,” she said at […]
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