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SEE VIDEO http://www.ottawasun.com/news/ottawa/2011/04/05/17882876.html Red rose petals littered the parking lot at Kelly Funeral Home in Orleans Tuesday morning after the memorial service for homicide victim Jessica Riopelle. Roughly 110 people packed the chapel — and dozens lined up out the door —to remember the 23-year-old who was killed March 26 at a south Ottawa motel. […]
MoreSEE VIDEO http://www.ottawasun.com/news/ottawa/2011/04/04/17874436.html#/news/ottawa/2011/04/04/pf-17871576.html Every time he leaves work, Stephen Wardlaw obsesses over turning right or left onto Industrial Ave. near St. Laurent Blvd. “It’s terrible. The traffic is coming in the other way, you come out, you put your signal on, there’s nobody there,” said Wardlaw. “By the time you go to pull in, there’s […]
MoreCall it an UnPC move by a PC member. The federal incumbent for Renfrew-Nipissing-Pembroke is apologizing to Liberal leader Michael Ignatieff after tweeting a comment likening his name to Libyan dictator Moammar Gadhafi. An 84-character post on Conservative incumbent Cheryl Gallant’s Twitter page reads: “@M_Ignatieff, sorry about remark on day 1. No place in debate […]
MoreWhile most university students wrap up the semester, the daughter of murder victim Tinde “Tina” Nemet cares for her younger siblings. Leonora Nemet, 20, is taking a break from nursing school at Laurentian University to look after her younger siblings — Teodora, 18 and Thomas, 16 — in Ottawa following their mother’s horrific killing. “She […]
MoreThe family of murder victim Jessica Riopelle is grieving privately after the 23-year-old was killed in a motel room Saturday. “We’re just too overwhelmed right now. We have to go,” said mother Karen Riopelle and another woman who didn’t give her name before closing the door to a house in Orleans. Karen and Jessica were […]
MoreSEE VIDEO http://www.ottawasun.com/news/ottawa/2011/03/27/17775401.html#/news/ottawa/2011/03/27/pf-17771511.html A 23-year-old woman is dead and Ottawa Police are calling it a homicide. Her body was discovered in the Saade International Inn, a motel attached to Diamonds Cabaret strip club and All Win Chinese restaurant in South Gloucester. Police said there were obvious signs of violence at the scene but the cause […]
MoreThere are mountains of rubble on Beechwood Ave. Saturday afternoon. Some passersby pause mid-step and stare. A few drivers slow down to gawk. Many don’t even acknowledge it — it’s part of the neighbourhood now. “It’s sad, but it could’ve been worse. It could’ve been the whole block,” said Christian Hurysz, who lives nearby. A […]
MoreScrambled eggs, toast, breakfast sausage, and a side of blue signs kicked off the Conservative campaign in Ottawa’s west end Saturday morning. Nepean-Carleton MPP Lisa MacLeod and Ottawa-West Nepean federal incumbent John Baird riled up the crowd as fellow MP Pierre Poilievre launched his campaign for re-election in Nepean-Carleton at Greenfield’s Pub in Barrhaven. More […]
MoreSEE VIDEO http://www.ottawasun.com/news/ottawa/2011/03/25/17757476.html#/news/ottawa/2011/03/25/pf-17757476.html When Liberal incumbent David McGuinty knocks on Gabe Thirlwall’s door, he just might get the finger. The Ottawa South resident is the puppet master and artist behind the Political Circus finger puppets. “Oh, I have a David McGuinty puppet. He is a very slow seller,” she said. Right in time for the […]
MoreThe family of a missing Ottawa man is terrified for his safety and is begging the Canadian government to intervene after he vanished last Sunday. “He was either arrested or kidnapped from the Bahrain airport,” a distraught Sadeq Al Raas, 26, said about his brother, Naser Al Raas, 28. A Canadian citizen living in Kuwait, […]
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