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A mother and daughter from Bourget are dead following a three-vehicle crash east of Ottawa on Friday night. Bertha Clairoux, 51, was pronounced dead at the scene. Her mother, Doris Billings, 74, was transported to hospital in critical condition where she died within two hours. OPP Const. Serge Gauthier said they were travelling in the […]
MoreSEE VIDEO http://www.ottawasun.com/2011/12/09/protesters-return-to-congolese-embassy A moving protest held by Ottawa’s Congolese community Friday got at least three people arrested. For the second time in four days, a rally was held at the Democratic Republic of the Congo embassy on Range Rd. in Sandy Hill. The demonstrators are calling for the international community to intervene in what […]
MoreSEE VIDEO http://www.ottawasun.com/2011/12/06/cops-protesters-clash-at-embassy At least three people were arrested — one hit with a Taser — Tuesday as hundreds of protesters squared off with RCMP and Ottawa police in Sandy Hill outside the Embassy of the Democratic Republic of the Congo. Police in riot gear were called in Tuesday evening to manage the fiesty crowd […]
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 […]
MoreSEE VIDEO http://www.ottawasun.com/2011/08/17/hit-and-run-leaves-man-critically-hurt A Stratford family is devastated after a 22-year-old man was killed in a hit-and-run crash on Bronson Ave. early Wednesday. Emergency crews got the call at 3:18 a.m. for a young man found unconscious and bleeding near Somerset Ave. W., on the outskirts of Chinatown. Dan Miller, 22 — the youngest of […]
MoreResidents in a west Ottawa apartment building are still in the dark about the death of two people Friday night. Cops weren’t at the scene Sunday and Ottawa Police still aren’t addressing inquiries, only saying an investigation is underway. A man in his 30s and a 29-year-old woman apparently fell from a 10th floor balcony […]
MoreSEE VIDEO http://www.ottawasun.com/2011/08/06/man-dead-woman-critical-after-balcony-fall Residents in a west Ottawa apartment building are wondering if the death of two people late Friday is suspicious — something Ottawa Police have yet to address. “It’s still being investigated,” Sgt. Gary Leach told the Sun Saturday. Someone called 911 saying they had seen two people falling from a balcony in […]
MoreA 22-year-old Osgoode man died early Sunday morning after the car he was driving rolled several times, throwing him out. It happened around 5:40 a.m. on Snake Island Rd. in Ottawa’s southwest end between Doyle Rd. and Nixon Dr. Tyson Weigand was pronounced dead at the scene by paramedics. Nearby residents said Weigand was driving […]
MoreJonathan Bergeron’s father watched his only son and “right-hand man” die in a horrific industrial accident on the family farm Thursday. Bergeron was milking and feeding the cows with his dad, Marc, around 8:30 a.m. at 431 St-Guillaume Rd in Russell Twp. when he got trapped in the barn’s feed-mixing machine. The 27-year-old farmer was […]
MoreSEE VIDEO http://www.ottawasun.com/2011/07/07/kids-hurt-in-school-bus-car-crash Five people were taken to hospital with bumps and bruises after a school bus was hit from behind by an SUV on Pinecrest Rd. Thursday afternoon. The bus was carrying about 60 children from the Centre d’Education le Manege, a French day camp, and was heading southbound over Hwy. 417 just after […]
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