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It reads more like a screenplay than a paramedic report. A bizarre accident sent a taxi driver to hospital, injuring four others in south Ottawa around 5:30 p.m. Saturday. The cab driver reportedly suffered a seizure while driving, shortly after picking up two passengers on Sawmill Private. When the car got to the corner house […]
MoreTwo of the three survivors of Saturday’s plane crash in Nunavut are recovering in Ottawa hospitals. A seven-year-old girl was admitted to the Children’s Hospital of Eastern Ontario. “She is recovering quite well and she was able to speak to the grandpa who lives here in Iqaluit,” her uncle Terry Audla told Sun News Network […]
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 […]
MoreCanadians may know hockey, but we need to work on our stroke IQ. A major national study by the Canadian Stroke Network finds two-thirds of stroke patients admitted to hospital don’t get there in time to receive the best possible care. South-Ottawa resident Hector Mackenzie suffered a stroke almost three years ago and received tPA, […]
MoreOntario PC leader Tim Hudak was in full campaign mode Wednesday as he addressed the Canadian Club of Ottawa during a luncheon. From HST to healthcare, his speech focused heavily on attacking Ontario Liberal premier Dalton McGuinty. “The McGuinty team probably has their next round of tax increases already planned. They just don’t want to […]
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 […]
MoreA bus driver is seriously hurt but two busloads of teenagers are shaken but otherwise OK after an crash in Gatineau just past the Macdonald-Cartier bridge around 4 p.m. Thursday. “All I felt was a wrecking ball hit our bus,” said Andrew Godmere, a grade 10 student at Lester B. Pearson Catholic high school. Around […]
MoreSEE VIDEO http://www.ottawasun.com/news/ottawa/2011/01/13/16878576.html One of the women brazenly attacked from behind by a man in broad daylight last month says she wants other women to be more aware of their surroundings. “It’s very concerning that this person is still out there,” said the 58-year-old, who doesn’t want to be named. “I wasn’t wearing headphones or […]
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