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Residents 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 Renfrew contractor will be tossed in jail for 90 days — and has to pay back almost $35,000 — after being convicted Wednesday of scamming an Ottawa senior more than two years ago. In March 2009, Hubert Belisle, who runs H.B. Expert Pro-Renovations, sold an 85-year-old man in Ottawa on various repairs and improvements […]
MoreBetween blaring music, fireworks, lawnmowers, and bouncing from one outdoor festival to the next, the summer can take a toll on your hearing. And it can take just 30 minutes to do some serious damage, warns a hearing expert. “There are some people who go to one loud concert and are close to the speakers […]
MoreSEE VIDEO http://www.ottawasun.com/2011/07/30/apartment-project-irks-residents Lionel Rowe knows people don’t like change. What they like even less, he says, is being left in the dark. The retired Nepean resident charges the city hasn’t been straight with residents about the re-zoning of a proposed development at 2940 Baseline Rd. and Sandcastle Dr., west of Greenbank Rd. — a […]
MoreJonathan Gosselin wants to be a police officer one day. But he keeps getting hindered by provincial red tape when it comes to renewing his security guard licence. The Ottawa resident makes $10.50 an hour and has been out of a job for almost three months because he didn’t have a passport or driver’s licence […]
MoreOntario premier Dalton McGuinty was in town Thursday, waxing lyrical about health care during a speech to the Ottawa Chamber of Commerce. But he still can’t find a few minutes to chat with a terminally ill woman — Lisa Nancarrow. She’s an Ottawa woman who lives in his riding and who was denied out-of-province treatment. […]
MoreSEE VIDEO http://www.ottawasun.com/2011/07/26/ottawa-men-shed-clothes-for-their-unemployed-bros Ottawa femme fatales were straining their necks for a better view. Men even did double-takes as four male models — dressed in boxer shorts, dress socks, and dress shoes — paraded through the Byward Market in the pouring rain Tuesday afternoon. Some younger women laughed, or downright ignored them, while others were […]
MoreAs a crowd of more than 100 people watched, Korean War veterans were honoured in downtown Ottawa Sunday at two commemorative ceremonies marking the 58th anniversary of the Korean War Armistice. “We’ve called it, for many years, the ‘forgotten war,’ yet we’ve lost 516 people there,” said army veteran Charles Belzile, 78, after the wreath-laying ceremony […]
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 […]
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