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SEE VIDEO http://www.ottawasun.com/news/ottawa/2011/02/07/17185761.html Contradictory statements issued by the Ontario Provincial Police have ice fishers at Petrie Island confused about whether they can bring booze to ice huts. “You can’t have one law in one place and one law in another. It’s one straight across or not at all,” said Orleans resident Michael Blow. Last Thursday, […]
MoreWith 115 ice huts at Oziles’ on Petrie Island, weekends are packed with 300 to 400 people. Since OPP have banned alcohol inside and outside the huts, will it hurt business? “It’s only going to affect it a little bit ’cause I think a lot of people come for the social experience itself,” said Mathieu […]
MoreSEE VIDEO http://www.ottawasun.com/news/ottawa/2011/02/06/17173206.html Caring neighbours rushed to comfort a 76-year-old Orleans woman whose house may have been set ablaze by an arsonist early Sunday morning. The Ottawa police arson unit is now investigating the fire. “We got out there and met her crying,” said a neighbour, who didn’t want his name published. “Other neighbours were […]
MoreSEE VIDEO http://www.ottawasun.com/news/ottawa/2011/02/05/17169566.html An Ottawa man says he wants to know how he could inadvertently board a flight from Ottawa with fireworks in his carry-on bag without getting caught. “I had a Roman eight-ball candle, Roman 10-ball candle, I had a big pack of extra large sparklers and I had a airbomb,” said Mark Bennett, […]
MoreSEE VIDEO http://www.ottawasun.com/news/ottawa/2011/02/05/17167511.html The sign says no cellphones allowed. I almost pedal backward, but figure an hour won’t kill me. So I grudgingly put both BlackBerries on vibrate, roll up my pant legs and take off my socks. Once my feet hit the warm water, it’s all worth it. It’s my first winter in Ottawa. […]
MoreUp to 1,000 people were expected, but closer to 50 actually showed up to demonstrate against usage-based billing for Internet access on Parliament Hill Saturday afternoon. The protest comes after a volatile week during which the Conservative government pledged to overturn a recent CRTC decision that would kill unlimited Internet use across the country and […]
MoreSEE VIDEO http://www.ottawasun.com/news/ottawa/2011/02/04/17162976.html#/news/ottawa/2011/02/04/pf-17159356.html The last time Patrick Auger, Marcie Beaudoin, and John Holbrook saw seven-year-old Victoria “Tori” Wilson, she was unconscious and barely alive. When they were reunited with her Friday morning, they fittingly hung out in an ambulance — where they first met. The Ornge critical care flight paramedics helped save Tori after she […]
MoreA funeral is set for the Carleton Place man whose body was found in the trunk of a burned-out rental car in Mexico last October. Daniel Dion’s funeral is at 1:30 p.m. Saturday at Sacre-Coeur parish in Bourget. Dion, 51, lived in Ashton Station, east of Carleton Place and was on a business trip 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/2011/02/03/17142006.html If there’s a red X on it, it’s going down. Trees infested with the emerald ash borer are now being removed by the city’s forestry services department. The ash borer is a shiny green insect that gets under the bark and kills all species of ash trees. In July 2008 it surfaced […]
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