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Between 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 […]
MoreThe bitter scheduling battle between the city and its bus drivers, mechanics and dispatchers has been squashed by an arbitrator, and negotiations for a new contract could begin as soon as August. The final arbitration award from Brian Keller was released late Friday, and favours the city’s position on implementing a scheduling system at OC […]
MoreSEE VIDEO http://www.ottawasun.com/2011/07/21/locally-made-ice-creams-wow-customers On a sweltering summer day, Pascale Berthiaume wipes her brow as she churns out all natural ice cream in a community kitchen on Gladstone Ave. Heat wave or not, she’s got orders to fill. With flavours like peanut-butter-salted-caramel, raspberry-Cassis, and dark-chocolate-sea-salt, it’s not just grown up foodies who crave her desserts. “Kids […]
MoreIt feels like a zillion degrees outside and Eliza-Jane Scott’s family is staying cool by hanging out in the basement of their west Ottawa bungalow. “We have air conditioning, we just don’t want to put it on,” she said. Next summer, she’ll be able to take her son, Ducolon Banville, 5, to play in a […]
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