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Trailblazing research teams in Ottawa will get provincial grants to continue scientific studies that will have a major impact on health and medicine. A project led by Dr. Michael Rudnicki at the Ottawa Hospital Research Institute is getting $3.1 million to develop biological drugs that stimulate the regeneration of the heart, pancreas, and muscle tissue. […]
MoreOTTAWA – The airport isn’t the only place Michel Thibodeau expects to receive service in French. The city of Ottawa’s bilingualism policy was scrutinized in January 2008 after the east-end Ottawa resident filed an official languages complaint. According to Thibodeau – who often rode the bus – OC Transpo bus drivers were only greeting passengers with “good […]
MoreSEE VIDEO http://www.ottawasun.com/2011/07/13/tears-of-a-tough-guy Okay, there’s no hiding it. There’s definitely a bro-mance between Mike Fisher and Chris Neil. In a good, buddy-buddy kinda way. As Fisher introduced Neil and wife Caitlin as the new honorary chairs of Roger’s House on Wednesday, the Senators’ tough guy began to choke up. “Knowing Mike, living with him, this […]
MoreA new short-term recovery mental health program has been launched in Ottawa and with 32 patients, it’s already at full capacity. “These are folks that are either in hospital or headed for hospital,” Champlain LHIN CEO Alex Munter said at an Ottawa Sun editorial board meeting Wednesday. Located at the Royal Ottawa Mental Health Centre, […]
MoreFrom cars and trucks to Gatineau bus drivers, pretty much everyone guns it along King Edward Ave. according to Lowertown residents who released the results of an independent study Tuesday. Roughly 85% of vehicles pushed 70 km/h in both directions — almost double what’s allowed. The limit on King Edward Ave. is 40 km/h, while […]
MoreAfter her story ran in Sunday’s Sun, an Ottawa security guard’s paperwork is now in order and she’ll be able to keep working despite a licensing backlog by the province. “They said it was processed, issued, and mailed out first thing this morning,” Tina Waltenbury said Monday, adding she called the ministry around 11 a.m. […]
MoreMayor Jim Watson donned a helmet and a white T-shirt with a red bicycle, reading, Be the Change, as he cut the ribbon Sunday on Laurier Ave. “We have finally delivered a segregated bike lane for the cyclists of Ottawa,” he told the crowd. He gave kudos to council for voting unanimously for the lanes, […]
MoreMinutes after it opened Sunday, cyclists weren’t alone using the city’s new segregated bike lane on Laurier Ave. A mix of rollerbladers, skateboarders, parents with strollers, mopeds, and pedestrians were spotted between Bronson Ave. and Elgin St. The city couldn’t say for sure if they were allowed there. “That’s very clear, it’s a bike lane […]
MoreKarisa Karmali is blunt about her upbringing in foster care in Ottawa — and that’s exactly how she doles out advice in her new book, The Art of Attitude. Her philosophy: circumstances don’t determine success, attitude does. “The people I consider my parents, I only met them when I was 16,” she said. “I feel […]
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