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Ontario 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 […]
MoreMembers of a local band are mourning their drummer who was killed along with one other person in a horrific crash involving a bear late Monday. Steven Leon, 40, was in the back seat of a Nissan Pathfinder when the bear came crashing through the windshield after being hit by another car in the opposite […]
MoreSEE VIDEO http://www.ottawasun.com/2011/06/02/3alarm-house-fire-in-centretown At least two families are displaced — and a dog was rescued, tied to a tree waiting for its owner — after fire broke out just after noon at a two-storey triplex in Centretown Thursday. “My wife was on the computer and I was getting ready to go out, and we smelled […]
MoreSEE VIDEO http://www.ottawasun.com/2011/06/01/loud-noise-at-construction-site-getting-to-centretown-residents Beth Richardson is about to lose it. She quit smoking a week ago and after two weeks of construction outside of her home in Centretown, she’s close to flipping out on someone. “It’s ridiculous, it goes on for about seven hours a day, every day,” she said. “It’s driving me crazy.” The […]
MoreSEE VIDEO http://www.ottawasun.com/2011/05/31/champions-return-for-annual-fireworks-fest The Germans are coming. The reigning pyromusical champions will be back to defend their title at the 16th annual Casino du Lac-Leamy Sound of Light festival in Gatineau this summer. Organizers say they’re trying to play up the event’s name. “We’re going to try to bring in more light: Fire, laser, black […]
MoreIt’s hotter in my car than it is on a city bus with no air conditioning. That’s the verdict after riding the 94 from Fallowfield to the Rideau Centre Tuesday afternoon. Armed with a thermometer, the needle was at 32C when I boarded. All the windows were open, and about 25 people were on board. […]
MoreSEE VIDEO http://www.ottawasun.com/2011/05/30/warm-dry-weather-a-welcome-relief-from-rain Rain boots and umbrellas, make way for sunblock and cleats. After a soggy month with nearly triple the rain of a year ago wreaking havoc on local sports teams’ schedules, the sunny blue skies and scorching temperatures are coming as a relief to many. “In my 19 years involved in Little League […]
MoreThe former CFB Rockcliffe site has been sold to the Canada Lands Company for $27.2 million, the Sun has learned. “We’re the land owner and developer,” said CLC vice-president Gordon McIvor. Redevelopment of the lucrative real estate in north Ottawa is back on the table after being tied up in a land claim with the […]
MoreArson is suspected in last Friday’s massive Kanata townhouse development fire. “It certainly points in that direction,” said Sgt. Dave Christie from the Ottawa Police Arson Section. The blaze — which caused $2.5 million in damage — quickly tore through the unoccupied townhomes under construction on Remnor Ave. around 10 p.m. Friday. No one was […]
MoreFor the next six months, Glebe resident Victoria Merkley will be hustling to catch the #5 bus. “If I miss it, it comes every half an hour,” she said. “They’re usually early or late, so you have to be at the stop because you never know when it’s going to come.” Merkley, 21, usually takes […]
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