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SEE VIDEO http://www.ottawasun.com/news/ottawa/2011/03/09/17557041.html#/news/ottawa/2011/03/09/pf-17555811.html Wednesdays were hell. From witnessing a stabbing to crack addicts smoking up on their front steps, residents living near Cumberland St. and Daly Ave. saw it all when a homeless drop-in centre used to operate at St. Paul’s-Eastern United church. “It was on Wednesdays, once a week, for five or six years,” […]
MoreSEE VIDEO http://www.ottawasun.com/news/ottawa/2011/02/16/17301201.html Potholes are making an early appearance on Ottawa roads this year. And if weather this week is any indication, we’re in for a bumper crop. Monday started above freezing, but the temperature plummeted in the afternoon — perfect breeding conditions for the road hazards. It’s due to get warm again — as […]
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 […]
MoreSEE VIDEO http://www.ottawasun.com/news/ottawa/2011/01/18/16939726.html#/news/ottawa/2011/01/18/pf-16939726.html The idea of a 35-storey condo tower in Little Italy is getting mixed reviews from residents and retailers. “It depends, I mean if it’s a nice looking building I’m sure it won’t be an eyesore but it is going to be tall,” said Jeff Jacques from Slan Printing. “You certainly won’t be […]
More’Tis the season to be jolly, but don’t fall victim to holiday follies. With just three weeks left until Christmas, beware of the cybercrooks who steal your hard-earned money. In the last two months alone, 72 complaints of online loan scams have been filed, the Canadian Anti-Fraud Centre told the Sun. Last December, there were […]
MoreSEE VIDEO http://www.ottawasun.com/news/ottawa/2010/11/12/16116001.html They’re learning to set up field hospitals so they can be ready when disaster strikes. Three hundred emergency workers from across the country are in town this weekend for the Paramedicine 2010 Expo and Conference. Training by simulation is the theme and participants are learning what it takes to be a Global […]
MoreSEE VIDEO: http://www.ottawasun.com/news/ottawa/2010/11/11/16098351.html The two biggest student unions at Carleton University are taking the school’s administration to court for holding $7 million in student fees. “It’s really treating us like children where we have to say OK mommy, daddy, I really need this money for this month. Can you please give it to me?,” said […]
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