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Sexually transmitted infections are at their highest rates since the early ’90s, and the federal government is trying to combat STIs in Canada’s youth by investing six figures in a new study. The Canadian Sexual Health Indicators Survey is the first of its kind and will collect data from 18 to 20-year-olds across the country […]
MoreProstitutes gathered for a vigil on Parliament Hill Saturday marking the ninth annual International Day to End Violence Against Sex Workers. “We do it in a public place, specifically, so that we can draw public attention,” said Emily Symons from Prostitutes of Ottawa-Gatineau Work, Educate and Resist (POWER). “Sex workers have always faced violence.” Around […]
MoreSEE VIDEO http://www.ottawasun.com/2011/12/06/cops-protesters-clash-at-embassy At least three people were arrested — one hit with a Taser — Tuesday as hundreds of protesters squared off with RCMP and Ottawa police in Sandy Hill outside the Embassy of the Democratic Republic of the Congo. Police in riot gear were called in Tuesday evening to manage the fiesty crowd […]
MoreSEE VIDEO http://www.ottawasun.com/2011/08/31/murdured-teen-laid-to-rest Valerie Leblanc loved wearing fedoras and many of the hundreds who attended her funeral in Hull Wednesday donned them in her honour. “She would just get up in the morning and put on a hat,” friend Julie Racicot, 21, said after the ceremony at St. Joseph Cathedral. Mentioning Leblanc’s trademark brought a […]
MoreThe family of a missing Ottawa man is terrified for his safety and is begging the Canadian government to intervene after he vanished last Sunday. “He was either arrested or kidnapped from the Bahrain airport,” a distraught Sadeq Al Raas, 26, said about his brother, Naser Al Raas, 28. A Canadian citizen living in Kuwait, […]
MoreSEE VIDEO http://www.ottawasun.com/news/ottawa/2011/02/26/17419326.html#/news/ottawa/2011/02/26/pf-17419326.html Three people are in custody after two men were shot and stabbed during an early morning brawl in Vanier Saturday — part of a growing trend of gun violence in the city. “Definitely, there’s a lot more people turning to firearms,” said Det. Chris O’Brien of the guns and gangs unit. Cops […]
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