Ottawa
Today's Mood: Thoughtful
Temperature: 18.74°C
@odsppoverty "Lift hundreds of thousands out of poverty"
The Canadian Disability Benefit, went from $2700.... to $2200..... to $2000.... to $200.... to $20 #Canada #CDB #disability #benefit #disabled #poverty #DisabilityRights
"Spent less, invest more" in action...
Cuts for the most vulnerable.
A city report says that Ottawa’s homeless population could rise by almost 60 per cent over the next decade without substantial investments in affordable housing. [...]
Canada Day in Ottawa will be filled with free activities and fireworks, but make sure to check ahead to see what's changing. [...]
Since the National Overdose Response Service (NORS) launched nearly five years ago, it's been reaching drug users who wouldn't typically use consumption and treatment sites. [...]
A 46-year-old man faces a charge of mischief to a war memorial, mischief exceeding $5,000, and harassment by treatening conduct. The monument was splashed with red paint earlier this month. [...]
Tommy Chan knows he ran five kilometres on Tuesday, May 20. He just doesn’t remember it. He says he had a post-run heart attack and was searching for a way [...]
Education Minister Paul Calandra says supervisors have been appointed to the boards after financial investigations showed growing deficits, depletion of reserves and ongoing mismanagement. [...]
Crown prosecutors spent the better part of two days pressing Chau Lam about the 2022 killing of her 88-year-old mother. [...]
This dock offers some lucky buyer the opportunity to run a boat between Canada and the U.S., while carrying on a family's legacy that's lasted more than 200 years. [...]
Algonquin College graduate Rama Al-Zu'bi says she was determined to display the flag of her homeland during a June 19 convocation ceremony at Canadian Tire Centre, but security and college [...]
Here are the seven parks taking part in the city's pilot project until the end of October. [...]
OC Transpo says work to extend Line 1 east and monitor Line 2's wheels means some evening and weekend changes in the coming weeks. [...]
The province says it will allow serving and drinking alcohol on large quadricycles, better known as pedal pubs, starting July 1 in Niagara-on-the-Lake, Toronto, Ottawa and Windsor. [...]
A woman was taken to hospital in critical condition after she was struck by a vehicle in the ByWard Market Thursday night. [...]
Premier Doug Ford says the province is investing $155 million over the next two years to create 57 new centres for MRI and CT scans and gastrointestinal endoscopy services. [...]
Nearly a year after her mother was sentenced to prison for defrauding Inuit organizations to help pay for her education, an Ontario woman went public for the first time about [...]
Next season will be the last for long-time director Alexander Shelley [...]
The Ottawa Mission's latest project is an effort to grow leafy greens under the glow of LED lights, providing thousands of kilograms of fresh produce year round. The project is [...]
Coun. Tim Tierney says Ottawa needs a southern ring road to relieve congestion on the Queensway, instead of a controversial bridge over Kettle Island. [...]
Protests, news conferences and petitions are happening across the province to draw attention to the impacts of the Quebec government's education cuts announced two weeks ago and to prompt the [...]
Demand for electricity in Ottawa is projected to soar over the next two decades, especially during the winter, and hundreds of millions of dollars worth of new infrastructure is being planned to ensure power [...]