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#BringJeffyHome: A stuffed lamb went missing downtown. He's back home thanks to social media and the kindness of strangers

Ottawa chef Briana Kim wins the 2023 Canadian Culinary Championship at the Shaw Centre

West-end Ottawa residents raising concerns about disruptive LRT construction

Ottawa woman's remarkable recovery raises hope about landmark stroke research

Slain Eganville mom Lisa Sharpe spent years seeking help for troubled son

Ukrainians raise questions about Ottawa charity as allegations swirl around donations

'Far beyond' reasonable: Federal union wants 47% compensation increase over three years

OPINION | The trucker convoy, the church and the occupation of our minds

Cardozo: Be visionary for Wellington Street — and act now

Almonte homebuilder pledges to appeal after judge declares him 'vexatious' litigant

Troster: Let’s make Wellington Street a place for people

Snowfall warning for Ottawa, Eastern Ontario with 15 to 20 cm expected

Ollie's dream: Three years after cancer robbed him of sight, Ottawa 10-year-old is dreaming of a pro skateboarding career

Strike votes to be held in February for 120,000 public servants

Deachman: Ottawa's 'Snow Moles' ferret out winter hazards

The restaurant that introduced sushi to Ottawa is closing; a sad ending in the success stories of two immigrants

Opinion: How the city of Ottawa can boost non-profit housing now

A bed of one's own: How the Matthew House Furniture Bank helps newcomers feel welcome

Treasury Board, Public Service Alliance of Canada agree to mediation

Q&A: Jeff Leiper, the new chair of city council's reworked planning and housing committee

Denley: It's time the Ottawa Senators parted ways with D.J. Smith

CRA workers seeking wage increase of almost 30 per cent over three years

Union calls for release of report on allegedly 'poisoned' environment at Pinecrest Public School

Ottawa board closes elementary school for two days to train staff on safety

Deachman: It's time create a permanent memorial to those who died of COVID-19

A stranger named Ruby rescued her from the icy Rideau River. She wants to say thank you

Deonandan: Let's apply COVID lessons to the next pandemic

Ottawa's 1,000th COVID death is a sad signpost on the exhausting pandemic journey

Ottawa police warn they're out with plate-scanning tech

On the COVID lessons we haven't learned, three years in

Camouflaged cameraman a hit at world juniors: 'I have the best seat in the house'

Dining Out 2022: All 50 of Peter Hum's Ottawa restaurant reviews this year

Ottawa is conspicuously absent on list of bird-friendly cities. Why?

Reader favourites: 17 of the most read stories of 2022

'Freedom Convoy' reunion this February moved from Ottawa to Winnipeg, says organizer

Weather ruin your holiday plans? Here's what to do if your flight was cancelled

Holiday storm watch: Icy streets, wind gusts to increase, power outages mount; Schools closed; Winter parking ban in effect at 10 a.m.

The logistics of a crisis: 11 hours behind the scenes at CHEO

Holiday storm watch: Schools cancelled Friday; city declares winter weather parking ban starting 10 a.m. Friday

Some sledders still using closed Mooney's Bay hill despite warnings over dangers, measures taken to deter people

Rookie firefighter helps save dog, two fire victims on first shift

Jewish groups call on Ottawa-Carleton board to act against antisemitism in schools

Jeffrey Dupres was three years old when he went out to play. He never came back.

Driver in deadly 2020 SJAM Parkway crash sentenced to four months of house arrest

Defiant students, fearful teachers and an elementary school in disarray: What really happened at Pinecrest Public School?

Pellerin: Let federal employees work from home, if it works for them

Ottawa storm: School transportation cancelled, but schools remain open; snowfall warning in effect

Ontario's chief medical officer of health links viral surge to 'negative consequences' of extended mask mandates, rules out new ones — for now

Federal government mandates public servants to return to office 2 to 3 days per week by April

Deep River homicide victim identified; sister previously killed in Ottawa in 2010

Adam: Closing Mooney's Bay hill to sledding was the right decision

Santa-inflation: How much does it cost to visit jolly old St. Nicholas this year?

Defence Minister Anand considering multi-billion dollar purchase of U.S. built surveillance aircraft

Heavy snow on tap for Ottawa Thursday through Friday: Special weather statement

Hum: In defence of Atelier's $20,000 New Year's Eve dinner

Stiff person syndrome can be catastrophic, but there is treatment, says Ottawa neurologist

Return-to-office order for federal public servants would be 'egregious violation' of workers' rights, says PSAC

'We're going through an affordability crisis': Mayor Sutcliffe on tax increases and that spending review he promised

Parents upset about ear-splitting construction noise next to school

Jury finds Tyler Hikoalok guilty of first-degree murder in 2018 killing of church librarian Elisabeth Salm

'You can't do nothing': Activists and city councillors protest Ford's Bill 23

Historic City Registry Office to gain new life as bistro as part of residential development project

Ottawa vigil honours memories of Polytechnique shooting victims and female victims of homicide

I don't feel I'm masking too much

Everything you need to know about the triple threat of respiratory viruses slamming Ottawa

Ottawa's Atelier restaurant wants to ring out 2022 with a private, $20,000 dinner for four

Deachman: LRT inquiry report buried one career. Here's hoping it brings democracy back to life.

Report blames failures in leadership, 'deliberate malfeasance' for LRT troubles

Stittsville's Turcotte family spreading Christmas cheer for all to hear with Elf-theme display

The Moth Project: A multi-media show that blends music, family history and moth lore

Ottawa Sooners cheer squad disbanded after text exchange with football team owner

National Gallery of Canada at risk of cultural 'irrelevance', warn former senior staff

Ottawa vigil held for victims of mass shooting at LGBTQ bar in Colorado

Motion to reinstate masking at Ottawa-Carleton school board fails to pass

How a play called The Breathing Hole has transformed to reclaim language and model Indigenous pathmaking

The case that haunts Ottawa's new police chief: The disappearance of Tamara Chipman

What you need to know about RSV right now, from symptoms to treatments

High-profile curators fired in National Gallery of Canada purge

Most students and staff at Ottawa's largest school board aren't wearing masks, according to staff report

Darrien Thomas v. The Mac Daddy: Wellington Diner hosts professional eating challenge

Deachman: Is it time to unchain our stairs?

New police chief insists Ottawa Police Service 'not broken'

Baby Alfie needs heart surgery now. He can’t get an ICU bed until January.

Children's health crisis: 7 kids resuscitated at CHEO; Ford and caucus called out for not wearing masks

Daniel Alfredsson pays tribute to Swedish legend Borje Salming and the late Bryan Murray

Jim Watson: On council culture, why he doesn't get stressed, and what comes after a political life

We Are The Dead: The Ottawa Citizen's annual act of remembrance

Chief William Commanda Bridge formally dedicated

The determined war effort of Ottawa's Bill Gunter

'We truly feel like Ayla is a miracle': How an international effort brought rare disease treatment to an Ottawa toddler before she was born

Garrioch: Prospective owner Ryan Reynolds at the CTC as Senators play Canucks

Deachman: The call can wait, and other tips for keeping our streets safe

Ottawa's Angelique Francis leads Maple Blues nominations

Refugee, entrepreneur operating business out of Vanier feels 'enormous responsibility' for employees still in Ukraine

Garrioch: Report suggests the Ottawa Senators are likely to be put up for sale

Deachman: November is 'Clean speech month'. Here's why that $%&@#*! matters

Military attrition has hit its highest level in 15 years, warns briefing prepared for generals

Ottawa Riverkeeper finds new home in NCC's renovated boathouse

Shania Twain to kick off 2023 edition of Bluesfest

Deachman: Can Ottawa elect a really progressive mayor?

It saves lives, but ECMO therapy used in COVID-19 treatment can lead to higher mental health diagnoses

How Mark Sutcliffe rode the bike lanes issue to his stunning election victory

LIVE BLOG: It's election night in Ottawa

How and where to vote in the 2022 Ottawa municipal election

Amy Ayers quit her career working in long-term care—for a job at Tim Hortons

The Ottawa Hospital opens 'unconventional' spaces for patients amid worsening hospital pressures

'Twelve questions': a video series that asks mayoral candidates only the lightest-hitting questions

Getting to know Horizon Ottawa, the community group that is raising hackles this election campaign

Health officials watching with concern as new, more evasive COVID sub-variants arrive in Ontario

Nokia transforming Ottawa facility into tech hub, expanding presence in Canada

From bike lanes to accusations of a 'budget hole', Sutcliffe and McKenney challenge spending plans at mayoral debate

Firefighters battle second-alarm fire at church on Somerset Street West

Ottawa tenant wins landmark ruling on bed bug treatments

More Ottawa women are running for municipal office. Here's why this race will be transformative

Ottawa family at wits' end in familiar hunt for family doctor

Update: Post-Panda crowd sees seven arrests; police seek video evidence of 'unacceptable' behaviour

Students’ monument provides warmth to residential school survivors

Mādahòkì Farm kicks off second annual Tagwagi festival with reconciliation dinner honouring survivors of residential and day schools, '60s Scoop

'I am tired of screaming for help': A local family's struggle to care for a loved one with ALS at home

Mayoral race sees pledges targeting municipal recreation, French-language services

Mayoral candidate Bob Chiarelli wants feds to prioritize affordable housing at Tunney's Pasture, Confederation Heights

Mayoral candidate Catherine McKenney releases 'bold' climate action plan

Ottawa mayoral candidate Mark Sutcliffe on transportation plan: 'I'm not going to declare war on cars'

Deachman: Chris McNeil posted this photo of his birth parents on Reddit. Five days later, he was at a family reunion

Convoy organizer Chris Barber files Charter application in mischief case

'This is at the severe end': Coroner describes victim's 54 injuries at Tyler Hikoalok trial

Live Blog: Follow along as Ottawa reporters cover Canada's tribute to Queen Elizabeth II

'Smear campaign': Facing criticism over big-ticket fundraiser, Mark Sutcliffe pushes back against Horizon Ottawa

Carleton student and activist Cihan Erdal back home after Turkish detention

'Testament to David’s legacy': Ottawa park named after Holocaust survivor and educator Shentow

Ottawa remembers Canada's queen

How Queen Elizabeth shaped the monarchy

Wasps: September's unwelcome patio guests

'I feel like I am non-existent:' Ottawa woman is pressured to take a LTC room she didn't want under threat of Bill 7

Shorter isolation, masking optional, vaccines strongly recommended: Ontario's new approach to COVID and other illnesses

Capital Crimes: Five years on, mother of Ashton Dickson still waiting for answers into football star's killing

Former Citizen columnist was a Holocaust survivor, expelled Russian journalist

Editorial: COVID research — Don't mess with independent science

The Castleton Massacre: Account of 1960s femicide honours victims

'Why have I never heard about this?': Raising awareness about a congenital infection that can cause hearing loss and development delays

Eviction spat erupts at 'freedom movement' church over alleged non-payment of rent

'It's corrosive. They're price gouging:' Agency staffing is costing hospitals, LTC homes, critics say

Bereaved mother outraged by support for Ottawa police detective charged with misconduct for alleged rogue investigation into vaccines

Summer bummer: Westboro Beach closure necessary, says NCC, despite delay to starting construction

From Almonte to Ukraine: Linda Manzer's 'Sunny' guitar spurs musicians to raise money for war refugees

'Still stuck in limbo': Afghans grow increasingly desperate in immigration waiting game

'Our kids need that blood to live': Donors, recipients upset after Canadian Blood Services lifts mask mandates

'We can't rent them': Landlord wants City of Ottawa to buy property next to safe injection site

'It breaks my heart:' Hazeldean Woods loses tract of trees following cleanup from May wind storm

Scientists hope tiny trackers will reveal local bats' home away from home as they continue to face critical loss of habitat

'Is this justice?' victim questions after convicted Ottawa sex offender granted day parole

Former Petawawa soldier charged with murder after mass shooting in Belize

Disability advocate 'humiliated' by treatment on Air Canada flight to Hawaii

Man with sword, other 'edged weapons,' charged after vehicle rams Parliament Hill front gates

Explainer: Why taxpayers will pay departing council members at least $549K

Editorial: This time, Ottawa's city election will be huge

'To me, he's just a puppet'

'It’s shameful that he didn’t go a little bit further'

'I turned the TV on for a while, but then I just walked away'

Auction platform launches $25-million lawsuit against real estate associations

Troster: What the lack of outdoor swimming pools tells us about Ottawa's priorities

23 Promises: The Ottawa MP Election Promise Tracker

What it's like to become a new Canadian citizen — at centre field, in the middle of a CFL game

Group purchasing St. Brigid's Church property plans space for all, including those from 'freedom' movement

Tuesday and Wednesday will sizzle: Environment Canada issues heat warning

Extreme Heat and Humidity

Parents 'super excited' to be able to finally get their youngest children vaccinated

Aaron Macdonald (1995-2022): 'His heart was so pure. He saw no evil in the world'

'What could have been done better?': A key question for city's convoy audit

Busking bagpiper sings the blues over tickets for encumbering a roadway

Concert review: Alanis throws herself into superb homecoming show

Luke Combs show brings Bluesfest to a peak

Going to Bluesfest? Pack a mask, says Ottawa Public Health as city hit by new COVID wave

Sarah McLachlan kicking off Bluesfest

One year after the shooting death of beloved football star, a father continues to push back against gun violence

Rehabilitation program helps patients learn to live with the 'devastation' of long COVID

Lavell-Harvard: How to mark 'Canada Day'? Let us begin by honouring the land

Purcell: There is nothing to celebrate on 'Canada Day' when accountability toward Indigenous people is lacking

Breaking: Ottawa Senators win bid for downtown arena on LeBreton Flats

Native Women’s Association of Canada introduces new national headquarters in Gatineau

Indigenous Voices

Canada requires first nine fully operational F-35 jets no later than 2027

Ottawa Citizen gets Key to the City to mark capital coverage since 1845

Ukrainian family finds a fresh start in Ottawa

Long-lost half-brothers reunited in Ottawa after DNA test

Roadie the rescue rooster finds new Pakenham home after being abandoned

Burned out, closing practices: Family doctors warn health-care situation will likely get worse

Ottawa ridings remain mostly unchanged as Ontario PCs win majority government

'The queer experience doesn’t always have to include this devastating rejection from society and self-loathing'

'I learned I was actually taller than I thought I was'

'Who knows where it could’ve gone if we had more opportunities to celebrate our relationship?'

'In a weird way, I had felt like I couldn’t be queer and Indigenous. I felt like those things didn’t match'

'We knew we were making history'

'In the last 10 or 15 years, it's like we're so mainstream that we're almost boring'

'My life is now just about doing what makes me happy ... and that is drag'

'You're a part of something bigger, being part of the LGBTQ+ community'

'To be as old as I am and to see the changes I’ve seen has been extraordinary'

Ottawa Storm 2022: City to provide briefing at 4 p.m.; 74,000 still without power

What's open and closed in Ottawa for Victoria Day

Meet the Newsroom: Ask reporter Jon Willing about city hall's hottest potato - Lansdowne 2.0

Meet the Newsroom: Have questions about COVID-19? Ask our health reporter Elizabeth Payne

Who won the final 2022 Ontario election debate? Four longtime political observers weigh in

Housing groups are campaigning hard in lead-up to election, including on your social feed

Cops called to Orleans high school as students walk out to protest dress code

Four Sandy Hill rooming house deaths highlight the tragedy of 'renovictions'

Mother reunites with Ottawa Hospital nurse who used CPR to save her choking toddler

Ontario Election 2022: Parents concerned about unmasked voters at polling stations in schools

Ontario Election 2022 FAQ: Everything you need to know about how to vote in the provincial election

Abdulla: You want a family doctor in Ontario? Sorry, it's not going to be easy

Canada plans new $1-billion radar to protect North American cities

Sutcliffe: Ottawa's downtown will never be the same, so let's envision a new one

Ukrainian newlyweds begin life anew in Ottawa

Richard Rutherford, killed in his home, was former principal dancer of Winnipeg ballet and a human rights advocate

Ottawa Public Health encouraging people to limit holiday gatherings

Dynasty U: How Carleton built a basketball juggernaut

'More than a store. It was a hub': Sex shop Venus Envy closes after fire

Ottawa patients, surgeon call for national endometriosis strategy

Ottawa Senators owner Eugene Melnyk dead at age 62

Bieber dreams come true for hit-and-run victim Serene Summers

'This kind of evil cannot win': Ukrainians rally outside U.S. Embassy to plead for a no-fly zone

'There’s no better way to combat working poverty than by paying a living wage'

Ending mask mandates in Ontario schools on March 21 is too hasty, critics say

City expects occupation will cost $30M, but with an ongoing police operation, the bills are still coming in

Residents recover from 'Freedom Convoy,' while many fear it may return

Rural 'Freedom Convoy' encampments raise concerns protesters are regrouping

Judge orders truckers' horns silenced

Ottawa's vintage boom driven by backlash to fast fashion

Eight-year-old boy helps save man collapsed in snowbank

Former Senators winger Chris Neil is back on the ice, driving a new outdoor skating business

'Perfect storm': Pandemic, inflation continue to batter Ottawans' food security

What COVID-19 symptoms will prevent children from going to daycare or school in Ontario? The new quiz is out

Demonstrators condemn plan to raze downtown six-plex for a parking lot

Don't cancel vaccination appointments after COVID infection: experts

Analysis: Why Ontario's students are returning to school next week, despite an Omicron surge

Omicron in Ottawa: We're answering your questions about exposures, isolation and other pandemic scenarios

Which zodiac signs in Ottawa are the best and worst at getting vaccinated?

A guide to rapid COVID-19 tests

COVID-19 ruins family's long-awaited holiday reunion

COVID 19: Science panel urges 'circuit breaker' measures to stem Omicron; 2,421 news cases in Ontario; 199 in Ottawa

Omicron's spread across the province is taking experts by surprise

Editorial: What Ottawa Mayor Jim Watson should be remembered for

Ottawa man charged following international cyberattack investigation

'Last chance they have': December a make-or-break month for Ottawa retailers

Daisy blooms again: Ottawa-born actor Andrew Moodie stars in revived GCTC play

'Now boys, we're gonna charge.' The life story of unknown Canadian hero: Lt. Robert James McCormick

The NACO just toured in Europe to 'amazed' audiences, elevating the orchestra to one of the best around

'Death. Carnage. Chaos': Ottawa filmmaker summits for third time during deadly Everest climbing season

The Havana Syndrome, Part 3: Insiders say ordeal has 'struck a nerve' in Canada's diplomatic community

Havana Syndrome, Part 2: How a dog's brain may help solve the mystery of Canadian diplomats' Cuban nightmare

The Havana Syndrome: Why Canadian diplomats have accused their government of abandoning them

Goodnight, Centre Block: A special tour of Canada's Parliament on the eve of a decade-long renovation

A disastrous miracle

Pearson: On Hannah Gadsby, Pride and the power of shame