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A secretly recorded conversation between Ottawa Mayor Jim Watson and Coun. Diane
Deans about an aborted plan to hire a new police chief at the height of last
winter’s convoy protest was played Wednesday at the public inquiry examining the
federal government’s decision to invoke the Emergencies Act t…
over 1 year ago
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As last winter’s convoy protest and occupation of downtown Ottawa dragged into
its second week, residents, politicians and outside police agencies kept asking
about the plan to end it. As the Emergencies Act inqury heard this week, for
nearly two weeks, there really wasn’t one.
over 1 year ago
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Volunteer groups and child welfare agencies say hundreds of Ukrainian teenagers
have arrived alone in Canada under a special visa program, but those
organizations worry there’s no support system for them once they’re here.
Instead, the teens are relying on the generosity of strangers.
over 1 year ago
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Two very different impressions of last winter’s convoy protest in Ottawa have
emerged during testimony at the Emergencies Act inqury. During testimony this
week, protest organizers mostly stuck to their side of the story.
over 1 year ago
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Sgt. Chris Kiez, who prepared an intelligence assessment for the Ottawa Police
Service, is now under scrutiny for earlier social media posts.
over 1 year ago
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Violent threats targeting public officials — including Ottawa’s former mayor and
a former city councillor — during last winter’s convoy protest did not
necessarily meet the bar set by Canada’s spy agency for threats to national
security, according to testimony at the Emergencies Act inquiry Monday.
over 1 year ago
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As public hearings at the Emergencies Act inquiry draw to a close, several
experts have weighed in on what police did wrong, what they learned and how
they’ll apply those lessons to future protests.
over 1 year ago
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The Ottawa Police Service and its former chief say they had no choice but to allow thousands of trucks to flood the city’s downtown during the initial stages of last winter’s convoy protest in the capital, and feared stopping them risked making a bad situation worse.
over 1 year ago
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Laura Dill lost both parents in 2020 to glioblastoma, an aggressive form of brain cancer that typically claims its victims within 12 to 18 months of diagnosis. Now she’s determined to help other families make the most of the time they have left together.
about 1 year ago
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Conservative Leader Pierre Poilievre is attempting to distance his party from a far-right German politician whose views have been condemned as hateful and racist, and who was photographed lunching with three Conservative MPs earlier this week.
about 1 year ago
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The doctors behind a private corporation that’s performing joint replacement surgeries at the Riverside campus of The Ottawa Hospital (TOH) on Saturdays are defending the arrangement, which some critics view as another step toward the creeping privatization of Ontario’s health-care system.
about 1 year ago
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It’s getting harder and harder to go for a drive without passing under the watchful gaze of an automated speed enforcement camera. That’s because they’re effective, they’re relatively inexpensive, and cities can’t get enough of them.
about 1 year ago
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The City of Ottawa, with input from Ottawa police, has denied a demonstration permit to a local group that planned to flash pro-Ukrainian messages on the facade of the Russian embassy using a laser light projector.
7 months ago
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The remains of seven more of Bytown’s earliest citizens, found scattered along Queen Street in 2016, will finally be laid to rest at Beechwood Cemetery.
7 months ago
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The National Capital Commission is embarking on a major project to replace hundreds of street lights lining the Rideau Canal in central Ottawa, but not before letting the majority of them go dark — and in some places, letting them stay that way for years.
7 months ago
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An Ontario woman who’s been caring for her granddaughters for nearly six years says she’s suddenly unable to claim the girls’ medical benefits even though they’re entitled through their father, a deceased Canadian military veteran.
6 months ago
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For Janice Namiesniowski, living with asthma was like breathing “through a straw.” An expensive drug called Xolair was starting to work wonders, but her coverage was suddenly cut off when Canada Life took over the Public Service Health Care Plan in July.
6 months ago
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The proposed name for the capital’s new PWHL team harkens back to the earliest days of women’s hockey, a local historian says.
6 months ago
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As Canadians prepare to observe Remembrance Day, some military members, veterans and their families say they’re feeling forgotten amid the messy transition of the Public Service Health Care Plan to Canada Life.
6 months ago
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The head of a Montreal-based mineral exploration company is reassuring hundreds of residents of Gatineau, Que., that it has no immediate plans to mine for phosphate in the ground beneath their homes.
5 months ago
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Experts and advocates are calling on Canada to update its immigration procedures to prevent Russians seeking refuge here from being denied Canadian citizenship because they’ve been charged under a Russian law designed to stifle antiwar dissent.
4 months ago
