Alistair Steele

Roly Armitage, the Second World War veteran, accomplished veterinarian and influential community leader whose keen involvement in local affairs made him a household name in Ottawa’s rural west end and beyond, has died. He was 99.

The former Ottawa firefighter accused of assaulting and choking a non-binary colleague at a Barrhaven fire station in 2022 told an Ottawa court he’s a longtime ally of the LGBTQ community.

Tisir Otahbachi developed a debilitating skin ailment after receiving a COVID-19 vaccine nearly three years ago. He says he’s still suffering, despite seeking medical help both in Canada and abroad.

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.

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.

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.

The proposed name for the capital’s new PWHL team harkens back to the earliest days of women’s hockey, a local historian says.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

Graphic artist Michael Moir carefully researches these vintage photos of Ottawa to choose just the right shades.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.