Wednesday, the council made changes to the law that will govern library boxes and verge gardens As part of changes to bylaws that will make verge gardens and little free library boxes legal, the Ottawa city council loosened proposed rules for them. But Mayor Mark Sutcliffe said that people shouldn’t worry about a crackdown, even…
8 suggestions were turned down, 10 were accepted, and 12 were accepted in part Three women were killed in Renfrew County a year ago. The day before the first anniversary of the inquest, the Ontario government gave its answers to 30 of the jury’s suggestions for preventing similar deaths. In Pembroke, the murders of Carol…
Around 10:40 a.m., people told police that they saw someone shoot on Raven Avenue Police in Ottawa say a man was killed Wednesday morning on Raven Avenue, which is southwest of the city center. People in the area called police around 10:40 a.m. to tell them there had been a shooting near Raven and Carlington…
Even though the premier ran on a platform of “unmitigated disaster,” there are signs that Chow and Ford can work together. Olivia Chow just won a by-election to be mayor of Toronto. Now she has to try to get Premier Doug Ford to support her plans, which could be a much harder task. During the…
In Mobile, Mom’s Little White Chapel will start having weddings in the middle of July Couples from Newfoundland and Labrador who want to get married in a Vegas-style chapel no longer have to go to Sin City. Soon, they’ll be able to drive straight to the Southern Shore. There, in Mobile, Brenda and Bob Lee…
As the sun comes up over the Restigouche River on a Wednesday morning, fishing boats leave the wharf at Listuguj First Nation one by one into the rough water. Deven Condo-Mitchell gets his walkie-talkie, puts on a life jacket, and gets on a patrol boat. He is part of a team of rangers who make…
Experts say that fraud is more likely to happen to renters in the rental market When Martene Sementilli and her husband bought a townhouse in Amherstburg, Ontario, they wanted to give their children an advantage in the housing market in the future. Instead, the couple will sell their home this summer because their tenants allegedly…
The largest private-sector union in the country thinks it can organize workers in corporations where others have failed British Columbia has changed its labor laws, which has led Canada’s largest private-sector union to focus on the province as it tries to organize Amazon workers. At a news conference outside one of Amazon’s fulfillment centers in…
Alberta and B.C. both add three months to their contracts Alberta was going to be the first province in Canada to stop putting migrants in jail who were being held by the federal government for administrative reasons. Instead, it extended its contract with the federal government three days before the old contract was set to…
The Broken Trust report from last year first called for new investigations The deaths of 13 Indigenous people in Thunder Bay between 2006 and 2019 are being looked into again by the Ontario Provincial Police. Bill Dickson, a spokesman for the OPP, said Tuesday that the independent investigations are still going on. They are being…