Weather advisories north of that line and weather warnings south of Ottaw The second snowstorm of the week is expected to hit Kingston and Belleville the hardest, starting late Friday night. The Ottawa area won’t be spared, though. Environment Canada has issued snowfall and winter storm warnings south of Ottawa, and north of that line,…
Université de Montreal and the Pierre Elliott Trudeau Foundation promised a total of $1 million in 2016 As part of what is said to be a plan by the Chinese government to influence Justin Trudeau, an $800,000 donation was promised to a university in Montreal. The university said that the promise came at a different…
Since the first snowflakes fell in November, there should be close to 3 meters of snow on the ground by Saturday No, you’re not making it up—this winter in Ottawa, it is warmer and there is more snow than usual. In the city, the weather has been unusually warm for the past couple of months,…
The owners say Waste Connections of Canada owes them $400,000 in losses The owners of an apartment building in the center of Ottawa want a major waste company to pay for the damage done to the building when one of the company’s garbage trucks crashed into the first floor almost four years ago. Duong Hoang…
There were calls to boycott Hershey’s after transgender activist Fae Johnstone of Ottawa was featured on a chocolate bar After a call to boycott Hershey’s chocolates because of ads featuring a Canadian transgender woman, the company’s social media campaign got both hateful comments and a loud chorus of support. Hershey’s Canada has made five limited-edition…
Thomas Hartle waited almost 18 months for therapy to help him deal with his anxiety, but he was turned down A man who is dying of cancer in Saskatoon waited 511 days to find out if he could keep using psilocybin therapy under an exception to Canada’s drug laws. After all that time, he found…
The leader of the NDP says that Manitobans have a right to know if a patient’s death was caused by long wait times and a lack of staff The head of Winnipeg’s Health Sciences Centre says that when a patient died while waiting for care in the emergency room earlier this week, there were twice…
The chief says that band members have been getting food from land near the spills A leader of the Indigenous people who live in northern Alberta has accused Imperial Oil Ltd. of hiding the fact that a lot of toxic oilsands tailings were dumped on land near where his people gather food for nine months.…
Marie-Josée Houle says that forcing people out of camps is against their human rights The housing advocate for the federal government is asking Quebec to stop tearing down homeless camps in Montreal, including a popular one under a highway in the city center. The Transport Ministry of Quebec says that Route 136 between the Turcot…
The police have brought 12 charges against Kody Crosby, who is 35 years old An Ottawa man is facing 12 charges in connection with the big explosion in an Orleans housing development on February 13. Police say that 35-year-old Kody Crosby was arrested and charged on Wednesday. The charges are: There are four counts of…