A 37-year-old Ottawa man faces a number of charges after an attempted bank robbery and carjacking on Oct. 21, 2025, the Ottawa Police Service said. Read MoreThe attempted bank robbery took place Oct. 21, 2025 in the 1900 block of St. Laurent Boulevard, Ottawa police said News, Local News, Ottawa Sun, Realtime A 37-year-old Ottawa man faces a number of charges after an attempted bank robbery and carjacking on Oct. 21, 2025, the Ottawa Police Service said. Read More
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A 41-year-old man is facing several firearms offences after being arrested by the Ottawa police in the east end of the city Monday evening. Read MoreAt about 6:30 p.m. on Feb. 16, officers responded to a call about a person who was possibly in possession of firearms in a vehicle near a residential address, police News, Local News, Ottawa Sun, Realtime A 41-year-old man is facing several firearms offences after being arrested by the Ottawa police in the east end of the city Monday evening. Read More
Two homes in Richmond received significant damage in a two-alarm fire on Tuesday afternoon. Read MoreOttawa Fire Services received multiple 911 calls just before 2 p.m. reporting heavy smoke and flames coming from a home on Pelham Crescent News, Local News, Ottawa Sun, Realtime Two homes in Richmond received significant damage in a two-alarm fire on Tuesday afternoon. Read More
Bruce Fanjoy has already slain one giant. Now he’s doing something arguably rarer in politics: disagreeing with his own party leader. Read MoreYou’d think that MPs in the capital region would have opinions to share about the new return-to-office mandate. So where are they? News, Columnists, Local News, Anita Vandenbeld, Bruce Fanjoy, Jenna Sudds, Prime Minister Mark Carney, return to office, Yasir Naqvi Bruce Fanjoy has already slain one giant. Now he’s doing something arguably rarer in politics: disagreeing with his own party leader. Read More
Re: PM Mark Carney billed taxpayers $94Gs for in-flight catering on one trip, online, Feb. 10 Read MoreWednesday, Feb. 18: Here are today’s Ottawa Sun letters to the editor. Letters, letters, opinion, Ottawa Sun Re: PM Mark Carney billed taxpayers $94Gs for in-flight catering on one trip, online, Feb. 10 Read More
As Canadians prepare to file their 2025 taxes, the air is rumbling with threats of a strike by public servants that could disrupt the tax season for millions of people, and potentially damage relations with the public. Read MoreMohammed Adam: A strike in the middle of the tax season will likely undermine any public goodwill. Opinion, Columnists, Public Service As Canadians prepare to file their 2025 taxes, the air is rumbling with threats of a strike by public servants that could disrupt the tax season for millions of people, and potentially damage relations with the public. Read More
Almost half of the spending reduction in Immigration, Refugees and Citizenship Canada (IRCC) will come from a single cut to the health coverage of asylum seekers, according to a new analysis from the Canadian Centre for Policy Alternatives. Read MoreThe author of the analysis pointed out that costs could rise for the federal government, especially as low-income asylum seekers eschew costly preventive care Public Service, Discover, Ottawa Sun, Realtime Almost half of the spending reduction in Immigration, Refugees and Citizenship Canada (IRCC) will come from a single cut to the health coverage of asylum seekers, according to a new analysis from the…
Read MoreWinter comes with no shortage of challenges. Between frigid temperatures, blowing snow, and slick ice, no wonder many choose to spend extra time indoors. Alas, winter’s difficulties don’t end at your front door. From aggravating salt stains to poor air quality, here’s how to tackle the season’s most aggravating indoor annoyances. Salt stains Are we doomed to suffer with Life, Homes Read More
Before she began cooking at Around the Block Butcher & Market, Cora-Lynn Bartlett-Saragaco worked at an Ottawa bakery that we’ll let go unnamed. Read MoreAt Around the Block Butcher & Market, exceptional house-made baked goods are a surprising find. Life, Food, Local Food Reviews, Travel Ottawa, bakery, Nepean, Ottawa small business Before she began cooking at Around the Block Butcher & Market, Cora-Lynn Bartlett-Saragaco worked at an Ottawa bakery that we’ll let go unnamed. Read More
OSHAWA — General Motors says it will spend $63 million to upgrade stamping operations at its assembly plant in Oshawa, Ont. The news comes after the company ended the third shift at the plant at the end of January, resulting in about 500 direct layoffs from GM plus the loss of hundreds of other positions at suppliers that depended on the shift. GM says the spending underscores the importance of the Oshawa plant and supports preparations to build the next generation of gas-powered full-sized pickups. It says that with the latest spending announcement, it has dedicated $1.5 billion to the…
American downhill skier Lindsey Vonn may have broken her leg at the Olympics, but she’s also mending a broken heart after her beloved dog died just a day after her devastating crash on Feb. 8 at the Milan Cortina Winter Games. Posting from the hospital where she’s undergoing further surgery on a complex tibial fracture in her left leg, the 41-year-old called her deceased dog Leo “her first love.” “This has been an incredibly hard few days,” she wrote in an Instagram post. “Probably the hardest of my life. I still have not come to terms that he is gone.”…
TORONTO — Canadian Tire Corp. says a new platform it’s been developing with Microsoft will help the retailer’s staff better detect patterns in customer demand. The platform will be used at Canadian Tire as well as the Mark’s and SportChek banners. The retailers will use it to help identify trends, such as spring-thaw floods, back-to-school move-ins and new weekend fitness routines. They will then use those insights to better co-ordinate inventory, product assortments, promotions, digital content and services. When Canadian Tire piloted the tool recently, it identified more than 1,000 instances when the company could serve customers better and will…
York Regional Police have charged a Vaughan man in connection with a sexual assault investigation and are appealing for additional victims to come forward. Investigators say the alleged incident began on Feb. 9, when a woman contacted a realtor through a social media sales platform about a rental listing. According to police, the realtor arranged to meet the woman at the listed property the following day. When she was unable to attend, the two agreed instead to meet at her home to discuss the listing. Police allege that while inside the home, the suspect sexually assaulted the woman and committed…
The province will not commit to an opening date for the new subway line currently under construction in Toronto and warns a major expressway could be shut down to build bridges, Metrolinx CEO Michael Lindsay said Wednesday. He said the plan is to open the Ontario Line by the early 2030s, potentially later than the 2031 target. “Based on where civil infrastructure is at this point, we think we’re still trending towards the early 2030s to be done with civil infrastructure,” Lindsay said. Then the testing phase would begin, he said. The Ontario Line was initially supposed to open in…
Team Canada has lost its captain. Sidney Crosby left Wednesday’s quarterfinal against Czechia midway through the second period and will not return, Hockey Canada announced. Crosby was crunched along the boards in the neutral zone by Czech defenceman Radko Gudas at centre ice and took another awkward hit along the boards later in the same shift before skating gingerly off the ice. After chatting with a team doctor on the bench, Crosby made his way down the tunnel toward the dressing room with an apparent limp. Crosby, the 2010 Olympic hero, had enjoyed a strong round-robin in Milan with two goals and…
A messy winter storm hitting southern Ontario, including the Greater Toronto and Hamilton Area (GTHA), is bringing a mix of ice pellets and heavy snow to some areas and freezing rain elsewhere in the region on Wednesday. Toronto and the GTA are under a yellow freezing drizzle advisory. Sidewalks and roads are expected to stay slippery overnight as temperatures drop to -2C. In addition, patchy freezing drizzle is expected tonight in the wake of the storm, which could lead to a fresh glaze of ice on top of snowy surfaces. On and off drizzle and freezing drizzle are expected to…
MILAN — This hockey team so many call the best they’ve ever seen, they never stopped believing. But they will concede they flew a little close to the sun. “You look down the bench, and you see the players we have on our team, and you know no one’s going to quit, and we have a great chance of coming back,” says Drew Doughty, calmed by two Stanley Cups and two Olympic gold medals, and now a heart-in-throat 4-3 overtime thriller over Czechia as he goes for three. “But as the time keeps ticking, you’re like: Holy f—… this isn’t ideal. But…
TORONTO — The head of RioCan Real Estate Investment Trust says the recent financial troubles of retailers like Toys “R” Us and Hudson’s Bay are not representative of the wider retail landscape. Chief executive Jonathan Gitlin said RioCan had only one location leased to Toys “R” Us, and that it had terminated it before the toy retailer filed for creditor protection at the start of February. “On an overall basis, there’s no impact on RioCan, and I don’t think that Toys “R” Us serves as a leading indicator on the health of retail in general,” said Gitlin in an interview.…
Winnipeg police say a 14-year-old boy is facing a second-degree murder charge in connection with the death of an 18-year-old woman over the weekend. The Winnipeg Police Service say officers found the woman’s body at a home on Young Street near Sargent Avenue around 7:30 a.m. on Saturday. She has been identified as Avontai Hartleib, a member of the Sachigo Lake First Nation in northwestern Ontario. Hartleib was living in Winnipeg, authorities say. The WPS homicide unit arrested the teenage suspect on Tuesday. He is also facing a charge of criminal negligence causing death. He was detained in custody. Winnipeg…
OTTAWA — Immigration Minister Lena Diab is adding three new permanent residency streams to Canada’s express entry program that cover a variety of professions, including military ones. The new streams are also open to researchers and senior managers with Canadian work experience and are part of what Diab calls a federal strategy to attract “top talent” to the country. The new streams are meant to compliment the government’s $1.7 billion strategy to attract researchers to Canadian institutions. In a speech to the Canadian Club Toronto on Wednesday, Diab said the government’s broader immigration strategy is to attract “the best and…