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Daycare to be cut off from provincial funding under new rules
A non-profit daycare in south Ottawa is about to lose its provincial funding because it never signed up for the national $10-a-day child-care program, but the daycare argues it wasn't warned about the consequences until after the sign-up deadline.
This converted office building will open as housing early next year
The City of Ottawa will open its first office-to-housing conversion early next year. Construction crews have been renovating the one-time movie theatre turned office building at 230 Queen St. since the summer, under the design supervision of Ottawa's CSV Architect.
Demand growing for cadaver dogs to assist in searches at former residential schools
As First Nations communities continue to hone in on possible unmarked graves at the sites of former residential schools, some are now using human remains detection dogs to assist in that effort.
Her remarkable memory stunned everyone. Now, the memory of Brenda Surkund is all that's left
Brenda Surkund, 47, could vividly recall the smallest details of her life. On Nov. 18, she was struck and killed by a vehicle while visiting her special needs worker in Greely.
First came the apartment. Then he got clean. Now he's giving back
This past April, 47-year-old Colin Beaudry of Ottawa finally got his very own apartment after living on the street for a year. It's that stability that allowed him to get clean, and now he's eager to start giving back to the community that supported him.
How should a school react when a student assaults a classmate?
The story of a 14-year-old autistic student who was assaulted by a classmate in Ottawa has reopened conversations about victim safety — and rehabilitation over retribution — particularly as the rate of bullying in Ontario is on the rise, according to new research.
In Ontario, you can train hunting dogs by letting them chase penned animals. Is that fair?
For the first time in more than 25 years, Ontario is accepting applications from operators who want to create new fenced-in training facilities stocked with coyotes, foxes, rabbits and hares — specifically designed to teach dogs to pursue live animals and also to host competitions.
Downtown businesses seeing a bump in sales as federal office workers return
While many federal workers may be grumbling about long commutes and packed parking garages in the wake of the government's decision to mandate its employees back to the office three days a weeks, downtown businesses are celebrating bustling sidewalks, long coffee lines and the return of lunch rushes.
Grade 10 student suffers traumatic brain injury in crosswalk collision
A Grade 10 student who was struck by a vehicle as she rode her e-scooter to school Monday morning is now in hospital recovering from a traumatic brain injury and unable to speak, leaving her family looking for answers.
Weeks after a man's mysterious death in Ottawa, his family is still looking for answers
Although police have closed the case and are calling Gabriel Bernard's death non-suspicious, the Ottawa man's seven older siblings say they are looking for answers after he was found unconscious downtown near the Rideau Canal in the early morning hours of July 2 — his 35th birthday.