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There’s a well-known joke about juries. An accused burglar is asked whether or not he wants to face a jury of his peers. He responds, “No, sir, I don’t want to be judged by that gang of thieves.”  Yet many professionals, such as doctors and lawyers, are routinely judged by their peers – physicians’ colleges or law societies, for example (no, we’re […]

Hookah pipes will be illegal in workplaces, including restaurant patios, in the city of Ottawa starting Dec. 1. Council voted Wednesday to add water pipes to the existing smoking prohibitions. That means the water pipes won’t be allowed in any enclosed public place, enclosed workplaces and outdoor patios. Offences carry a minimum $500 fine. There […]

I started writing to MPs, senators, the prime minister and even the Queen exactly 40 years ago. I can date it precisely because I had the good fortune to be taught at William Tredway Public School in Scarborough by Mr. Barnes. Each day he discussed current events with us. He told us that each Canadian […]

Ottawa police are seeking the public’s assistance to identify a man and a woman who may have been involved in a shooting incident on Jasmine Crescent earlier this month. On Aug. 2, a woman called police and paramedics to report gunshots after a bullet was fired through a fourth-floor apartment at 1993 Jasmine Cres. into the […]

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The air of hypocrisy is hanging like summer smog over Queen’s Park. Top Progressive Conservative and Liberal politicians are telling us things they clearly don’t believe. How do they expect us to believe them? Local Liberal cabinet minister Yasir Naqvi has the unpleasant task of making the Liberals’ “reforms” of political donations sound like some […]

Ottawa police say they are hot on the trail of the woman at the centre of the biggest — or at least the weirdest — minor traffic case in recent memory. “We are progressing nicely, that’s all I can tell you,” Sgt. Mark Gatien of the traffic enforcement said Wednesday morning. “We know where she […]

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A 13-year-old boy who was injured in a collision on Monday near Lochaber has died in hospital. He died late Tuesday. Police said the boy, whose name hasn’t been released, was cycling on Highway 148 after nightfall and was hit by an SUV. Police said the young cyclist may have been in the centre of the […]

If you're looking for a home in an area considered one of the city's best in which to work, play and raise a family, Kanata would appear to have it all.

In what will likely be the final full day of hearings on the Hill before heading out on a three-week cross-country trek, the Special Committee on Electoral Reform is set to hear from still more expert witnesses today, including assorted political science professors from Canada and abroad, a pair of Scottish election officials and a […]

The Victoria-class submarine HMCS Windsor, as outlined in a previous Defence Watch post, will be taking part in Exercise Cutlass Fury, expected in mid-September. Another sub, HMCS Corner Brook, is in deep maintenance. The Royal Canadian Navy is continuing to deal with problems with welds on the remaining subs, HMCS Victoria and HMCS Chicoutimi, Vice […]

Military personnel from Canada and the U.S., as well as the U.S. Coast Guard, recently took part in the Arctic Chinook exercise. Arctic Chinook is a joint U.S. Coast Guard and U.S. Northern Command sponsored exercise that focuses on multinational search and rescue readiness to respond to a mass rescue operation requirement in the Arctic. […]

Ottawa GM and head coach Jeff Brown admits he has talked with Flint representatives about William Bitten, but there's still no deal.

Ottawa police have a couple of tickets they’d like to hand to a woman seen texting at the wheel in a viral video, but they figure that issuing the tickets is a long shot. Sgt. Mark Gatien of the traffic enforcement unit said the video posted by Erik Hanna — and seen more than 1.4 million times and counting […]

As a young girl growing up in Thunder Bay, Robbi Weldon was addicted to sports, whether it was downhill skiing, water skiing or volleyball, basketball, badminton or cross-country running in high school. But she never really ventured into the more serious competitive side of sports, preferring to learn new skills, develop them and just have […]

Hanging around the Maple Leafs' dressing room provided a lesson in how the pros prepare for the game on a daily basis.

Jonathan Pitre began eight days of high-dose chemotherapy on Tuesday afternoon, launching the medical countdown to his stem cell transplant.  “He’s anxious and nervous,” said Pitre’s mother, Tina Boileau, in an email exchange before the procedure began at the University of Minnesota’s Masonic Children’s Hospital in Minneapolis. Pitre’s chemotherapy regimen will be followed by one […]