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Snowstorm? Seriously? We remember 1947
Snowstorm? What snowstorm? You mean that record-breaking dusting we shook off on Tuesday? Please. While record-keepers are putting asterisks on one- and two-day totals and pre- and post-1938 Ottawa...
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The Descendants: How families of the barons who built Ottawa keep their...
Eddy, Wright, Billings, Sparks, Bronson, Booth, Ahearn, Southam, Besserer. These are just some of the people who built Ottawa; the lumber barons and farmers, the politicians, businessmen, inventors and...
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The Booths: A famous name (and nose) mostly a blessing, sometimes a curse
In one of three related stories looking for living descendants of Ottawa’s founding families, Bruce Deachman talks with lumber baron J.R. Booth’s great-grandson John (Rowley) Booth. John Booth jokes...
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The Ahearns: Descendants of 'Ottawa's Edison' say city's greatest innovator...
In one of three stories looking at living descendants of Ottawa’s founding families, Bruce Deachman spoke to Robert Toller and Jane MacTavish, great-grandchildren of Thomas Ahearn, “Ottawa’s Edison.”...
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The Wrights, the Sparks (and more): Wayne Lester is the Kevin Bacon of Ottawa...
In one of three stories looking to find living area descendants of the families that built Ottawa, Bruce Deachman speaks with Kanata resident Wayne Lester, great-great-great-great-great-grandson of...
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Mourners pack church to remember Bernard Cameron
Nearly 500 people showed up to remember Bernard Cameron, the Mississippi Mills councillor who was shot and killed defending his daughter from a gunman. Sarah Cameron, who was injured in the shooting,...
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'This is who we are': Throat-singing, games and a feast on Inuit Day
A sizeable portion of Ottawa’s Inuit community — and others — ignored Saturday’s rain to take part in the Inuit Day celebrations, an outdoor party that featured throat-singing, traditional...
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Lion shot and killed after escaping from Papanack Zoo enclosure
There was no choice but to shoot and kill a 300-pound lion that escaped its enclosure at a zoo east of Ottawa, since tranquilizing the animal would have taken too long and put the public at risk, the...
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The Brier: Beer, doughnuts and a chance to win a game you shouldn't
The opening draw of the Tim Hortons Brier commences Saturday, kicking off what can arguably be called Canada’s premier national sporting event. For while curling is unmistakably a Scottish import,...
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Brier Notebook: More cowbell, cans of Keith’s and a case of nerves
Mike Murphy bought his wife, Jill, a cowbell for Christmas, a gift she acknowledges with a laugh, a shrug and a raised eyebrow, as if to say, “I know — can you believe it?” She even holds it for a...
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South Glengarry man, 81, faces numerous assault charges from 1960s
An 81-year-old South Glengarry man has been charged with more than 25 counts of assault, indecent assault, buggery and other offences in relation to incidents that occurred roughly 50 years ago. The...
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Mark Sutcliffe has a funny way of saying thank you
Former Ottawa radio host Mark Sutcliffe, who was unceremoniously laid off by CFRA a month ago, has produced a short video that humorously depicts his post-radiowaves life. The video, which can also be...
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Police investigate after bullet shells found in Meadowlands area shooting
The Ottawa police guns and gangs unit is investigating after residents reported hearing gunshots fired in Ottawa’s Fisher Glen neighbourhood Wednesday night. Police responded to calls from the 1300...
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Icy roads, rollovers hamper morning commute
Icy roads and fog conditions, especially in the outlying areas of the city, made driving conditions extremely hazardous across the region Thursday. Ottawa Fire Services reported three vehicle rollovers...
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Interprovincial chase bags car thief in Ottawa
A 24-year-old Ottawa man was arrested Friday following an early morning car chase that began in Gatineau and ended in Ottawa. Gatineau police stopped the car, which had been reported stolen, on...
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Man dies in custody at Gatineau jail
A man in custody at the Gatineau jail died on Thursday by what the Quebec provincial police are calling a “voluntary action.” According to Sûreté du Québec spokesperson Sgt. Marc Tessier, the...
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Mark Sutcliffe returns to Ottawa radio with 1310 News show
Mark Sutcliffe’s respite from Ottawa’s airwaves was short-lived. Sutcliffe, who was let go last month by CFRA, where he hosted the station’s morning CFRA Today show, will now be heard regularly in the...
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'He which hath no stomach to this fight, let him depart': Shakespeare would...
To understand Capital City Championship Combat, or C*4 wrestling, it helps to know how Stu Grayson, formerly “The Emperor” Stu Grayson, got his name and how he came to be fighting alongside Thomas...
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You can leave your socks on: Life imitates art for naked Calendar Girls
When Ann Scholberg appears in a stage play, which she does with some regularity in Ottawa, her son and his family make a point of attending. But as far as the seventysomething actor knows, her teenage...
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'Your friends were friends forever'
“It was a good place to be raised. It was pretty rough country, but you didn’t dare do anything wrong, because everybody knew you. It was quite a district, I’ll tell you.” When Ray Lauzon talks about...
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