Ottawa Citizen

Canada's largest federal public sector union says a government plan to redirect almost $2 billion in surplus funds from the public service pension plan into a central account has "failed workers." Read More

The Ottawa Senators have a couple of big problems on their hands in the coming days: Figure out how to win hockey games on the West Coast, plus somehow replace injured defenceman Artem Zub. Read More

Nursing leaders from Canada and around the world met in Ottawa this week to talk about mandating minimum nurse-to-patient ratios, something they say will help retain nurses and lessen staff shortages. Read More

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One thing that is almost guaranteed in a City of Ottawa budget is that some little sideshow will draw an inordinate amount of public and political attention while the big numbers go mostly undiscussed. This year, it was a proposed 120-per-cent increase in the cost of bus passes for seniors, a bad idea easily fixed. Read More

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The Pizza Line reunion is on. Read More

I had never really heard the term “compassion fatigue” until I started seeing it happening in real time in the community I live in and represent. The changes in downtown Ottawa have become obvious over the last five years: more people sleeping on sidewalks and in alleyways, more erratic behaviour from people with mental health and addiction problems, more discarded needles found near schools. Read More

Wayne Ng is an Ottawa social worker and award-winning novelist. In this excerpt from his new book, Johnny Delivers, 18-year-old Johnny Wong tries to save his chaotic family and their Chinese restaurant from debt, by invoking the spirit of Bruce Lee and selling weed with deliveries. All this while juggling a first love, high school, and uncovering sordid family secrets. Read More

As a child, Michael Rudnicki liked to dismantle clocks. He would take them apart, piece by piece, to see what made them tick. Read More

It turns out the Ottawa Senators were ready for primetime on Monday night. Read More

A motion to reduce proposed OC Transpo fare increases for seniors will be moving forward to city council. Read More

The OPP are looking for three suspects after about $10,000 in cannabis and $2,000 in cash were stolen from a "T-Cannabis" location in Renfrew on Nov. 23. Read More

In the hours before he killed and allegedly sexually assaulted his new housemate, Nikolas Ibey browsed through Savanna Pikuyak's Facebook profile and scrolled through dozens of her photos. Read More

The Ottawa police are asking for the public's help as they search for a 31-year-old man who was last seen on Nov. 24 at about 9:40 p.m. as he boarded a westbound LRT train at Blair Station. Read More

Christopher Deacon, the man who led the National Arts Centre through a six-year stretch of ups and downs that included its 50th-anniversary celebrations, the launch of the country's first national Indigenous theatre company and a global pandemic, is leaving his job as president and CEO of the multi-disciplinary arts facility in downtown Ottawa. Read More

It was a bit mucky, definitely not pretty, but it was the way the Ottawa Senators need to play. Read More

Travis Green has had it with the criticism of Brady Tkachuk. Read More

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The Ottawa Senators blueline has taken another hit. Read More