Ottawa Citizen

Renfrew Victoria Hospital has appointed an interim president and CEO after its long-time leader, Julia Boudreau, stepped down. Read More

An 18-year-old from Shawville, Que., is dead following a Dec. 13 collision between a car and a transport truck on Highway 17 at Storyland Road. Read More

The federal government says it will take the next steps to build a sixth bridge between Ottawa and Gatineau. Read More

Many public servants were hoping to see more details about the federal government’s spending review in its long-awaited fall economic statement. While the document failed to include any new details about the initiative, which will result in job losses for public servants, it did offer details about other programs impacting the public service. Read More

The family of Abdirahman Abdi encouraged a five-person jury to deem the 38-year-old Somali-Canadian man's death a homicide, after a lengthy public inquest into the man's death, which followed a violent interaction with Ottawa police. Read More

Alvin has an inspiring story to share. Perseverance, hope and a future with no limits are at the heart of it. Our ability to share his story was stalled due to the Canada Post strike, but as that strike comes to an end, we know anything worth reading is worth waiting for. Read More

Zack Pelehos has come a long way in six months. Read More

Ottawa police made an arrest in connection to the decades-old homicide of Christopher Smith, the force announced in a news conference Dec. 16. Read More

It wasn't long ago when the media wolves were circling the Ottawa Senators and head coach Travis Green, wondering if this year's version of the team was already flushing itself down the toilet. Read More

After the massive fire, Notre-Dame Cathedral has now reopened. Pictures of Paris with the cathedral in flames are still alive in our minds. Interior reconstruction took about five years; the exterior still needs some more work. Ironically, the rebuilding of Notre-Dame had also revived, finally, a much older plan to reconstruct the second steeple of another church in Paris, Saint-Denis, which in many ways is of higher historical, artistic and religious importance than the more famous Notre-Dame. Read More

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Shopify, now the second-largest e-commerce platform in North America, started with Tobias (Tobi) Lütke trying to sell snowboards off the internet from his laptop in an Ottawa coffee shop. This excerpt from Larry MacDonald's new book, The Shopify Story, explains the pivotal role Lütke's girlfriend, later his wife, would play. Read More

The member of Parliament for Ottawa Centre says there should be more flexibility regarding remote work arrangements for public servants, acknowledging that the government is “nowhere close” to offering its employees a customizable work model. Read More

The Canadian military has an ambitious plan to increase its regular force ranks to 86,000, according to a briefing for senior leaders. Read More

Once a gem in the centre of the nation’s capital, the ByWard Market is losing its place in Ottawans’ hearts. Longstanding businesses have closed. A rash of high-profile violent crimes — including a brazen daytime shooting — and rampant opioid abuse have increased calls from locals for help. The attempts to revitalize the area — from the addition of a $50 million neighbourhood police station to installing an undersized fake-ice rink — vary widely. But what say the people who are still there? We interviewed folks who live, work and play in the ByWard Market. These are their stories, in their own words. Read More

A 63-year-old driver from Carleton Place was taken to hospital with serious injuries after a single-vehicle rollover Dec. 15 on Highway 15. Read More

Who was that masked man? Read More

The Ottawa Redblacks' search for a defensive co-ordinator is over. Read More

A 38-year-old Ottawa man faces a number of charges after OPP officers learned the registered owner of the vehicle in front of them was a suspended driver. Read More

The road to respectability hasn't been easy for the Ottawa Senators. Read More