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OTTAWA - Ottawa police have nine people in custody after a lengthy Sunday morning standoff at an upscale downtown hotel ended peacefully. Five women and four men, all in their early-to-late 20s, were partying in a Slater Street...
By Jim Bronskill, THE CANADIAN PRESS RCMP Commissioner William J.S. Elliott speaks to The Canadian Press in his office in Ottawa on Nov. 18, 2009. But William Elliott says that's "fair and reasonable" given the problems...
Last Friday, I quickly re-blogged a news item on the 2009 Osbaldeston Lecture, by Martha Piper, former president of the University of British Columbia. Over on my Posterous miniblog, a reader reacted to my highlighting of an...
One would think in a town, Ottawa, that has John Baird in cabinet, Max Keeping on TV and Laurier Lapierre in the Senate having a gay positive film festival would be a piece of cake.One would be wrong.The Inside Out Film...
By Becky Rynor, Ottawa CitizenNovember 22, 2009 Photograph by: Bruno Schlumberger, Canwest News Service OTTAWA -- It is early on a grey November morning, but Ottawa artist Bruce Garner is up and already hunched over a small...
OTTAWA - Rankin Inlet Mayor John Hickes has become a voice for discontent about federal stimulus money in the North. He reads about government money gushing to infrastructure projects in the south,...
A private member's bill aims to impose controls on powerful Canadian mining companies that operate overseas John McKay, Liberal MP for Scarborough-Guildwood, has introduced a private member's bill designed to put controls on...
The world-music scene in Quebec was highlighted at the fifth annual Canadian Folk Music Awards Saturday by the recognition of Montreal’s Karim Saada as world solo artist of the year, and Mansa Sissoko and Jayme Stone for Africa...
HALIFAX, N.S. - The bishop appointed to oversee a Nova Scotia diocese tainted by sex abuse allegations and child pornography charges says he recognizes it will take time to bring people back to the embattled church. Bishop...
Canada and India have been reluctant dance partners in decades past for reasons ranging from a heated disagreement on nuclear non-proliferation to Cold War-era divergences to name but two.It is only in recent years that Ottawa...
