Unpublished Newswire
The City of Ottawa would like to remind residents of the following schedule changes for the holiday season between Wednesday, December 24 and Friday, January 2.
Client Service Centres
The City’s 3-1-1 Contact Centre will be open for urgent matters only on Thursday, December 25, Friday December 26 and Thursday, January 1. Please visit ottawa.ca/311 to submit a service request online.
All ServiceOttawa’s Client Services Centres, Provincial Offences and Administrative Penalty System (APS) counters and phone lines will be closed on Thursday, December 25, Friday, December 26 and Thursday,...
December 17, 2025 - 09:53 | City of Ottawa - Media Relations / Ville d'Ottawa - Relations avec les médias | City of Ottawa News Releases
A few months ago, Katie Chan was playing hockey overseas. Now she's scoring goals in front of a hometown crowd. The 22-year-old forward from Richmond, B.C., notched her first PWHL goal in dramatic fashion and helped bring her Vancouver Goldeneyes to a 2-1 win over the Ottawa Charge on Tuesday.
December 17, 2025 - 09:14 | | CBC News - Ottawa
As a youngster in Quebec, she dreamt of becoming a dancer. Instead, Jennie Carignan soared to become Canada’s first female Chief of the Defence Staff, the highest-ranking military position in the Canadian Armed Forces.
Appointed to the rank and position in July 2024, Gen. Carignan was educated as an engineer, has served in the Canadian military for more than 35 years, and has held leadership roles with missions to Afghanistan, Bosnia, Iraq and Syria. In 2013, she became the first woman commandant of the Royal Military College in Saint-Jean, Que.
On the personal side, Carignan, 57,...
December 17, 2025 - 07:00 | Chris Lambie | National Post
The addictions crisis is seeping into every corner of the province, including in remote and isolated communities in northern Manitoba.
December 17, 2025 - 07:00 | Marney Blunt | Global News - Canada
It’s shaping up to be a nasty blast of winter across the Prairies today with snowstorms and blizzards set to dump up to 30 centimetres in some areas.Environment Canada says heavy snow will have a stranglehold on morning commutes in parts of northwestern Alberta, starting in Grande Prairie and heading east towards Edmonton, before tapering off later Wednesday.
December 17, 2025 - 06:52 | Aaron Sousa | The Globe and Mail
On October 9, Israel and Hamas agreed to a truce backed by the Donald Trump administration. The first phase of the peace plan, which includes the exchange of hostages and prisoners and calls for humanitarian aid to be allowed back into Gaza, is nearing its end. What comes next? I reached out to Jon Allen, who served as Canada’s ambassador to Israel from 2006 to 2010 and is now a senior fellow at the Bill Graham Centre for Contemporary International History, to talk about how the ceasefire is progressing so far and what to expect in the coming weeks.
Over the past two months, Israel has...
December 17, 2025 - 06:30 | Samia Madwar | Walrus
