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August 28, 2026 - 16:54 | Alex Bozikovic | The Globe and Mail
It’s Friday, August 28. Here are today’s top stories from the Ottawa Citizen newsroom Read More
August 28, 2026 - 16:45 | Robert Cross | Ottawa Citizen
OTTAWA — A frightening scene played out on Tuesday morning, when a parked semi-truck rolled into an excavation site and hit an exposed section of the Enbridge Line 5 pipeline near the Wisconsin-Michigan border. Drone footage that was widely circulated online showed a thick, white cloud of natural gas spreading from the accident site to a meadow on the other side of a dirt road. While the leak was quickly isolated and no injuries were reported, the incident exacerbated an already tense political divide around the Canada-U.S. pipeline. Fred Clark, a Democrat running for Congress in...
August 28, 2026 - 16:44 | Rahim Mohamed | National Post
A rugby park in Ottawa's west end is closed after a structure on the property was damaged in a fire Friday morning. Read More
August 28, 2026 - 16:35 | Gord Holder, Postmedia | Ottawa Citizen
As Canadian officials reject U.S. President Donald Trump’s order renaming Lake Ontario as Lake America, Canada’s own database of official place names carries eight entries called Trump. Only one thing in the country is actually named after the U.S. president, and it is not on that list. Ottawa Coun. Tim Tierney told CNN it is Trump Avenue, a residential street in the capital’s Central Park neighbourhood. CNN reported that council voted unanimously Wednesday to take a first step toward renaming the street, a day before Trump signed the Lake Ontario order, which followed the same...
August 28, 2026 - 16:30 | Mason Kossak | National Post
Political leaders in America are pushing back against U.S. President Donald Trump’s decision to rename Lake Ontario “Lake America,” calling it “sad and pathetic” and accusing him of trying to distract from “disastrous trade talks with Canada.” The criticism comes after Trump signed an executive order on Thursday that he said would “immediately” change the name of the Great Lake that straddles the U.S.-Canada border. When asked what message he was trying to send Canada with the renaming of the lake, the U.S. President replied: “No message,” adding that “Canada has been ripping us off...
August 28, 2026 - 16:29 | Ellie Hutchings | National Post
