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A GoFundMe page has been set up for an 8-year-old girl who died after being hit by a car in Oakville. Melody's family says it's to help with expenses and her mom's medical bills.
November 13, 2025 - 18:53 | Nicole Di Donato | Global News - Ottawa
One of Don Hewitt’s core memories from three years as the furry, minuscule mascot of the Saskatchewan Roughriders in the late 1970s can be summed up in two letters — P.U.“They’d wash the suit once at the end of the season, and it just stunk,” Hewitt said of the rancid Gainer the Gopher getup.
November 13, 2025 - 18:35 | Aaron Sousa | The Globe and Mail
Ontario's Ministry of Education is ordering school boards across the province to open student and family support offices. These hubs are meant to address issues raised by parents with their children's educators. It comes after five Ontario school boards were placed under provincial control due to alleged financial mismanagement. One of them is Ottawa’s largest, and the OCDSB has recently parted ways with its longtime Director of Education. Kristy Cameron goes 1-on-1 with Education Minister Paul Calandra on Ottawa Now.
November 13, 2025 - 18:30 | | CFRA - 580 - Ottawa
As residents were examining the 2026 Draft Budget on Wednesday, a crowd of people noticed a curious-looking information box on the city’s website. It’s called the City of Ottawa Contribution Program, which can be found on the draft budget’s Information page. It allows residents to make a personal or corporate contribution – anywhere between $5 and $25,000 – to support city programs and services. This follows a December 2024 motion from Alta Vista councillor Marty Carr, which was unanimously carried. However, her original intention was to raise funds for...
November 13, 2025 - 18:25 | | CFRA - 580 - Ottawa
Palestinians in Gaza who applied to join relatives in Canada two years ago under Ottawa’s crisis immigration policy but haven’t received travel visas lost their lawsuits trying to force officials to act despite security problems in the war-torn region.
Four similar court actions asked the Federal Court to order officials with Immigration, Refugees, and Citizenship Canada (IRCC) to process their temporary resident visa applications.
Justice Henry S. Brown said the stories of applicants in Gaza were “heartbreaking” but he could not issue the orders they sought.
The court cases stem...
November 13, 2025 - 18:23 | Adrian Humphreys | National Post
Ottawa Police have issued a warning to the general public that a high-risk offender is currently living in the Rideau-Vanier area. Christopher Watts was previously convicted of manslaughter, sexual assault, and sexual interference in the death of a Southern Ontario teenager. He has been labeled as a high-risk offender since 2015, 12 years after he was convicted of those crimes. We get the latest from CTV's Katie Griffin. Then, we check in with Sylvie Bigras, who is the President of the Lowertown Community Association.
November 13, 2025 - 18:20 | | CFRA - 580 - Ottawa
