Unpublished Newswire
Thirty years after four municipalities were brought together to form the Halifax Regional Municipality, opinions on amalgamation remain varied and deeply personal.
April 1, 2026 - 05:00 | | CBC News - Canada
The number of inmate-on-inmate assaults appears to be rising in the province, according to Ministry of the Solicitor General figures. The big concern in northern Ontario is violence fuelled by overcrowding and a lack of options to separate the person who was attacked from the perpetrator.
April 1, 2026 - 05:00 | | CBC News - Canada
Crown attorney Kate Ashton told a jury they will learn over the course of the next four weeks that Dean Penney planned and deliberately murdered Jennifer Hillier-Penney — and that Penney confessed to her murder on tape.
April 1, 2026 - 04:30 | | CBC News - Canada
OTTAWA — The new frontier of government accountability could be a colourful AI-generated image connecting the dots between all the different players in one of Canada’s messiest procurement controversies.
The Phoenix pay system, which was designed to centralize payroll for the federal government but quickly racked up a long list of issues including overpayments, underpayments and missed payments, is estimated to have cost nearly $5 billion. The replacement software is now estimated to cost more than $4 billion, putting the total price tag of the calamity at nearly $10 billion...
April 1, 2026 - 04:00 | Stuart Thomson , Christopher Nardi | National Post
On a day in late winter, Dom Ferland, Ottawa's wildlife resource co-ordinator, is giving a tour of one of Ottawa's coyote sighting hotspots. Read More
April 1, 2026 - 04:00 | Joanne Laucius | Ottawa Citizen
Like the swallows’ annual return to Capistrano, Ottawa will soon be abuzz with the whirring, thrumming and occasional buzzsaw whine of e-scooters, e-bikes, hoverboards, Segways, monowheels and small — plus not-so-small — Vespa-type motorcycles. They will once again compete with pedestrians, cyclists, motorists and each other as they freewheel from sidewalk to bike lane to traffic lane to multi-use path and back again, with all the cares of a kid on the last day of school. Read More
April 1, 2026 - 04:00 | Bruce Deachman | Ottawa Citizen
