Unpublished Newswire
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
U.S. President Donald Trump has become the global disruptor-in-chief, causing ruptures in the international order and affecting policies and politics in countries near and far. Indeed, Canada elected a new prime minister based on his perceived ability to meet the Trump threat. Read More
April 1, 2026 - 04:00 | Alex Robinson | Ottawa Citizen
A video of Rodney Nichols making incriminating statements to the FBI, Ontario Provincial Police and other law enforcement agencies in 2020 was played at his fitness hearing on Tuesday. The Crown took court through the separate investigations into the victim's disappearance and discovery of her body in 1975, which went unidentified for decades.
April 1, 2026 - 04:00 | | CBC News - Ottawa
