
The Brass Monkey, a fixture of Ottawa’s live music scene, has shut its doors for good, ending a 15-year run that brought a profusion of punk and metal bands to the basement of a suburban strip mall in Nepean. Read More
January 12, 2026 - 17:16 | Lynn Saxberg | Ottawa Citizen
For the second week in a row, members of the Canadian Union of Public Employees have held a demonstration outside an Ottawa long-term care home to protest health-care cuts. Read More
January 12, 2026 - 17:00 | Elizabeth Payne | Ottawa Citizen
A coroner's inquest into the 2024 death of a Saskatchewan man who was working at a wind farm construction site in New Brunswick has begun.
January 12, 2026 - 16:58 | Reeti Rohilla | Global News - Canada
An earthquake which struck near the Alaska-Yukon border last month has revealed a fault line hidden beneath ice, drawing international research interest.
January 12, 2026 - 16:40 | | CBC News - Canada
The Canadian federation for the sport of skeleton is defending a decision to withdraw athletes from an international event on Sunday, a move a former U.S. Olympic athlete and two-time world champion alleges torpedoed her chance of attending a sixth Games.
According to a statement from Bobsleigh Canada Skeleton, four of the program’s “younger athletes” were removed from a North American Cup race in Lake Placid, N.Y., an event on the lower-tier developmental circuit’s calendar where competitors from any nation can earn points to qualify for the upcoming Milan Cortina Games in Italy....
January 12, 2026 - 16:30 | Kenn Oliver | National Post
Workers at the Royal Ottawa Mental Health Centre held a demonstration outside the Carling Avenue complex on Monday to protest planned layoffs at its long-term care facility — cuts the workers and their union warn will impact care for patients with schizophrenia and other serious mental health issues.
January 12, 2026 - 16:17 | | CBC News - Ottawa




