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A candidate for mayor of Ottawa is facing multiple charges for allegedly making death threats against Ontario Premier Doug Ford and incumbent Ottawa Mayor Mark Sutcliffe. Geoffrey Nicholas Griplas was charged on Sept. 15 with two counts of criminal harassment, as well as two counts of uttering death threats allegedly made by social media posts between the dates of Sept...
An outgoing Progressive Conservative MPP in Ottawa is apologizing for a social media post that criticized one of the people vying for her seat — a message Muslim groups say was Islamophobic and that the MPP herself has now acknowledged was "inappropriate." Lisa MacLeod, the longtime MPP for Nepean, posted on X about candidate Husien Abu-Rayash on Tuesday.
A device federal public servants call "the little robot" began appearing in Gatineau office buildings in March. It travels through the workplace to collect data using about 20 sensors and a 360-degree camera, according to Yahya Saad, co-founder of GlobalDWS, which created the robot.
Over three meetings this spring, Mayor Mark Sutcliffe has presented Doug Ford with a sports jersey, a dozen doughnuts and a welcome mat — all to the premier's apparent delight. Ford called the doughnuts "beautiful" and the mat "fantastic." His gifts, meanwhile, were more substantive: a $543-million "new deal" for Ottawa, a $37.5-million cheque for meeting housing targets and, most...
Ottawa's mayor is showing more confidence than ever that the city is on the cusp of getting millions in federal money to build housing. In an interview with CBC News on Tuesday, Mayor Mark Sutcliffe said his office has been in regular contact with the federal government over Ottawa's housing accelerator fund application. He said he's now optimistic those efforts...