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‘BEST COACH’

Jacques Martin never wanted to be the centre of attention during his National Hockey League career. On Saturday night at the Canadian Tire Centre, he won't be able to avoid it. Thirty years after he made his debut behind the Ottawa Senators bench,...

CROWN JEWEL

The head of the National Capital Commission says the new home of the Ottawa Senators should be a crown jewel at Lebreton Flats. Tobi Nussbaum, the NCC'S chief executive officer, told the Ottawa Sun on a Zoom call with reporters following the pubic...

PREIM TIME

The Ottawa Senators may finally have some calm in their chaotic crease. Two games are a small sample size, but what we've witnessed from veteran goalie James Reimer in his return to the National Hockey League with the Senators is a refreshing...

‘I LOST MYSELF’

Linus Ullmark took a leave of absence because he needed a break for “mental health” reasons. The Ottawa Senators top goaltender told TSN'S Claire Hanna in an exclusive interview that was released Tuesday afternoon that he was having panic attacks...

BLAME GAME

The Ottawa Senators are under the microscope. From top to bottom, every aspect of the organization is facing scrutiny from the fan base after back-to-back overtime losses. The fingers pointed in every direction: Owner Michael Andlauer, president Cyril...

NO MORE MR. NICE GUYS

BERLIN — The eight European countries targeted by U.S. President Donald Trump for a 10% tariff for opposing American control of Greenland blasted the move Sunday, warning that his threats “undermine transatlantic relations and risk a dangerous downward...

SKI AND DO

Dave Adams' passion for cross-country skiing has taken him around the world. The 58-year-old Ottawa native, who grew up cross-country skiing in the Outaouais, is a former competitive ski racer who spent a few years living in Sweden and competing...

‘A LOT MORE REAL’

The Ottawa Senators will spend the weekend celebrating the 30th anniversary of the Canadian Tire Centre. This likely will be one of the last milestone moments at the rink, but the Senators won't be heading to a new home at Lebreton Flats anytime...

FEELIN’ GREEN

Travis Green trended on X for all the wrong reasons late Saturday night. The fourth consecutive regulation loss by the Ottawa Senators was not sitting well with an increasingly impatient fan base, and the coach drew its ire. “Something has to change...

BLOOD IN THE STREETS

DUBAI, United Arab Emirates — A crackdown on nationwide protests in Iran has killed at least 538 people and even more are feared dead, activists said Sunday, while Tehran warned that the U.S. military and Israel would be “legitimate targets” if America...

JUSTICE SERVED

A former City of Ottawa lawyer was given a suspended sentence and two years of probation after he pleaded guilty to vandalizing the National Holocaust Monument last year. Iain Aspenlieder was arrested on June 27, 2025, and charged with mischief to a...

LOOK OUT BELOW

It all starts with a plain hot dog, wrapped in tinfoil and attached to a parachute. A skydiving hot dog is a pretty cool concept. But what's even cooler? This hot dog is completely condiment-free. That's exactly what was crossing through my mind as I...

POURING IT ON

If you bite the hand that offers a glass, you'd better be prepared to suffer the consequences. One thing Crown Royal's parent company Diageo might not have considered in their cost-savings Ontario plant closure is how much profit they will lose when...

WHAT’S NEXT?

WASHINGTON — U.S. Secretary of State Marco Rubio suggested Sunday that the United States would not govern Venezuela day-to-day other than enforcing an existing “oil quarantine” on the country, a turnaround after President Donald Trump announced a day...

ICE TO SEE YOU

On the night before the Rideau Canal Skateway opened for the first time this season, I was lying awake in bed, as restless as a little kid trying to fall asleep on Christmas Eve. I couldn't stop thinking about the sound of my blades digging into the...

BIG REBOUND

The Ottawa Senators brought in the new year by picking up a big two points. The Senators got up off the mat and battled back from a 2-0 deficit to score a 4-3 victory over Alex Ovechkin and the Washington Capitals in front of a sellout crowd of 18,433...

BIG ON OTTAWA

Mayor Mark Sutcliffe sat down for an end-of-year interview withpostmedia and highlighted some “big wins” for Ottawa over the past year at City Hall, while also looking ahead to the challenges 2026 will bring. Topics ranged from Lansdowne 2.0 and the...

MINUS LINUS

The Ottawa Senators will forge ahead without Linus Ullmark. They don't have any other choice after the Senators announced on Sunday that the club's top goaltender has taken an indefinite leave of absence from the team to deal with a personal...

IS IT ALREADY TOO LATE?

Milton Sanford Mayer was an American journalist, a Quaker, with Jewish heritage. But that isn't the important thing. The important thing is what he wrote in one of his many books, titled They Thought They Were Free: The Germans 1933-45. After the...

‘BUS’TED

Not even a year after the National Capital Commission (NCC) opened Kìwekì Point, significant damage to the new structure caused by a school bus driving “illegally” on a lookout pathway has left residents surprised. The damage was found on Whispering...

HELPING HAMPER

As a kid, Craig Dow didn't fully understand why firefighters dropped off toys in his Sudbury, Ont. neighbourhood around the winter holidays. But, like many adults now, he understands it a bit more. “Community is that beautiful spirit of people...

WHAT’S THE PLAN?

Back when I was a teenager, a private investigator sat in a parked car outside my family's Westboro home for a few days, keeping watch on a house two doors away. Somehow, we knew why he was there: the recently estranged husband of the woman living at...

HAPPY BLUE YEAR!

OTTAWA — Federal public servants are expected to learn about job cuts in their departments when they return from their holiday break. Departments such as Immigration, Refugees and Citizenship, Environment and Climate Change and Employment and Social...

STILL UNSOLVED

Two years later, many of those who were there still ask themselves the same thing every time they go to a wedding. Will gunmen arrive to spray gunfire into the celebrants? Will guests be forced to dive for cover and shelter under tables, escape to...

MEET & GREET

The power of the press helped a group of Ottawa superfans finally meet the Jonas Brothers, the American pop-rock superstars they've been following for decades. “It's the best gift ever,” said Erica Geller, a Toronto-based 34-year-old who travelled...

BELL TOLLS

David Bell got a lump of coal in his stocking from the Ottawa Senators this Christmas. Steve Staios, the club's president of hockey operations and general manager, announced on Wednesday morning that the Senators have fired the head coach of the...

CANCEL CULTURE

Parents of Grade 2 students at Hilson Avenue Public School were shocked earlier in December when they received a message from its principal “clarifying” the future of middle French immersion at the school. Middle French immersion at the Westboro...

SEVERE FLU SEASON

Three children in Ottawa and Eastern Ontario have died from flu-related complications in the past two weeks, as an early and severe flu season sweeps across the region. The children were between the ages of 5 and 9. No more details about the two...

TERROR DOWN UNDER

SYDNEY, Australia — An attack at a famous Australian beach killed 16 people, including a child, officials said Monday, after two gunmen opened fire at a Hanukkah celebration on Sydney's Bondi Beach. Prime Minister Anthony Albanese called it an act of...

WAY OFF TRACK

Jennifer Drummond's journey from Toronto back home to Smiths Falls should have been an easy one. Instead, she says, she ended up on a “red-eye train” on Wednesday night, spending more than 12 hours stuck in one place on the tracks. The train ride...

RADIO SILENCED

For CHUO 89.1 station manager Parujee Akarasewi, the University of Ottawa campus broadcaster is all about shining a light on minority communities. “We are the speaker for the underrepresented,” Akarasewi said. “Our main focus is for minority and BIPOC...

BROTHERS SISTERHOOD

When the Jonas Brothers' 20th-anniversary tour lands in Ottawa this month, it will be a full-circle moment for a tight-knit group of Ottawa women. More than 16 years ago, Erica Geller and four friends from high school — Justine Walker, Chelsea Roggie,...

FORECHECK FOR FUNDS

The Ottawa Senators have a team off the ice lobbying federal and provincial governments for funds to help pay the hefty price tag for a new arena at Lebreton Flats, Postmedia has learned. Postmedia has confirmed that the Senators have hired...

OFF THEIR RADAR

Government officials are refusing to meet with Ontario farmers about a controversial missile defence radar after one of their group wrote to Defence Minister David Mcguinty to complain about his department's lack of transparency on the project. Rachel...

YEAR OF THE OFFICE?

The drive to the office may not feel as swift as it did a couple years ago, nor is the train as comfortable, as you're forced to lean against a stranger during your standingroom-only commute. For some companies, work-fromhome and hybrid models persist...

ART FOR ALL

When Bill Staubi learned two years ago that he had Stage 4 liver cancer and about 18 months to live, he accepted the prognosis directly and methodically. He began immunotherapy. He made funeral arrangements. He notified friends. He applied for...

THINK OF THE KIDS

Some Ottawa parents may be scrambling to find full-time or extended-day child-care spots as rumours swirl of a full federal returnto-office mandate that may add more pressure to an already strained child-care system. Jarin, a public servant and a...

POOR MARKS

EQAO results for Ontario were released on Wednesday, but those who wanted to see how a particular school board or school fared in the standardized reading, writing and math tests were disappointed as the website got bogged down by heavy traffic early...

NEW LIBRARY DELAYED

Adisoke, Ottawa's super library, won't open in 2026, the city's finance and corporate services committee heard on Tuesday. The project is not in jeopardy, said Carina Duclos, director of infrastructure and water services, which is overseeing the...

NHL FLIPS ITS LIDS

The Ottawa Senators' helmetless warmup in Sin City has ruffled feathers at the National Hockey League's headquarters in New York. The Senators started a trend last Wednesday by not wearing helmets during the warmup before their 4-3 shootout victory...

‘IT HIT US HARD’

As is usually the case, Ottawa Charge star Emily Clark stayed on the TD Place ice after practice on Monday to have a long, private chat with Carla Macleod, her coach and friend of 14 years. Whether they discussed drills, systems, the upcoming opponent...

WON’T BACK DOWN

EDMONTON — Alberta Premier Danielle Smith is vowing to keep up the fight against Ottawa as she admits many of her United Conservative Party members still need to be convinced her recent pipeline pact is indeed a victory. The milestone deal with Ottawa...

‘RUTHLESS’ WORK

Ottawa musician Shawn Tavenier has collected several parking tickets this year while trying to make a living as a guitar-playing singer-songwriter. It stings every time, especially when the fine eats most of his wage, but the one that felt most unfair...

IT’S A DEAL

The agreement reached between Prime Minister Mark Carney and Alberta Premier Danielle Smith marks one of the most significant federal concessions to Alberta's energy sector in years. By scrapping key regulations and opening the door to new pipeline...

RANK AND DEFILE

Seventeen Ottawa soldiers have received counselling or warnings for their involvement in a private Facebook group in which they posted photos of themselves exposing their genitals, as well as making antisemitic, misogynistic, homophobic and racist...

BIG WARNING

While the City of Ottawa has received a batch of temporary school-zone signs intended to be installed following the Ontario ban on speed cameras, installation may be delayed since the signs sent from the province are too large to fit on the city's...

HERE WE GO AGAIN

Thomas Chabot is back on the shelf, only one game after returning from an upper-body muscle ailment that kept him out for 10 days. The Senators blueliner did not suit up against the Los Angeles Kings on Monday night at the Crypto.com Arena in the...

LET’S MAKE A DEAL?

JOHANNESBURG — Prime Minister Mark Carney and Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi are reviving attempts at a comprehensive trade deal, which both countries started negotiating in 2010. “The two leaders agreed to formally launch negotiations for a...

STORIED HEROES

The Canadian Forces are counting on public servants to volunteer for military service as the miltary tries to ramp up an army of 300,000 as part of a mobilization plan, according to a defence department directive. Federal and provincial employees...

THE COLDEN BOOT

Is it too late to add a stadium roof to the Lansdowne 2.0 project? In a one-of-its-kind match that will be shared on sports highlight shows around the world and talked about for years to come, Atletico Ottawa captured its first Canadian Premier League...

HER LAST VOYAGE

On the morning of Nov. 9, 1975, the U.S. Weather Service noted an area of low pressure developing over the Great Plains, centred in Kansas. It would likely amount to nothing, yet another fall storm in the Upper Midwest and along the Great Lakes. At...

‘COURAGE, CONVICTION’

Jean Verdon said that the battle wasn't over for many Métis veterans who came home from war. Verdon, a Métis veteran who briefly served in the Canadian Armed Forces during the Cold War, said many faced discrimination and had their identities...

OUTSIDE THE LINES

Fraudulent QR code stickers were reportedly placed on parking machines in Ottawa recently, but the city says they have all been removed. The city said it was made aware of a scam on parking machines Monday, and subsequently located and removed fake QR...

CHEAP OUT

Cuts in the federal budget could affect Ottawa mainstays ranging from museum hours to Canada Day celebrations. But it will take may take six months before Ottawa residents notice how the cuts are affecting local services. Or they may never know, says...

CHANGING TEAMS

Two years ago, I wrote a column in support of the Lansdowne 2.0 development. In it, I waxed nostalgic about my lifelong relationship with the grand old dame of urban parks and all she had given Ottawa: the concerts, fairs, exhibitions, conventions,...

CHOP SHOP

Ahead of the federal budget on Nov. 4, observers have different visions on what a “sustainable level” for the public service is and what it can mean for the federal government. On Oct.29, Finance Minister François-philippe Champagne said that the...

BUDGET PRIMER

OTTAWA — With the Mark Carney government set to release its first budget on Tuesday, what's should we look for? Budgets are often used as opportunities by governments to unveil new policy or further election promises, but Franco Terrazzano, of the...

DRIVEN CRAZY

It's a familiar tale for many Ottawans. What should be a 25-minute drive to work in the morning soon becomes an arduous hour-long affair sitting in gridlock traffic on Hwy. 417. And, according to a local transportation expert, congestion on Ottawa...

ICY RECEPTION

The future of women's hockey at Lansdowne — and perhaps in Ottawa — became the flashpoint of the Lansdowne 2.0 public forum at city hall, after Jayna Hefford and Amy Scheer, executive vice-presidents of hockey and business operations for the PWHL, told...

`TRIPPY' VIBE SYNTHESIZED

CROWDED OUT

The Professional Women's Hockey League says that the smaller arena proposed for Lansdowne Park would not be financially viable for the Ottawa Charge and that its arena capacity concerns have been “ignored” by the city during the Lansdowne 2.0...

‘LIKE A SON’

Devastated co-workers of Joshua Qiyuk, a 21-year-old Inuk man who was found stabbed to death on Oct. 22 at Meadow Park Place in Ottawa's east end, say the killing of the young cook is incomprehensible. “He was a great kid. He was like a son to me,”...

AD MAN

Doug Ford is calling his ad campaign that sparked controversy an incredible success. Speaking at Queen's Park on Monday morning, he called it “the most successful ad in the history of North America.” Given that President Donald Trump's reaction to the...

TO THE MAX

This is where hope and guessing, guile and trust come in for the Toronto Blue Jays. Smack in the middle of the World Series. Trusting Max Scherzer to start Game 3 at Dodger Stadium. Believing it's the right thing to do. Believing he's the right guy to...

NO DYCE

Who will be the Ottawa Redblacks' next head coach? Now that they've cut ties with Bob Dyce, the search for his successor begins immediately, but it likely won't conclude until after the Grey Cup game in Winnipeg on Nov. 16, after which they will be...

COACH’S BEST FRIEND

There can be many casualties in an unexpected losing season. Some obvious, some not. When the seemingly inevitable happens and the Ottawa Redblacks start their house-cleaning from a very disappointing five months by firing their head coach, the...

WHOLE NEW WORLD

It's easy to beat up on Ticketmaster, and anytime there is a big event with high demand, politicians love to pile on. That's exactly what's happening right now with people like Premier Doug Ford trying to show he understands the little guy by raging...

LESS IS LESS

Is Lansdowne 2.0 good for Ottawans? Hard to tell. But I can tell what's not good for Ottawa: How the mayor was trying to get ahead of the report with some political spin. Let me explain what happened Monday morning at Mark Sutcliffe's hastily...

BRING ’EM ON!

If you think being an underdog is something that will bother the American League champion Toronto Blue Jays in the slightest, Kevin Gausman has a word or two for you. And even cleaning up the vocabulary doesn't diminish the point emphatically made by...

LINUS THE MINUS

Nobody has to tell Linus Ullmark he hasn't been good enough. The Ottawa Senators' top goaltender is his own worst critic and, as the two-time Western Conference champion Edmonton Oilers arrive in town for their lone visit to the Canadian Tire Centre...

DEAL BREAKER

As Mark Carney heads to Asia this week, he'll be fighting a poor perception of Canada, that we're an unreliable trading partner. It's not the Americans saying this at the moment, though they would agree. It's not the Brits who might nod their heads,...

STABBED TO DEATH

Ottawa police have identified a 21-year-old man stabbed to death early Saturday in the 1700 block of Russell Rd. In a release, police said Raphael Atende was stabbed to death just after midnight. It was the 15th homicide in the city this...

CARS FOR THE COMMUNITY

DEALT A BAD HAND

The Ottawa Senators will have to right the ship without their captain. Senators coach Travis Green didn't provide an update on the status of top winger Brady Tkachuk on Thursday morning, but repeated that he won't be back anytime soon, with league...