Ottawa

• Go to the ER if your child is really sick amid COVID-19 pandemic: Ontario doctors

  A number of Ontario doctors say visits to pediatric emergency units have declined amid the pandemic as parents fear exposure to COVID-19 or worry about taxing health-care workers.

  Health

  Apr 30
• Ottawa tables back to work bill to end strike at Port of Montreal

  The bill would force the unionized workers back on the job, and it will be debated later today in the House of Commons.

  Canada

  Apr 27
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• Feds file notice of back to work bill ahead of looming Montreal dockworkers strike

  Labour Minister Filomena Tassi said that forcing the resumption of operations at the Port of Montreal is the government's responsibility to prevent serious national economic harm.

  Economy

  Apr 25
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• Alberta pumps brakes on national child-care program

  Less than 24 hours after Canada's finance minister rolled out what advocates are calling a historic investment in child care, Alberta's premier is opposing it.

  Politics

  Apr 20
• New Brunswick mother ‘really hopeful’ about Ottawa’s childcare promise

  "I think it is a gamechanger for families in Canada," says Catherine Cross, the executive director of the Association of Early Childhood Educators of Nova Scotia

  Canada

  Apr 20
• Mi’kmaw fisher argues feds becoming more aggressive in seizures of Indigenous gear

  The Indigenous band has cited Supreme Court of Canada rulings, as affirmations of the Mi'kmaw practice of harvesting fish for ceremonies, food and gatherings.

  Canada

  Apr 15
• Auston Matthews, Mitch Marner combine for 8 points as Leafs down Sens 6-5

  Toronto defeated the Ottawa Senators 6-5 for a season-high sixth straight win.

  Sports

  Apr 11
• COVID-19 variant cases in areas near Ottawa rising, says LGL health unit

  The Leeds, Grenville and Lanark District Health Unit says variant cases are growing in areas close to Ottawa and is urging locals to keep their social circles small.

  Canada

  Apr 7
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• Man seriously injured after officer-involved shooting in Ottawa, SIU investigating

  The SIU said that around 3:30 a.m., Ottawa police officers were called to the area of Montreal and Ogilvie roads for reports of a man walking around with a sword.

  Canada

  Apr 4
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• Suspect arrested, charged more than a year after Kingston bank robbery

  A Gatineau, Que., man has been charged in relation to an armed bank robbery in Kingston back in November 2019.

  Canada

  Apr 1