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SATURDAY, JUNE 14, 2014:
There was no question who to cheer for on Preston Street Saturday, June 14, 2014 during the England vs Italy World Cup match. Italy won the game 2-1. Viva Italia!
READ MORE: The passion and the pain of the World Cup
Derek Miller crawls through a course at the Diefenbunker, Canada’s Cold War Museum, during the first annual Operation Father’s Day on Saturday, June 14, 2014.
Operation Father’s Day took place at the Diefenbunker, near Carp. Operation Father’s Day was a fundraising initiative for the Museum and the Guild of the Royal Canadian Dragoons. The day featured a military-themed tour of the bunker, rides on vehicles, an exclusive and rare Cold War vehicle display, Kiddy Commando Course with prizes, music and access for food and beverages.
READ MORE: Diefenbunker: Canada’s Cold War Museum
Italian made cars make their way along Preston Street in Ottawa’s Little Italy on Saturday, June 14, 2014 during Italian Week.
About 100 Italian cars drove up and down Preston Street on Saturday, June 14, 2014 as part of Italian Week. The vintage cars honked their high-pitched horns and the new luxury cars revved loudly.
Read more: People are filling the streets for this weekend’s two big festivals
SUNDAY, JUNE 15, 2014:
Two people had to be extricated from their vehicle after crashing into a Kanata home on Sunday morning at about 9:30 a.m
Two people were taken to hospital with minor injuries after their van crashed into a Kanata home Sunday morning. The female driver and her male passenger, both 81, were taken to the Queensway-Carleton Hospital with injuries. Both suffered chest, head and neck injuries, and the woman had multiple fractures in her lower left leg. She was listed in serious but stable condition..
READ MORE: Two people injured when van crashes into Kanata home
SUNDAY: Jack White shows off the A&W paraphernalia adorning his 1966 Ford Fairlane 500 during the Father’s Day Antique Car Show at Billings Estate on Sunday, June 15, 2014.
People ride along Sir John A. Macdonald Parkway in Ottawa on Sunday, June 15, 2014.
The National Capital Commission is doing what it calls a “strategic planning exercise” to see how the popular 44-year-old Alcatel-Lucent Sunday Bikeday program could be better. From 9 a.m. to 1 p.m. every Sunday during the warm summer months, major routes, such as Colonel By Drive, are closed off so people can cycle, jog, and rollerblade in peace.
READ MORE: The NCC is going to be making changes to the Sunday Bikedays program
Gas prices hit 140.9 at a gas stations around the city, including this one on Heron Road near Bank Street on Sunday, June 15, 2014.
Ottawa gasoline prices hit a record high on the weekend, averaging $1.40.9 Saturday before slipping back a penny Sunday, a major consumer analyst says. Dan McTeague of Tomorrow’s Gas Price Today says he expects the lofty prices to hold steady for the coming week. “Sudden crisis in Iraq puts risk back on the table and increases speculative bets on ALL energy prices,” he posted on his website, tomorrowsgaspricetoday.com.
READ MORE: Weekend gas prices highest ever: analyst
SUNDAY: Alex, 2.5, gets a Father’s Day ride on Sunday, June 15, 2014 on his dad Dan’s paddle board.
MONDAY, JUNE 16, 2014:
#70 Connor Williams as the Redblacks hold first practice at Keith Harris Stadium, Carleton University on Monday, June 16, 2014 after opening preseason game in Regina.
The Ottawa Redblacks released four players from their training-camp roster on Sunday. Of that group, receiver Garrett Burgess was the lone Canadian or “national player” as they’re known in the new collective agreement between the Canadian Football League Players’ Association and the league. Also dropped were import (“international”) defensive backs Chika Madu and Larry Parker and running back Eric O’Neal.
READ MORE: Redblacks drop four from camp roster
Deepan Budlakoti attends a rally outside the Supreme Court of Canada, prior to his federal court hearing on Monday, June 16, 2014.
An Ottawa-born man who has served jail time for gun and drug offences has asked a Federal Court judge to declare him a Canadian citizen and end his debilitating episode of statelessness. “I have no health care, nothing, even though I’ve lived here all my life,” Deepan Budlakoti, 24, said Monday outside the Federal Court hearing. “I would like the court to give me back my citizenship so that I can go on with my life”.
READ MORE: Ottawa-born man says he has been left stateless by Canada
Architect Douglas Cardinal at the Canadian Museum of History on Monday, June 16, 2014, which turns 25 years old this year.
Mayor Jim Watson playfully takes a swing at the baseball head of the CanAM mascot following the Monday, June 16, 2014 announcement that the CanAM league will return in 2015 to the Ottawa-Gatineau region at Ottawa Stadium.
The new name of Ottawa’s new team was announced today by Mayor Jim Watson and the Can-Am league commissioner Miles Wolff. Former teams in Ottawa never had much success, both on the field and off the field. But Wolff is optimistic this time around, as the league secured a 10-year lease to play at Ottawa Stadium, and the city has committed to pitching in to renovate the stadium.
READ MORE: Ottawa calls its new baseball team the Champions. Combined, former Ottawa teams have won one championship.
Breezy the dog has been adopted and given a new permanent home by Sheila and John.
Breezy barks before Sheila makes it to answer the front door of her Gatineau home. It’s been three months since she and her husband John adopted the Labrador-shepherd mix, victim of a brutal, near-fatal beating last October by then-owner Steven Helfer. “That’s Breezy,” Sheila says with a laugh, holding the screen door open. In the kitchen the young dog stands expectantly, housed in a black crate. This is a recent success.
READ MORE: Eight months after brutal beating, Breezy the dog finds new life
MONDAY: Dany Paquette paints part of the pavilion at Mooney’s Beach. Photo taken at 13:08 on Monday, June 16, 2014.
The Ottawa Sports and Entertainment Group (OSEG) CEO Bernie Ashe speaks at a media conference at the Minto Centre Theatre at Carleton University to detail the “Game Plan to Get Down to Lansdowne”.
The Ottawa Sports and Entertainment Group attempted Monday to answer the question that has been on everyone’s mind lately, especially if you live in the Glebe: How will all those eager football fans get to the game once the new stadium at Lansdowne Park reopens next month? The answer? By bus, by bike or by foot — but hopefully not by car.
READ MORE: The game plan: OSEG unveils how RedBlacks fans will get to Lansdowne
Heavy traffic on Bank Street near Lansdowne Park on Monday, June 16, 2014 illustrates what the developers don’t want to see on Redblacks game days in Ottawa.
The only public parking at Lansdowne Park on game nights will be reserved for a select number of VIP season ticket holders. Capital Coun. David Chernushenko urged people not to drive to Lansdowne — it’s not worth the hassle to try to find a parking spot on nearby streets. There are just 2,500 parking spaces available in the “neighbourhood”.
READ MORE: Don’t even bother driving to Lansdowne
Michael Nhem takes a picture of a map during the information session at Tom Brown Arena on Monday, June 16, 2014 about the detour off the Transitway from Tunney’s Pasture to downtown onto Scott and Albert streets.
Tempers flared over the number of buses due to run on Scott and Albert streets in two years at a community meeting Monday evening, where a federal and municipal politician decried aspects of the plan. Shouting residents, frustrated with the format of the meeting, briefly turned the open-house style event into a question and answer session.
READ MORE: Tempers flare at Scott/Albert detour meeting
TUESDAY, JUNE 17, 2014:
Firefighters continue to work on putting out smoking embers in the roof of a home that was gutted by a fire at 5 Bell Street in Stittsville on Tuesday morning, June 17, 2014.
Firefighters successfully battled a two-alarm blaze in Stittsville Tuesday morning, but not before good Samaritan neighbours rescued a dog from the family home. The dog, reportedly named Clyde, was the only occupant needing rescue as flames engulfed the house at 5 Bell St. around 8 a.m. Neighbours reportedly rushed into the house when they noticed that flames were building and brought the dog outside to safety.
READ MORE: Firefighters battle two-alarm blaze in Stittsville
Mona Daoud got a rude shock Tuesday morning walking her children to the bus stop and found what she thought was remains of a dog nailed to a tree near her home on Heatherington Crescent.
Mona Daoud was repulsed after she discovered a “mummified” squirrel nailed to a tree in her townhouse complex Tuesday morning. She said her seven-year-old daughter, Sophia, first spotted the creature while waiting at the bus stop near Heatherington Road and came running to her mom yelling: “Come look at this! Come look at this!”.
READ MORE: “Mummified” squirrel nailed to tree shocks Ottawa mother
TUESDAY: Laureen Harper introduces Shuéme, the great white owl, as the mascot for the FIFA Women’s World Cup of soccer mascot during a ceremony at the Canadian Museum of Nature on Tuesday, June 17, 2014.
Kathleen Gottfried is the Executive Director of the Senior Citizens Council of Ottawa, which is now folding in September after 57 years, because of lack of funding.
Kathleen Gottfried, 61, is telling me about an elderly man who was discharged from hospital with an IV in his arm, only to arrive home with no keys, no money, no help, because of a communications mix-up with his daughter. “In 1973, there were something like seven retirement residences, and some of them just boarding houses with special names,” she said. “And now there are more than 90.”.
READ MORE: Short on cash, big on heart, seniors council folds after 57 years
TUESDAY: Over a hundred people gathered outside a government building on Slater Street on Tuesday, June 17, 2014 to protest against the Ethiopian government’s “campaign of ethnic cleansing.” They claim the ruling Tigray People’s Liberation Front in Ethiopia has made the Oromo people its “prime political enemy” since they came to power 23 years ago.
TUESDAY: Matt Mulligan hangs precariously while he and Derek Bulmer attach a Dragon Boat banner to scaffolding set up at Mooney’s Beach as the annual fund raising festival is about to get underway on Thursday. Photo taken at 10:35 on Tuesday, June 17, 2014.
Patrick Boyer is a former Conservative MP who has penned a book on the Senate scandal.
Former Conservative MP and parliamentary secretary Patrick Boyer, who believes the Senate must be abolished, has just published a book, Our Scandalous Senate.
READ MORE: Q and A: Former MP Patrick Boyer explains why the Senate should be abolished
Ruth Hubbard says senior executives in the public service don’t have the training to handle the tough policy and management issues facing governments today .
The problem behind the “crisis” in the relationship between ministers and public servants is that senior executives don’t have the training to handle the tough policy and management issues facing governments today, says a former deputy minister. Ruth Hubbard, who is also a former president of the Public Service Commission, said senior executives are smart, engaged and committed but don’t have the “ability to serve the government of the day as well as Canadians have a right to expect.”
READ MORE: Federal executives lack training, flexibility, expert says
Police investigated a shooting in the 2800 block of Cedarwood Drive near the Herongate Mall on Tuesday, June 17, 2014.
A man in his early 20s was shot in the forehead with a handgun in Ottawa’s south end Tuesday, Ottawa police confirmed. The man’s injuries were not life-threatening. He is conscious but not co-operating with investigators, police said. The shooting occurred Tuesday at about 5:21 p.m. on the 2800 block of Cedarwood Drive near Herongate Mall.
READ MORE: Man shot in forehead in Ottawa’s south end, police say
Jennifer Hooper, second from left, and team captain of the dragon boat team representing the Brain Injury Association of Canada, is seen rehearsing her paddle stroke on Tuesday, June 17, 2014.
Four years ago, doctors gave Jennifer Hooper only a slim chance of survival after a pulmonary embolism from a blood clot in one of her lungs left her in a coma for a week. For the next six weeks, she was confined to a hospital bed and wheelchair and, when she entered rehab, her muscles had atrophied and she struggled with basic tasks such as sitting, standing and walking.
READ MORE: Dragon boating helps brain injury survivor reclaim her life
TUESDAY: Byron Hemlow, left, explains the transportation plan surrounding Lansdowne Park to Ferdinand Roblofs and others at the Glebe Community Centre on Tuesday, June 17, 2014.
The decision to run shuttle buses down Lakeside Avenue emerged as a key concern Tuesday among some Glebe residents who attended a public meeting on the transportation plan for Lansdowne Park. As part of its effort to encourage people not to drive to Ottawa Redblacks games and other major events at the new TD Place Stadium, the Ottawa Sports and Entertainment Group is offering a free park-and-shuttle service from four parking lots.
READ MORE: Glebe residents raise concerns over Lansdowne shuttle route during public meeting
WEDNESDAY, JUNE 18, 2014:
Newly-acquired kicker #41 Brett Maher at the Redblacks practice at Keith Harris Stadium at Carleton University on Wednesday, June 18, 2014.
Even a perfect rookie kicker knows to look over his shoulder at a CFL training camp. Ask Brett Maher. One minute, he’s cruising through the Winnipeg Blue Bombers camp, four-for-four in field goals in two pre-season games. The next minute, he’s released, caught in the quota rules on American players. About two hours after he was cut by the Bombers Tuesday, Maher was signed by the Redblacks and was on the practice field Wednesday at Carleton University.
READ MORE: New kicker in town; Redblacks sell out opening night
Tim Johnson, founder of Energymobile Studios Inc., is reflected in his iPad and mobile phone.
A local entrepreneur has won a national award for apps designed to help reduce a home’s energy costs and carbon footprint. Tim Johnson, founder of EnergyMobile Studios Inc., was honoured with the Scotiabank EcoLiving Innovation Award June 5. He took home $15,000 for two free Apple apps that use graphs, alerts and reminders to help homeowners.
READ MORE: Ottawa firm’s apps help reduce a home’s carbon footprint
Two Ottawa police tactical officers and three paramedics have been injured in a joint-training exercise with the RCMP that was being conducted Wednesday morning, June 18, 2014 on March Road in Kanata.
Investigators are trying to determine what went wrong during a training exercise for emergency responders Wednesday morning after an explosion sent three paramedics and two police officers to hospital. The injured were among Ottawa police, Mounties and paramedics taking part in a forced-entry exercise at an abandoned house on March Road in Kanata. Shortly after 10 a.m., a ball of fire sent hot gas into the faces of two of the paramedics.
READ MORE: Paramedics in ‘very serious’ condition after training exercise explosion
PETA protesters (from left) Shannon Milling, Nives Brkic, and Vicky St. Pierre took to the Sparks Street Mall to protest at the Ottawa Ribfest. Photo taken at 12:15 on Wednesday, June 18, 2014.
Meat lovers at the kickoff of Ottawa Ribfest Wednesday appeared mostly bemused as three scantily-clad PETA members staged a protest against the meat industry. The protesters at Sparks and O’Connor streets wore little except underwear and bore tattoo-like markings on their bodies that mimicked a butcher’s diagram of meat cuts. They also stood behind a poster that read “All Animals Have the Same Parts — Try Vegan”.
READ MORE: Low-key PETA protest marks Ottawa Ribfest kickoff
Elizabeth Rouleau is the only female sheet metal worker at Dilfo Mechanical.
Elizabeth Rouleau is the only woman working in sheet metal at her job. It’s not a surprising statistic for the construction industry. She’s one of 95 labourers at Dilfo Mechanical and the 41-year-old loves her job. But it wasn’t always that way. Eight years ago, Rouleau was a housekeeper. Tired of the odd and inconsistent hours and the small paycheque, a friend in the trade convinced her to try it out..
READ MORE: Study to improve jobs for women in construction
WEDNESDAY: Kate Forman was photographed by the Citizen in 2001 on her first day of school. On Thursday, June 19, 2014, at age 18, she graduates from St. Paul’s High School.
She clung close to her dad, Greg, that September morning when The Citizen photographed her. Ottawa was newly amalgamated and the twin towers of New York’s World Trade Center were still standing. The horror of 9/11 was just a week away. This week marks the end of high school for Forman and more than 10,000 other Grade 12 students in Ottawa. Now 18, Forman is graduating from St. Paul High School and is off to Carleton University next fall to study social work.
READ MORE: What 13 years can do: Times have changed since Kate Forman started school
THURSDAY, JUNE 18, 2014:
A house on Rodney Crescent is prepared to be moved from its present location. Margaret Buist is a neighbour who is concerned that the move will damage the trees along the street.
A group of angry Alta Vista residents want the city to survey and assess the damage done to a number of mature trees after a neighbour moved his house Thursday, June 19, 2014. Peter Hunter, 55, said he purchased the property on Rodney Crescent intending to build a new bungalow after selling the existing building to the moving company, CDS for $1. The building was to be moved and resold in Calabogie or Pakenham..
READ MORE: Alta Vista residents up in arms as mature trees damaged during house move
Senators general manager Bryan Murray meets with media in advance of the entry draft being held in Philadelphia next week.
Speaking publicly Thursday for the first time since confirming that Spezza asked for a trade, Murray says he’s in the midst of trade negotiations with several teams. The Anaheim Ducks and St.Louis Blues are believed to be the front-runners to acquire Spezza. At the same time, Murray says, he needs to “satisfy our team” in getting a reasonable return for Spezza.
READ MORE: Murray outlines Sens plans for draft and free agency
Scott Bradley of Ottawa, left, was the motivator of the new Ottawa football stamp issue with Russ Jackson, former #12 Ottawa Rough Riders QB who is featured on the new stamp issue.
Canada Post’s latest CFL stamps feature ex-Rough Riders star Russ Jackson in front of the new stadium and the Redblacks logo. It took a year and a committee made up of historians, collectors, and cultural icons to decide how to come up with the concept for Ottawa’s stamps. The former Riders quarterback appears under the Redblacks seal. He played in Ottawa for 12 years, bringing home three Grey Cups.
READ MORE: Now you can mail a letter with a Redblacks stamp
Quarterback #1 Henry Burris (in red) as the Redblacks hold a short walk-through practice at Keith Harris Stadium in advance of Friday’s preseason game at Montreal.
1. Henry Burris: The CFL’s fourth-leading passer played only a few series in the pre-season opener against Saskatchewan and this is the last chance for live action before the regular season starts, so he’ll play at least the first half.
READ MORE: Redblacks vs. Alouettes: Ten players to watch
THURSDAY: In a rally at the Human Rights Monument, marking World Refugee Week, Coalition in Ottawa for Refugees (COR) is urging Canada and Canadians to open their doors as we did 35 years ago in response to the Vietnamese Boat crisis. A Syrian flag was waved in the crowd as COR wants to re-ignite a Project 4000 response to the Syrian Refugee crisis.
Students wave out the windows to their parents after Ottawa Police locked down Charles Hulse Public School on Alta Vista Drive after hearing reports that a man with a gun was spotted nearby.
The lockdowns ended this afternoon after police officers swarmed Charles H. Hulse Public School to look for a possible gunman but came up with nothing. The large police response at the school at 2600 Alta Vista Dr. shortly before 2 p.m. was prompted by a student who reported seeing a man with a rifle running into the woods.
READ MORE: Police come up empty handed after gunman reported near Alta Vista schools
FRIDAY, JUNE 19, 2014:
Security measures on Parliament Hill include a check point for vehicles, road blocks and discreet security cameras.
As a G8 capital, Ottawa is a place where important people meet. There’s a broad diplomatic establishment, throngs of summer tourists, conferences, state ceremonies, senior military commanders and the seat and machinery of government. Ottawa is also the dateline on international news stories about Canada’s hardline stance against Iran, scathing criticism of Syria and firm support for Israel. It’s no surprise then that federal security intelligence officers believe Ottawa is a potential target for Iranian-sponsored terrorism..
READ MORE: How much of a threat do terrorists pose to Ottawa?
FRIDAY: The CanAm Veterans Challenge got underway Friday morning with a gathering at the Centennial Flame on Parliament Hill. About twenty American and Canadian wounded veterans and additional supporters will bike ride to Washington, D.C. arriving on July 4th. Photo taken at 09:01 on Friday, June 20, 2014.
Ottawa Citizen reporter Andrew Nguyen, left, hits the water for a lesson on boating safety with the president of BOATsmart, Cameron Taylor.
The engine of Cameron Taylor’s 21-foot white and red wakeboard-style boat purrs as he departs from the idyllic Nepean Sailing Club. Taylor, who is the president of BOATsmart! had four simple tips for people looking to kick off the summer by getting out on the water.
READ MORE: Four tips for safe boating this summer
FRIDAY: Melvin John performs for some of the 6,000 school children who arrived at Vincent Massey Park on Friday, June 19, 2014 to learn about Aboriginal culture and heritage.
Some 6,0oo schoolchildren got a firsthand look at First Nations’ culture and heritage Friday, during a Summer Solstice Aboriginal Festival and Pow Wow at Vincent Massey Park. The three-day free festival was created in honour of National Aboriginal Day and continues through Sunday with dancing, music, games and cultural demonstrations..
READ MORE: Welcoming the Summer Solstice
FRIDAY: Media were invited for a site tour on Friday, June 19, 2014 of the Coventry Pedestrian and Cycling Bridge across the Queensway.
Bollywood star Richa Sharma kicked off TD Ottawa International Jazz Festival on Friday June 20, 2014 in Confederation Park.
Bollywood star Richa Sharma, along with singer Vishal Kothari, kicked off TD Ottawa International Jazz Festival on Friday June 20, 2014 in Confederation Park.
READ MORE: Photos: Richa Sharma plays Jazz Festival
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There was no question who to cheer for on Preston Street Saturday, June 14, 2014 during the England vs Italy World Cup match. Italy won the game 2-1. Viva Italia!
READ MORE: The passion and the pain of the World Cup
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This was only one of the moments featured during a week in the life of the capital as captured by the Citizen’s photojournalists, June 14 to 20, 2014.
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Derek Miller crawls through a course at the Diefenbunker, Canada’s Cold War Museum, during the first annual Operation Father’s Day on Saturday, June 14, 2014.
Operation Father’s Day took place at the Diefenbunker, near Carp. Operation Father’s Day was a fundraising initiative for the Museum and the Guild of the Royal Canadian Dragoons. The day featured a military-themed tour of the bunker, rides on vehicles, an exclusive and rare Cold War vehicle display, Kiddy Commando Course with prizes, music and access for food and beverages.
READ MORE: Diefenbunker: Canada’s Cold War Museum
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Italian made cars make their way along Preston Street in Ottawa’s Little Italy on Saturday, June 14, 2014 during Italian Week.
About 100 Italian cars drove up and down Preston Street on Saturday, June 14, 2014 as part of Italian Week. The vintage cars honked their high-pitched horns and the new luxury cars revved loudly.
Read more: People are filling the streets for this weekend’s two big festivals
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SUNDAY, JUNE 15, 2014:
Two people had to be extricated from their vehicle after crashing into a Kanata home on Sunday morning at about 9:30 a.m
Two people were taken to hospital with minor injuries after their van crashed into a Kanata home Sunday morning. The female driver and her male passenger, both 81, were taken to the Queensway-Carleton Hospital with injuries. Both suffered chest, head and neck injuries, and the woman had multiple fractures in her lower left leg. She was listed in serious but stable condition..
READ MORE: Two people injured when van crashes into Kanata home
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SUNDAY: Jack White shows off the A&W paraphernalia adorning his 1966 Ford Fairlane 500 during the Father’s Day Antique Car Show at Billings Estate on Sunday, June 15, 2014.
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People ride along Sir John A. Macdonald Parkway in Ottawa on Sunday, June 15, 2014.
The National Capital Commission is doing what it calls a “strategic planning exercise” to see how the popular 44-year-old Alcatel-Lucent Sunday Bikeday program could be better. From 9 a.m. to 1 p.m. every Sunday during the warm summer months, major routes, such as Colonel By Drive, are closed off so people can cycle, jog, and rollerblade in peace.
READ MORE: The NCC is going to be making changes to the Sunday Bikedays program
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Gas prices hit 140.9 at a gas stations around the city, including this one on Heron Road near Bank Street on Sunday, June 15, 2014.
Ottawa gasoline prices hit a record high on the weekend, averaging $1.40.9 Saturday before slipping back a penny Sunday, a major consumer analyst says. Dan McTeague of Tomorrow’s Gas Price Today says he expects the lofty prices to hold steady for the coming week. “Sudden crisis in Iraq puts risk back on the table and increases speculative bets on ALL energy prices,” he posted on his website, tomorrowsgaspricetoday.com.
READ MORE: Weekend gas prices highest ever: analyst
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SUNDAY: Alex, 2.5, gets a Father’s Day ride on Sunday, June 15, 2014 on his dad Dan’s paddle board.
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MONDAY, JUNE 16, 2014:
#70 Connor Williams as the Redblacks hold first practice at Keith Harris Stadium, Carleton University on Monday, June 16, 2014 after opening preseason game in Regina.
The Ottawa Redblacks released four players from their training-camp roster on Sunday. Of that group, receiver Garrett Burgess was the lone Canadian or “national player” as they’re known in the new collective agreement between the Canadian Football League Players’ Association and the league. Also dropped were import (“international”) defensive backs Chika Madu and Larry Parker and running back Eric O’Neal.
READ MORE: Redblacks drop four from camp roster
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Deepan Budlakoti attends a rally outside the Supreme Court of Canada, prior to his federal court hearing on Monday, June 16, 2014.
An Ottawa-born man who has served jail time for gun and drug offences has asked a Federal Court judge to declare him a Canadian citizen and end his debilitating episode of statelessness. “I have no health care, nothing, even though I’ve lived here all my life,” Deepan Budlakoti, 24, said Monday outside the Federal Court hearing. “I would like the court to give me back my citizenship so that I can go on with my life”.
READ MORE: Ottawa-born man says he has been left stateless by Canada
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Architect Douglas Cardinal at the Canadian Museum of History on Monday, June 16, 2014, which turns 25 years old this year.
The times they are a-changin’, but they’re really just catching up with visionary architect Douglas Cardinal. As he celebrates turning 80, his iconic Gatineau building, the Canadian Museum of History, is on the cusp of a major revamp – exactly the kind of revision he anticipated when designing the 25-year-old institution.
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Mayor Jim Watson playfully takes a swing at the baseball head of the CanAM mascot following the Monday, June 16, 2014 announcement that the CanAM league will return in 2015 to the Ottawa-Gatineau region at Ottawa Stadium.
The new name of Ottawa’s new team was announced today by Mayor Jim Watson and the Can-Am league commissioner Miles Wolff. Former teams in Ottawa never had much success, both on the field and off the field. But Wolff is optimistic this time around, as the league secured a 10-year lease to play at Ottawa Stadium, and the city has committed to pitching in to renovate the stadium.
READ MORE: Ottawa calls its new baseball team the Champions. Combined, former Ottawa teams have won one championship.
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Breezy the dog has been adopted and given a new permanent home by Sheila and John.
Breezy barks before Sheila makes it to answer the front door of her Gatineau home. It’s been three months since she and her husband John adopted the Labrador-shepherd mix, victim of a brutal, near-fatal beating last October by then-owner Steven Helfer. “That’s Breezy,” Sheila says with a laugh, holding the screen door open. In the kitchen the young dog stands expectantly, housed in a black crate. This is a recent success.
READ MORE: Eight months after brutal beating, Breezy the dog finds new life
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MONDAY: Dany Paquette paints part of the pavilion at Mooney’s Beach. Photo taken at 13:08 on Monday, June 16, 2014.
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The Ottawa Sports and Entertainment Group (OSEG) CEO Bernie Ashe speaks at a media conference at the Minto Centre Theatre at Carleton University to detail the “Game Plan to Get Down to Lansdowne”.
The Ottawa Sports and Entertainment Group attempted Monday to answer the question that has been on everyone’s mind lately, especially if you live in the Glebe: How will all those eager football fans get to the game once the new stadium at Lansdowne Park reopens next month? The answer? By bus, by bike or by foot — but hopefully not by car.
READ MORE: The game plan: OSEG unveils how RedBlacks fans will get to Lansdowne
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Heavy traffic on Bank Street near Lansdowne Park on Monday, June 16, 2014 illustrates what the developers don’t want to see on Redblacks game days in Ottawa.
The only public parking at Lansdowne Park on game nights will be reserved for a select number of VIP season ticket holders. Capital Coun. David Chernushenko urged people not to drive to Lansdowne — it’s not worth the hassle to try to find a parking spot on nearby streets. There are just 2,500 parking spaces available in the “neighbourhood”.
READ MORE: Don’t even bother driving to Lansdowne
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Michael Nhem takes a picture of a map during the information session at Tom Brown Arena on Monday, June 16, 2014 about the detour off the Transitway from Tunney’s Pasture to downtown onto Scott and Albert streets.
Tempers flared over the number of buses due to run on Scott and Albert streets in two years at a community meeting Monday evening, where a federal and municipal politician decried aspects of the plan. Shouting residents, frustrated with the format of the meeting, briefly turned the open-house style event into a question and answer session.
READ MORE: Tempers flare at Scott/Albert detour meeting
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TUESDAY, JUNE 17, 2014:
Firefighters continue to work on putting out smoking embers in the roof of a home that was gutted by a fire at 5 Bell Street in Stittsville on Tuesday morning, June 17, 2014.
Firefighters successfully battled a two-alarm blaze in Stittsville Tuesday morning, but not before good Samaritan neighbours rescued a dog from the family home. The dog, reportedly named Clyde, was the only occupant needing rescue as flames engulfed the house at 5 Bell St. around 8 a.m. Neighbours reportedly rushed into the house when they noticed that flames were building and brought the dog outside to safety.
READ MORE: Firefighters battle two-alarm blaze in Stittsville
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Mona Daoud got a rude shock Tuesday morning walking her children to the bus stop and found what she thought was remains of a dog nailed to a tree near her home on Heatherington Crescent.
Mona Daoud was repulsed after she discovered a “mummified” squirrel nailed to a tree in her townhouse complex Tuesday morning. She said her seven-year-old daughter, Sophia, first spotted the creature while waiting at the bus stop near Heatherington Road and came running to her mom yelling: “Come look at this! Come look at this!”.
READ MORE: “Mummified” squirrel nailed to tree shocks Ottawa mother
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TUESDAY: Laureen Harper introduces Shuéme, the great white owl, as the mascot for the FIFA Women’s World Cup of soccer mascot during a ceremony at the Canadian Museum of Nature on Tuesday, June 17, 2014.
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Kathleen Gottfried is the Executive Director of the Senior Citizens Council of Ottawa, which is now folding in September after 57 years, because of lack of funding.
Kathleen Gottfried, 61, is telling me about an elderly man who was discharged from hospital with an IV in his arm, only to arrive home with no keys, no money, no help, because of a communications mix-up with his daughter. “In 1973, there were something like seven retirement residences, and some of them just boarding houses with special names,” she said. “And now there are more than 90.”.
READ MORE: Short on cash, big on heart, seniors council folds after 57 years
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TUESDAY: Over a hundred people gathered outside a government building on Slater Street on Tuesday, June 17, 2014 to protest against the Ethiopian government’s “campaign of ethnic cleansing.” They claim the ruling Tigray People’s Liberation Front in Ethiopia has made the Oromo people its “prime political enemy” since they came to power 23 years ago.
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TUESDAY: Matt Mulligan hangs precariously while he and Derek Bulmer attach a Dragon Boat banner to scaffolding set up at Mooney’s Beach as the annual fund raising festival is about to get underway on Thursday. Photo taken at 10:35 on Tuesday, June 17, 2014.
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Patrick Boyer is a former Conservative MP who has penned a book on the Senate scandal.
Former Conservative MP and parliamentary secretary Patrick Boyer, who believes the Senate must be abolished, has just published a book, Our Scandalous Senate.
READ MORE: Q and A: Former MP Patrick Boyer explains why the Senate should be abolished
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Ruth Hubbard says senior executives in the public service don’t have the training to handle the tough policy and management issues facing governments today .
The problem behind the “crisis” in the relationship between ministers and public servants is that senior executives don’t have the training to handle the tough policy and management issues facing governments today, says a former deputy minister. Ruth Hubbard, who is also a former president of the Public Service Commission, said senior executives are smart, engaged and committed but don’t have the “ability to serve the government of the day as well as Canadians have a right to expect.”
READ MORE: Federal executives lack training, flexibility, expert says
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Police investigated a shooting in the 2800 block of Cedarwood Drive near the Herongate Mall on Tuesday, June 17, 2014.
A man in his early 20s was shot in the forehead with a handgun in Ottawa’s south end Tuesday, Ottawa police confirmed. The man’s injuries were not life-threatening. He is conscious but not co-operating with investigators, police said. The shooting occurred Tuesday at about 5:21 p.m. on the 2800 block of Cedarwood Drive near Herongate Mall.
READ MORE: Man shot in forehead in Ottawa’s south end, police say
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Jennifer Hooper, second from left, and team captain of the dragon boat team representing the Brain Injury Association of Canada, is seen rehearsing her paddle stroke on Tuesday, June 17, 2014.
Four years ago, doctors gave Jennifer Hooper only a slim chance of survival after a pulmonary embolism from a blood clot in one of her lungs left her in a coma for a week. For the next six weeks, she was confined to a hospital bed and wheelchair and, when she entered rehab, her muscles had atrophied and she struggled with basic tasks such as sitting, standing and walking.
READ MORE: Dragon boating helps brain injury survivor reclaim her life
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TUESDAY: Byron Hemlow, left, explains the transportation plan surrounding Lansdowne Park to Ferdinand Roblofs and others at the Glebe Community Centre on Tuesday, June 17, 2014.
The decision to run shuttle buses down Lakeside Avenue emerged as a key concern Tuesday among some Glebe residents who attended a public meeting on the transportation plan for Lansdowne Park. As part of its effort to encourage people not to drive to Ottawa Redblacks games and other major events at the new TD Place Stadium, the Ottawa Sports and Entertainment Group is offering a free park-and-shuttle service from four parking lots.
READ MORE: Glebe residents raise concerns over Lansdowne shuttle route during public meeting
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WEDNESDAY, JUNE 18, 2014:
Newly-acquired kicker #41 Brett Maher at the Redblacks practice at Keith Harris Stadium at Carleton University on Wednesday, June 18, 2014.
Even a perfect rookie kicker knows to look over his shoulder at a CFL training camp. Ask Brett Maher. One minute, he’s cruising through the Winnipeg Blue Bombers camp, four-for-four in field goals in two pre-season games. The next minute, he’s released, caught in the quota rules on American players. About two hours after he was cut by the Bombers Tuesday, Maher was signed by the Redblacks and was on the practice field Wednesday at Carleton University.
READ MORE: New kicker in town; Redblacks sell out opening night
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Tim Johnson, founder of Energymobile Studios Inc., is reflected in his iPad and mobile phone.
A local entrepreneur has won a national award for apps designed to help reduce a home’s energy costs and carbon footprint. Tim Johnson, founder of EnergyMobile Studios Inc., was honoured with the Scotiabank EcoLiving Innovation Award June 5. He took home $15,000 for two free Apple apps that use graphs, alerts and reminders to help homeowners.
READ MORE: Ottawa firm’s apps help reduce a home’s carbon footprint
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Two Ottawa police tactical officers and three paramedics have been injured in a joint-training exercise with the RCMP that was being conducted Wednesday morning, June 18, 2014 on March Road in Kanata.
Investigators are trying to determine what went wrong during a training exercise for emergency responders Wednesday morning after an explosion sent three paramedics and two police officers to hospital. The injured were among Ottawa police, Mounties and paramedics taking part in a forced-entry exercise at an abandoned house on March Road in Kanata. Shortly after 10 a.m., a ball of fire sent hot gas into the faces of two of the paramedics.
READ MORE: Paramedics in ‘very serious’ condition after training exercise explosion
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PETA protesters (from left) Shannon Milling, Nives Brkic, and Vicky St. Pierre took to the Sparks Street Mall to protest at the Ottawa Ribfest. Photo taken at 12:15 on Wednesday, June 18, 2014.
Meat lovers at the kickoff of Ottawa Ribfest Wednesday appeared mostly bemused as three scantily-clad PETA members staged a protest against the meat industry. The protesters at Sparks and O’Connor streets wore little except underwear and bore tattoo-like markings on their bodies that mimicked a butcher’s diagram of meat cuts. They also stood behind a poster that read “All Animals Have the Same Parts — Try Vegan”.
READ MORE: Low-key PETA protest marks Ottawa Ribfest kickoff
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Elizabeth Rouleau is the only female sheet metal worker at Dilfo Mechanical.
Elizabeth Rouleau is the only woman working in sheet metal at her job. It’s not a surprising statistic for the construction industry. She’s one of 95 labourers at Dilfo Mechanical and the 41-year-old loves her job. But it wasn’t always that way. Eight years ago, Rouleau was a housekeeper. Tired of the odd and inconsistent hours and the small paycheque, a friend in the trade convinced her to try it out..
READ MORE: Study to improve jobs for women in construction
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WEDNESDAY: Kate Forman was photographed by the Citizen in 2001 on her first day of school. On Thursday, June 19, 2014, at age 18, she graduates from St. Paul’s High School.
She clung close to her dad, Greg, that September morning when The Citizen photographed her. Ottawa was newly amalgamated and the twin towers of New York’s World Trade Center were still standing. The horror of 9/11 was just a week away. This week marks the end of high school for Forman and more than 10,000 other Grade 12 students in Ottawa. Now 18, Forman is graduating from St. Paul High School and is off to Carleton University next fall to study social work.
READ MORE: What 13 years can do: Times have changed since Kate Forman started school
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THURSDAY, JUNE 18, 2014:
A house on Rodney Crescent is prepared to be moved from its present location. Margaret Buist is a neighbour who is concerned that the move will damage the trees along the street.
A group of angry Alta Vista residents want the city to survey and assess the damage done to a number of mature trees after a neighbour moved his house Thursday, June 19, 2014. Peter Hunter, 55, said he purchased the property on Rodney Crescent intending to build a new bungalow after selling the existing building to the moving company, CDS for $1. The building was to be moved and resold in Calabogie or Pakenham..
READ MORE: Alta Vista residents up in arms as mature trees damaged during house move
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Senators general manager Bryan Murray meets with media in advance of the entry draft being held in Philadelphia next week.
Speaking publicly Thursday for the first time since confirming that Spezza asked for a trade, Murray says he’s in the midst of trade negotiations with several teams. The Anaheim Ducks and St.Louis Blues are believed to be the front-runners to acquire Spezza. At the same time, Murray says, he needs to “satisfy our team” in getting a reasonable return for Spezza.
READ MORE: Murray outlines Sens plans for draft and free agency
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Scott Bradley of Ottawa, left, was the motivator of the new Ottawa football stamp issue with Russ Jackson, former #12 Ottawa Rough Riders QB who is featured on the new stamp issue.
Canada Post’s latest CFL stamps feature ex-Rough Riders star Russ Jackson in front of the new stadium and the Redblacks logo. It took a year and a committee made up of historians, collectors, and cultural icons to decide how to come up with the concept for Ottawa’s stamps. The former Riders quarterback appears under the Redblacks seal. He played in Ottawa for 12 years, bringing home three Grey Cups.
READ MORE: Now you can mail a letter with a Redblacks stamp
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Quarterback #1 Henry Burris (in red) as the Redblacks hold a short walk-through practice at Keith Harris Stadium in advance of Friday’s preseason game at Montreal.
1. Henry Burris: The CFL’s fourth-leading passer played only a few series in the pre-season opener against Saskatchewan and this is the last chance for live action before the regular season starts, so he’ll play at least the first half.
READ MORE: Redblacks vs. Alouettes: Ten players to watch
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THURSDAY: In a rally at the Human Rights Monument, marking World Refugee Week, Coalition in Ottawa for Refugees (COR) is urging Canada and Canadians to open their doors as we did 35 years ago in response to the Vietnamese Boat crisis. A Syrian flag was waved in the crowd as COR wants to re-ignite a Project 4000 response to the Syrian Refugee crisis.
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Students wave out the windows to their parents after Ottawa Police locked down Charles Hulse Public School on Alta Vista Drive after hearing reports that a man with a gun was spotted nearby.
The lockdowns ended this afternoon after police officers swarmed Charles H. Hulse Public School to look for a possible gunman but came up with nothing. The large police response at the school at 2600 Alta Vista Dr. shortly before 2 p.m. was prompted by a student who reported seeing a man with a rifle running into the woods.
READ MORE: Police come up empty handed after gunman reported near Alta Vista schools
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FRIDAY, JUNE 19, 2014:
Security measures on Parliament Hill include a check point for vehicles, road blocks and discreet security cameras.
As a G8 capital, Ottawa is a place where important people meet. There’s a broad diplomatic establishment, throngs of summer tourists, conferences, state ceremonies, senior military commanders and the seat and machinery of government. Ottawa is also the dateline on international news stories about Canada’s hardline stance against Iran, scathing criticism of Syria and firm support for Israel. It’s no surprise then that federal security intelligence officers believe Ottawa is a potential target for Iranian-sponsored terrorism..
READ MORE: How much of a threat do terrorists pose to Ottawa?
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FRIDAY: The CanAm Veterans Challenge got underway Friday morning with a gathering at the Centennial Flame on Parliament Hill. About twenty American and Canadian wounded veterans and additional supporters will bike ride to Washington, D.C. arriving on July 4th. Photo taken at 09:01 on Friday, June 20, 2014.
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Ottawa Citizen reporter Andrew Nguyen, left, hits the water for a lesson on boating safety with the president of BOATsmart, Cameron Taylor.
The engine of Cameron Taylor’s 21-foot white and red wakeboard-style boat purrs as he departs from the idyllic Nepean Sailing Club. Taylor, who is the president of BOATsmart! had four simple tips for people looking to kick off the summer by getting out on the water.
READ MORE: Four tips for safe boating this summer
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FRIDAY: Melvin John performs for some of the 6,000 school children who arrived at Vincent Massey Park on Friday, June 19, 2014 to learn about Aboriginal culture and heritage.
Some 6,0oo schoolchildren got a firsthand look at First Nations’ culture and heritage Friday, during a Summer Solstice Aboriginal Festival and Pow Wow at Vincent Massey Park. The three-day free festival was created in honour of National Aboriginal Day and continues through Sunday with dancing, music, games and cultural demonstrations..
READ MORE: Welcoming the Summer Solstice
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FRIDAY: Media were invited for a site tour on Friday, June 19, 2014 of the Coventry Pedestrian and Cycling Bridge across the Queensway.
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Bollywood star Richa Sharma kicked off TD Ottawa International Jazz Festival on Friday June 20, 2014 in Confederation Park.
Bollywood star Richa Sharma, along with singer Vishal Kothari, kicked off TD Ottawa International Jazz Festival on Friday June 20, 2014 in Confederation Park.
READ MORE: Photos: Richa Sharma plays Jazz Festival
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