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January seems like so long ago. In Ottawa, a lot has happened, a lot has changed.
The Citizen newsroom looks back and pins notable news to the 2014 calendar, before we move on.
January
1: Nadia Fils gives birth to Mélissa, Ottawa’s first baby of 2014, at 12:02 a.m., only minutes after her sister Anne-Luce Pierre has a baby boy in the same hospital.
6: Lansdowne Park is to be named TD Place after the Ottawa Sports and Entertainment Group reaches an agreement on naming rights for the entire facility with the TD Bank Group.
L-R Jeff Hunt the owner of the Redblacks and Roger Greenberg, Chairman of the Ottawa Sports and Entertainment Group (OSEG) and Chris Stamper take a moment for a photo on the field during the official opening of TD Place at Lansdowne Wednesday July 9. 2014.
17: Martin Glazer, 43, of Gatineau and Peter McSheffrey, 49, of Ottawa are killed while working in Kabul, Afghanistan when a suicide bomber attacks a restaurant where they are eating.
28: Health Canada awards a licence to Tweed Inc. of Smiths Falls to produce medical marijuana in the former Hershey chocolate factory.
Tweed Inc. workers tend to medical marijuana plants at a new commercial operation set up inside a former Hershey’s chocolate factory in Smiths Falls, Ontario
29: Andrew Bettencourt, 20, faces multiple charges including kidnapping. He had been arrested near Kemptville the day before after an apparent abduction in Orléans hours earlier.
29: Jagtar Gill, mother of two, aged 44 is found slain in her Barrhaven home on her wedding anniversary. In April, her husband and his female co-worker are charged with the homicide.
February
3: Mark Kristmanson is appointed chief executive officer of the National Capital Commission, succeeding former CEO Marie Lemay, who had left 18 months before.
5: The City of Ottawa rethinks its snow plowing after December storms left the city with a $21.5-million maintenance deficit for 2013.
20: A large sinkhole opens up near Rideau and Waller streets and is thought to be caused by a massive machine digging the light-rail tunnel under Waller.
Heavy machinery operates at sinkhole that opened up near the University of Ottawa at Laurier Avenue and Waller Street in Ottawa on Friday, February 21, 2014.
24: Yolande Knight, 50, the finance director of TCE, an Ottawa charity providing housing and education for developmentally disabled adults, pleads guilty to stealing at least $900,000 between 2001 and 2009.
25: After 45 years, the National Arts Centre’s brand gets a makeover with a new logo.
March
2: Colonel By and De La Salle secondary schools are tied for eighth place among the province’s secondary schools in The Fraser Institute’s controversial high school rankings.
3: Skiers applaud as Ottawa experiences its coldest winter in 20 years, without setting any temperature records. The winter arrived early and hung on, with only brief thaws.
JANUARY 27, 2014 — A woman makes her way through downtown Ottawa Monday, which was a slushy mess until the snowplows could clear some of the buildup of snow.
3: The University of Ottawa suspends its Gee-Gees men’s varsity hockey program after allegations surface that multiple members of the team sexually assaulted a young woman in Thunder Bay on the Jan. 31 weekend
6: Glitchsoft Corp, an Ottawa video game developer, signs a major deal with Marvel Comics to make an X-Men-themed video game
Glitchsoft CEO Andrew Fischer and VP Wes Tam are part of the team developing the “He-Man” Side scroller game..
10: Ottawa opera singer Sharleen Joynt, 29, gets a rose on the television show The Bachelor, but feels no chemistry while kissing handsome single father Juan Pablo Galavis and is not among the final contestants.
10: Former longtime CTV anchor Max Keeping reveals that be has untreatable Stage 4 tumours in his lungs, two years after beginning treatment for colon cancer.
Max Keeping on March 10, 2014.
11: Toronto-raised Ottawa filmmaker Amen Jafri debuts her documentary video called The City That Fun Forgot?, exploring Ottawa’s dreary reputation.
19: Father Joseph LeClair is sentenced to one year in jail, one year of probation and a restitution order for $134,000 after an earlier guilty plea to misappropriating church funds into his own accounts.
Father Joseph LeClair
21: Two longtime Ashbury College teachers, Alyssa Novick and Ian Middleton, are found guilty of professional misconduct by the Ontario College of Teachers for their actions following a 2007 sexual assault of a student during a school trip to Boston.
21: BlackBerry’s Ottawa campus is listed among 19 the company wishes to divest in its financial struggles.
31: The new Ottawa Redblacks football team modifies the name of its mascot mere days after identifying him as Big Joe Mufferaw, following criticism, largely from francophones. The super-sized, axewielding figure is henceforth known as “Big Joe” in English and “Grand Jos” in French.
April
2: Only two years after Liam McGee’s struggle with multiple myeloma and resulting financial strains, McGee and Tina Ferrone collect their $48 million Lotto Max jackpot.
OLG’s senior vice president of Lottery Greg McKenzie looks on as lottery winner Tina Ferrone of Kanata and husband Liam McGee celebrate with a kiss after Tina collected a cheque for $48,000,020 in April 2014.
7: Former Ottawa minor hockey and baseball coach Kelly Jones pleads guilty to a series of predatory sexual offences against nine children between the 1970s and 1997.
17: A report by the Parliamentary Budget Office says that the federal government is on track to eliminate 30,000 federal jobs over the next three years, on top of 20,000 positions axed since cuts in the 2012 budget took place.
22: In the city’s second homicide of the year, police make a dramatic arrest in Orléans of Chris Gobin, 18, in the death of his mother, Luce Lavertu. Gobin is charged with first-degree murder the next day.
May
1: Ontario’s provincial budget includes $65 million for the Ottawa River Action Plan designed to stop raw sewage from flowing into the river. While the budget is defeated, triggering an election, the pledge is renewed in July after the Liberal victory.
6: The Ontario Crown attorney’s office lambastes Ottawa judges for defying the controversial mandatory victim surcharge law.
16: Crown prosecutors say that Bhupinderpal Gill and Gurpreet Ronald will be tried jointly on a charge of first-degree murder in the January death of Gill‘s wife, Jagtar.
20: New public art pieces in Jack Purcell Park are meant to be stylized trees, not a tribute to the celebrated (non-Ottawa) badminton player of the same name, says the landscape architect responsible for the Centretown park’s recent makeover.
As part of the rehabilitation of Jack Purcell Park in Centretown, the city installed 10 light poles as a nod to the famed badminton player of the same name. The only problem is that Jack Purcell was from Guelph.
22: Eve Stewart, a cosmetician who performed plastic surgery in her Nepean home clinic, is permanently banned from performing controlled medical acts and administering Botox. She has no medical training.
25: Ethiopians dominate as Yemane Tsegay completes the fastest marathon ever on Canadian soil, at 2:06:54 in the Scotiabank Ottawa Marathon. Tigist Tufa claims the women’s title with a time of 2:24:31, breaking the year-old previous record.
Yemane Tsegay wraps the Ethiopian flag around him in front of cameras after finishing first place in the marathon at Ottawa Race Weekend Sunday May 25, 2014.
26: Fisher Park Grade 8 student Tallie Doyle, 14, sparks an online debate after posting on Facebook that she was taken to the principal’s office the previous week for wearing a top that showed her black bra straps.
June
1: Three workers at the Ottawa Convention Centre are locked out of their workplace for revealing tattoos on their arms. They say they were asked to cover their tattoos to comply with company policy.
2: The Ottawa-based Bridgehead coffee chain announces that it will start serving alcohol in selected locations, after 4 p.m. starting in the fall.
5: Law professor Joanne St. Lewis wins a $350,000 libel case against former professor and blogger Denis Rancourt, after he referred to her as the University of Ottawa president’s “house Negro.”
5: The campaigning Ontario PCs go into damage control as leader Tim Hudak says he would not fund the light-rail expansion in Ottawa.
Ottawa South PC candidate Matt Young, right, joins Ontario Conservative Leader Tim Hudak as he makes a campaign stop in Ottawa on Thursday, June 5, 2014.
7: 18-year-old Brandon Volpi is stabbed to death on Besserer Street at a St. Pius X High School prom after-party. The accused, Devontay Hackett, 18, spends a month on the run before a July 12 court appearance.
9: After eight years of pooling their tickets, a group of Canada Revenue employees picks up a $32-million lotto jackpot. Most of the 26 winners walk away with $1.6 million.
18: Three Ottawa paramedics are injured, two critically, by a fireball caused by an explosion during a training exercise with police on March Road.
19: Steven Helfer, 24, is sentenced to two years in jail for his notorious October 2013 attack on his dog, Breezy. With time served, he will serve less than a year for the brutal assault that sparked widespread outrage.
Breezy the dog has been adopted and given a new permanent home by Sheila and John.
20: A 31-year-old naked man is arrested near Quyon after he led police on a low-speed chase using a farm tractor as his getaway vehicle.
21: Billed as Canada’s largest rock music festival, Amnesia Rockfest’s ninth edition draws 200,000 to Montebello, Que. Police report no major incidents, and a logistically smooth event.
25: With allegations of sexual assault hanging over his school’s men’s hockey team, University of Ottawa president Allan Rock extends the program’s suspension a full year and fires the team’s head coach. Several players threaten to sue.
July
1: Longtime Ottawa Senators player Jason Spezza is traded to the Dallas Stars.
1: Shoe designer John Fluevog opens a store in the ByWard Market and introduces the ‘Ottawa’ shoe. Citizen Life editor Janet Wilson calls the casual everyday leather shoe ‘short on funk and sex appeal.’
Fluevog’s ‘Ottawa’ ladies’ shoe, is a sturdy, comfortable affair. It is a mix of tan and chocolate leather with a Mary Jane strap and squat heel.
6: Wearing a seashell bra, Magdalena Kincaid, 18, is plucked out of the audience to sing at Lady Gaga’s Bluesfest performance. She describes it as “like living a dream.”
7: The Ottawa Senators hockey club announces that general manager Bryan Murray, 71, is battling cancer.
Ottawa Senators players were struggling with the news that GM Bryan Murray has Stage 4 cancer. ‘Bryan’s a big part of the organization. He’s not just the GM, he’s a friend,’ Chris Neil said.
9: Thousands of Ottawa Redblacks season-ticket holders get their first look at the team’s sparkling new home at the grand opening of TD Place at Lansdowne.
11: Ex-hospital technician Misbahuddin Ahmed is found guilty on two of three terrorist-related offences in Canada’s most extensive domestic anti-terrorism investigation since 9/11. He is found not guilty of the most serious charge — possession of an explosive device with intent to use that device for a terrorist activity. He is later sentenced to 12 years in penitentiary.
Misbahuddin Ahmed has been sentenced to 12 years in prison.
12: Two years late, and at a cost of $48 million, the Strandherd-Armstrong Bridge — or Ottawa’s Eiffel Tower, as Mayor Jim Watson calls it — officially opens.
13: The biggest blast in Ottawa’s history takes only seconds, with 420 kilograms of explosives reducing the 11-storey John Carling Building to rubble as crowds gather to watch the $4.8-million demolition.
18: Ottawa football fans enjoy the city’s first CFL game in eight years as the Ottawa Redblacks beat the Toronto Argonauts 27-17.
Franchise opener of the Ottawa Redblacks against the Toronto Argonauts at TD Place in Ottawa, July 18, 2014.
22: Martin Dupuis, a 35-year-old Ottawa man who terrorized young women after breaking into their Sandy Hill-area homes in the dead of night, pleads guilty to nine offences, including two sexual assaults.
22: Ottawa Police take over Carleton University’s investigation of a YouTube video showing a man riding a motorcycle through the school’s pedestrian tunnels at speeds as high as 80 km/hour.
Logan M posted this video on YouTube of someone driving through the tunnels at Carleton. Video states: “Published on Jul 19, 2014. Underground Carleton U tunnels, I rode them, it was loud, and slippery.”
30: The Rideau Centre unveils a $21.3-million renovation to its food court. The new space features 80,000 square feet and 16 vendors, upscale dining and reusable dishes.
31: Accused ‘cyberbully’ Robert James Campbell, 42, is arrested on 181 charges of criminal harassment, identity theft and defamatory libel. Eighteen of the 38 alleged victims are from Ottawa.
August
6: Danish tourist Holly Chabowski writes a letter defending her preference for a choice in transportation modes after the firestorm ignited by her original letter complaining about the dominance of cars in this country.
9: The landmark Richmond Bakery closes suddenly after more than seven decades in business.
The Richmond Bakery closed its doors suddenly Sunday after decades in business.
12: An Ottawa group renews a nearly 45-year-old plea to make Ottawa an officially bilingual city ahead of the 150th anniversary of Confederation in 2017. The idea gets little support from Mayor Jim Watson.
14: Sparks Street administration installs pedestrian-crossing signs encouraging walking in an absurdly exaggerated manner, as John Cleese did in the classic Monty Python skit The Ministry of Silly Walks.
15: CycleHop, the Miami-based company that took over the Capital Bixi network, announces the new bike-sharing service won’t fully launch until spring 2015.
CycleHop chose Social Bicycles, the company that is running Hamilton’s new bike-sharing network, to provide equipment for VeloGo.
16: A drunken teenager mistakenly breaks into the Rockcliffe Park home of Liberal leader Justin Trudeau, setting off a security scare. Police later announce they will not be laying charges.
17: Kanata becomes the first area in Ottawa to transition from door-to-door mail delivery to community mailboxes, causing residents to complain about sites chosen for the ‘superboxes.’
19: London pathologist Khurram Sher, 31, is found not guilty of conspiring to facilitate terrorism — the first time in Canada that a person accused of terrorist offences has gone to trial and been acquitted. One of the co-accused, Misbahuddin Ahmed, was previously found guilty of two of three offences.
Khurram Syed Sher arrives to face trial on a terrorism charge at the Ottawa court house in Ottawa on Monday, February 10, 2014.
22: Two leaders of the University of Ottawa men’s hockey team — captain David Foucher, 25, and assistant captain Guillaume Donovan, 24, both of Gatineau — are charged by Thunder Bay police with sexual assault. They are accused of sexually assaulting a 21-year-old Lakehead University student, while the men’s hockey team was in Thunder Bay for two road games.
23: In the city’s fourth homicide of the year, 21-year-old Jabeir Jemmie, an Algonquin College engineering student, dies in hospital from multiple stab wounds after an incident on the bar strip along Elgin Street.
28: After 78 years in the capital, Holt Renfrew, once the undisputed leader in Ottawa’s luxury retail market, announces it will close its doors at 240 Sparks St. in January.
Holt Renfrew announced plans to close its Ottawa and Quebec City locations in January 2015. The Ottawa department store opened in 1942 on Queen Street and moved to its current location on Sparks Street in 1977.
September
4: Sgt. Rohan Beebakhee, a 21-year Ottawa police veteran, receives six guilty verdicts in an internal police disciplinary hearing. The officer booked dates with sex-trade workers and breached policy by accessing confidential police records for personal reasons.
5: A “sex marathon” to help pay for porn star Zoé Zebra’s breast implant surgery goes ahead in Gatineau, despite opposition from the city, mayor and police.
7: The Ride the Rideau fundraising event for cancer research turns tragic as hospital official Laurie Strano, 40, is killed by a garbage truck on wet roads near Manotick.
8: A group of Carleton University students apologizes and faces punishment from the school after two are photographed wearing offensive tank tops that mocked the school’s campaign against harassment and discrimination.
Two men were photographed near Carleton University wearing controversial t-shirts on Sunday afternoon.
Image has text on tshirt blurred out.
10: Calypso Water Park’s trial on alleged safety violations begins with a not guilty plea and accusations that prosecutors were trying to sensationalize the proceedings by calling injured water slide riders to testify.
10: The Ottawa Folk Festival is charged with violating noise bylaws after callers overwhelm the city’s 311 line on the first night of the rock and folk music festival. Sound from concerts could be heard several kilometres away.
Canadian roots rock band Blue Rodeo hit the main stage at the Ottawa Folk Festival, Saturday, Sept. 13, 2014.
11: The Canada Science and Technology Museum, a former bakery building turned into a makeshift museum, closes indefinitely because of mould that’s contaminating its air.
23: Julie Bilotta, an inmate who gave birth at the Ottawa-Carleton Detention Centre, files a $1.3-million lawsuit, alleging that the jail’s guards and nurses are directly responsible for injuries that led to the death of her son.
24: Ontario issues a ‘shoot to kill’ notice for hunters and farmers who encounter wild boars in Eastern Ontario.
24: A Transportation Safety Board report says that the OC Transpo bus was speeding before the fatal September 2013 crash with a Via Rail train, and the driver may have been distracted.
October
2: Hundreds gather to remember Staff Sgt. Kal Ghadban, a 22-year veteran of the Ottawa Police Service and head of the break and enter, street crime and human trafficking units, who killed himself Sept. 28 in his office at the Elgin Street police station.
Ottawa Police Staff-Sgt. Kal Ghadban.
2: Erik Karlsson is chosen to be the ninth captain of the Ottawa Senators.
4: Two drivers of the new and controversial ride-sharing company Uber are charged as part of an undercover investigation.
9: Twelve cases of enterovirus D68 are confirmed at CHEO since August. The virus causes severe respiratory symptoms in some children and is linked to clusters of patients with paralysis and muscle weakness in parts of Canada and the United States.
10: The Ottawa 67’s return to the Civic Centre — now TD Place — after two years of relocation to hold their home opener against Niagara Falls.
13: Ottawa Public Health officials say a patient who was in isolation at The Ottawa Hospital does not have the Ebola virus, as hospitals make plans to deal with potential outbreaks.
16: Two Ottawa trekkers are safe in Nepal after more than 29 tourists and guides are killed in massive snowfalls.
16: Adam Prevost, 20, is sentenced to four years in prison for killing Alain Seguin, 54, in an Oct. 2, 2013, high-speed crash at Bank Street and Laurier Avenue.
16: Ottawa dentist Khaled Emile Hashem, who glued two recycled human teeth into a patient’s mouth, is prohibited from practising dentistry by the Ontario Superior Court.
16: Naming rights to the Ottawa Conference Centre are bought by Shaw Communications of Calgary in a 10-year deal. The name is changed to Shaw Centre.
17: Tanger Outlets opens its first area mall in Kanata, causing traffic jams for several hours on the westbound Queensway.
Crowds wait at the opening ceremony of the new Tanger Outlets in Kanata for Shopper Services.
20: Ottawa’s Capital Pride festival announces it is declaring bankruptcy, saying in a statement that “operations are now clearly unsustainable.” The festival had been accused of failing to pay several performers and suppliers following this year’s festival.
22: Downtown Ottawa is a scene of chaos as Michael Zehaf-Bibeau, 32, shoots and kills Nathan Cirillo, 24, a sentry at the National War Memorial. The gunman is shot and killed near the Library of Parliament by House of Commons Sergeant-at-Arms Kevin Vickers.
With family, Cpl. Nathan Cirillio’s mother, Kathy Cirillo (centre) follows the casket carrying her son, Cpl. Nathan Cirillo, out of McEvoy-Shields funeral home in Ottawa Friday afternoon as it starts its escorted procession home to Hamilton October 24, 2104.
27: Jim Watson is elected to a second term as mayor, capturing 75 per cent of the vote. The election saw a record number of candidates, and resulted in eight rookies being elected to council.
Mayor Jim Watson after being re-elected greets supporters at the Hellenic Community Centre.
29: Former Scout leader Scott Stanley, 31, is sentenced to five years in prison on convictions for sexual exploitation, invitation to sexual interference and Internet child luring. He was found guilty of 16 sex offences against four boys ages 12 to 15, in 2012 and 2013.
31: Dylon Barnett, 23, is found guilty of second-degree murder for the 2010 shooting death of Michael Swan in the Barrhaven teen’s bedroom.
31: A student-centred Halloween party held at Mont Cascades attracts about 1,000 young people. Nine are taken to hospital intoxicated and one 16-year-old is found half-naked, unconscious and possibly sexually assaulted.
November
3: The federal government gives 60 acres of the Experimental Farm to the Ottawa Hospital to rebuild its Civic campus, a long-term project the hospital’s chief executive hopes will eventually lead to a major realignment of health care in Ottawa.
4: Several days after the Citizen’s Andrew Duffy highlights the plight of Jonathan Pitre, 14, who suffers from Epidermolysis bullosa, a rare and incurable skin disease, the boy is overwhelmed by the response on social media and fundraising. Pitre will later become an honorary scout for the Ottawa Senators.
Even amidst the painful and tiring task of washing and re-dressing all of his wounds – which takes four hours and must be done every other day – Tina and Jonathan laugh often and heartily.
4: An Ottawa judge sentences Kailey Oliver-Machado to six and a half years in prison after hearing that the ringleader in a “heinous, vicious” Ottawa teen prostitution ring shows little genuine remorse or empathy for her five victims.
10: Princess Anne visits Ottawa, honouring soldiers slain in two attacks and taking part in the rededication of the National War Memorial.
11: Three weeks after Cpl. Nathan Cirillo was murdered at the National War Memorial, record crowds gather for Remembrance Day services.
Crowds stand patiently waiting to place their poppy on the Tomb of the Unknown Soldier as the annual Remembrance Day Ceremony takes place at the National War Memorial in Ottawa.
11: Laird Evans, a “beloved” drama teacher who taught for 30 years at Hillcrest High School, is found guilty of professional misconduct by the province’s teaching regulator. He had stored an arsenal of mostly inoperable and replica guns at his high school.
11: A Cessna airplane crashes in Algonquin Provincial Park, killing the pilot and passenger, about eight hours after violating protected airspace in Ottawa during the Remembrance Day ceremony.
12: Nearly 20 years after shooting popular sportscaster Brian Smith in the CJOH parking lot, Jeffrey Arenburg returns to Ottawa. He was declared Not Criminally Responsible for the shooting.
14: Bob FM changes formats, turning into New Country 94 in a shakeup of the Ottawa radio scene.
BOB FM
16: Ottawa academic Hassan Diab, 60, is formally charged in France with murder and attempted murder in the 1980 bombing of a Paris synagogue. He was deported less than 24 hours after the Supreme Court of Canada refused to hear an appeal of his extradition order.
17: Police lay charges against Franck Gervais, 32, of Cantley, Que. He is charged with impersonating a public officer and misleading use of a badge or uniform and also with unlawful use of a military uniform and decoration. Gervais was interviewed by media on Nov. 11 at the National War Memorial in full military uniform.
The Department of National Defence said it has no record of any employee by the name of Franck Gervais .
19: Hundreds brave frigid weather for the opening of Ottawa’s first Whole Foods store at Lansdowne.
20: A U.S. judge orders Salima Rattansi of Orléans and her company to pay $3.1 million US to the firm that refunded money to those who bought tickets to the cancelled Capital Hoedown country music festival in 2012.
21: Ottawa officials feel blindsided by the National Capital Commission’s news conference where they demanded that transit planners reconsider the proposed route for western expansion of LRT.
24: A hacker who has targeted the City of Ottawa and its police force claims to have downloaded “a ton of data” from the police website and says he plans to release it. The websites were unavailable for several hours on Nov. 21.
26: The Ottawa jailhouse case of “boot-stomping” of a handcuffed and shackled prisoner against former guard John Barbro collapses when the Crown halts the prosecution after two weeks of stimony mired in lies and collusion.
27: A Bangladeshi international student, Tausif Chowdhury, 23, is found beaten to death on a South Keys pathway. Police expect it is a targeted attack.
28: A day after the Citizen publishes a story about two St. George elementary school students whose project to examine gay rights was rejected by their principal, the Ottawa Catholic School Board says it is reconsidering the decision. By Dec. 8, it has reversed the ban on the project.
Quinn Maloney-Tavares (R) and Polly Hamilton go to St. George’s school. They wanted to do a project on gay rights, but the principal vetoed it.
30: Years late, much over budget and the basis of a multimillion-dollar lawsuit, the Airport Parkway pedestrian and cycling bridge opens.
December
2: Dom Oliveri, head coach of the Ottawa Fury women’s team says he was caught entirely by surprise when the team is shut down in what owner John Pugh describes as a ‘business decision.’
2: Emails released to the Citizen reveal that officials with the Canada Science and Technology Museum knew in mid-September that the roof of the building was ‘officially collapsing.’
People walk away from the lighthouse on display at the Canada Science and Technology museum in Ottawa on Friday, November 12, 2010.
3: The Science and Technology museum president Alex Benay describes a ‘reboot’ a tired institution, to be completed by 2017. Its online presence will be given as much importance as its physical building.
4: In the city’s seventh homicide of 2014, Alem Haile, 51, is found stabbed to death in the basement of her Gloucester home, a victim of a murder-suicide committed by her husband.
4: The historic Opinicon Resort in the Rideau Lakes system will go to auction with bidding opening at $500,000.
4: In an emotional exit, prodigal son Daniel Alfredsson signs a one-day contract with the Ottawa Senators, joins them in a pre-game skate and officially retires from the NHL at age 42 with 1,246 games played and 1,157 points scored.
Daniel Alfredsson acknowledges the crowd before he leaves Canadian Tire Centre ice Dec 5, 2014.
7: In a propaganda video, John Maguire, a Kemptville-born convert to Islam, urges Canadian Muslims to become jihadis, saying, ‘Either pack your bags, or prepare your explosive devices.’
7: René Chartrand, the ‘Catman’ of Parliament Hill, dies at age 92. He tended the cat colony on the Hill for 21 years until ill health in 2008 prevented his daily visits.
8: Local defence lawyers and others criticize proposed changes to the Police Services Act that will clamp down on security at Ontario courthouses, closing the door on a traditionally open system.
8: After a poor start to the hockey season, Ottawa Senators coach Paul MacLean is fired with assistant Dave Cameron promoted to take his place.
Dave Cameron and Paul MacLean on the bench together.
8: The Citizen reports that local singer-songwriter Kathleen Edwards has quit music and now owns a coffee shop, “Quitters”, in Stittsville.
8: Organizers of Ottawa Folk Festival announce that the annual event will move to Lansdowne Park, and the name changed to CityFolk.
8: Lawyer David Bertschi takes the first step to launching a defamation action against Liberal Party officials after approval for him to seek the nomination in the riding of Ottawa-Orléans was revoked.
9: Senators Sports & Entertainment confirms to the Citizen that it is “actively considering the opportunity” to build a new hockey arena on the grounds of LeBreton Flats.
10: The federal government announces $110.5 million will be spent to renovate the NAC, a project that will include a new glass facade along Elgin Street, new lobby space, a cafe and new washrooms.
After 45 years, the National Arts Centre is finally getting a dramatic new look. The federal government is spending $110 million to transform and modernize the 50-year-old building.
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The Citizen newsroom looks back and pins notable news to the 2014 calendar, before we move on.
January
1: Nadia Fils gives birth to Mélissa, Ottawa’s first baby of 2014, at 12:02 a.m., only minutes after her sister Anne-Luce Pierre has a baby boy in the same hospital.
6: Lansdowne Park is to be named TD Place after the Ottawa Sports and Entertainment Group reaches an agreement on naming rights for the entire facility with the TD Bank Group.
L-R Jeff Hunt the owner of the Redblacks and Roger Greenberg, Chairman of the Ottawa Sports and Entertainment Group (OSEG) and Chris Stamper take a moment for a photo on the field during the official opening of TD Place at Lansdowne Wednesday July 9. 2014.
17: Martin Glazer, 43, of Gatineau and Peter McSheffrey, 49, of Ottawa are killed while working in Kabul, Afghanistan when a suicide bomber attacks a restaurant where they are eating.
28: Health Canada awards a licence to Tweed Inc. of Smiths Falls to produce medical marijuana in the former Hershey chocolate factory.
Tweed Inc. workers tend to medical marijuana plants at a new commercial operation set up inside a former Hershey’s chocolate factory in Smiths Falls, Ontario
29: Andrew Bettencourt, 20, faces multiple charges including kidnapping. He had been arrested near Kemptville the day before after an apparent abduction in Orléans hours earlier.
29: Jagtar Gill, mother of two, aged 44 is found slain in her Barrhaven home on her wedding anniversary. In April, her husband and his female co-worker are charged with the homicide.
February
3: Mark Kristmanson is appointed chief executive officer of the National Capital Commission, succeeding former CEO Marie Lemay, who had left 18 months before.
5: The City of Ottawa rethinks its snow plowing after December storms left the city with a $21.5-million maintenance deficit for 2013.
20: A large sinkhole opens up near Rideau and Waller streets and is thought to be caused by a massive machine digging the light-rail tunnel under Waller.
Heavy machinery operates at sinkhole that opened up near the University of Ottawa at Laurier Avenue and Waller Street in Ottawa on Friday, February 21, 2014.
24: Yolande Knight, 50, the finance director of TCE, an Ottawa charity providing housing and education for developmentally disabled adults, pleads guilty to stealing at least $900,000 between 2001 and 2009.
25: After 45 years, the National Arts Centre’s brand gets a makeover with a new logo.
March
2: Colonel By and De La Salle secondary schools are tied for eighth place among the province’s secondary schools in The Fraser Institute’s controversial high school rankings.
3: Skiers applaud as Ottawa experiences its coldest winter in 20 years, without setting any temperature records. The winter arrived early and hung on, with only brief thaws.
JANUARY 27, 2014 — A woman makes her way through downtown Ottawa Monday, which was a slushy mess until the snowplows could clear some of the buildup of snow.
3: The University of Ottawa suspends its Gee-Gees men’s varsity hockey program after allegations surface that multiple members of the team sexually assaulted a young woman in Thunder Bay on the Jan. 31 weekend
6: Glitchsoft Corp, an Ottawa video game developer, signs a major deal with Marvel Comics to make an X-Men-themed video game
Glitchsoft CEO Andrew Fischer and VP Wes Tam are part of the team developing the “He-Man” Side scroller game..
10: Ottawa opera singer Sharleen Joynt, 29, gets a rose on the television show The Bachelor, but feels no chemistry while kissing handsome single father Juan Pablo Galavis and is not among the final contestants.
10: Former longtime CTV anchor Max Keeping reveals that be has untreatable Stage 4 tumours in his lungs, two years after beginning treatment for colon cancer.
Max Keeping on March 10, 2014.
11: Toronto-raised Ottawa filmmaker Amen Jafri debuts her documentary video called The City That Fun Forgot?, exploring Ottawa’s dreary reputation.
19: Father Joseph LeClair is sentenced to one year in jail, one year of probation and a restitution order for $134,000 after an earlier guilty plea to misappropriating church funds into his own accounts.
Father Joseph LeClair
21: Two longtime Ashbury College teachers, Alyssa Novick and Ian Middleton, are found guilty of professional misconduct by the Ontario College of Teachers for their actions following a 2007 sexual assault of a student during a school trip to Boston.
21: BlackBerry’s Ottawa campus is listed among 19 the company wishes to divest in its financial struggles.
31: The new Ottawa Redblacks football team modifies the name of its mascot mere days after identifying him as Big Joe Mufferaw, following criticism, largely from francophones. The super-sized, axewielding figure is henceforth known as “Big Joe” in English and “Grand Jos” in French.
April
2: Only two years after Liam McGee’s struggle with multiple myeloma and resulting financial strains, McGee and Tina Ferrone collect their $48 million Lotto Max jackpot.
OLG’s senior vice president of Lottery Greg McKenzie looks on as lottery winner Tina Ferrone of Kanata and husband Liam McGee celebrate with a kiss after Tina collected a cheque for $48,000,020 in April 2014.
7: Former Ottawa minor hockey and baseball coach Kelly Jones pleads guilty to a series of predatory sexual offences against nine children between the 1970s and 1997.
17: A report by the Parliamentary Budget Office says that the federal government is on track to eliminate 30,000 federal jobs over the next three years, on top of 20,000 positions axed since cuts in the 2012 budget took place.
22: In the city’s second homicide of the year, police make a dramatic arrest in Orléans of Chris Gobin, 18, in the death of his mother, Luce Lavertu. Gobin is charged with first-degree murder the next day.
May
1: Ontario’s provincial budget includes $65 million for the Ottawa River Action Plan designed to stop raw sewage from flowing into the river. While the budget is defeated, triggering an election, the pledge is renewed in July after the Liberal victory.
6: The Ontario Crown attorney’s office lambastes Ottawa judges for defying the controversial mandatory victim surcharge law.
16: Crown prosecutors say that Bhupinderpal Gill and Gurpreet Ronald will be tried jointly on a charge of first-degree murder in the January death of Gill‘s wife, Jagtar.
20: New public art pieces in Jack Purcell Park are meant to be stylized trees, not a tribute to the celebrated (non-Ottawa) badminton player of the same name, says the landscape architect responsible for the Centretown park’s recent makeover.
As part of the rehabilitation of Jack Purcell Park in Centretown, the city installed 10 light poles as a nod to the famed badminton player of the same name. The only problem is that Jack Purcell was from Guelph.
22: Eve Stewart, a cosmetician who performed plastic surgery in her Nepean home clinic, is permanently banned from performing controlled medical acts and administering Botox. She has no medical training.
25: Ethiopians dominate as Yemane Tsegay completes the fastest marathon ever on Canadian soil, at 2:06:54 in the Scotiabank Ottawa Marathon. Tigist Tufa claims the women’s title with a time of 2:24:31, breaking the year-old previous record.
Yemane Tsegay wraps the Ethiopian flag around him in front of cameras after finishing first place in the marathon at Ottawa Race Weekend Sunday May 25, 2014.
26: Fisher Park Grade 8 student Tallie Doyle, 14, sparks an online debate after posting on Facebook that she was taken to the principal’s office the previous week for wearing a top that showed her black bra straps.
June
1: Three workers at the Ottawa Convention Centre are locked out of their workplace for revealing tattoos on their arms. They say they were asked to cover their tattoos to comply with company policy.
2: The Ottawa-based Bridgehead coffee chain announces that it will start serving alcohol in selected locations, after 4 p.m. starting in the fall.
5: Law professor Joanne St. Lewis wins a $350,000 libel case against former professor and blogger Denis Rancourt, after he referred to her as the University of Ottawa president’s “house Negro.”
5: The campaigning Ontario PCs go into damage control as leader Tim Hudak says he would not fund the light-rail expansion in Ottawa.
Ottawa South PC candidate Matt Young, right, joins Ontario Conservative Leader Tim Hudak as he makes a campaign stop in Ottawa on Thursday, June 5, 2014.
7: 18-year-old Brandon Volpi is stabbed to death on Besserer Street at a St. Pius X High School prom after-party. The accused, Devontay Hackett, 18, spends a month on the run before a July 12 court appearance.
9: After eight years of pooling their tickets, a group of Canada Revenue employees picks up a $32-million lotto jackpot. Most of the 26 winners walk away with $1.6 million.
18: Three Ottawa paramedics are injured, two critically, by a fireball caused by an explosion during a training exercise with police on March Road.
19: Steven Helfer, 24, is sentenced to two years in jail for his notorious October 2013 attack on his dog, Breezy. With time served, he will serve less than a year for the brutal assault that sparked widespread outrage.
Breezy the dog has been adopted and given a new permanent home by Sheila and John.
20: A 31-year-old naked man is arrested near Quyon after he led police on a low-speed chase using a farm tractor as his getaway vehicle.
21: Billed as Canada’s largest rock music festival, Amnesia Rockfest’s ninth edition draws 200,000 to Montebello, Que. Police report no major incidents, and a logistically smooth event.
25: With allegations of sexual assault hanging over his school’s men’s hockey team, University of Ottawa president Allan Rock extends the program’s suspension a full year and fires the team’s head coach. Several players threaten to sue.
July
1: Longtime Ottawa Senators player Jason Spezza is traded to the Dallas Stars.
1: Shoe designer John Fluevog opens a store in the ByWard Market and introduces the ‘Ottawa’ shoe. Citizen Life editor Janet Wilson calls the casual everyday leather shoe ‘short on funk and sex appeal.’
Fluevog’s ‘Ottawa’ ladies’ shoe, is a sturdy, comfortable affair. It is a mix of tan and chocolate leather with a Mary Jane strap and squat heel.
6: Wearing a seashell bra, Magdalena Kincaid, 18, is plucked out of the audience to sing at Lady Gaga’s Bluesfest performance. She describes it as “like living a dream.”
7: The Ottawa Senators hockey club announces that general manager Bryan Murray, 71, is battling cancer.
Ottawa Senators players were struggling with the news that GM Bryan Murray has Stage 4 cancer. ‘Bryan’s a big part of the organization. He’s not just the GM, he’s a friend,’ Chris Neil said.
9: Thousands of Ottawa Redblacks season-ticket holders get their first look at the team’s sparkling new home at the grand opening of TD Place at Lansdowne.
11: Ex-hospital technician Misbahuddin Ahmed is found guilty on two of three terrorist-related offences in Canada’s most extensive domestic anti-terrorism investigation since 9/11. He is found not guilty of the most serious charge — possession of an explosive device with intent to use that device for a terrorist activity. He is later sentenced to 12 years in penitentiary.
Misbahuddin Ahmed has been sentenced to 12 years in prison.
12: Two years late, and at a cost of $48 million, the Strandherd-Armstrong Bridge — or Ottawa’s Eiffel Tower, as Mayor Jim Watson calls it — officially opens.
13: The biggest blast in Ottawa’s history takes only seconds, with 420 kilograms of explosives reducing the 11-storey John Carling Building to rubble as crowds gather to watch the $4.8-million demolition.
18: Ottawa football fans enjoy the city’s first CFL game in eight years as the Ottawa Redblacks beat the Toronto Argonauts 27-17.
Franchise opener of the Ottawa Redblacks against the Toronto Argonauts at TD Place in Ottawa, July 18, 2014.
22: Martin Dupuis, a 35-year-old Ottawa man who terrorized young women after breaking into their Sandy Hill-area homes in the dead of night, pleads guilty to nine offences, including two sexual assaults.
22: Ottawa Police take over Carleton University’s investigation of a YouTube video showing a man riding a motorcycle through the school’s pedestrian tunnels at speeds as high as 80 km/hour.
Logan M posted this video on YouTube of someone driving through the tunnels at Carleton. Video states: “Published on Jul 19, 2014. Underground Carleton U tunnels, I rode them, it was loud, and slippery.”
30: The Rideau Centre unveils a $21.3-million renovation to its food court. The new space features 80,000 square feet and 16 vendors, upscale dining and reusable dishes.
31: Accused ‘cyberbully’ Robert James Campbell, 42, is arrested on 181 charges of criminal harassment, identity theft and defamatory libel. Eighteen of the 38 alleged victims are from Ottawa.
August
6: Danish tourist Holly Chabowski writes a letter defending her preference for a choice in transportation modes after the firestorm ignited by her original letter complaining about the dominance of cars in this country.
9: The landmark Richmond Bakery closes suddenly after more than seven decades in business.
The Richmond Bakery closed its doors suddenly Sunday after decades in business.
12: An Ottawa group renews a nearly 45-year-old plea to make Ottawa an officially bilingual city ahead of the 150th anniversary of Confederation in 2017. The idea gets little support from Mayor Jim Watson.
14: Sparks Street administration installs pedestrian-crossing signs encouraging walking in an absurdly exaggerated manner, as John Cleese did in the classic Monty Python skit The Ministry of Silly Walks.
15: CycleHop, the Miami-based company that took over the Capital Bixi network, announces the new bike-sharing service won’t fully launch until spring 2015.
CycleHop chose Social Bicycles, the company that is running Hamilton’s new bike-sharing network, to provide equipment for VeloGo.
16: A drunken teenager mistakenly breaks into the Rockcliffe Park home of Liberal leader Justin Trudeau, setting off a security scare. Police later announce they will not be laying charges.
17: Kanata becomes the first area in Ottawa to transition from door-to-door mail delivery to community mailboxes, causing residents to complain about sites chosen for the ‘superboxes.’
19: London pathologist Khurram Sher, 31, is found not guilty of conspiring to facilitate terrorism — the first time in Canada that a person accused of terrorist offences has gone to trial and been acquitted. One of the co-accused, Misbahuddin Ahmed, was previously found guilty of two of three offences.
Khurram Syed Sher arrives to face trial on a terrorism charge at the Ottawa court house in Ottawa on Monday, February 10, 2014.
22: Two leaders of the University of Ottawa men’s hockey team — captain David Foucher, 25, and assistant captain Guillaume Donovan, 24, both of Gatineau — are charged by Thunder Bay police with sexual assault. They are accused of sexually assaulting a 21-year-old Lakehead University student, while the men’s hockey team was in Thunder Bay for two road games.
23: In the city’s fourth homicide of the year, 21-year-old Jabeir Jemmie, an Algonquin College engineering student, dies in hospital from multiple stab wounds after an incident on the bar strip along Elgin Street.
28: After 78 years in the capital, Holt Renfrew, once the undisputed leader in Ottawa’s luxury retail market, announces it will close its doors at 240 Sparks St. in January.
Holt Renfrew announced plans to close its Ottawa and Quebec City locations in January 2015. The Ottawa department store opened in 1942 on Queen Street and moved to its current location on Sparks Street in 1977.
September
4: Sgt. Rohan Beebakhee, a 21-year Ottawa police veteran, receives six guilty verdicts in an internal police disciplinary hearing. The officer booked dates with sex-trade workers and breached policy by accessing confidential police records for personal reasons.
5: A “sex marathon” to help pay for porn star Zoé Zebra’s breast implant surgery goes ahead in Gatineau, despite opposition from the city, mayor and police.
7: The Ride the Rideau fundraising event for cancer research turns tragic as hospital official Laurie Strano, 40, is killed by a garbage truck on wet roads near Manotick.
8: A group of Carleton University students apologizes and faces punishment from the school after two are photographed wearing offensive tank tops that mocked the school’s campaign against harassment and discrimination.
Two men were photographed near Carleton University wearing controversial t-shirts on Sunday afternoon.
Image has text on tshirt blurred out.
10: Calypso Water Park’s trial on alleged safety violations begins with a not guilty plea and accusations that prosecutors were trying to sensationalize the proceedings by calling injured water slide riders to testify.
10: The Ottawa Folk Festival is charged with violating noise bylaws after callers overwhelm the city’s 311 line on the first night of the rock and folk music festival. Sound from concerts could be heard several kilometres away.
Canadian roots rock band Blue Rodeo hit the main stage at the Ottawa Folk Festival, Saturday, Sept. 13, 2014.
11: The Canada Science and Technology Museum, a former bakery building turned into a makeshift museum, closes indefinitely because of mould that’s contaminating its air.
23: Julie Bilotta, an inmate who gave birth at the Ottawa-Carleton Detention Centre, files a $1.3-million lawsuit, alleging that the jail’s guards and nurses are directly responsible for injuries that led to the death of her son.
24: Ontario issues a ‘shoot to kill’ notice for hunters and farmers who encounter wild boars in Eastern Ontario.
24: A Transportation Safety Board report says that the OC Transpo bus was speeding before the fatal September 2013 crash with a Via Rail train, and the driver may have been distracted.
October
2: Hundreds gather to remember Staff Sgt. Kal Ghadban, a 22-year veteran of the Ottawa Police Service and head of the break and enter, street crime and human trafficking units, who killed himself Sept. 28 in his office at the Elgin Street police station.
Ottawa Police Staff-Sgt. Kal Ghadban.
2: Erik Karlsson is chosen to be the ninth captain of the Ottawa Senators.
4: Two drivers of the new and controversial ride-sharing company Uber are charged as part of an undercover investigation.
9: Twelve cases of enterovirus D68 are confirmed at CHEO since August. The virus causes severe respiratory symptoms in some children and is linked to clusters of patients with paralysis and muscle weakness in parts of Canada and the United States.
10: The Ottawa 67’s return to the Civic Centre — now TD Place — after two years of relocation to hold their home opener against Niagara Falls.
13: Ottawa Public Health officials say a patient who was in isolation at The Ottawa Hospital does not have the Ebola virus, as hospitals make plans to deal with potential outbreaks.
16: Two Ottawa trekkers are safe in Nepal after more than 29 tourists and guides are killed in massive snowfalls.
16: Adam Prevost, 20, is sentenced to four years in prison for killing Alain Seguin, 54, in an Oct. 2, 2013, high-speed crash at Bank Street and Laurier Avenue.
16: Ottawa dentist Khaled Emile Hashem, who glued two recycled human teeth into a patient’s mouth, is prohibited from practising dentistry by the Ontario Superior Court.
16: Naming rights to the Ottawa Conference Centre are bought by Shaw Communications of Calgary in a 10-year deal. The name is changed to Shaw Centre.
17: Tanger Outlets opens its first area mall in Kanata, causing traffic jams for several hours on the westbound Queensway.
Crowds wait at the opening ceremony of the new Tanger Outlets in Kanata for Shopper Services.
20: Ottawa’s Capital Pride festival announces it is declaring bankruptcy, saying in a statement that “operations are now clearly unsustainable.” The festival had been accused of failing to pay several performers and suppliers following this year’s festival.
22: Downtown Ottawa is a scene of chaos as Michael Zehaf-Bibeau, 32, shoots and kills Nathan Cirillo, 24, a sentry at the National War Memorial. The gunman is shot and killed near the Library of Parliament by House of Commons Sergeant-at-Arms Kevin Vickers.
With family, Cpl. Nathan Cirillio’s mother, Kathy Cirillo (centre) follows the casket carrying her son, Cpl. Nathan Cirillo, out of McEvoy-Shields funeral home in Ottawa Friday afternoon as it starts its escorted procession home to Hamilton October 24, 2104.
27: Jim Watson is elected to a second term as mayor, capturing 75 per cent of the vote. The election saw a record number of candidates, and resulted in eight rookies being elected to council.
Mayor Jim Watson after being re-elected greets supporters at the Hellenic Community Centre.
29: Former Scout leader Scott Stanley, 31, is sentenced to five years in prison on convictions for sexual exploitation, invitation to sexual interference and Internet child luring. He was found guilty of 16 sex offences against four boys ages 12 to 15, in 2012 and 2013.
31: Dylon Barnett, 23, is found guilty of second-degree murder for the 2010 shooting death of Michael Swan in the Barrhaven teen’s bedroom.
31: A student-centred Halloween party held at Mont Cascades attracts about 1,000 young people. Nine are taken to hospital intoxicated and one 16-year-old is found half-naked, unconscious and possibly sexually assaulted.
November
3: The federal government gives 60 acres of the Experimental Farm to the Ottawa Hospital to rebuild its Civic campus, a long-term project the hospital’s chief executive hopes will eventually lead to a major realignment of health care in Ottawa.
4: Several days after the Citizen’s Andrew Duffy highlights the plight of Jonathan Pitre, 14, who suffers from Epidermolysis bullosa, a rare and incurable skin disease, the boy is overwhelmed by the response on social media and fundraising. Pitre will later become an honorary scout for the Ottawa Senators.
Even amidst the painful and tiring task of washing and re-dressing all of his wounds – which takes four hours and must be done every other day – Tina and Jonathan laugh often and heartily.
4: An Ottawa judge sentences Kailey Oliver-Machado to six and a half years in prison after hearing that the ringleader in a “heinous, vicious” Ottawa teen prostitution ring shows little genuine remorse or empathy for her five victims.
10: Princess Anne visits Ottawa, honouring soldiers slain in two attacks and taking part in the rededication of the National War Memorial.
11: Three weeks after Cpl. Nathan Cirillo was murdered at the National War Memorial, record crowds gather for Remembrance Day services.
Crowds stand patiently waiting to place their poppy on the Tomb of the Unknown Soldier as the annual Remembrance Day Ceremony takes place at the National War Memorial in Ottawa.
11: Laird Evans, a “beloved” drama teacher who taught for 30 years at Hillcrest High School, is found guilty of professional misconduct by the province’s teaching regulator. He had stored an arsenal of mostly inoperable and replica guns at his high school.
11: A Cessna airplane crashes in Algonquin Provincial Park, killing the pilot and passenger, about eight hours after violating protected airspace in Ottawa during the Remembrance Day ceremony.
12: Nearly 20 years after shooting popular sportscaster Brian Smith in the CJOH parking lot, Jeffrey Arenburg returns to Ottawa. He was declared Not Criminally Responsible for the shooting.
14: Bob FM changes formats, turning into New Country 94 in a shakeup of the Ottawa radio scene.
BOB FM
16: Ottawa academic Hassan Diab, 60, is formally charged in France with murder and attempted murder in the 1980 bombing of a Paris synagogue. He was deported less than 24 hours after the Supreme Court of Canada refused to hear an appeal of his extradition order.
17: Police lay charges against Franck Gervais, 32, of Cantley, Que. He is charged with impersonating a public officer and misleading use of a badge or uniform and also with unlawful use of a military uniform and decoration. Gervais was interviewed by media on Nov. 11 at the National War Memorial in full military uniform.
The Department of National Defence said it has no record of any employee by the name of Franck Gervais .
19: Hundreds brave frigid weather for the opening of Ottawa’s first Whole Foods store at Lansdowne.
20: A U.S. judge orders Salima Rattansi of Orléans and her company to pay $3.1 million US to the firm that refunded money to those who bought tickets to the cancelled Capital Hoedown country music festival in 2012.
21: Ottawa officials feel blindsided by the National Capital Commission’s news conference where they demanded that transit planners reconsider the proposed route for western expansion of LRT.
24: A hacker who has targeted the City of Ottawa and its police force claims to have downloaded “a ton of data” from the police website and says he plans to release it. The websites were unavailable for several hours on Nov. 21.
26: The Ottawa jailhouse case of “boot-stomping” of a handcuffed and shackled prisoner against former guard John Barbro collapses when the Crown halts the prosecution after two weeks of stimony mired in lies and collusion.
27: A Bangladeshi international student, Tausif Chowdhury, 23, is found beaten to death on a South Keys pathway. Police expect it is a targeted attack.
28: A day after the Citizen publishes a story about two St. George elementary school students whose project to examine gay rights was rejected by their principal, the Ottawa Catholic School Board says it is reconsidering the decision. By Dec. 8, it has reversed the ban on the project.
Quinn Maloney-Tavares (R) and Polly Hamilton go to St. George’s school. They wanted to do a project on gay rights, but the principal vetoed it.
30: Years late, much over budget and the basis of a multimillion-dollar lawsuit, the Airport Parkway pedestrian and cycling bridge opens.
December
2: Dom Oliveri, head coach of the Ottawa Fury women’s team says he was caught entirely by surprise when the team is shut down in what owner John Pugh describes as a ‘business decision.’
2: Emails released to the Citizen reveal that officials with the Canada Science and Technology Museum knew in mid-September that the roof of the building was ‘officially collapsing.’
People walk away from the lighthouse on display at the Canada Science and Technology museum in Ottawa on Friday, November 12, 2010.
3: The Science and Technology museum president Alex Benay describes a ‘reboot’ a tired institution, to be completed by 2017. Its online presence will be given as much importance as its physical building.
4: In the city’s seventh homicide of 2014, Alem Haile, 51, is found stabbed to death in the basement of her Gloucester home, a victim of a murder-suicide committed by her husband.
4: The historic Opinicon Resort in the Rideau Lakes system will go to auction with bidding opening at $500,000.
4: In an emotional exit, prodigal son Daniel Alfredsson signs a one-day contract with the Ottawa Senators, joins them in a pre-game skate and officially retires from the NHL at age 42 with 1,246 games played and 1,157 points scored.
Daniel Alfredsson acknowledges the crowd before he leaves Canadian Tire Centre ice Dec 5, 2014.
7: In a propaganda video, John Maguire, a Kemptville-born convert to Islam, urges Canadian Muslims to become jihadis, saying, ‘Either pack your bags, or prepare your explosive devices.’
7: René Chartrand, the ‘Catman’ of Parliament Hill, dies at age 92. He tended the cat colony on the Hill for 21 years until ill health in 2008 prevented his daily visits.
8: Local defence lawyers and others criticize proposed changes to the Police Services Act that will clamp down on security at Ontario courthouses, closing the door on a traditionally open system.
8: After a poor start to the hockey season, Ottawa Senators coach Paul MacLean is fired with assistant Dave Cameron promoted to take his place.
Dave Cameron and Paul MacLean on the bench together.
8: The Citizen reports that local singer-songwriter Kathleen Edwards has quit music and now owns a coffee shop, “Quitters”, in Stittsville.
8: Organizers of Ottawa Folk Festival announce that the annual event will move to Lansdowne Park, and the name changed to CityFolk.
8: Lawyer David Bertschi takes the first step to launching a defamation action against Liberal Party officials after approval for him to seek the nomination in the riding of Ottawa-Orléans was revoked.
9: Senators Sports & Entertainment confirms to the Citizen that it is “actively considering the opportunity” to build a new hockey arena on the grounds of LeBreton Flats.
10: The federal government announces $110.5 million will be spent to renovate the NAC, a project that will include a new glass facade along Elgin Street, new lobby space, a cafe and new washrooms.
After 45 years, the National Arts Centre is finally getting a dramatic new look. The federal government is spending $110 million to transform and modernize the 50-year-old building.
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