Shin-chi's Canoe, a picture book about a little boy leaving home for a residential school, has won the $25,000 TD Canadian Children's Literature Award.

Gilles-Andre Gosselin, a key player in the federal sponsorship scandal, pleaded guilty Friday to several charges related to fraud totalling $655,276.

The Federal Court says the refugee board must reassess the case of a lesbian soldier who deserted from the U.S. army and fled to Canada, saying the board made mistakes in rejecting her bid to seek refugee status.

British musician Billy Bragg belted out labour songs on a cold, rainy picket line outside the Canadian Museum of Civilization Friday, bringing some cheer to workers who have been on strike for nearly two months.

The Parti Québécois' desire to amend Quebec's language law and restrict access to English daycares is "ridiculous" and "concerning," say early childhood educators and parents.

The University of Ottawa on Friday announced more than $15 million in provincial research funding from the Ontario Research Fund. The cash will support more than 130 researchers working on 22 projects, the university said.

An Ottawa-based manufacturing company has formed a strategic alliance with a Hong Kong-based design and manufacturing services provider to combine and expand the two companies' offerings.

Something's changed lately in the marketplace, according to Jeff Westeinde – and it's a ripple that's directly affecting the winds of business.

regarded technology leaders is also being used by OCRI to showcase the city to outside investors, said the tome's editor.

Ottawa furniture dealers will have more frequent opportunities to sell to the federal government under proposed procurement changes, but they'll have to offer the lowest upfront costs if they want any business, says an industry representative.

The owners of the Ottawa franchise that is expected to join the Canadian Football League in 2013 or 2014 are trying to decide whether to call their new team the Rough Riders, or make a fresh start.

Ontario’s Liberal government is willing to postpone its Christmas break in order to pass a budget bill containing tax cuts and the controversial new Harmonized Sales Tax.

A hunting ploy gone awry sent a man plunging into the St. Lawrence River west of Iroquois, Ont., Friday morning.

The City of Ottawa's bad budget news got worse Friday afternoon when city councillors were told that a special $8.1-million contribution to transit workers' pension fund must now go to $14.8 million.

Two additional H1N1 vaccination clinics will open this weekend, the City of Ottawa announced Friday.

Convent Glen Elementary School could be the first public school in Orléans to offer full-day kindergarten, according to Orléans-Cumberland trustee John Shea. If approved by the Ministry of Education, Convent Glen will be one of 11 Ottawa-Carleton District School Board schools to start offering all-day kindergarten in September 2010. ?Convent Glen ES is the perfect school to launch this exciting ...

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Most Canadians would jump at the chance to go on an all-expenses paid vacation to Barbados in the middle of winter. But after winning the trip for two from a local sports talk radio contest as the biggest Ottawa Senators fan in March 2008, Bill Kelly had another idea in mind ? he was donating the prize to charity...

Movie marathon Sketch Orléans has partnered with Empire Theatre to offer a movie marathon for local youth. The event, which will take place Thursday, Nov...

A proposal to charge residents a separate fee for the new green bin program isn't gaining support with east-end councillors, with some suggesting it's an attempt to make a potential tax increase seem lower. The city's planning and environment committee is proposing residents hand over a special levy to help offset the costs of the green bin recycling program, estimated to be $68 per household...

In a further sign the H1N1 pandemic is continuing to abate in this region, the tri-county health unit has closed its flu assessment centres.[...]

WALL-E,you've been recycled. (Insert shocked bleep here.) And Pixar's robotic trash collector isn't alone. Planet 51,a sub-par CG animated spoof about a world that looks suspiciously like our past, is jammed with original ideas.[...]

Crews were to unload more grain from the stubborn CSL Assiniboine Thursday evening, while as many as five tug boats were poised to make a fresh attempt to get the grounded laker back on course.[...]

Some day in the not-too-distant future, we won't need to plug in our portable gadgets to charge them. We'll simply walk into our homes and sophisticated electronics embedded in our walls will start juicing all our batteries wirelessly.[...]

The Rideau Lions missed going to the all-Ontario championships last year by two points. That wasn't going to happen this time around against the Char-Lan Crusaders.[...]