Ottawa, along with the rest of the world, faced a pretty tough year in 2020 thanks to the COVID-19 pandemic.
Families lost loved ones, employees lost jobs and businesses shut down. And as Ottawans bravely faced the coronavirus and took the necessary steps to limit its spread, there were moments of grace and joy.
CBC Ottawa recently asked our social media followers to send in their favourite moments of 2020. Here's some of what you shared with us:
Stephanie Grisham also recalled a telling telephone call the former president made about his wife.
Julia Fox has been accused of wearing the trauma of female genital mutilation survivors in her provocative outfit that shows a sewn-up vagina.
I thank PRESIDENT Donald Trump for having the guts to stand up for my right to face allegations that I slept with an adult film star.
Photo Illustration by Thomas Levinson/The Daily Beast/GettyThe jurors haven’t even been selected yet. The trial really hasn’t even started. But as Donald Trump’s first day in criminal court wrapped up on Monday, the former president already seemed to be losing.New York Supreme Court Justice Juan Merchan displayed little patience for, as he insisted on calling him, “Mr. Trump.” That the judge is already over the former president’s antics is abundantly clear. And as Trump’s lawyers repeatedly trie
Photo by Jabin Botsford-Pool/Getty ImagesThe Manhattan District Attorney’s Office wants the judge overseeing the first trial against a former American president to start it off with a lunging attack, asking the court to personally sanction Donald Trump for his verbal onslaught against witnesses in the case.Shortly after noon, Assistant District Attorney Christopher Conroy formally asked the judge to fine Trump “$1,000 for each post that violates the court order,” “direct the defendant to take do
The 45-year-old teacher was getting dressed in the backseat, officials say.
Spencer Platt/GettyOutside the Manhattan Criminal Court on Monday, a “Christian conservative rapper” who identified himself as “Shawn DVS 7.0” awaited the arrival of Donald Trump.“Sometimes I have my disagreements with Trump, but nobody compares,” he said, resting a full-size American flag pole on his shoulder. Democrats, he added, “couldn’t get him with collusion, they couldn’t get him with all the other stuff before, so now they’re going with all these side angles.”He was one of about 50 Trump
Screaming Into the Void Despite an astronomical number of red flags, investors who poured their hard-earned cash into former president Donald Trump's Truth Social meme stock are experiencing a rude awakening. As the Washington Post reports, Trump supporters are seething as the value of the social media platform's parent company Trump Media & Technology Group (TMTG) […]
Amazon CEO Jeff Bezos and fiancée Lauren Sanchez were spotted at the Coachella music festival waiting for Lana Del Rey's performance.
The TikToker's family announced her death on April 15 in a series of posts on social media
Jabin Botsford-Pool/Getty ImagesThe Trump campaign furiously denied suggestions that he had fallen asleep during the first day of his historic criminal trial—calling the suggestion “fake news” while claiming falsely that the reporters who noted his sleepy courtroom demeanor weren’t even in the same room when it happened. “This is 100% Fake News coming from ‘journalists’ who weren’t even in the court room,” the Trump campaign said in a statement Monday shortly after proceedings concluded.The New
Erin Ward, 45, was allegedly found inside a car with a 17-year-old student, according to the Douglas County Sheriff’s Office
CNN legal analyst Elie Honig suggested what to watch out for during the former president's hush money trial.
Simpson's will was filed in Clark County, Nevada, on April 12, two days after his death
A Las Vegas lawyer and his wife had been in the middle of a contentious battle for custody of her children from a previous marriage when the woman's former father-in-law, also an attorney, fatally shot them last week during a deposition hearing in the case, according to authorities and relatives. The coroner's office in Las Vegas identified the victims as lawyer Dennis Prince and his wife, Ashley. Both were shot multiple times, the coroner's office said, before 77-year-old Joseph Houston shot and killed himself.
CNNCNN’s Jake Tapper was met with an impersonation of an Irish woman when he brought on a former lawyer for Donald Trump to discuss the process of selecting jurors in front of a judge.William Brennan, an attorney who represented Trump during the 2022 Trump Organization trial, spoke to Tapper on Monday about his experience evaluating potential jurors in the case. That experience apparently included an introduction to a 40-something Irish woman who had strong opinions about the twice-impeached for
"Literally left it all on the stage… including my blood," she wrote, showing off her new injury.
WithumSmith+Brown resigned as Trump Media & Technology Group's auditor, just a few months after they were appointed in 2021, per the Financial Times.
Photo Illustration by Elizabeth Brockway/The Daily Beast/GettyPrince Harry was “stupid” to boast about his illegal drug use in his memoir Spare, and in interviews to promote the book, royal experts have told The Daily Beast, after the American ambassador in London sharpened the political dimension of the issue by saying Harry would never be deported under a Biden administration.Ambassador Jane Hartley’s comments that deportation action against Harry was “not going to happen in the Biden administ
The former national security adviser also criticized President Joe Biden’s strategy in the Middle East.
