Ottawa Sun

SPAIN REIGNS

EAST RUTHERFORD, N.J. — Ferran Torres scored an extra-time winner as Spain defeated holders Argentina 1-0 to win the World Cup on Sunday and shatter Lionel Messi's dreams of a triumphant farewell to football's greatest stage. Barcelona striker Torres...

DOT-TAWA

Country's current queen, Ella Langley, attracted the biggest crowd of this year's Bluesfest on July 17, with an estimated 40,000 people filling every corner of the site at Lebreton Flats Park. It was one of the rare occasions a Bluesfest show has sold...

SPIN CITY

The DJS are spinning tucked away at Bluesfest along the river somewhere between the RBC Main Stage and the River stage in a self-described “Big Chill” zone, but the vibes through the night could get anything but chill. The Big Chill is an area that is...

PACK YOUR BAGPIPES

For thousands of people leaving Bluesfest over the past decade and a half, the last performance of the night wasn't on the mainstage. It echoed outside the gates. As Hardy fans streamed out of Lebreton Flats on Saturday night, many slowed along Booth...

SENS MOVE ON

We're beginning to hear from Brady Tkachuk's former Ottawa Senators teammates following the captain's June departure. Centre Shane Pinto, speaking with local media on Tuesday for the first time since locker clean out day, shared his initial reaction...

COLOUR PARTY

Bluesfest is filled with passionate, sweaty and oftentimes intoxicated music lovers. It's also filled with many colourful shirt-wearing volunteers. How many does it take for the festival to run smoothly? BLUE SHIRTS Hundreds, estimates Roxanne...

`IT IS NOT SAFE'

No hydro, no water and no food — that was the reality for Olivia Allan after the Canada Day rainstorm flooded thousands of basements and roads across Ottawa. Allan was among the hardest hit, as a resident of Park West at 30 Mcewen Ave. The 24-storey...

FLYING SOUTH

As Mark Carney continues to claim that no deal is better than a bad deal, an increasing number of Canadian firms are looking to move manufacturing production south. Carney was elected on a promise to secure a trade deal with Donald Trump, yet 16...

CROWD CONTROL

The chaotic energy of Limp Bizkit was building to a peak on Friday when the raprock legends surprised the crowd by inviting an old friend to join them on the RBC Main stage at Ottawa Bluesfest. The lanky figure in overalls and a scruffy beard was none...

Police move forward with AI technology

The Ottawa police want to use artificial intelligence facial recognition technology to generate investigative leads. On June 22, in a meeting, the Ottawa Police Service Board approved the force's motion to move forward with the first phase of its...

HOME ICE

Well, it's official. After months of deliberations, closed-door conversations and speculation, the Ottawa Charge will officially be moving to the Canadian Tire Centre full-time starting next season. Charge general manager Mike Hirshfeld announced the...

SOUND CHECK

Ottawa Bluesfest is the biggest summer music festival in Ottawa. The nineday, multi-stage extravaganza takes place on the grounds of (and inside) the Canadian War Museum at Lebreton Flats Park, within sight of the Ottawa River and Parliament...

SAD TO SEE ALFIE LEAF

Say it ain't so, Alfie! Former Ottawa Senators captain Daniel Alfredsson is leaving his post as an assistant coach on Travis Green's to join the arch-rival Toronto Maple Leafs as an associate coach on Jim Hiller's staff, which can only be described as...

LADY SINGS THE BLUES

An Ottawa country singer was crushed to find out that her first appearance at Bluesfest, a dream gig opening for Sheryl Crow and Ella Langley, was moved up an hour and cut short to make way for Quebec rock sensations Angine de Poitrine on the main...

MR. SUB

Prime Minister Mark Carney will stop in Halifax on Monday for an announcement about making Canada “more secure, resilient, and prosperous.” He will visit Canadian Forces Base Halifax, home to the Royal Canadian Navy, alongside Viceadmiral Dan...

ALL OVER

They began as a host nation among the largest World Cup ever, a tournament bursting with 48 countries, and resolutely determined to make an impact on their sport like never before. The magical run for Canada was brought to a halt on Saturday afternoon...

LET'S DO THIS

The game ended shortly after dusk in Toronto, but the night was just getting started for Portugal legend Cristiano Ronaldo and his legion of fans storming the city in rapturous celebration. One of the all-time greats was having his moment in a city...

FINAL FLIGHT

For generations of Canadians, Canada Day in Ottawa has included a familiar ritual: looking skyward for red-and-white jets. With Wednesday's 1 p.m. flypast — heavy rains forced the cancellation of their 4 p.m. demonstration — the Snowbirds' iconic...

`IT WAS HOMICIDE'

Ottawa police are investigating a murder-suicide after two boys were found dead inside a home in Findlay Creek, and their father was found dead, roughly 45 kilometres away in Kemptville. Police said officers were called to a home on Mandevilla...

DATA DRIVEN

The City of Ottawa's homelessness outreach program will include a standardized reporting system for encampments designed to improve supports and to collect data while maintaining the privacy of the city's unsheltered homeless population. A motion from...

SWEET 16

They came here to Southern California, booted out of their own country despite being a World Cup host, but still driven to make a statement in the most important moment of their careers. They came ultimately to add to the history they've already made...

WHEELER DEALER

Steve Staios has a plan. As the Ottawa Senators wrapped up Day 2 of the National Hockey League draft, the club's president of hockey operations and general manager was confident in the changes he's made to the roster in the last week and he noted on...

MORE SUPPORT

When Grace Kamanda was on her way to the job, she was afraid. Kamanda is a crisis support worker with ANCHOR, a 24/7 mental health crisis support service that provides central and east Ottawa residents in distress with someone to talk to other than...

QUEST FOR THE RING

I want to tell you about an eightyear-old girl and her pet dog, Scooby. But first I want to tell you about one recent Friday. It was the day before the last of Ontario's supervised consumption sites were closed by government fiat, when people with...

HOME TEAM HEARTBREAK

If Jesse Marsch has to play the villain, the U.s.-born coach of Canada's most accomplished men's national soccer team is fine with it. Through all the theatrics and memes and mocking from other countries, Marsch and Canada are going on to the Round of...

`THE NEXTPAGES CHAPTER'

Brady Tkachuk bid a fond farewell to the fans of the Ottawa Senators on Tuesday. “I just want to say thank you to everyone in the city,” Tkachuk said. “Everybody welcomed me from Day 1, treated me like I was from there. Treated me like family. I'll...

TKAPUT

Brady Tkachuk wanted out. A month ago, Steve Staios, the Ottawa Senators' president of hockey operations and general manager, called the possibility of trading the club's captain “nonsense”, but after a meeting last month at Tkachuk's home in New...

TKA-BOOM!

The Ottawa Senators are bidding farewell to captain Brady Tkachuk. After denying they'd deal Tkachuk, the Senators sent him to Florida Panthers in a deal on Sunday afternoon that we will see the club get three first-round picks and a second-round...

BLUE IT

Ottawa Redblacks head coach Ryan Dinwiddie was reminded on Saturday afternoon of what he must miss most about living in Toronto. He was reminded of how good it can be to have Chad Kelly as his quarterback. Facing his former team for the first time,...

POOL'S OUT

A limp hand sticks out through the bars of a metal fence, where a man is lying unconscious on the hot pavement. It's the afternoon of June 12, the final day of operation for Ottawa's two remaining supervised consumption sites. Out in front of the...

THREE CHEERS!

For all the promises, the avowals of support and the cheerleading from coach Jesse Marsch that frankly was starting to feel a little forced, Canada needed more. They needed a first-ever win in World Cup play. They needed goals in bunches (and...

WILL HE OR WON'T HE?

VANCOUVER — There's a special class of Canadian athlete; one whose health becomes a national discussion. We're thinking Wayne Gretzky's back at the 1991 Canada Cup, or Sidney Crosby's head, or Marie-philip Poulin's leg during the 2026 Winter...

TUNED OUT

This is the perfect time to start over again. To find the next Ron Maclean. To find the next panel that rocks. To become, under a new name every Saturday night, what Hockey Night In Canada used to be. The program that set the standard for hockey on...

IS HE JOR-DONE?

Is Jordan Spence one-and-done with the Ottawa Senators? That possibility is on the table. With less than two weeks until the National Hockey League draft is held, with the top prospects gathered at the Keybank Center in Buffalo for Round 1 on June...

A DON DEAL?

An agreement to end fighting between the United States and Iran is “now complete,” according to Donald Trump, with an Iranian diplomat and key mediator Pakistan backing those assertions. Trump announced what he said was the completion of the deal on...

HOLE TRUTH

Paul Charette had just finished a locksmithing job at the Rideau Centre and was returning to the van he'd parked outside when he first encountered the sinkhole. It had opened up, a giant, yawning maw, between him and the company car, a dark blue Dodge...

FAST ON THE DRAW

How close was Canada to a full-blown World Cup crisis? About 10 minutes, plus stoppage time. Knocked back by a goal from Bosniaherzegovina midway through the first half of the first men's World Cup game ever to be played on Canadian soil, and missing...

STADIUM COVER UP

MARKED MEN

The two biggest questions Jesse Marsch wants nothing to do with almost certainly will decide Canada's version of success in the World Cup. Question 1: What about the injuries and especially the massive, mysterious hamstring of captain Alphonso...

TURBO CHARGED

Just like that, two of the most recognizable jerseys in the Charge fan base have become relics of a bygone era. After captain Brianne Jenner and alternate captain Emily Clark announced their departures to sign with the new Hamilton franchise, the...

WITH BATED BREATH

As Doug Ford heads to Washington for two days of meetings Monday, there are a few nervous people in Ottawa. Officials in Ottawa from the Prime Minister's Office on down are crossing their fingers and holding their breath that Ford doesn't do anything...

THE BUZZ

As warmer summer temperatures are finally expected to settle in after a cool spring in Ottawa, outdoor patios and swimming pools won't be the only things coming to life. The warm weather is also great news for mosquitoes and other biting insects, many...

LIFE SAVERS

When Jonathan Blakey saw Mark Cloutier flat on the ice, he had no idea the cardiopulmonary resuscitation (CPR) refresher course from a week prior would help save the 72-year-old's life. It was while warming up for a Wednesday afternoon beer league...

`MAYHEM' IN OVERBROOK

At 4 p.m. on Wednesday, all that remained behind the Ottawa police's yellow crime scene tape were bloodied gauzes, white Nike Air sneakers and a bullet casing. Just hours before, officers were at the 300 block of Prince Albert St. in the Overbrook...

PEDDLING BIKE SHARE

When Debbie Staples was told she might have to leave the apartment she has lived in for nearly 20 years, she tried to imagine what might come next. “Is the postman going to deliver the mail to my car?” she recalls thinking. “Because that's where I'd...

ON THE RUN

Ottawa police say no arrests have been made after stabbings at Mooney's Bay Park over the weekend left an adult man in critical condition and sent a teenage girl to hospital. Officers said they were called to the park at about 8:53 p.m. on Saturday,...

TRUE PATRIOT LOVE

The Canadian military believes patriotism, along with distinct uniforms and other benefits, could prompt members of the public to volunteer for a new 300,000-strong reserve force to be used in national emergencies. Chief of the Defence Staff Gen....

ERRBORNE

The Canadian Forces Snowbirds have been many things to many people over the years. One of the best teams in the world for precision demonstrations and a regular sight at major events from Grey Cups to Olympic Games, the Snowbirds have inspired...

SILENT STRUGGLE

Amy Ayers and her three children, 26, 15 and 14, along with their cat and dog, are living in tent in an Ottawa forest. Not for fun, but because they have nowhere else to live. Their precarious housing situation started more than a year ago. Ayers...

SACK IS BACK

The bell rings to end the school day at 3 p.m. and one student is rushing down the front step of Glebe Collegiate Institute, exclaiming that he can't wait to sack with his friends. What he's excited to do, exactly, is stand in a circle, kick a small...

MAIER WINS TOP JOB

Nine days before the Ottawa Redblacks 2026 season opener — and about 31 hours before their preseason finale at TD Place — Jake Maier was officially declared the team's new No. 1 quarterback. He replaces Dru Brown, Ottawa's QB1 for the past two...

ARTIFICIAL EDUCATION

Most students at Laya Piché's school refer to CHATGPT as a friend. Piché, who is in Grade 11 at Ottawa's Collège catholique Franco-ouest, thinks that's a serious issue — and this concern isn't unique to her. Despite artificial intelligence seeping...

THE CASE FOR CLAUDE

Claude Giroux has unfinished business. The Senators' veteran winger pondered retirement after the club was eliminated from the NHL playoffs in four straight games by the Carolina Hurricanes last month, but it was confirmed on Tuesday he'd like to play...

RIGHT AT HOME

OTTAWA — Brooke Henderson will have another chance to be a hero in her hometown next summer. Golf Canada and Canadian Pacific Kansas City (CPKC) announced on Monday afternoon that the prestigious Royal Ottawa Golf Club in Gatineau will host the 2027...

WHAT'S THE DEAL?

A day after reports surfaced that a deal that would end the three-month-long war in the Middle East was emerging, U.S. President Donald Trump said they will not “rush into a deal” with Iran. In a post on Truth Social on Sunday morning, Trump wrote:...

BOT BUST

An Ottawa man has been arrested following an international cybercrime investigation into a major “botnet” operation that is alleged to have infected millions of devices with malware. The Ontario Provincial Police cybercrime investigations team...

LEGACY RUNNER

When 24-year-old Kristian Jamieson runs, he always sees one person ahead of him. “I always ask myself, `Would he be proud of what I'm doing?' ” Jamieson is an Upper Cayuga runner who will lining up against the elite field in Sunday's Ottawa...

HOLY SPOKES!

When Daniel Addai Fobi first saw the driveway in Ottawa's Bel Air Park neighbourhood covered entirely in bicycles, he wasn't sure what to think. “I couldn't count them, there were so many,” said Addai Fobi, who as a newcomer from Ghana first met Grant...

GROUNDED

Snowbirds aircraft, newly modernized at a cost of $30 million, will go from delivery into retirement, the Canadian Forces has confirmed. The 20 modernized aircraft were to be fully operational by the spring of 2027, according an April 2025 Royal...

We look at Sens' backup goalie options

LATE SPARK

CHARGE 2, VICTOIRE 1 Montreal leads series 2-1 The Ottawa Charge is alive to fight another day. And once again providing the heroics was Rebecca Leslie. Her goal with 54.8 seconds remaining capped an inspiring comeback to give the Charge a 2-1...

UH-OH

LAVAL, Que. — As soon as the buzzer sounded marking the end of the third period in Game 2 of the Walter Cup final, the Ottawa Charge knew that finding one more goal would be the difference between tying the series at one or falling into a rather...

REBOUND

In the final three seconds of regulation time in Thursday night's hockey game at Place Bell, hope quickly turned to heartbreak for the Ottawa Charge. After the Montreal Victoire tied the game at 2-2, then found the back of the net again in overtime,...

AHEAD BY A CENTURY

Just over a month past his 100th birthday, Roy Allen will walk the 5K during Tamarack Ottawa Race Weekend, becoming the first centenarian to do so. Allen's walk will also raise money for four Ottawa-area seniors organizations that he says have been...

QUIT OR BE FIRED

OC Transpo is eyeing a mid-june target to restore O-train Line 1 service as newly-appointed general manager Rick Leary outlined a 10-point plan to improve the city's beleaguered transit system. Leary, the former Toronto Transit Commission CEO whose...

FOLK LEGEND

Ottawa's Cityfolk Festival has unveiled the program for an expanded edition of the event that will make its debut this summer in a spacious new site on the grounds of the RA Centre. Headliners range from classic shock-rocker Alice Cooper and...

NOW WE WAIT

The winner-takes-all semifinal Game 5 between the Montreal Victoire and the Minnesota Frost has been postponed to Tuesday night due to player safety concerns related to illness. The Professional Women's Hockey League made the announcement just two...

LOW SPIRITS

It has been more than a year since Ontario banned U.S. alcohol from liquor store shelves, but the United States government is still feeling the hangover. Last month, the issue of U.S. alcohol bans by Ontario — and every other province except Alberta...

Experts say tulip meter reading good news for this year's festival ››

Tulips are a long-standing symbol of friendship between Canada and the Netherlands, but the spring-blooming plant also have an edgier and more scientific side, one that can help you best plan visits to the Canadian Tulip Festival. Tina Liu, a senior...

ROLLED BACK AGAIN

For Orléans resident and cyclist Rob Attrell, the scenic Sir George-étienne Cartier Parkway is crucial for getting around. As one of three parkways that the National Capital Commission closes for their Weekend Bikedays program, this east-end road is...

FULL HOUSE

If 90% of the sports teams in a league qualify for the playoffs, what exactly is the regular season for? That's the question Canadian football fans might be asking following the recent announcement by the CFL that, starting in 2027, eight of the...

‘SWEET SPOT’

Talk to Ottawa Charge players about Jocelyne Larocque and you'll hear one word again and again used to describe the veteran defender: Leader. “She's very much a leader for us within our organization, certainly on the back end,” head coach Carla...

OFF AND RUNNING

Mayor Mark Sutcliffe could face some formidable competition in the mayoral race as a number of high-profile candidates kicked off their campaigns with the nomination period opening May 1. Kitchissippi Coun. Jeff Leiper has already announced his...

BLUELINE BONANZA

he Ottawa Charge has been getting offensive production from a rather unexpected place in the PWHL postseason, and it's starting to look like it hasn't been by accident. That unexpected place? The blue line. Through two games in the bestof-five...

`CRUCIAL TIME'

YEREVAN — Prime Minister Mark Carney met Sunday with Armenian Prime Minister Nikol Pashinyan in his nation's capital ahead of the European Political Community summit, a gathering touching on strategic co-operation in politics, security and...

LOVE STORY

Peter and Amanda Clark had a plan. They were going to buy a travel trailer, put a big map of Canada on the side and circle all the places they would visit. The plan would take 10 years to put into action. By then, their five rescue cats would be down...