Kevin Chitamun's Facebook group is focused on pictures of joy from around the globe. The Ottawa man launched the group to inspire people around the world to see the beauty that surrounds them. It also helped him when he struggled with addiction.

The Owl Caf and Meeting Place, which opened Monday, is one of Ottawa's only social enterprises that specifically hires and trains staff and interns on the autism spectrum.

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Refugees and other newcomers are disproportionately falling prey to an insidious phone scam involving fake Canada Revenue agents, and some are losing everything they have.

Ottawa police mistakenly released an internal document about a Saturday night homicide that contained the names of witnesses, their statements and their personal information.

An Ottawa bus driver who came to the defence of a student wearing niqab in 2016 is fighting cancer and getting help from the same community he tried to protect.

Rebecca Chambers, a teacher at John McCrae Secondary School, is on a crusade to help her students unlearn traditional learning.