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• When might the Rideau Canal open? A look at the numbers

  The Rideau Canal Skateway remains closed to skaters after a mild January and it is unclear if it will open before or after its record latest opening date of Feb. 2.

  

• Federal investigators probing workplace death in Johnstown, Ont.

  Federal regulators are investigating a workplace death that happened last week at the Port of Johnstown, Ont.

  

• Ottawa LRT trains travelling slower due to snow buildup

  If you've taken the LRT recently and it seemed a little bit slower than usual, you're not imagining it.

  

• Cornwall, Ont. forklift driver wins $1 million Encore prize

  A Cornwall, Ont. man is a million dollars richer after winning an Encore prize late last year.

  

• Patients left in lurch after Orleans doctors plan to close practices

  Patients of an east Ottawa clinic say they've been left in the lurch after learning they would need to find new family doctors because their doctors were closing their medical practices.

• OPP identify victim in Eganville femicide as mother of accused

  Ontario Provincial Police have formally identified a woman who was found dead in Eganville last week as the mother of an 18-year-old man accused of murder.

• Loblaw ends No Name price freeze, vows 'flat' pricing 'wherever possible'

  Loblaw will not be extending its price freeze on No Name brand products, but vows to keep the yellow label product-pricing flat 'wherever possible.'

• Frigid temperatures in Ottawa on Tuesday

  Environment Canada’s weather forecast calls for sunny skies and a high of -8 C today. The wind chill will make it feel more like -27 this morning and more like -11 this afternoon.

• Ottawa Public Health drafts $128M budget for 2023

  The draft budget, to be debated over the next month before all city budgets are approved on March 1, includes $128 million in expenditures.

• Preparations underway for Winterlude, but canal in question

  Now in it’s 45th year, Winterlude, the popular winter festival, returns with in-person activities for the first time since the start of the COVID-19 pandemic.

• Governments failed Ottawa residents during convoy occupation, people's commission finds

  A report into the impact of the "Freedom Convoy" occupation on residents of Ottawa has accused all three levels of government of failing to uphold the human rights of people who live and work in downtown Ottawa.

• Family in remote northern Ont. reeling after daughter killed in fire, home destroyed

  A family in the remote First Nation community in Peawanuck, Ont., is dealing not only with the death of their young daughter, but the loss of everything they owned in a Jan. 28 house fire.

• Member of Kanata 5 tragedy launching BrainSTRONG charity to raise awareness of brain injuries

  One of the five cyclists injured by a driver in Kanata in 2009, known as the "Kanata Five", is launching a charity to raise awareness about the effects of Acquired Brain Injury.

• Ottawa police seek to identify man accused of robbing store at knifepoint

  Ottawa police are asking for the public's help in identifying a man accused of robbing a store in Nepean at knifepoint.