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• Police reveal the most stolen vehicle in Ottawa and Queensway shutdown causes gridlock: Top five stories this week

  CTVNewsOttawa.ca looks at the top five stories on our website this week.

  

• Ottawa police officers replace bike stolen from 8-year-old boy

  A young Ottawa boy has a brand new bicycle, thanks to some Ottawa police officers in his neighbourhood.

  

• Five-kilometre section of Queensway closed until Monday

  All eastbound and westbound lanes of Hwy. 417 are closed between Metcalfe Street and Carling/Kirkwood Avenues for the replacement of the Booth Street Bridge. The closure will continue until Monday at 6 a.m.

  

• One person killed in single-vehicle crash south of Ottawa

  Emergency crews responded to the crash on Front Street in Finch, Ont. shortly after 2 p.m. on Friday.

  

• Fire damages community fridge and pantry at Parkdale Food Centre

  In a post on Facebook, the Parkdale Food Centre says the Road Runner II and the accompanying pantry outside on Rosemount Avenue was "set on fire" Friday evening.

• Lanark County Plowing Match returns ahead of International event coming to Kemptville in September

  In advance of an international event coming to eastern Ontario next month, farmers from around the region showed of their skills at the Lanark County Plowing Match, for the first time since 2019.

• Family and friends continue search for missing Cornwall, Ont. man

  Family and friends of a missing Cornwall, Ont. man are continuing to search for him more than two weeks after he went missing.

• Ottawa baby makes his grand appearance in Queensway Carleton Hospital hallway

  An Ottawa family has a story for a lifetime after delivering their newborn in the hallway of the Queensway Carleton Hospital.

• A sunny and seasonal mid-August weekend

  It’s going to be a sunny weekend with temperatures that aren’t too hot both Saturday and Sunday.

• New OC Transpo drivers start Monday as cancelled trips mount

  OC Transpo says 4.5 per cent of all bus trips were cancelled across the city of Ottawa this week as the transit service continued to deal with a shortage of operators.

• Ottawa Public Health 'encouraged' with uptake of COVID-19 vaccine for children and babies

  Ottawa Public Health says it is encouraged with the uptake of the COVID-19 vaccine for children under 5 in Ottawa, with more than 3,000 children receiving the first dose of the COVID-19 vaccine.

• Author Salman Rushdie on ventilator after he was stabbed on lecture stage in New York

  Salman Rushdie, whose novel 'The Satanic Verses' drew death threats from Iran's leader in the 1980s, was stabbed in the neck and abdomen Friday by a man who rushed the stage as the author was about to give a lecture in western New York.

• One Eastern Ontario ER closed overnights this weekend as Premier says 'everything on the table' to fix system

  Emergency departments across the province have either shut down or reduced hours this summer because of a severe shortage of nurses.

• A look at road closures, O-Train shutdown planned in Ottawa this weekend

  CTVNewsOttawa.ca looks at road closures and service disruptions around Ottawa this weekend.