NEW THIS MORNING | Hog's Back Swing Bridge closing for two days of maintenance
The National Capital Commission is closing the Hog’s Back Swing Bridge for two days starting tonight to conduct 'further maintenance on the bridge closing system.'

The National Capital Commission is closing the Hog’s Back Swing Bridge for two days starting tonight to conduct 'further maintenance on the bridge closing system.'
The Canada Day main stage will be at LeBreton Flats park just west of downtown Ottawa this year, not on Parliament Hill.
Progressive Conservative Leader Doug Ford faced a barrage of attacks from the other three major party leaders in the Ontario election debate Monday.
Western University's Northern Tornadoes Project says a landspout tornado occurred east of Ottawa during Sunday's severe weather, making it the first confirmed tornado of the 2022 season.
Friends and colleagues are remembering David Milgaard, a justice advocate who died over the weekend.
The Conseil des écoles catholiques du Centre-Est continues to investigate the dress code "blitz" at École secondaire catholique Béatrice-Desloges last Thursday, which students said left them feeling degraded and humiliated.
Construction season officially kicks off in Ottawa today, with tens of millions of dollars worth of projects on the agenda this spring and summer.
It will be a rainy day in the capital on Monday with a risk of a thunderstorm later today.
A new art installation was unveiled at the National Arts Centre on Monday. Titled 'Heartbeat of Mother Earth' the mixed media art piece showcases aspects of Algonquin culture and tradition, recognizing the history and geography of this region.
Prince Charles and his wife, Camilla, are in Newfoundland and Labrador's capital today to begin a three-day Canadian tour focused on Indigenous reconciliation and climate change.
The Ukrainian government says Russia has shelled more than 1,000 schools, destroying 95. Intentionally attacking schools and other civilian infrastructure is a war crime. Experts say wide-scale wreckage can be used as evidence of Russian intent, and to refute claims that schools were simply collateral damage.
Ontario’s four main party leaders were relatively civil as they spared at Monday night’s televised election debate in Toronto.
The white gunman accused of massacring 10 Black people at a Buffalo supermarket wrote as far back as November about staging a livestreamed attack on African Americans, practiced shooting from his car and travelled hours from his home in March to scout out the store, according to detailed diary entries he appears to have posted online.
A gunman motivated by hatred against Taiwan chained shut the doors of a California church and hid firebombs before shooting at a gathering of mostly elderly Taiwanese parishioners, killing a man who tackled him, authorities said.
The Buffalo shooting suspect allegedly targeted Black people; an Ont. driver who killed a mother and three daughters gets 17 years in prison.
An uninhabitable, dilapidated house in Vancouver has been listed at a jaw-dropping price... but the agent is confident it will sell.