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  • Infectious disease specialist Dr. Abdu Sharkawy tells CTV Morning Live people should be avoiding any special gatherings and limiting trips due to a rise in COVID-19 cases. (Jeremie Charron/CTV News Ottawa) NEW THIS MORNING

    COVID-19 in Ottawa: Fast Facts for Oct. 29, 2020

  • People go trick-or-treating at a decorated home in the Glebe neighbourhood in Ottawa on Halloween, Monday, Oct. 31, 2016 in Ottawa. (Justin Tang/THE CANADIAN PRESS) NEW THIS MORNING

    COVID-safe Halloween: Here's where you can go trick-or-treating in eastern Ontario and western Quebec

    A needle and syringe used to administer the flu shot in shown in Virgil, Ont., Monday, October 5, 2020. THE CANADIAN PRESS/Tara Walton NEW THIS MORNING

    Ottawa Public Health flu shot clinics open, new appointments available at 9 a.m.

  • Jack-O'-Lantern on the ground. (Photo by Vlad Chetan from Pexels)

    Mayor asks Ottawa residents not to trick-or-treat in Gatineau, eastern Ontario cities for a 'couple of bucks worth of candy'

    New cases of COVID-19 in Ottawa

    Ottawa continues to see lowest daily COVID-19 case count among Ontario's 'hot spots'

  • Two people walk in the deserted parking lot at IKEA in Ottawa, as it remains closed due to the COVID-19 pandemic, on Sunday, April 5, 2020. (Justin Tang/THE CANADIAN PRESS)

    IKEA confirms case of COVID-19 at its Ottawa store

    Ultimate take-out Friday SUPPORT LOCAL

    Ultimate Take-out Friday II: Season of the Kitchen

  • A sign requiring mask be worn in common areas of condo and apartment buildings is posted on a door in Ottawa. (Leah Larocque/CTV News Ottawa)

    Ottawa city council extends mandatory mask bylaw until 2021

    A empty classroom is pictured at Eric Hamber Secondary school in Vancouver, B.C. Monday, March 23, 2020. (THE CANADIAN PRESS/Jonathan Hayward)

    Ottawa public school teachers burnt out, some students report declining mental health since school began: Survey

  • Ottawa Mayor Jim Watson says to honour the worker who died, flags at the Peter D. Clark long-term care home will fly at half-mast until the day of the funeral.

    COVID-19 outbreaks over at two Ottawa long-term care homes

    Hockey teams must dress outside of the arena due to COVID-19 protocols in Kingston. (Kimberley Johnson/CTV News Ottawa)

    Hockey teams staying close to home as COVID-19 cases remain low in Kingston

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  • A hazardous materials team is at the scene of a chemical spill at the 3M plant in Brockville, Ont. Oct. 28, 2020 (Nate Vandermeer / CTV News Ottawa) UPDATED

    Chemical spill at Brockville 3M site 'successfully resolved': Office of the Fire Marshal

    Fresh Air Experience owner Jon Digney is fast-tracking orders to keep skis in stock. October 28, 2020. Ottawa, ON. (Tyler Fleming/CTV News Ottawa)

    The rush for winter gear as Ottawa residents prepare for a COVID-19 winter outdoors

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  • Protodev Canada president Ke Want has developed an app called "Contactless Access." (Photo courtesy: Protodev Canada)

    Contact-less App allows people to operate elevators and doors touch free

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    Kids in mummy costumes (Photo by Daisy Anderson from Pexels)

    Trick-or-treating given the go-ahead in Renfrew County

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  • Ottawa's O-Train will be shut for 18 weeks starting April 27 and lasting until Sept. 2, 2013.

    Next stop: Corso Italia! Mayor unveils proposed new names for Trillium Line stations

    File photo.

    Council supports plan to consult public on new policing strategy for mental health calls

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  • Exterior of A Foot Above Fitness, 1290 Trim Rd. (Google Maps)

    Orleans gym owner vows to fight fines for keeping studio open

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    Increasing demand for COVID-19 testing

    COVID-19 testing task force makes changes to appointments at CHEO and drive-thru assessment centres

  • Ottawa-Gatineau Youth Foundation

    Ottawa-Gatineau Youth Foundation relaunches with new name, same commitment to support young people

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    Kingston, Frontenac, Lennox & Addington Public Health. (Kimberley Johnson / CTV News Ottawa)

    Kingston Transit rider confirmed with COVID-19; residents encouraged to monitor for symptoms

  • A sign welcomes people at the entrance to the Chalk River Laboratories nuclear plant in Chalk River, Ont., on Monday, July 9, 2012. (Sean Kilpatrick / THE CANADIAN PRESS)

    Suspected COVID-19 outbreak declared at Canadian Nuclear Laboratories in Chalk River, Ont.

    Ontario Provincial Police shared this image of a motorcycle driver on Highway 417 eastbound near Moodie Drive at around 12:25 a.m. Sept. 12, 2020. The motorcycle driver apparently stopped briefly at the scene of a fatal crash. Police would like to speak with this driver. (Image submitted by Ontario Provincial Police)

    OPP looking to speak with motorcycle driver who stopped at fatal crash on 417

  • Ottawa firefighters battle a blaze at a home on Redfern Avenue in Bells Corners, Oct. 27, 2020. (Photo courtesy of Ottawa Fire Services)

    Fire destroys home in Bells Corners leaving three homeless

    Quebec gyms face fine for reopening NEW

    Flashpoint fitness: Quebec gyms face fines for defying government orders to close

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  • Light snow Ottawa fall snow flurries

    Light snow lingers in the forecast through midweek

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    "Employees having lunch together seems to be something that comes up over and over again as a source of outbreak," Dr. Etches said. (Photo by Craig Adderley from Pexels)

    COVID-19 'blind spots': The workplace lunchroom found to be source of viral transmission, top doc says

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  • A donation of masks by Dymon Storage is delivered to the Ottawa Mission, Oct. 27, 2020. (Chris Black / CTV News Ottawa)

    Ottawa-based Dymon Storage donating a million masks to charities in Ottawa, GTA

    A construction sign on a fence surrounding an excavation indicates the danger is Covid-19 as a construction worker walks past Tuesday October 27, 2020 in Ottawa. (Adrian Wyld/THE CANADIAN PRESS)

    COVID-19 in Ottawa: Fast Facts for Oct. 28, 2020

  • New cases of COVID-19 in Ottawa

    Fifty-eight new cases of COVID-19 in Ottawa on Tuesday

    Support staff at uOttawa spent Tuesday afternoon, Oct. 27, 2020, on the picket line at Waller St. and the Mackenzie King Bridge. (Saron Fanel / CTV News Ottawa)

    Striking support staff at uOttawa struggling to be seen and heard during pandemic

  • Dear Virus: Renfrew teen's inspired poem

    'Dear Virus': Poem speaks for high school graduates lost amid pandemic

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    Roland Besner standing beside one of his newly made desks. (Nate Vandermeer / CTV News Ottawa)

    Cornwall, Ont., woodworker building free desks for virtual learning students

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  • Unable to pay rent, daycare closes in West Ottawa

    Trudeau, McKenna vow to find solution for Ottawa daycare shuttered by high rent to feds

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    City of Ottawa

    City employees shopped during work hours and used boardroom for card games, report finds

  • Ottawa Rewind 2 by Andrew King (Ottawa Press and Publishing)

    History sleuth Andrew King with two Manotick stories: A haunting and a long-forgotten distillery

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    The Coding for Veterans Caravan made a stop in Kingston, Ont. on Tuesday, Oct. 27, 2020. (Kimberley Johnson / CTV News Ottawa)

    'Coding for Veterans' caravan stops at Kingston Legion Tuesday

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  • This Tuesday, Feb. 25, 2020 photo shows the icon for TikTok taken in New York. (AP Photo)

    Video app TikTok leans into e-commerce with Shopify deal

    A party is seen in an image from shutterstock.com

    Police break up massive party at Chelsea, Que. Airbnb; 83 students fined $1,000 each

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  • Prime Minister Justin Trudeau arrives for a news conference Tuesday October 20, 2020 in Ottawa. THE CANADIAN PRESS/Adrian Wyld

    Trudeau says pandemic 'really sucks,' and that Christmas gatherings are up in the air

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    Person using a GPS app on a smartphone. (Pexels/Ingo Joseph)

    Kingston emergency responders team up with What3Words app to help locate callers

  • Trick-or-treating is permitted under guidance from the Leeds, Grenville and Lanark District Health Unit, but the mayor of Brockville is asking grownups to avoid large parties of their own. (Photo: AP / Robert F. Bukaty)

    Brockville Mayor asks adults to avoid Halloween parties

    Ontario’s premier Doug Ford (left) is calling out Ottawa mayor Jim Watson (right), suggesting he agreed with new lockdowns privately before making public comments to the contrary.

    Ford suggests Ottawa mayor favoured new lockdowns privately, then changed his mind

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  • A person rests on a bench by a mural by artist Dom Laporte showing a health care worker, in Ottawa, on the Labour Day Long Weekend, Monday, Sept. 7, 2020, in the midst of the COVID-19 pandemic. (Justin Tang/THE CANADIAN PRESS)

    COVID-19 in Ottawa: Fast Facts for Oct. 27, 2020

    Over the last seven days, Ottawa’s number of cases have been hovering at about 54 cases per 100,000. Toronto has gone up, despite the new measures, to 75 cases per 100,000. And Peel is the highest right now, sitting at 89 cases per 100,000.

    Ottawa cases and infection rates decline; other COVID-19 hot spots in Ontario struggling with high numbers

  • A photo of people gathered at a Niagara region banquet hall was posted by Niagara MPP Sam Oosterhoff over the weekend. (Facebook: Sam Oosterhoff)

    'This is astounding': Doctor slams Ontario MPP who posed for photo with big group maskless

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    Ottawa's Chief of Police Peter Sloly.

    Ottawa police chief addresses Montsion verdict: 'We are listening, learning, changing'

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  • The owner of Vignoble et Cidrerie Coteau Rougemont is stumped by a theft that saw $5,000 worth of grapes go missing. (Photo: Facebook/Vignoble et Cidrerie Coteau Rougemont)

    Sour grapes: vineyard puzzled by theft of $5,000 in fruit

    Luisa's bowl from Mad Radish (Image courtesy of Mad Radish)

    Mad Radish: Re-imagined and expanding during COVID-19

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  • Amy Eves says she discovered several unauthorized transactions on her credit card for inappropriate items addressed to her nine-year-old daughter. This began happening shortly after learning of a security breach affecting the Girl Guides of Canada. (Saron Fanel / CTV News Ottawa)

    Adult toy almost shipped to 9-year-old after Girl Guides of Canada security breach, says parent

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    File photo of the Ottawa-Carleton Detention Centre. (Chris Scott / CTV News Ottawa)

    COVID-19 outbreak declared at Ottawa-Carleton Detention Centre

  • Charlene Burnside says a mistake in using an electronic payment system meant she didn't get paid for $2,000 worth of sales at the Richmond Farmers' Market. The community, however, rallied to raise more than the money she was short. (Photo via Jack of All Cakes / Facebook)

    A $2,000 mistake leads to paying it forward

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    Ron and Doris Bickerton are retiring. The Edwards Post Office is closing. Ron’s been on the job for 44 years; Doris for 29 years. (Joel Haslam / CTV)

    Last Post: An 'at home' post office closes in the hamlet of Edwards, Ont., sealing a chapter on 110 years of family service

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  • Legault

    Quebec's red-zone restrictions extended another 28 days: Legault

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    COVID-19, coronavirus cases Ontario

    Ontario hits highest seven-day average of COVID-19 cases since pandemic began

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  • New cases of COVID-19 in Ottawa

    Seventy-six new cases of COVID-19, one new death in Ottawa on Monday

    Ottawa police

    Police seeking witnesses to September hit-and-run in Fisher, Meadowlands area

  • Garrett McCallum in his old bedroom, admiring the Dominik Hasek mural. (Nate Vandermeer / CTV News Ottawa)

    How an old painting of a former Ottawa Senator will help a Brockville, Ont. girl with cancer

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    Hajdu

    Health Minister Hajdu says she went maskless at airport only while eating

  • The Regent Theatre in Picton, Ont. wants a ghost and, for a small donation, you could be selected to become the official ghost that haunts the theatre some day. (Kimberley Johnson / CTV News Ottawa)

    Century-old theatre in Picton, Ont. looking for its very own ghost

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    Residents line up outside the Brewer Arena in Ottawa to be tested for COVID-19, Sept. 14, 2020. (Chris Black / CTV News Ottawa)

    COVID-19 in Ottawa: Fast Facts for Oct. 26, 2020

  • Gym owners call for reopening

    Hundreds of gyms and fitness studios threaten to reopen -- unless Quebec ponies up COVID-19 data

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    A sign requiring mask be worn in common areas of condo and apartment buildings is posted on a door in Ottawa. (Leah Larocque/CTV News Ottawa)

    38 people fined for mask violations in Ottawa; Council asked to extend mandatory mask bylaw until January

  • Photo courtesy Caroline Osman. NEW

    Snowy, rainy weather ahead for Ottawa

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    Central Beirhaus in Kanata on Sept. 2. The popular Kanata restaurant is closing due to the COVID-19 restrictions. (Photo courtesy: Facebook/Central Bierhaus)

    Kanata restaurant temporarily closing due to COVID-19 restrictions on indoor dining

  • Health Minister Christine Elliott and Premier Doug Ford are seen in this photo taken at Queen's Park. (The Canadian Press)

    Ontario willing to take 'swift action' after record spike in COVID-19 cases

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    People wear face masks as they walk along a street in Montreal, Sunday, October 25, 2020, as the COVID-19 pandemic continues in Canada and around the world. (THE CANADIAN PRESS/Graham Hughes)

    Thanksgiving, fewer restrictions contributing to Canada's surge in COVID-19 cases, experts say

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  • Medical staff prepare for the opening of the COVID-19 Assessment Centre at Brewer Park Arena in Ottawa, during a media tour on Friday, March 13, 2020. THE CANADIAN PRESS/Justin Tang

    Police chief speaks, mandatory face masks until January, a COVID Halloween: Top stories to watch in Ottawa this week

    The clocks will fall back one hour at 2 a.m. on Nov. 1. While that may mean an extra hour of sleep for some people, it may affect your child's sleep next weekend.

    Daylight saving time ends Nov. 1: Three options to adjust your child's sleep through the time change

  • OPP

    17-year-old facing charges after incidents in Winchester, Chesterville this weekend: OPP

    Ottawa fall UPDATED

    Snow expected in Ottawa for the first time in 169 days

  • New cases of COVID-19 in Ottawa

    Ontario sets one-day COVID-19 case record; 86 new cases in Ottawa on Sunday

    The patio and tent at Vittoria Trattoria restaurant on Rivergate Way.

    Eleven Ottawa businesses fined for violating modified Stage 2 measures over two-week period

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