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The region has undergone a building boom as the city contends with a tight rental market, a growing tourism industry, and an overloaded transit system.
A large sinkhole has formed in the Sussex-Rideau intersection, just east of the Rideau Centre, causing evacuations of the surrounding area, power outages, and a gas leak
Organizers have announced that this year’s Capital Pride festival is set to take place from August 17-23. This will be the 30th anniversary of the event.
Police have made arrests in relation to two assaults that occurred in downtown Ottawa. On Tuesday evening, a 32-year-old international student was assaulted, and almost thrown off Cummings Bridge, located between downtown Ottawa and Vanier.
“When I told people to please follow lockdown procedures, I don’t know if it’s just because they didn’t take me seriously because I was technically a student, but none of them even seemed to know what exactly that meant,” he said.
In a week when national security and terrorism were already at the top of the national political agenda, Parliament Hill itself today was besieged by a gunman who shot and killed a soldier at the National War Memorial before bursting into the Centre Block, apparently bent on a rampage, before being shot and killed himself in a shootout with Hill security officials.
