With the vacations within the rearview mirror, Ottawa has been bustling with vital information.
For those who have been targeted on seasonal celebrations and spending time with household and buddies, you’ll have missed some key updates and incidents from throughout the area.
At CityNews Ottawa, we’ve been busy protecting the whole lot from adjustments to public transit and native infrastructure to the area’s ongoing efforts to help susceptible communities.
With 2025 simply starting, now could be the right time to atone for what’s shaping Ottawa, and what adjustments are coming within the new 12 months.
Ontario’s new legal guidelines and rules coming into impact in 2025
The brand new 12 months means new legal guidelines and rules in Ontario. Beneath are solely among the new guidelines and adjustments coming into impact as of Jan. 1.
The federal government is capping child-care charges at $22 per day for households with youngsters in centres which are enrolled within the nationwide $10-a-day program. Officers mentioned in an August announcement it will guarantee no childcare operators within the $10-a-day program will expertise a loss.
An modification to the provincial Freeway Site visitors Act will increase the minimal to report a collision that includes property harm to police from $2,000 to $5,000.
Ontario will now require each publicly-assisted faculty and college in Ontario to ascertain clear insurance policies to help scholar psychological well being, in addition to tackle and forestall racism and hate on campus.
A number of canines fall by means of ice
Courtesy: Jean Lalonde/Ottawa Fireplace Providers
Whereas the Ottawa area noticed loads of snowfall in addition to various temperatures, Ottawa Fireplace Providers rescued “multiple” canines that fell by means of ice within the nation’s capital in December 2024.
One rescue on Dec. 30, a golden retriever named Tika was struggling to remain afloat within the Ottawa River within the metropolis’s east finish. Firefighters with the ice rescue crew made their method out to the canine and safely rescued her simply 20 minutes after the decision to 911. Tika has been mentioned to be “doing well” following the ordeal.
The world’s greatest junior hockey gamers in Ottawa
Canada’s Bradly Nadeau (10) celebrates his objective in opposition to the US throughout third interval IIHF World Junior Hockey Championship event motion in Ottawa on Tuesday, Dec. 31, 2024. THE CANADIAN PRESS/Sean Kilpatrick
The Metropolis of Ottawa has been internet hosting the Worldwide Ice Hockey Federation’s annual World Juniors hockey event, which formally kicked off on Boxing Day.
The extremely anticipated occasion had many from throughout Canada journey to town to absorb the video games on the Canadian Tire Centre in Kanata and TD Place at Lansdowne Park.
Workforce Canada has among the nation’s greatest junior gamers on the crew together with Ottawa 67s captain Luca Pinelli and head coach Dave Cameron behind the bench.
Canada opened up the event with a 4-0 win over Finland however adopted it up with a 3-2 shootout loss to Latvia. The Canadians bounced again profitable 3-0 over Germany then dropped their final recreation of the spherical robin to the USA by a rating of 4-1.
All eyes shall be on the Thursday night quarterfinal match up in opposition to Czechia the place Canada wants a win to keep away from being eradicated from the event.
Earthquake felt in Ottawa
Resident took to social media on Dec. 29 reporting a rumbling feeling.
The offender was a 4.1 magnitude earthquake that rattled the Maniwaki space in western Quebec at 8:02 within the morning.
Some reported noticing snow falling from their roofs, Christmas timber shaking, and beds rattling.
Hassle on the roads
Ottawa Fireplace Providers extricated a driver from a car caught beneath a Freeway 417 underpass. (Ottawa Fireplace Providers/X)
On Christmas Eve, Ontario Provincial Police (OPP) responded to a handful of collisions alongside the 416 and 417.
Round 8:40 a.m., the Ottawa Fireplace Providers (OFS) acquired a name reporting a car had pushed up and beneath the overpass of Eagleson Highway on the 417. The white car turned wedged, trapping the lone occupant inside.
Firefighters informed CityNews that the driving force didn’t maintain any accidents.
Police busy over the vacations
Forty-seven kilograms of suspected cocaine have been among the many gadgets seized from 4 search warrants in Venture Midfield. (OPP)
The OPP and Ottawa Police Service (OPS) had their fingers busy with just a few critical incidents.
An Ottawa man has been charged following the Christmas Day homicide of an grownup woman close to Little Italy. The sufferer has been recognized as 46-year-old Jolene Arreak of Ottawa.
Manasi Foo, 35, has been charged with second-degree homicide and the tried homicide of a second sufferer who was handled in hospital, and has since been launched.
Additionally on Christmas Day, provincial police laid charges after a driver was stopped on Freeway 417. They have been initially pulled over after the car’s plate had been taken out of service. Upon additional investigation, police discovered the car was uninsured and the driving force solely possessed a G1 license regardless of driving on a 400-series freeway. The motive force is dealing with a number of charges together with one for carrying a passenger within the entrance seat as a G1 driver.
Thousands and thousands of {dollars} of medication have been seized and a number of individuals charged together with from the nation’s capital.
In September, the OPP-led Biker Enforcement Unit, together with native police items started Venture Midfield to deal with drug-trafficking exercise in Ottawa and jap Ontario.
On Nov. 27, police executed a number of search warrants at residences and automobiles in Ottawa and Milford. In consequence, many gadgets have been seized, together with:
One firearm
5 magazines with ammunition
Physique armour
47 kilograms of suspected cocaine
250 grams of suspected psilocybin
Over 100 kilos of illicit hashish
Two automobiles as offence-related property
Police estimate the road worth of the medication seized is greater than $6 million and have laid 39 charges in opposition to three people from Ottawa and Milford.
Stick with CityNews Ottawa all through 2025 for extra information protection on what issues most to you.
With information from Rachel Morgan, Andrea Bennett, Natasha O’Neill and Ontario Chronicle.
