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For the 90th time since the end of the First World War, war veterans, dignitaries and ordinary Canadians gathered Wednesday in downtown Ottawa to honour the country's war dead.

A striking DriveTest worker hands out pamphlets to people waiting outside the reopened Canotek Road DriveTest centre.

A father slashed 10 years off his age and his son claimed to be older so they could both fight in the First World War.

Mykonos, an island for the care free. Trip Start Unknown 1 Trip End Ongoing Ottawa , Ontario , Canada Friday, November 6, 2009 This being my first blog entry, I decided to write about an Island called Mykonos, located in the Aegean sea, the most famous Greek Island.

Bylaw enforcement officers charged about 40 Ottawa stores, including popular new Asian food retailer T&T Supermarket, for opening on Remembrance Day morning.

Prince Charles and the Duchess of Cornwall have ended their tour of Canada with a tree planting ceremony at the home of the Queen's representative.

The police manhunt for Claude Legare, a 49-year-old mechanic who tried to knife his former girlfriend to death on Friday as she did her Canada Post route in Barrhaven, ended when investigators found his body in the ruins of his victim's burned-out Kemptville home on Wednesday, days after detectives believe he deliberately set it on fire.

The Ottawa Hospital has been forced to cancel 112 surgeries originally scheduled between Oct.

A police cruiser sits outside a woman's shelter at 515 MacLaren St., where a woman died in a second-floor apartment fire Sunday night.

Remembrance Day observances in Ottawa. Remembrance ceremonies are attracting crowds in Canada and around the world Wednesday to honour those who died while serving their countries.

Rona Inc. called on the federal government Tuesday to extend its popular home renovations tax credit program to further stimulate much needed sales until the economy recovers.

It took firefighters about 45 minutes to put out the fire in the bedroom of a second-floor apartment at the shelter, shown here on Monday morning.

Quarterback Benoit Groulx of the Laval Rouge Et Or is in the running for a second consecutive Hec Crighton trophy as Canada's outstanding university football player.

Canada would be better off living with U.S. President Barack Obama's Buy American provisions than trying to strike a deal that gives up the autonomy provincial and municipal governments enjoy to enact their own buy-local policies, a new think-tank analysis suggests.

Harriet Prince clasps a portrait of her uncle, Sgt. Tommy Prince, during Aboriginal Veterans Day ceremony at Victory Square in Vancouver on Nov.

Governor General Michaelle Jean touches Master Cpl. Jody Mitic, left, as she presents him with the new Sacrifice Medal as Prime Minister Stephen Harper, right, and Chief of the Defence Staff Walter Natynczyk look on during a ceremony at Rideau Hall in Ottawa, Ont., Monday November 9, 2009.

As Brenda Van Leyen continued to fight for her life in a hospital yesterday, police launched a massive manhunt to track down the man they believe stabbed her a dozen times.

Here's the original version. Ottawa mag changed a few of the opening paragraphs: Dena Gosewich knew something was wrong with Jerry Yanover when the veteran Parliamentary strategista s Sunday New York Times was still on the doorstep, unread, at lunch time.

King George VI and Queen Elizabeth, together on the steps at Rideau Hall, Ottawa, are entertained by the governor general, John Buchan, and his wife Susan, during the first-ever visit to Canada by a sitting king and queen, 19939.

OTTAWA a ' The intervention of a 21-year-old drugstore employee may have saved the life of a woman who was involved in an apparent domestic assault inside a Shopper's Drug Mart Friday afternoon.