It’s Wednesday, Oct. 20. Here are today’s top stories from the Ottawa Citizen newsroom.
A YEAR AFTER BOY WAS KILLED BY DUMP TRUCK, OVERBROOK RESIDENTS ARE STILL WAITING FOR NEW SAFETY MEASURES
Two construction companies are facing charges under the Occupational Health and Safety Act after a five-year-old boy was struck and killed by a dump truck in Overbrook on Oct. 15, 2025.
The Evening Citizen
HALF OF PUBLIC SERVICE ALLIANCE OF CANADA MEMBERS SET TO VOTE ON STRIKE MANDATE
About 120,000 Public Service Alliance of Canada members are sent to vote on strike mandate in the coming weeks amid ongoing cuts to the federal bureaucracy.
PARKS CANADA FACING YET ANOTHER ROUND OF LAYOFFS
Nearly 3,000 Parks Canada employees will be notified this week that their jobs are at risk.
NEIL SARAVANAMUTTOO: THE ‘PRAGMATIC PROGRESSIVE’ WHO WANTS TO BE OTTAWA’S MAYOR
Neil Saravanamuttoo never aspired to run for public office. Then the career economist says he “reached the limit of what can be achieved from outside of City Hall.”
‘LET IT ALL FLY’: TKACHUK RETURNS TO FACE SENATORS INSISTING HE GAVE ‘BLOOD, SWEAT AND TEARS’
If Ottawa Senators fans wanted to boo Brady Tkachuk every time he touched the puck Wednesday night, Florida Panthers coach Paul Maurice wasn’t about to complain.
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