Prime 5 tales in Ottawa this 7 days

A gentleman drives off the 417, fees are laid in a big explosion and the federal governing administration kicks out TikTok.

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Federal authorities bans TikTok on staff equipment

TikTok, the well known video-sharing application, is now banned on federal federal government-issued products mainly because of fears in excess of the app’s ties to the Chinese federal government.

President of the Treasury Board Mona Fortier, whose division oversees the general public assistance, mentioned Monday that the application would be banned effective Feb. 28.

In a statement, she stated the determination to clear away and block TikTok from govt gadgets is becoming taken “as a precaution” and lines up with the strategies of intercontinental companions.

TikTok’s mum or dad organization ByteDance is based mostly in Beijing and protection officials in Canada and around the entire world have expressed concerns about how a great deal accessibility the ruling Communist Party of China has to its facts. TikTok officials have insisted the application is not in any way controlled by the Chinese federal government.

Quite a few provinces have also followed accommodate, nevertheless Ontario says it is still seeking into the subject. The metropolis of Ottawa is also thinking about banning the application.

The TikTok symbol is observed on a cellphone on Oct. 14, 2022, in Boston. (AP Picture/Michael Dwyer, File)

Ottawa teenager given trespassing ticket for skating on community pond

An Ottawa teenager was given a $125 ticket for skating on a local pond in his neighbourhood.

Eric Ledian was skating on Beaver Pond in Kanata Lakes when a bylaw officer informed him to leave and gave him a ticket for trespassing.

The city suggests the pond is unsafe. Ottawa Bylaw states it is a stormwater pond and the ice is unsafe mainly because of the h2o transferring beneath it. But Duro Oravsky, one of the volunteers who appears just after the ice, claimed the ice is cleared and flooded often. Very last weekend it was 24 inches thick, he reported.

Place councillor Cathy Curry explained she’d inquire if other choices for the ice surface area can be explored.

Eric Ledain and his dad Timon on the Beaver Pond in Kanata Lakes. (Shaun Vardon/CTV News Ottawa)

 Man billed with legal negligence, arson in Ottawa explosion

A 35-calendar year-aged Ottawa gentleman is dealing with a dozen costs in relation to an explosion in Orléans that hurt 12 folks previous month.

Kody Troy Crosby has been billed with 4 counts each individual of felony neglience producing bodily damage and arson triggering bodily damage, Ottawa police reported Thursday.

Crosby is also billed with arson with disregard for human lifetime and arson leading to assets hurt. He is also billed with two counts of breaking and getting into.

The explosion on Feb. 13 ruined four properties that had been under construction and weakened a lot of more in a vast radius, displacing virtually 30 family members. Two persons were being rescued from the rubble with major injuries and various many others ended up hospitalized, such as small children.

The accused has faced other breaking and getting into expenses in the past.

Hurt is found subsequent an early morning fuel leak explosion in the Orleans location of Ottawa, on Monday, Feb. 13, 2023. Officials say 12 persons were hurt in a fuel explosion that rocked an east Ottawa suburb on Monday morning, including two young children and two people today who ended up pulled out of the rubble. (Spencer Colby/THE CANADIAN Press)

Gentleman drives automobile off Freeway 417, falling onto Carling Avenue

A 23-12 months-old Ottawa person is struggling with impaired driving costs immediately after his auto drove off Freeway 417 in Ottawa’s west end and landed on Carling Avenue previous Saturday.

Witnesses observed the car or truck “currently being pushed erratically” in the westbound lanes close to Carling Avenue, Ontario Provincial Police reported Sunday early morning.

Law enforcement tell CTV News Ottawa witnesses documented the car struck the concrete centre median, crossed all four lanes of targeted traffic and went more than the ideal barrier on to Carling Avenue.

Photos from the scene confirmed the car or truck on its side from a fence up coming to Carling Avenue. Firefighters utilized specialised tools to lower the roof off the auto to extricate the occupant.

Ottawa fireplace says the driver of a car or truck drove off Freeway 417 and landed on Carling Avenue in Ottawa’s west stop on Saturday evening. (Submitted/Ottawa Hearth Assistance)

Nordstrom closing shops in Ottawa as it winds down Canadian functions

The Nordstrom retail store in the Rideau Centre and the Nordstrom Rack at Ottawa Prepare Yards will near by the end of June, as the retail shop shuts down functions in Canada.

Nordstrom announced on Thursday it is winding down its Canadian functions and closing all of its stores in Canada. The fashion retailer reported it does not “see a sensible route to profitability for the Canadian enterprise”.

The organization explained all of its 2,500 team customers in Canada would eliminate their jobs. Nordstrom says the e-commerce system will cease functions on March 2, whilst the in-retail store wind-down is anticipated to be done by late June with the assistance of a third-occasion liquidator.

Nordstrom Canada present cards will continue to be honoured to the conclusion of the liquidation period. Returns and exchanges will be permitted right up until March 17 at which level all profits and returns will be regarded as remaining. 

The Nordstrom store in Ottawa’s Rideau Centre. Nordstrom introduced Thursday all of its Canadian suppliers will near by the conclude of June. (Josh Pringle/CTV News Ottawa)