_ (press release) _ Today, Premier Kathleen Wynne helped celebrate the opening of a new acute care unit at the Queensway Carleton Hospital in Ottawa that will provide comprehensive care for seniors and help them to return home sooner. https://twitter.com/QCHOttawa/status/786955380324786176 ...

_ (press release) _ ** Ottawa ** – Mayor Jim Watson will be joined by His Excellency the Right Honourable David Johnson, Governor General of Canada, Councillor Riley Brockington, Chair of the Summit, and Jonathan Lister, VP Americas, Sales Solutions and Canada Country Manager at LinkedIn, for the Education and the Economy Summit on Friday, October 21 at City Hall. ...

** UPDATE: The city says registered letters were delivered between Sept. 20-23 to homeowners who may be expropriated. After our request for a list of properties, the city sent a second round of letters which were delivered on Oct. 12 and 13. ...

_ Our crowdsourced list of the best events in Ottawa this week! _ _ You can find even more events on our Ottawa Event Calendar . Check back here, as the list is updated throughout the week. _ ** Also check out our big list of Halloween events! ...

Here’s an article from the Oct. 13, 1951 edition of the _ ** Ottawa Citizen ** _ , just in time for throwback Thursday:

_ (press release) _ (Ottawa) - From October 7-10, Ottawa Police participated in the national road safety campaign, Operation Impact. Officers handed out 397 tickets to drivers in Ottawa, focusing on speeding, distracted driving, seatbelts and impaired driving. “These numbers show that drivers are driving too fast and cell phone use is far too common,” said Ottawa Police Traffic Sergeant Eddy Yeoumans. ...

_ (press release) _ Ottawa — Algonquin College marked one of its most important announcements today with a groundbreaking ceremony for its new Innovation, Entrepreneurship and Learning Centre and Institute for Indigenous Entrepreneurship — a state-of-the-art facility scheduled to open in 2018. ...

_ (press release) _ (Ottawa) -The Ottawa Police Service Major Crime Unit has commenced an investigation into human remains that have been positively identified as a person who went missing in 1994. The remains were discovered on May 10, 2016 on a property being developed for housing in the Maple Creek Estates area on Cabrelle Place in the Manotick area. ...

_ (press release) _ ** Ottawa, ON ** – On Monday, October 17 th 2016 , from 2:00 pm – 8:00 pm the Kanata North Business Association will host their 2 nd annual Diplomatic tour and dinner reception . ...

(This post originally appeared on Andrew King’s Ottawa Rewind blog) Over 10,000 years ago a body of water covered the City Of Ottawa called The Champlain Sea, a deep sideline of the Atlantic Ocean. It occupied a depression created by a continental glacier, and then it drained away as the giant glacier that once covered the northern hemisphere disappeared and the earth rebounded back into shape. ...