_ (Via NAC) _ March 28, 2017 – OTTAWA (Canada) – On March 31st internationally acclaimed pianist Louis Lortie returns to the National Arts Centre with a recital that promises to be a physical performance of great technical proficiency and poetic finesse. ...

** Update: Both of the teens have been found, say police. ** _ (Via Ottawa Police) _ (Ottawa) – The Ottawa Police Service is currently requesting the assistance of the public to locate the following missing persons, Jessica BRESSI 15 years old and Austin HENDERSON 17 years old. ...

_ (Via Ontario Government) _ Ontario is providing more people with affordable access to legal services by increasing the financial eligibility threshold for legal aid by another six per cent. Effective April 1, 2017, about 140,000 more people will be eligible to receive the legal services they need, regardless of their ability to pay. ...

_ ** Editor’s note: The FM frequency 95.7 has been empty in Ottawa since about 2014, when a local station carrying national network Aboriginal Voices Radio went quiet. The Canadian Radio-television and Telecommunications Commission later revoked all licenses for the AVR in 2015, opening up its other frequencies in Toronto, Calgary, Edmonton and Vancouver. ...

[caption id=“attachment_64210” align=“aligncenter” width=“6000”] Hintonburg is going to have a lot more signs like this one on Fairmont Avenue. Dickson Davidson with the Hintonburg Community Association says new 40 km/h signs could be up by April at the earliest, after a petition to the city. ...

_ (Via City of Ottawa) _ ** Ottawa ** – The City of Ottawa is preparing to start the two-phase procurement process for the professional design services for the new Ottawa Central Library.  The Notice of Planned Procurement, now posted on Merx, provides interested parties ample time to assemble teams, partnerships and resources to compete – which starts with the request for qualification (RFQ) in the second quarter of 2017. ...

_ (Via Ottawa Jazz Festival) _ ** Ottawa ** (Wednesday, March 23, 2017) — From the world’s greatest jazz improvisers, jazz piano trios, to big band extravaganzas and a remarkable assemblage of the finest female vocalists in the world today, this year’s 37 th edition of the ** TD Ottawa Jazz Festival ** from June 22 – July 2 has it all! ...

The owner of the Magna Terra marijuana dispensary chain is among seven arrested and charged after police raids on his two Ottawa dispensaries and a private house Tuesday. The raids resulted in the seizure of a loaded .44 calibre Desert Eagle handgun, marijuana and other drugs, cash, documents and computers and cell phones, according to Ottawa Police. ...

_ (Via City of Ottawa) _ ** Ottawa ** ** – ** In conjunction with Canada Water Week and World Water Day, and in compliance with Ontario’s Clean Water Act, the City of Ottawa is raising public awareness about efforts to protect municipal drinking water sources, and how residents can help. ...

(Via OPP) (ORILLIA, ON) - It was a busy March Break for the Ontario Provincial Police (OPP) as officers laid more than 2,400 distraction-related charges during their annual Distracted Driving Campaign. Sadly, OPP-investigated collisions that involved an inattentive driver have claimed 11 lives so far this year - almost triple the number of deaths compared to this time last year (4). ...