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Tickets go on sale this Valentine's Day.

One of the city's citizen transit commissioners believes OC Transpo should be free for riders for one month, as a goodwill gesture to riders and to rebuild trust in the system.

The fire began on the second floor of one unit and spread to a second row house.

To help provide enough buses for the supplemental routes shoring up the Confederation Line, 49 morning bus trips have been cancelled on an assortment of local routes.

Mainly cloudy with a chance of flurries and risk of freezing drizzle.

A moment of silence was observed at the game in honour of Kobe Bryant and eight others killed in a helicopter crash Sunday morning.

Ottawa Police will frontload nearly four years' worth of hiring into 2020

"The vehicles appear to be more prone to these failures during wet or inclement weather," the city's general manager of transportation services wrote in an e-mail to the mayor and city council.

Ottawa police want the public to know that when a firearm is used to threaten someone, officers will respond as though the firearm is real (replica or not). 

Officers say the employee crashed their vehicle into the thieves' get-away car.