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Accused in terror plot 'man of integrity,' brother says This image taken from video shows a courtroom artists drawing of Tahawwur Hussain Rana, center, 48, charged with plotting a terrorist attack against a Danish newspaper, as he appears at a bond hearing before federal Magistrate Judge Nan Nolan Wednesday, Oct.

The number of housing starts in Ottawa shrank year-over-year in October, from more than 800 last year to 740 in 2009.

Finance Minister Dwight Duncan claims he has already visited Ottawa to consult on the new HST.

Minister of Canadian Heritage and Official Languages James Moore speaks during question period in the House of Commons on Parliament Hill in Ottawa, Ont., on Tuesday November 17, 2009.

A lesbian who deserted the U.S. military and fled to Canada must be given another chance to plead her case for refugee status, Canada's Federal Court ruled Friday.

The Pakistani-Canadian caught up in a major terrorism investigation in India and the United States spent holidays at his home near Ottawa, a report said Thursday.

Thirteen of the huskies were welcomed in Ottawa on Thursday afternoon. Dog lovers in the Ottawa area are opening their hearts and homes to some of the 100 starving huskies turned over to an emergency shelter in Quebec's Laurentian region earlier in November.

On July 1, 2010, the Ontario Government plans to introduce a new Harmonized Sales Tax , which would combine Canada's Goods and Services Tax and Ontario's Provincial Sales Tax into a unified sales tax.

Ottawa - From Thursday's Globe and Mail Published on Wednesday, Nov. 18, 2009 7:39PM EST Last updated on Wednesday, Nov.

A senior Canadian diplomat said he was on orders from his Ottawa superiors to leave no paper trail about his allegations that Canada was handing detainees over to Afghan custody where they were allegedly tortured and abused.

In Canada's capital, Remembrance Day is a major event, with several ceremonies held around Ottawa to commemorate those who gave their lives in war.

OTTAWA a ' With lightning speed, it spread from BlackBerry to BlackBerry among the 2,000 or so Conservatives in black-tie Tuesday evening at the Metro Toronto Convention Centre for the first ever True Patriot Love Tribute Dinner.

The owners and an employee of a Bank Street company that masqueraded as a legitimate business but really specialized in credit and debit card fraud were part of a criminal organization, an Ottawa judge found in a precedent-setting decision Monday.

Oct. 6, 1950 file photo of 10-year-old twins Brian Thomas Sullivan and Kevin James Sullivan from Islington, London, who carry their luggage to the boat train "Rangitoto" as they leave Liverpool Street station in London bound for Auckland, New Zealand.

Pedestrians walk past the former US embassy on Wellington Street as it is framed by the iron fence of Parliament Hill in Ottawa, Ont., Friday November 13, 2009.

Nearly 10 years after municipal amalgamation in Ottawa, a string of experts say the city is not working.

NAV Canada has hired Mar Gard Builders Ltd. to construct a new 72,000-square-foot logistics centre off Limebank Road, near the airport, as it consolidates its Ottawa operations, an official says.

The Grave of the Unknown Warrior is filled with poppies after the Armistice Day service at Westminster Abbey on Nov.

For the 90th time since the end of the First World War, war veterans, dignitaries and ordinary Canadians gathered Wednesday in downtown Ottawa to honour the country's war dead.

A striking DriveTest worker hands out pamphlets to people waiting outside the reopened Canotek Road DriveTest centre.