Kevin Owens spent 17 months out of wrestling with a neck injury. He did not know if he would ever be able to come back. Owens is 42, from Marieville, Quebec, and has been with WWE since 2014. His last match before the injury was in March 2025. For more than a year since his last match, the scans kept coming back telling him he wasn’t ready.  In April 2026, doctors told him he still wasn’t…

Amberway Park has been a fixture of Stittsville life for generations, the kind of spot where kids shoot hoops after school and neighbours cut through on evening walks. It turns out the City of Ottawa didn’t actually own all of it, and that quiet mix-up has just been sorted out for the grand sum of one dollar. A Park With a Hidden Past Amberway Park sits on two suburban lots near Hazeldean…

Ottawa’s professional women’s soccer team is back at TD Place, and after a breakout debut season, the Rapid are proving their first year in the Northern Super League was no fluke. Ottawa Rapid FC made a playoff run in its inaugural 2025 campaign, and the club has carried that momentum straight into its second season, giving local soccer fans plenty of reasons to head down to Lansdowne…

Some of the best small businesses in this city start with nothing more than a folding table, a cash box, and a good reason to get up early. For six siblings in an Ottawa family, that is exactly how their summer began, and it has since turned into something the whole neighbourhood looks forward to. Up Before the Sun Long before most of Ottawa hits snooze on a summer morning, these six siblings are…

Ottawa has plenty of ways to spend a Friday night in the ByWard Market, but a new spot on Rideau Street is turning a night out into a full-blown fantasy quest, complete with dragons, giant spiders and a suit of virtual armour. What Sandbox VR Actually Is Sandbox VR, which now has a location at 45 Rideau St. #200 right above the CIBC, opened its first Ottawa branch in December 2025 as part of a…