Top 10 stories of 2023 on CTV News Ottawa's website
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A summer of severe weather, a fatal shooting outside an Ottawa wedding and a new owner for the Ottawa Senators topped the list of most-read stories on CTVNewsOttawa.ca in 2023.
CTVNewsOttawa.ca looks at the top 10 stories on our website in 2023.
It was a summer of wild weather in Ottawa, with three tornadoes, nearly 100 mm of rain on an August day, smoky skies from Quebec wildfires and zero days with the temperature hitting 30 C in August.
In June, smoke from Quebec wildfires blanketed Ottawa for several days, forcing the cancellation of several events.
On July 13, two tornadoes touched down in Barrhaven, with maximum wind speeds of 155 km/h. Western University's Northern Tornadoes Project said the two tornadoes left paths of damage approximately 1 km and 5 km long, with more than 100 homes damaged by the storms.
On Aug. 3, an EF0 tornado with a maximum wind of 130 km/h hit the Findlay Creek area.
On Aug. 10, some areas of Ottawa saw between 75 and 100 mm of rain in a six-hour period, flooding roads and properties.
August 2023 was the first time in more than a decade that the temperature did not hit 30 C in Ottawa during the month. The warmest temperature was Aug. 9, when the temperature hit 28.3 C.
Next week, Sudbury city council will decide how to rehabilitate the College Street underpass, which was built in 1949.
A Toronto-area woman who was defrauded out of $158,000 in a roofing scam over the summer received about half her money back following a tip from a CTV News viewer.
It's official — Quebec has set a new record for the most stolen vehicles recovered in one year by Canadian border agents.
Facing criticism for requiring health care workers with two jobs within the public system to choose one to comply with labour laws, Santé Québec has announced a one-year extension to the transition period.
The consortium responsible for building Ottawa's new north-south line, TransitNext, says it is ready for the City of Ottawa to begin the final phase of approvals before opening the line to the public.
Former Saskatchewan Party MLA Greg Lawrence has been sentenced to 12 months probation – after pleading guilty to one count of assault.
Several thousand British Columbians remain in the dark Wednesday morning after a windstorm known as a bomb cyclone slammed coastal communities.
A man who plead guilty to a double stabbing in 2015 will soon be out on statutory release, but he'll have to follow some strict conditions set out by the parole board.
A school bus hit parked vehicles and pushed one into a Middle Sackville, N.S., home Wednesday afternoon.
A four-month-old baby is dead after what Toronto police are calling a “suspicious incident” at a Toronto Community Housing building in the city’s midtown area on Wednesday afternoon.
Prime Minister Justin Trudeau has announced embattled minister Randy Boissonnault is out of cabinet.