“I was just really excited to play this game,” said midfielder David Rodriguez, a 23-year-old from San Luis Potosi, Mexico who scored both Atletico goals. “I talked to my teammates, and I was like, Wow, this is going to be crazy. I’m going to get the full experience, the full Canadian experience.” Ottawa Citizen

The budget also proposed $13 billion in funding over five years for the federal government’s Build Canada Homes initiative, which aims to increase construction of affordable off-market housing by building them at scale. Ottawa was one of six cities initially selected as sites for the development of 4,000 factory-built homes on federal land, with the capacity to scale up to 45,000. Ottawa Citizen

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The Ottawa Senators committed an act of highway robbery in the City of Brotherly Love on Saturday. Read More Ottawa Citizen

The one-time home of the “ByWard Market raccoon” looks as if it’ll be back in service soon. Read More Ottawa Citizen

Our destroyed public park aside, today, a weekday, I waited 30 minutes at 9:15 am for a #14 bus. All the while my transit app promised my bus would reach the stop in one minute. During my 30 minute wait in the rain, three empty number 5 buses came to my stop. Finally two #24 buses appeared together, after 30 long, rainy, cold minutes! Ottawa Citizen

The Ottawa police have asked for help from the public as they look for a teenager who went missing on Nov. 4. Read More Ottawa Citizen

Have the senior leaders of the Canadian military lost all connection to reality? Read More Ottawa Citizen

The government of Prime Minister Mark Carney released its first budget on Nov. 4, and with it came ample confusion around the impact it would have on the federal public service. Read More Ottawa Citizen

A Smiths Falls man has been arrested and charged with first-degree murder more than two years after the body of Giles Dagenais was discovered in the Toledo area. Read More Ottawa Citizen