Ottawa, the capitol of Canada

The correct word here would have been "capital", which, as a noun, can mean (1) a city that is the seat of the government for a country or state, or (2) an amount of money or property; and, as an adjective, can mean (1) an uppercase letter, (2) first rate, excellent, or (3) main, principal.

Capitol, on the other hand, is the (actual) building where U.S. Congress meets.  Its white dome is depicted in the logo of record label Capital Records -- and that's about where its usage ends.  Perhaps because of its association with the U.S. capital, the two words are often confused.  They may even have the same roots, but capitol is derived from Latin Capitolium, temple of Jupiter Optimus Maximus on the Capitoline Hill in ancient Rome (which probably looked nothing like the United States Capitol does today).

Maybe the senate reference left the Star writer in a Roman state of mind!  

References:
http://www.grammar-monster.com/easily_confused/capital_capitol.htm
http://www.etymonline.com/index.php?allowed_in_frame=0&search=capitol&searchmode=none
http://www.learnlangs.com/latin/lessons/9.htm
http://www.visitthecapitol.gov/

Storm knocks out power to condo air condition

For readers outside of Ontario, people here call electricity "hydro" (from back when it came almost exclusively from hydroelectric dams and the provincial power company was called Ontario Hydro).  

Police perform an illegal arest

Yet another typo in a photo caption.

Doors and widows replaced with stylish new ones

The 90 year old homeowner probably replaced her windows, unless she collects unmarried women who have been predeceased by their spouses.  

Time to stop capitalizing "Internet"?

This might not be a clear-cut error, but I couldn't resist...

The internet is no longer a bewildering newfangled phenomenon meriting squiggly red underlines in MS Word when uncapitalized.  It's now just another generic thing, like the mail, the library or the ether.  Let's resist our inner German and not unnecessarily capitalize nouns.*

Further reading: http://www.nytimes.com/2002/12/29/weekinreview/29SCHW.html

*Or adjectives, like in this quotation!