The Ottawa Citizen appears to have fixed whatever the problem was and the URL is now resolving and working normally. I suspect that something was badly configured for DNS.
I'm still interested to know if there is anything I could have done to fix or work around the problem on my end. However...
Rebooted and flashed. Successful as usual. Only problem was I needed to restart SkyNet. I've noticed problems with SkyNet not restarting automatically both on Merlin updates and Entware updates. Anyone else have this problem?