Новости за 02.10.2015

At least one person was injured and several had to be rescued when fire struck a medium-rise apartment building at 1889 Carling Ave. Friday morning. Fire and paramedics were called to the address shortly before 7 a.m. when several people called 911 to report smoke pouring from a a basement apartment at the building near Sherbourne […]

Jan Dumais joined the Ottawa police force on a dare. “Someone mentioned that they were looking for policewomen and they dared her to put in her application,” recalled her younger sister, Fran Angel. “Forty-one years later, she retired.” Dumais, who died last Sept. 25 at age 78, was among the first women to wear the Ottawa […]

Now that Russian warplanes are flying bombing missions over Syria, Pentagon officials and their Russian counterparts have opened the lines of communication that had been shut down for the last 18 months. The U.S. and Russia are in talks about “deconfliction” – or as U.S. officials explain – putting protocols in place “to avoid any […]

Max Keeping’s work was in broadcasting. But his vocation — his life — was in helping. And that’s how Ottawa remembered him Thursday as news of his death at age 73 rippled across the city. Perhaps Mayor Jim Watson said it best for everyone: “Ottawa has been blessed to have Max Keeping as an important part of […]

Redblacks 39, Alouettes 17 The old man can still get it done. Henry Burris broke a Canadian Football League record for completions as the Ottawa Redblacks rolled to a convincing 39-17 victory against the Montreal Alouettes at TD Place stadium on Thursday night. Redblacks receivers caught 45 throws to put their veteran quarterback one ahead of the […]

Ottawa Mayor Jim Watson, in the midst of speaking Thursday night at a public forum for sponsoring Syrian refugees, broke the news to the audience of several hundred that celebrated local broadcaster Max Keeping passed away earlier in the day.

It is all too easy to say of someone who’s died that we won’t see their like again — but sometimes, in rare and wonderful cases, we know that to say anything less is to shortchange the truth.

SENATORS 5, CANADIENS 2 MONTREAL – Craig Anderson was supposed to be sitting this one out. His entourage was glad he didn’t. Forced into action when backup Andrew Hammond suffered a groin injury in the morning skate, Anderson out-dueled NHL MVP Carey Price and made several spectacular stops among his 41 saves. Ottawa was outshot […]

A member of Ontario’s Roundtable on Violence Against Women says she was shocked that Premier Kathleen Wynne — who has made the issue a priority — has offered no public statements on the killings of three Eastern Ontario women last week. “I just couldn’t really believe it that we didn’t get an immediate statement from […]