Новости за 27.11.2015

Valletta, MALTA – Prime Minister Justin Trudeau delivered the toast to the Queen on Friday at the Commonwealth summit in Malta, honouring her more than 60 years on the throne, the 12 Canadian PMs during her rule, and the role she has played in some significant moments in Canadian history. Here are Trudeau’s speaking notes for the black-tie […]

Live-music clubs have a tough time in Ottawa, but the ones that work stick around for years. Decades, in some cases. To kick off an occasional series profiling the clubs in the Ottawa-Gatineau area, we take a look at the Mercury Lounge, the Byward Market hotspot that’s been livening up the downtown nightlife scene for […]

As we ponder what to do about the official residence of the Prime Minister of Canada at 24 Sussex Drive, here’s an open-house peek at official residences of other countries.   The White House, United States The best-known official residence in the world was close to falling apart in the 1950s. According to a New York […]

Valletta, MALTA – Prime Minister Justin Trudeau announced Friday at the Commonwealth summit that Canada will contribute $2.65 billion over the next five years to help developing countries combat climate change. The new funding amounts to a doubling of Canada’s so-called “fast-start climate financing” for developing nations and comes just days before the United Nations climate-change conference […]

Dr. Christy Natsis will be home in time for Christmas after Ontario’s Court of Appeal agreed to release her on bail pending a legal challenge to her convictions for impaired and dangerous driving causing death. The Pembroke dentist was sentenced to five years in prison a little more than two weeks ago for causing the […]

The holidays are creeping up so fast, it’s dizzying. If you have a gardener in your midst and are wondering what to buy, I’ve come to your rescue. Here is my 2015 list of mostly handmade, beautiful or practical items for the gardeners in your life. Set in stone: A beautifully crafted concrete garden statuary […]

The trial of Senator Mike Duffy is set to resume Friday with what will likely be the final appearance by Duffy’s one-time CTV colleague Gerald Donohue. His family’s company received more than $64,000 in contracts paid out of Duffy’s research budget, which the Crown alleges was used to cover services that Senate administration likely would […]

Last winter's deep freeze wreaked havoc on underground water pipes, leaving some Ottawa residents with dry taps. Here's how the city's environmental services department plans to address the situation this year.

Welcome, newly elected — and returning — MPs! For many of you, the Speech from the Throne may be your first experience as an active participant in the parliamentary process — aside from your swearing-in, of course. As far as pomp and ceremony goes, it’s hard to beat the Throne Speech — there is, after […]

The Prime Minister’s Office says it didn’t know that a Canadian jewellery store chain would publicize the fact that Justin Trudeau’s wife wore their products to meet Queen Elizabeth II in London this week. Birks Jewellers on Wednesday put out a press release noting that Sophie Grégoire-Trudeau was adorned with several Birks pieces, including a diamond-encrusted brooch in […]

Planning on watching the Redblacks take on the Eskimos in Sunday’s Grey Cup? Unless you have satellite or cable television — and in many cases, not just basic cable TV — you can’t see it from here. Or anywhere else without access to specialty channel TSN or one of the international networks with Canadian Football […]

Canada has refused to acknowledge that Native nations have the right to cross the border unimpeded.

Singer and guitar-picker Sneezy Waters was busking for coins in the ByWard Market one afternoon in the late 1970s when an old friend, Maynard Collins, came up and handed him a script. “I’d like you to read this,” Collins said. “It’s about the last night of a country singer’s life.” At the time, Waters didn’t realize […]

Valletta, MALTA – Prime Minister Justin Trudeau is garnering some, uh, interesting international media coverage so far on his six-day foreign trip to London, Paris and Malta – including analysis on his “patronising handshake” and one newspaper calling him “Jacques Trudeau.” Trudeau hasn’t quite been the international media sensation like at the G20 and APEC […]

Valletta, MALTA – Host country Malta and the Commonwealth summit welcomed Canadian Prime Minister “Jacques Trudeau” on Thursday. The Malta Independent newspaper published an online story about a bilateral meeting between the Maltese and Canadian prime ministers late Thursday, but the name of Canada’s PM in the article was news on its own. “Prime Minister […]

It was the second worst day of Bill's life, but it would get better.

The Redblacks' transformation from 2-16 to first place and a spot in the Grey Cup game was recognized with a splash in the CFL awards presentations.

Montreal and Toronto had better get ready to roll out the welcome mat. That’s because those two cities are set to become home to nearly two-thirds of the 10,000 Syrian refugees the government plans to resettle between now and the end of the year. Documents obtained by Postmedia News show that as of Nov. 19, […]

The Ottawa Redblacks Henry Burris capped a great night for the team when he was awarded the Most Outstanding Player of 2015. The evening started with a bang when SirVincent Rogers, the team’s massive left tackle who was a key part of a line that protected Burris so well the 40-year-old quarterback had a career […]

Several athletes with local connections have found a spot on the CIS football allstar teams. First team all-Canadians include: Carleton kick returner Tunde Adeleke, uOttawa receiver Ian Stewart and Acadia linebacker Drew Morris of Ottawa. Second-team all-Canadians include: St. Francis Xavier back Ashton Dickson of Ottawa and Concordia defensive back Mikael Charland of Gatineau. For […]

Gatineau police have teamed up with services across Québec to reduce impaired driving during the holidays. From Thursday to Jan. 3, Gatineau police, Sûreté du Québec and MRC des Collines-de-l’Outaouais will conduct roadside checks as part of what they call a national response to crack down on impaired driving in Québec. Gatineau police said in a news release that impaired […]

Musicians can never rest on the road to making a name for themselves. Ottawa’s Jill Zmud just shared a tweet from a fan who confessed, “Always thought the name was ‘Jill’s Mud’ until I tried to Google it just now. Oops.” Name recognition helps with another of the musician’s modern realities, crowd funding. Last year, […]

The Ottawa Redblacks started the CFL Awards evening off with a bang when SirVincent Rogers, the team’s massive left tackle who was a key part of a line that protected Henry Burris so well the 40-year-old quarterback had a career year. B.C. linebacker Adam Bighill was named defensive player of the year. Four other Redblacks […]

Canada’s new science minister promised more support for basic research Thursday in her first major speech but had no specifics about what that could mean for demoralized scientists. “Science is a key pillar of our strategy, I have been tasked with increasing recognition and support for fundamental research,” said Kirsty Duncan, after receiving a standing […]

In the end, nobody believed Howard Richmond. After eight weeks of testimony, highlighted by expert medical evidence about the soldier’s state of mind when he killed his wife, Melissa, on the night of July 25, 2013, the jury at his first-degree murder trial didn’t buy his story that he was in a dissociated state. Moments […]