Новости за 08.12.2015

The next great gift to the National Gallery of Canada is found at the intersection of a man who left this country and became an artist, and a man who adopted this country and became an art dealer. Ash Prakash, the collector and dealer who left his native India as a teenager, has donated to […]

Wealthy moms and dads could start their helicopter parenting at the molecular level.

The walls might not be tumbling down, be fewer will be built. Ottawa’s planning committee has adopted new noise control guidelines that would see sound barriers or “noise walls” used only as a last resort. “Acoustic barriers separate communities and neighbourhoods, they interfere with the movement and views of people and wildlife, and they decrease a […]

With only 11 established forwards in the game, once again the possibility exists that rugged defenceman Mark Borowiecki will see some time on left wing of a fourth line, alongside David Dziurzynski and Chris Neil.

The Spanish Navy will send two auxiliary oiler and replenishment vessels in 2016 to “cover the Canadian Navy’s temporary need for logistic support vessels in the North Atlantic,” my Defense News colleague Esteban Villarejo is reporting. Both replenishment ships — Patiño and Cantabria — will support training for the Royal Canadian Navy’s Atlantic fleet in two different time periods: […]

Inmates who had been refusing prepared meals at the Ottawa-Carleton Detention Centre in a protest over jail conditions have resumed eating. The six-day “hunger strike” started last Wednesday when 47 inmates in the maximum security range began refusing meals. However, the inmates were still eating snack foods purchased at the canteen, according to a spokesman […]

When a party runs on slogans, the opportunities for marketing really are boundless.

Famed Canadian impressionist André-Philippe Gagnon earned not one, but two standing ovations during a small and intimate benefit show he did Monday for the Leukemia & Lymphoma Society of Canada (LLSC.) The audience first rose to its feet, applauding and cheering, at the end of Gagnon’s performance. It was once again upright and clapping when […]

SUNRISE, FL. The future of the Florida Panthers will be decided at a Broward County Commission meeting Tuesday. The Commission will vote on a Panthers proposal to re-write their lease deal at the BB & T Center. The team is looking for more tourist tax cash to deal with heavy losses. The financial package would give […]

The Game Ottawa Senators at the Florida Panthers, Tuesday, 7:30 p.m., RDS, TSN5 The Series The Senators and Panthers meet for the first time this season after splitting four games in 2014-15. It’s only Dec. 8, but games against Atlantic Division foes such as Florida are critical even before the calendar turns. As of Monday, […]

The Ontario Women’s Hockey Association is investigating allegations of abusive conduct at a young girls’ weekend game in Ottawa’s Tom Brown Arena. President Fran Rider wouldn’t describe the allegation Tuesday, but the investigation comes after published reports that someone launched racial slurs at a referee, including “Go home, Mohammed!” The peewee girls’ game was between the Ottawa […]

Prime Minister Justin Trudeau said Tuesday Canada must forge ahead with a “total renewal” of its relationship with First Nations peoples.

Italy will not take part in the U.S.-led bombing campaign in Syria, says Italian Prime Minister Matteo Renzi. Renzi questioned the effectiveness of the campaign and pointed to disastrous NATO war against Libya as an example of the pitfalls of such campaigns. “If being a protagonist means playing at running after other people’s bombardments, then […]

A new study suggests that Canadians have more confidence in the police than in other big institutions such as the school system, the banks, the courts, the media and the federal government. According to the Statistics Canada survey, no other city in Canada has more confidence in its police service than Ottawa, where residents were […]

Italy has received its first F-35. The F-35A, the first to be built outside the U.S., was handed over on Dec. 3, the Pentagon announced. The aircraft will be flown to a USAF base in Arizona where Italian air force pilots are currently conducting training. Italy will acquire 90 F-35s.

After nearly eight months of testimony and evidence spread across 52 sitting days, the first phase of the criminal fraud trial of Senator Mike Duffy is set to wrap up this morning, when — after a few final submissions, including a four minute video clip — Crown attorneys Mark Holmes and Jason Neubauer will rest […]

CIBC has signed on as the lead sponsor for Ottawa 2017's bash.

Including the Senators current record of 14-8-5, Cameron now has an overall regular season record of 46-23-13.

We've decided to help Santa with a wish list, providing some helpful hits about what Senators players need most.

Canadian warplanes have dropped more than 500 bombs over the last year in the war on the Islamic State, according to newly released figures from the Canadian military. The numbers come as Justin Trudeau, in his first House of Commons question period as prime minister, faced criticism for his determination to bring home the CF-18s Canada has contributed to […]

Defence Minister Harjit Sajjan said Monday that the decision on when to pull out Canada’s CF-18s will be based on ensuring there is no “capability gap” for the country’s allies. “The decision on that is going to be based on making sure that there is no capability gap, and we’re figuring out the exact time […]

It all starts, says Santa Richard, with a boisterous “Ho-Ho-Ho!” Those three short, cheery words are how Santa always announces himself, and – spoiler alert if you’re still a true believer! – they’re basic to the training at Calgary’s Santa School. Santa Richard, AKA retired financial planner Richard Harris of Ottawa, recently graduated from the […]

I’m forced to ask Mika Posen, who records and performs under the name Merganzer, how to describe her own music, as an easy description is elusive. “This is a very hard question,” Posen agrees. “I’ve been calling it experimental pop for a while, but now that the album is out I’m ready for others to […]

The largest destroyer ever built for the U.S. Navy headed out to sea for the first time Monday, departing from shipbuilder Bath Iron Works, Maine and carefully navigating the winding Kennebec River before reaching the open ocean where the ship will undergo sea trials, the Associated Press writes. Here is the rest of the Associated […]

It was one of NATO’s biggest battles and it was fought by Canadians. Operation Medusa was a campaign to clear out Taliban forces near Kandahar. What happened on those fateful days in September 2006 goes a long way to explaining the strategic argument against the bombing missions against ISIL in Iraq and Syria. The Canadians discovered an enemy stronghold […]