Новости за 09.12.2015

Think Fourth of July, but indoors. That’s just one way to describe the fabulous and flawless holiday party U.S. Ambassador Bruce Heyman and his wife, Vicki, hosted for hundreds of guests at their official residence, Lornado, in Rockcliffe Park on Tuesday night. You could hear the festive tunes playing as soon as you stepped onto […]

Ottawa city council has approved a $3.2-billion budget for 2016, but — for the first time since Jim Watson was elected mayor in 2010 — the final vote was not unanimous. Five city councillors, including veterans Diane Deans and Rick Chiarelli, voted against the spending plan, which will see taxes rise by two per cent for […]

An estimated 1,500 Quebec public servants marched in Gatineau Wednesday as part of a provincewide common front action for renewed contract talks with the government. The peaceful but noisy demonstration left the Robert-Guertin Centre at about 11 a.m. and wended through Gatineau streets to the Jos-Montferrand provincial building downtown. Among the demonstrators were teachers, as classes […]

Fundamentally, the mayor and city councillors have one job: to make sure our money is spent wisely. That’s what they were up to Wednesday, passing the 2016 city budget. Earlier this year, we discovered that the city was heading toward a $41-million deficit (before the additional $11 million deficit for OC Transpo). That happened under Mayor Jim Watson’s […]

SEN Asian Cuisine Unit 100-200 Marché Way, 613-232-0111, facebook.com/senlansdowne Open: Monday to Wednesday and Sunday 11 a.m. to 10 p.m., Thursday to Saturday 11 a.m. to midnight Prices: $14 to $25 for main dishes Access: No steps to front door, washrooms At Lansdowne, the outlier, and arguably even the underdog, is SEN Asian Cuisine. All around […]

Twin toddlers who were rescued from a blazing apartment in Ottawa Saturday have recovered enough to leave the hospital, fire officials said Wednesday. “As of this morning both children have been released from CHEO,” firefighters announced on Twitter. The pair of two-year-olds — a girl and a boy — had been taken to Children’s Hospital of […]

The man behind a viral post to surprise a “humble” Gabriel Pizza chef and single father of three with gifts and thousands of dollars from strangers around the world has uploaded a YouTube video showing the moment of the reveal. Joshua Barbour began working with Darren at Gabriel Pizza in Kanata several weeks ago. Darren — affectionately […]

Westbound Highway 401 was not expected to reopen before this evening following a crash early Wednesday between two tractor-trailers that left broken cases of Perrier sparkling water strewn across the thoroughfare. Ontario Provincial Police are still reconstructing the events of the crash, which occurred at about 6 a.m. The collision left one truck on its […]

The current deals for the Redblacks' GM and head coach are scheduled to expire following the 2016 CFL season.

Two Ottawa writers have made the longlist for this year’s RBC Taylor Prize. Citizen columnist Andrew Cohen was selected for his book Two Days in June: John F. Kennedy and the 48 Hours that Made History (McClelland & Stewart/Signal Editions). The book examines two critical speeches, one on civil rights and the other on nuclear weapons, made on […]

On Tuesday I had a posting on Defence Watch about how the Spanish Navy will send two auxiliary oiler and replenishment vessels in 2016 to help the Royal Canadian Navy. That was based on an article by my Defense News colleague Esteban Villarejo. Both replenishment ships — Patiño and Cantabria — will support training for the Royal […]

Firefighters and paramedics teamed up early Wednesday to free and treat a man trapped for almost 45 minutes in a smashed vehicle following a one-car crash near Greely, south of Ottawa. The crash occurred at about 2:20 a.m. on River Road near Hawthorne when the veiuhicle left the road on a corner and rolled “a […]

The city's 2016 budget is coming down to a grudge match over hiking — or freezing — transit fares next year.

Plus a cast iron cherry stoner and an Empire sideboard.

An investigation continues today into a smoky fire at an office building at 855 Brookfield Rd., east of Riverside Drive in the city’s south end late Tuesday. Firefighters called shortly before midnight by a commercial alarm smelled burning tar. A second crew spotted open flame on the roof of the large building. The crews battled flames […]

Senators 4, Panthers 2 SUNRISE, Florida – Surprise, surprise. Mike Hoffman – yet again – scored the game winner as the Ottawa Senators rallied from a sloppy, sleepy start to defeat the Florida Panthers 4-2 on Tuesday. Hoffman, who was used sparingly in a third period which saw Senators coach Dave Cameron drastically juggle his […]

A billion-dollar development project planned for Chaudière Island has become snared in a political battle among Algonquin First Nations communities in Ontario and Quebec. On Tuesday, chiefs from some Algonquin communities in northern Quebec won approval from the Assembly of First Nations for a resolution opposing the $1.2-billion residential, commercial and retail project on Chaudière and […]

The Transportation Safety Board went over Dave Woodard’s habits with a magnifying glass. It was only fitting. After all, he drove OC Transpo’s No. 76 into a train on Sept. 18, 2013, killing six people, including himself, the worst accident in the history of the transit system. They knew he was diabetic and a little colour blind. Could he […]

When Joshua Barbour set out to write an online call-out to help surprise a hardworking, “humble” Gabriel Pizza chef he had only known for three weeks, he was hoping for kind donations from a few dozen Ottawa locals. What he got was a roar of responses from across the globe. “The post exploded,” said Barbour, who uploaded the story of Darren — […]

Mike Duffy decided months before Stephen Harper named him to the Senate that he didn’t entirely trust the party leader for whom he’d eventually go into battle, Duffy testified at his own criminal trial on Tuesday. He was reluctant to become a senator, he said under questioning from Donald Bayne, the lawyer defending him on […]

Borowiecki is having fun with the whole thing, reminiscing about his glory days as a forward. He was once a part-time centre on the power play at Clarkson and a Silver Stick overtime goal-scoring hero as a minor hockey player growing up in Kanata.

Five new criminal investigations have been launched into sexual misconduct in the Canadian Forces as a result of information received by a new response centre in Ottawa. The creation of the centre, which opened Sept. 15, was recommended earlier this year in a scathing report on sexual misconduct in the Canadian Forces prepared by former Supreme Court […]

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 provided by the jail. However, the inmates were still eating snack foods purchased at the canteen, […]